Day: December 24, 2019

Culturally Relevant Inspiration

A number of important resources supporting the design, development,  implementation, and evaluation of culturally relevant instructional  experiences are available online. Throughout this course, you have had  many opportunities to view a number of such resources. This assignment  encourages you to reflect on the key concepts presented in the course  through the creation of a presentation that you can use in the future to  support your teaching efforts. The goal is to showcase schools or  programs representing what you have learned thus far regarding  culturally relevant practices, creativity, and innovation. A plethora of  options exists as you search for a model school or program. While the  K-12 public school setting may be on the forefront of your mind,  remember there are a variety of learning environments available, such as  charter and private schools, technical programs, post-secondary  education and training programs, schools and programs pertaining to the  military, Sunday schools and other religious schools, and more.  Therefore, expand your search efforts to gain a well-rounded perspective  to share in your presentation. The resource you create can also be  shared with colleagues (as well as the public in general) to advocate  for implementing a more culturally-relevant instructional approach to  professional practice.

A listing of free tools you might choose to use as you develop a  website or presentation is presented in the Instructor Guidance. Each  tool includes its own collection of help files and tutorials to support  your creative endeavor. Similarly, there are numerous web-based tools  that could be utilized to create an interactive presentation, such as  Animoto, Knovio, Prezi, or PowToon. Use your creativity and try  something new!

Review the Week Four Instructor Guidance for detailed assistance  about preparing for and completing this assignment. Next, construct your  assignment to meet the content and written communication expectations  below. You will submit this assignment to two places in our course.  First, submit the Assignment to Waypoint, as usual. Second, submit the  Assignment to Doc Sharing. To access the Doc Sharing tool, select  “Modules” in your left navigation menu. In the “Tools” module, you will  find the Doc Sharing page.

• Create a Presentation that includes each of the following items: (7 points)
  • A separate page/slide for each bullet point:
    • Name and location of the school with a link to the school or program
    • General demographic information about the students
    • A summary of why the school or program is innovative and/or unique
    • A description of the 21st century skills supported by the school or program.
    • Examination of how the learning experiences reflect culturally relevant pedagogy
    • Explanation of how the school and/or program promotes creativity in the classroom for both teachers and students
• The presentation is well organized, formatted with high-contrast (1 point)

If you are enrolled in the MAED Program, it is imperative that you  keep copies of all assignments completed in this course. You will return  to them for the portfolio that you will create in your final MAED  course. This portfolio is a culminating project that will demonstrate  that you have met program outcomes.

Review this week’s Instructor Guidance for additional information  about completing this assignment. Contact your instructor for  clarifications about this or any assessment in the course before the due  date using the “Ask Your Instructor” forum. Then, also using the  Grading Rubric as a guide for your performance on this assignment,  construct your assignment to meet each of the content and written  communication expectations.

Review your assignment with the Grading Rubric to be sure you have  achieved the distinguished levels of performance for each criterion and  submit the assignment for evaluation no later than Day 7.

Culturally Relevant Inspiration

• Must be seven to ten slides (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at three scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible sources in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table  offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have  questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this  assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the  final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a  particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• (1 point)

Assessment Instructions

Preparation

In this assessment, you will propose a quality improvement (QI) initiative proposal based on a health issue of professional interest to you. The QI initiative proposal will be based on an analysis of dashboard metrics from a health care facility. You have one of two options:

 

Option 1

If you have access to dashboard metrics related to a QI initiative proposal of interest to you:

 

Analyze data from the health care facility to identify a health care issue or area of concern. You will need access to reports and data related to care quality and patient safety. If you work in hospital setting, contact the quality management department to obtain the data you need.

You will need to identify basic information about the health care setting, size, and specific type of care delivery related to the topic that you identify. You are expected to abide by HIPAA compliance standards.

Option 2

If you do not have access to a dashboard or metrics related to a QI initiative proposal:

 

You may use the hospital data set provided in the media piece titled Vila Health: Data Analysis. You will analyze the data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

You will follow the same instructions and provide the same deliverables as your peers who select Option 1.

Instructions

Analyze dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.

 

Provide the selected data set in the proposal.

Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.

Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.

Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.

Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the interprofessional team.

Outline a QI initiative proposal based on the selected health issue and data analysis.

Identify target areas for improvement.

Define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.

Propose strategies to improve quality.

Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the QI initiative.

Provide recommendations for effective communication strategies for the interprofessional team to ensure the success of the QI initiative. Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Note: Remember, you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version of your analysis for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

 

The numbered points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. The bullets below each grading criterion further delineate tasks to fulfill the assessment requirements. Be sure that your Quality Improvement Initiative Evaluation addresses all of the content below. You may also want to read the scoring guide to better understand the performance levels that relate to each grading criterion.

 

Analyze data to identify a health care issue or area of concern.

Identify the type of data you are analyzing (from your institution or from the media piece).

Discuss why the data matters, what it is telling you, and what is missing.

Analyze dashboard metrics and provide the data set in the proposal.

Present dashboard metrics related to the selected issue.

Delineate any problematic variations or performance failures.

Assess the stability of processes or outcomes.

Evaluate the quality of the data and what can be learned from it.

Identify trends, outcome measures and information needed to calculate specific rates.

Analyze what metrics indicate opportunities for quality improvement.

Outline a QI initiative proposal based on a selected health issue and supporting data analysis.

Identify benchmarks aligned to existing QI initiatives set by local, state, or federal health care policies or laws.

Identify existing QI initiatives related to the selected issue, and explain why they are insufficient.

Identify target areas for improvement, and define what processes can be modified to improve outcomes.

Propose evidence-based strategies to improve quality.

Evaluate QI initiatives on the selected health issue with existing quality indicators from other facilities, government agencies, and non-governmental bodies on quality improvement.

Analyze challenges that meeting prescribed benchmarks can pose for a heath care organization and the interprofessional team.

Integrate interprofessional perspectives to lead quality improvements in patient safety, cost effectiveness, and work-life quality.

Define interprofessional roles and responsibilities as they relate to the data and the QI initiative.

Explain how you would you make sure that all relevant roles are fully engaged in this effort.

Explain what non-nursing concepts would you incorporate into the initiative?

Identify how outcomes to measure the effect of the intervention affect the interprofessional team.

Briefly reflect on the impact of the proposed initiative on work-life quality of the nursing staff and interprofessional team. Describe how work-life quality is improved or enriched by the initiative.

Apply effective communication strategies to promote quality improvement of interprofessional care.

Identify the kind of interprofessional communication strategies that will be effective to promote and ensure the success of this performance improvement plan or quality improvement initiative.

In addition to writing, identify communication models (like CUS, SBAR) that you would include in your initiative proposal.

Communicate evaluation and analysis in a professional and effective manner, writing content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Integrate relevant sources to support arguments, correctly formatting citations and references using current APA style.

Submission Requirements

Length of submission: 8–10 double-spaced, typed pages, not including title and reference page.

Number of references: Cite a minimum of five sources (no older than seven years, unless seminal work) of scholarly, peer-reviewed, or professional evidence that support your evaluation, recommendations, and plans.

Gang activity is perhaps the most destructive force in America. Community-oriented policing attempts to address some of the issues of gang life and how it impacts the quality of life in the community. For this assignment locate a community-oriented policing program or a sub program within one that is attempting to deal with a gang problem. You might start by looking here for ideas:  https://www.bja.gov/programdetails.aspx?program_id=74.  Find one of the community programs and evaluate its effectiveness. Analyze what has worked and what has not worked. Make suggestions as to what might be an improvement to the program.

 

Write a 2 page APA style paper.  Only the body of the paper will count toward the word requirement (title page and references are in addition to the 2 pages)

In your paper, cite at least 2-3 references using the APA style guide format for in-text citation.

 

Only one reference may be found on the internet.

This question provides you with an opportunity to analyze the advantages of an organization that offers quality customer service. First, describe what it means to you to provide quality customer service for both internal customers and also external customers. Second, use your critical-thinking skills to explain how quality customer service can impact an organization’s entire culture.
 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

 

 

 

  

This question involves analyzing the advantages of an organization that offers quality services that are related to human resources. Specifically, think about two major areas of a performance evaluation: (a) quality and (b) remaining positive throughout. Use your critical-thinking skills to describe some techniques that you could apply toward quality and positive service while conducting a performance evaluation for an employee. 

Your response must be at least 200 words in length.

1) Please do some research on top down vs bottom up budgeting. In your post describe the differences between each of these styles of budgeting. Then describe the advantages and disadvantages of each. Then I would like you to state which method you would employ if you were able to choose the method at a company you worked for. Why did you pick the method that you did? (upto 300 words)

 

2.  You have learned about budgeting strategies and how to effectively put a budget in place. You also have looked at how to create various budgets. For your discussion board post in week five please read case 9-46 on the bottom of page 413 in your textbook. Then in your post answer the two questions posed regarding this case. Describe several operational and behavioral benefits that are generally attributed to a participative budgetary process. Identify at least four deficiencies in Patricia Eklund’s participative policy for planning and performance evaluation purposes. For each deficiency identified, recommend how it can be corrected. (the screenshot of page 413 is attached- question 2 reading complete, (question 2 reading part 1 and 2 – for clear images))

 

3. 

a) Select THREE data brokers companies from the list mentioned in the articles you have read and search for information on those companies. Report on the type of information you found.

       b) How do data brokers collect your data?

       c) Have you ever considered how you might be tracked? Does it bother you?

       d) In what ways are you able to keep your private information “private”? Explain your answer.

How is the dominant ideology reflected in the media?  Explain.
What has been your experience with “groupthink”?

two pages with three references 

 

For this activity, please submit a one-page minimum outline detailing your plans for your final research essay. Please refer to the final essay guidelines in Unit 8 for details and to ensure that you fully understand the scope and nature of the essay. You will want to prepare each of the required pieces in subsequent units. This is your opportunity to expand and give more detail to your proposal and make any changes and additions to your original plan if you have them. Please use a standard outline format giving main points, relevant texts, and a detailed plan for your final essay.

Your outline should introduce and offer background for your topic, present a clear thesis, include your primary readings and literature to include, cover the main points you intend to explore and research, and list your final references. 

For this assignment, please also submit a complete “Works Cited Page” listing all of the sources you will be citing in your research essay. Please make sure it is in proper MLA format and alphabetized for a Works Cited page.