https://www.robertwressler.com/public-work daily 0.75 2020-04-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1508292741749-QUHTWC5GYYR30LSEKFY0/huffpo.png Public Work Echo Chamber America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1508291953847-UCOWJ2IEK95W3DNN54LF/sociology.png Public Work Sociology blog post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1587171713250-D5NUOL1DA2U8DWL7NHOI/123_1%25281%2529%2B%25281%2529.jpg Public Work - Diversity I was proud to be a part of a departmental evaluation to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Below are a few snippets from the report that is available upon request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1587171713250-D5NUOL1DA2U8DWL7NHOI/123_1%25281%2529%2B%25281%2529.jpg Public Work - Diversity I was proud to be a part of a departmental evaluation to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Below are a few snippets from the report that is available upon request. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1508291953847-UCOWJ2IEK95W3DNN54LF/sociology.png Public Work Sociology blog post https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1508292741749-QUHTWC5GYYR30LSEKFY0/huffpo.png Public Work Echo Chamber America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1564616193223-A4KQLIY4PKO07UV6A01F/2019-07-01_21.40.24.jpg Public Work https://www.robertwressler.com/blog daily 0.75 2020-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1512353365144-ONH5FZI1Q40LEQY1PODY/Present.jpg Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1567472030687-NSYNCG77BHV8B12YVPF5/JMF+Infographic.jpg Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1515950316495-KFXQ198U50POPHKZ4IDI/Future+Reality+Television.png Blog Also some of the 198 should be graduate students, recent faculty, and people of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1515950977511-CAQXBMP9FN4SMOCM4AI4/fancy+lines.png Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1536885195351-26X4L2X52T1X38DWJYWW/Screenshot+2018-09-13+17.31.59.png Blog For the CNCS nonprofit project I’ve been learning python code and thought I’d share a little of it here. I have to thank Nicholas Reith for his guidance in learning this code. We’re currently processing mission statements from nonprofit organizations for specific characteristics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1515950977511-CAQXBMP9FN4SMOCM4AI4/fancy+lines.png Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1515950316495-KFXQ198U50POPHKZ4IDI/Future+Reality+Television.png Blog Also some of the 198 should be graduate students, recent faculty, and people of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1567472030687-NSYNCG77BHV8B12YVPF5/JMF+Infographic.jpg Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1536885195351-26X4L2X52T1X38DWJYWW/Screenshot+2018-09-13+17.31.59.png Blog For the CNCS nonprofit project I’ve been learning python code and thought I’d share a little of it here. I have to thank Nicholas Reith for his guidance in learning this code. We’re currently processing mission statements from nonprofit organizations for specific characteristics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1512353365144-ONH5FZI1Q40LEQY1PODY/Present.jpg Blog https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1564616424853-C0LVMWNTAPISRVX3DBO6/IMG_20190727_171604.jpg Blog https://www.robertwressler.com/teaching daily 0.75 2019-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1547616233134-7LHZLXUB18WBU8JEHDOW/Group+5+Infographic-+Disparate+Discipline.png Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1549940596120-BDU48LBCMD0AHYYX2ARO/2019-02-11_18.50.56.jpg Teaching - Approaches to Teaching Inspired by my time teaching after school programs for elementary students, I believe that a college education should be a transformative experience for a person, whether that individual is a first-generation college student, or someone with a long history of college-educated parents. Sociology, in particular, can share practical and meaningful insights into how our current social systems work for and against all students on the socio-economic spectrum. In order to prepare myself to teach in an ever diversifying environment, I have pursued training in teaching students from all backgrounds about different, often difficult, topics. I’ve attended, for example, seminars on trauma-informed teaching and dialogue-based discussion techniques. I use these practices along with the skills I’ve picked up analyzing data to create curriculum that, similar to “whole person” medicine, addresses students’ multiple concerns and meets them where they are while completing clearly defined course objectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1549940596120-BDU48LBCMD0AHYYX2ARO/2019-02-11_18.50.56.jpg Teaching - Approaches to Teaching Inspired by my time teaching after school programs for elementary students, I believe that a college education should be a transformative experience for a person, whether that individual is a first-generation college student, or someone with a long history of college-educated parents. Sociology, in particular, can share practical and meaningful insights into how our current social systems work for and against all students on the socio-economic spectrum. In order to prepare myself to teach in an ever diversifying environment, I have pursued training in teaching students from all backgrounds about different, often difficult, topics. I’ve attended, for example, seminars on trauma-informed teaching and dialogue-based discussion techniques. I use these practices along with the skills I’ve picked up analyzing data to create curriculum that, similar to “whole person” medicine, addresses students’ multiple concerns and meets them where they are while completing clearly defined course objectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1547616233134-7LHZLXUB18WBU8JEHDOW/Group+5+Infographic-+Disparate+Discipline.png Teaching https://www.robertwressler.com/read-me daily 0.75 2014-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52a74d9ae4b0253945d2aee9/1390928870858-4D9B6T9WGP8017NSS9W3/topography.jpg Read Me https://www.robertwressler.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://www.robertwressler.com/reading-list1 daily 0.75 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1613086869266-7TWGNLMZSE3BKF3LI0KX/X01907409.jpg Reading List - What Village? Opportunities and Supports for Parental Involvement Outside of the Family Context Robert W. Ressler, Children and Youth Services Review Parental involvement research and practice has disproportionately focused on the characteristics of families that promote family-school partnerships. This study focuses instead on school and community characteristics that may elicit or support parental involvement for all families, but especially those from racial/ethnic minority groups. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Cohort 2011 enhanced with data from the American Community Survey and the IRS, multilevel models reveal that educational organizations in the community are associated with higher levels of school-based parental involvement behaviors. This association varies across diverse racial/ethnic groups, such that the link between human service organizations and parental involvement is stronger for Latina/o families than for White and Black families. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104575 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1613086869266-7TWGNLMZSE3BKF3LI0KX/X01907409.jpg Reading List - What Village? Opportunities and Supports for Parental Involvement Outside of the Family Context Robert W. Ressler, Children and Youth Services Review Parental involvement research and practice has disproportionately focused on the characteristics of families that promote family-school partnerships. This study focuses instead on school and community characteristics that may elicit or support parental involvement for all families, but especially those from racial/ethnic minority groups. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Cohort 2011 enhanced with data from the American Community Survey and the IRS, multilevel models reveal that educational organizations in the community are associated with higher levels of school-based parental involvement behaviors. This association varies across diverse racial/ethnic groups, such that the link between human service organizations and parental involvement is stronger for Latina/o families than for White and Black families. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104575 https://www.robertwressler.com/home-motto daily 0.75 2021-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1613086115141-F9KUL8GTZOWUYXO6GYVU/What+Village+Quote.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1613086115141-F9KUL8GTZOWUYXO6GYVU/What+Village+Quote.jpg Home https://www.robertwressler.com/quant-v-qual daily 0.75 2021-02-11 https://www.robertwressler.com/reading-list daily 0.75 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188356780-L3MZF73FU55IX22VZUTN/first+policy+response.PNG Reading List https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188505770-0GZ6N8CP4KECN6N3CTHU/race.PNG Reading List Image of the title for Poverty and Race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614714954962-SY35PYZOF7HYKSXJ09ZB/lerner.PNG Reading List Image of the Journal for Youth Development along with a photo of young people with varying skin tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/f01ffa15-6c62-418a-a0ac-4637ae19cb01/Queer+History.JPG Reading List - Make it stand out Image of the cover to the book “A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski” with historic photos of Black Men and Women, an engraving of artwork about slavery, and two pictures of AIDS protests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1615237450330-JLT32RWE6DRDR8K5L6KY/Timmermans+and+Tavory.PNG Reading List Image of the title and abstract from the article “Theory Construction in Qualitative Research: From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis” by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1617904687546-GN8FBSQVWC6WSF635YLL/race+ethnic+gaps+in+opportunity.gif Reading List Image of a bar chart showing racial/ethnic disparities in neighborhood opportunity with Black families experiencing the most low opportunity conditions from a related ICYFP publication in Health Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1616176979659-P88KA6QRK4BQGS03NPZ0/A+Chance+for+Change.PNG Reading List Image of the cover to the book “A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188107153-SWK9BPBU9RHG40OI4OGW/X01907409.jpg Reading List Image of the green and yellow journal cover for Children and Youth Services Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1616176979659-P88KA6QRK4BQGS03NPZ0/A+Chance+for+Change.PNG Reading List Image of the cover to the book “A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188505770-0GZ6N8CP4KECN6N3CTHU/race.PNG Reading List Image of the title for Poverty and Race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188356780-L3MZF73FU55IX22VZUTN/first+policy+response.PNG Reading List https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1615237450330-JLT32RWE6DRDR8K5L6KY/Timmermans+and+Tavory.PNG Reading List Image of the title and abstract from the article “Theory Construction in Qualitative Research: From Grounded Theory to Abductive Analysis” by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614188107153-SWK9BPBU9RHG40OI4OGW/X01907409.jpg Reading List Image of the green and yellow journal cover for Children and Youth Services Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1614714954962-SY35PYZOF7HYKSXJ09ZB/lerner.PNG Reading List Image of the Journal for Youth Development along with a photo of young people with varying skin tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/1617904687546-GN8FBSQVWC6WSF635YLL/race+ethnic+gaps+in+opportunity.gif Reading List Image of a bar chart showing racial/ethnic disparities in neighborhood opportunity with Black families experiencing the most low opportunity conditions from a related ICYFP publication in Health Affairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5949c9264f14bc171eed77c2/f01ffa15-6c62-418a-a0ac-4637ae19cb01/Queer+History.JPG Reading List - 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