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[RE: National Gallery Videodisc Competition, December 8, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Nancy Reynolds, project coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to the NTIEVA Art Supervisors. In regards to the National Gallery Videodisc Competition, a competition that North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts had entered. Attached to the letter is a copy of the new release from the Nation Gallery in Washington, D.C. Reynolds writes that they will be one of the recipients of the American Art videodisc and that she encour… more
Date: December 8, 1992
Creator: Reynolds, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Elaine Schad, December 3, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Elaine Schad, Denton Record-Chronicle. In regards to the interview Broadus had with Schad about the NTIEVA program and partnership with Pilot Point ISD. Broadus writes to Schad that NTIEVA is funded by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts and the University of North Texas Foundation and to mail Jack Davis for any inquiries they may have about it.
Date: December 3, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Harold M. Williams to Bill McCarter, December 5, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust, to Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Inviting McCarter to attend a special dinner for invited guests on January 12, 1995 at the National Gallery of Art. The dinner will be held in conjunction with the Getty Center's fifth national conference on arts education January 12 - 14, 1995. The purpose of this dinner is to recognize the acco… more
Date: December 5, 1994
Creator: Williams, Harold M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Memorandum from Jack Davis to Linus Wright, December 8, 1986]

Description: Photocopy of a memorandum from Jack Davis, Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, to Linus Wright, Dallas ISD. Thanking Wright for his prompt response and letter of support of Dallas ISD participating as a consortium member in the planning a grant proposal, to be sent to the Getty Center for the Arts in Education. Davis is enclosing a copy of the proposal for Wright, which has already been submitted to the Getty. The Getty proposal not present with memorandum.
Date: December 8, 1986
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from UNT Health Science Board of Regents, to Harold M. Williams, December 3, 1993]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from the University of North Texas Health Science Center Board of Regents, chairman Jerry Farrington, vice chair E.L. Langley, W. David Bayless, Sr., R.L Crawford, Jr., Nancy Halbreich, Joe Kirven, Lucille G. Murchison, Don Rives and Topsy Wright to Harold M. Williams, President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust. In regards to the Board of Regents wanting to let Williams known how much they appreciate the continued support of the Getty Trust towards th… more
Date: December 3, 1993
Creator: Farrington, Jerry
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Linda Kirby, December 3, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Linda Kirby, Community Relations Coord., Pilot Point. In regards to a schedule interview with the Denton Record-Chronicle and how Broadus is looking forward to the presentation in January and working with Davis Lewis on the special arts edition for Post-Signal.
Date: December 3, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Jim Surratt to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, December 5, 1994]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Jim Surratt, Superintendent Plano ISD, to Bill McCarter and Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In regards to Plano's commitment as a full partner in the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and their implementation of full two-week summer institute in the summer of 1995. Attached to the letter are stipend worksheets for the current income of the faculty to be involved with the program.
Date: December 5, 1994
Creator: Surratt, Jim
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, December 27, 1995]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, Program Officer for the Getty Center, to Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. Requesting further revised materials from NTIEVA as they've submitted a proposal for the FY96/FY97 year using their proposal from FY95. Rosenberg notes that there have been new developments with the NTIEVA program and is hesitant using a proposal from the FY95 year, and so to proceed with the review process the… more
Date: December 27, 1995
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Donna Engles, December 6, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Donna Engels, Evers Park Elementary School. In regards to an upcoming class visitation on January 8th and how Broadus will plan to present a lesson dealing with winter. Broadus plans on bringing a reproduction of a winter landscape or something visually similar, in order to get the children to talk about the art.
Date: December 6, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Vicki Rosenberg to Nancy Berry, December 9, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Vicki Rosenberg, the Getty Center, to Nancy Berry, National Center for Art Museums, School Collaborations, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. This is the second page of a letter Rosenberg has sent to Berry in regards to Berry's participation in the Education Institute's National Conference, "Education For the Workplace Through the Arts." The Education Institute is inviting Berry to represent museum educators during a panel to comment on the DBAE p… more
Date: December 9, 1996
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[RE: FY97 Rig Budgets and Final FY97 Grant Payments, December 19, 1996]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Julie Abel, the Getty Center, to the Regional Institute Directors. In regards to the FY97 budgets and grant payments. Abel writes that to facilitate the FY97 grant funding, the Center will limit their analysis to the RIG's core program budgeting only.
Date: December 19, 1996
Creator: Abel, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds to Veronika Jenke, December 7, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter and Nancy Reynolds, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Veronika Jenke, National Museum of African Art. In regards to Jenke loaning McCarter and Reynolds slide programs, video tapes and books from the museum. In turn McCarter and Reynolds ask of Jenke to make the materials available on loan for the teachers in the NTIEVA consortium as the information is invaluable. McCarter and Reynolds have included information for a Frequency of … more
Date: December 7, 1992
Creator: McCarter, William & Reynolds, Nancy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Bill McCarter to Robert Estes, December 19, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Robert Estes, Principal of Borman Elementary School. Addressing how proud North Texas Institute is in the award given to Estes by TAEA, and how no principal in the state of Texas has given more time or energy to the arts in public school education. McCarter ends the letter wishing Estes a joyous holiday.
Date: December 19, 1990
Creator: McCarter, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Jack Davis to Mitch Jericho, December 15, 1992]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Mitch Jericho. Thanking Jericho for visiting the University of North Texas campus to talk about a collaboration between them and Young Audiences. As requested by Jericho, Davis has enclosed a copy of the paper on accountability which will appear in the Winter 1993 issues of Studies in Art Education. Copied on the letter is Bill McCarter.
Date: December 15, 1992
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Cassandra Broadus to Jeannie Sellmeyer, December 17, 1990]

Description: Photocopy of a letter from Cassandra Broadus to Jeannine Sellmeyer, Director of Education at the Denton Co. Historical Museum, writing how much Broadus enjoyed the Docent Training Workshop and for giving Broadus an opportunity to work with the docents. Enclosed in the letter to Sellmeyer, Broadus has sent teacher packets and museum education brochures from Meadows Museum at SMU, to help Sellmeyer gather new ideas for her education tour at the Historical Museum. Teacher packets not present with … more
Date: December 17, 1990
Creator: Broadus, Cassandra
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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School System Improvement through Building Leadership, Adult Learning, and Capacity: A Consideration of Instructional Rounds as a Systemic Improvement Practice

Description: The problem of the study was determining the supportive conditions related to instructional rounds (rounds) to understand better what conditions may allow for sustained systemic improvement over time. Three Texas school districts were studied to understand the perceptions of district leaders, principals, teacher leaders, and teachers with regard to the sustainability of instructional rounds as a systemic improvement practice, the supportive conditions necessary for sustainability, the salient … more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Warnock, Teresa Georgeanne
Partner: UNT Libraries
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How Does It Feel to be Creative? A Phenomenological Investigation of the Creative Experience in Kinetic Places

Description: How does it feel to be creative? Such a question, when approached from a phenomenological perspective, reveals new understandings about the embodied experience of creativity, and how it feels as it is being lived. This investigation begins with a provocative contrast of two environments where creativity is thought to manifest itself: school art classrooms, where creativity is often legislated from an authority figure, and New Orleans Second Line parades, where creativity is organically and kin… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Bartholomee, Lucy
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Examining the Influence of Visual Culture on a Saudi Arabian Child's Drawings

Description: This study examines the ways visual culture influences a child's drawings. The child is my 9-year-old daughter Nada, who was born in Saudi Arabia and is a fourth-grade student temporarily living in the United States. The study uses qualitative methods of data collection and exploratory case study research design as a methodology. The data were analyzed in light of Althusser's theory of ideology, specifically the notion of interpellation, along with visual culture theories. In addition, gend… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Alshaie, Fouzi Salem
Partner: UNT Libraries
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U.S. International ESL Students' Experiences with and Perceptions of Utilizing Mobile Technologies for English Learning

Description: The purpose of this research was to examine ESL (English as a second language) students' current use of their mobile phones for English skill building activities outside of class in a U.S. school setting. In addition, this research reported on students' perceptions of the potential benefits of using smartphones in class for English learning. Also learners' current English related activities using mobile devices and time duration of using different phone features were studied. The literature rev… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Zhu, Shanyuan
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Writing and Their Plans to Teach Writing: The Apprenticeship of Observation

Description: Preservice teachers (PSTs) bring a plethora of knowledge and experiences to their educator preparation courses. The PSTs have also formed ideas about how to teach based on their observations during the thousands of hours they spent as students in the classroom from kindergarten through high school graduation. This phenomenon, coined by Lortie, is called the apprenticeship of observation. Past research has focused on the apprenticeship of observation in general while neglecting to specifically e… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Thompson, Emily Kyle
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effectiveness of Peer Mentoring with High School Student Mentors and Child Mentees

Description: This randomized, controlled study examined the effectiveness of two mentoring programs, child mentor relationship training (CMRT) and peer assistance and leadership (PAL®), on high school mentor empathic behaviors and child mentee behavior problems. Participants were 60 young, at-risk students (61.7% male; 38.3% Hispanic/Latino/a, 31.7% Caucasian, 21.7% African American, 8.3% biracial) and 30 high school students (53.3% male; 66.7% Caucasian, 26.7% Hispanic/Latino/a, 0.03% African American, 0.0… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Dafoe, Eric C.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Exploring the Process of Developing a Glocally Focused Art Curriculum for Two Communities

Description: The world is becoming progressively interconnected through technology, politics, culture, economics, and education. As educators we strive to provide instruction that prepares students to become active members of both their local and global communities. This dissertation presents one possible avenue for engaging students with art and multifaceted ideas about culture, community, and politics as it explores the possibilities for creating a community-based, art education curriculum that seeks a … more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Hartman, Jennifer D
Partner: UNT Libraries
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An Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Learning Style and Presentation Methods on Knowledge Acquisition in a University Classroom Environment

Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of four learning styles (accommodator, assimilator, converger, and diverger) and two different presentation methods (traditional and computer-based) on knowledge acquisition in a university classroom.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Ryu, Youngtae
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Effects of Child-Centered Play Therapy Training on Trainees

Description: This study was designed to determine the effects of child-centered play therapy as a play therapy training model for beginning play therapy students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of child-centered play therapy training on play therapy trainees in (a) improving positive attitudes and beliefs toward children; (b) improving knowledge of child-centered play therapy; (c) improving confidence in applying child-centered play therapy skills; (d) reducing dominance tendencies i… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Kao, Shu-Chen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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