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Self-leadership and teacher well-being: An internal family systems approach
(2025) Johnson, Lindy L.; Adams, Jonathan; Choi, Chelsea; Education
Teacher well-being is essential for student success, yet burnout remains a persistent challenge, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explores the use of the Internal Family Systems model as an innovative approach in supporting teacher well-being through the development of Self-Leadership. Conducted across seven schools in two school districts in the United States, this phenomenological study examines K-12 teachers’ experiences after participating in P.A.U.S.E., a well-being program designed to nurture their Self-Leadership. Through qualitative analysis of focus group data, we identified three key themes: 1) the transformative impact of Self-Leadership practices on teachers and students; 2) the importance of Self-Led facilitation and collaborative practice; and 3) a longing for more collective, systemic approaches to well-being across school communities. Findings suggest that integrating IFS concepts into well-being programs can enhance teachers’ ability to regulate their emotions, reduce stress, and improve teacher and student relationships. This study contributes to current understandings of teacher well-being by investigating how concepts from IFS, particularly Self-Leadership, can be effectively adapted to support both teachers and students in K-12 educational settings.
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Centering marginalized voices in STEM education: Undergraduate mentors' perspectives on equity in a summer enrichment program for persistently marginalized youth
(School University Partnerships, 2025-06-10) Kier, Meredith W.; Johnson, Lindy L.; Parker, Janise S.; Mauney, Amaiya S.; Fountain, Jade A.; Education
Purpose – This study investigates the perspectives of marginalized undergraduate mentors in a summer STEM enrichment program, focusing on how they perceive equity and inclusion within the program’s curriculum and instructional practices. The research aims to amplify the voices of these mentors, who bring unique insights as individuals who have themselves been marginalized in STEM education. Design/methodology/approach – We conducted semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 15 undergraduate STEM mentors from marginalized backgrounds. The mentors were paired with predominantly African American students in an urban US public school district. Data were analyzed using qualitative thematic analysis to explore the mentors’ perceptions of the program’s curriculum, instructional practices and socio- emotional learning components. Findings – The study reveals two key themes: (1) the importance of balancing high expectations and socio- emotional development in STEM curriculum; and (2) the role of culturally affirming practices in countering cultural incongruences between teachers and students. Originality/value – This research highlights the critical role of marginalized undergraduate mentors in shaping STEM programs for historically underrepresented youth. Their perspectives offer valuable insights into how curriculum and instructional practices can be improved to foster greater inclusivity, equity and engagement in STEM education.
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Catch the King Tide 2025: All King Tide Data
(2025-10-22) Loftis, Jon Derek
"Catch the King" is a community science GPS flood extent mapping effort centered in Tidewater Virginia, USA, that seeks to map the King Tide's maximum inundation extent with the goal of validating and improving inundation prediction models like the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Tidewatch Map (https://cmap2.vims.edu/SCHISM/TidewatchViewer.html). This 36-hour storm tide inundation forecast model is based on the Center for Coastal Resources Management’s open-source SCHISM hydrodynamic model’s operational outputs, updated every 12 hours at noon and midnight (EST). Timestamped GPS-reported high water marks were collected by volunteers to effectively trace the high water line by pressing the 'Save Data' button in the free Sea Level Rise mobile app (available on iOS and Android) in regular intervals along the water's edge. Catch the King was founded as a collaborative effort to give members of the public an opportunity to engage personally in climate change adaptation. While the development of the Sea Level Rise app was led by Wetlands Watch and local tech company, Open Health Innovations (formerly Concursive), the idea for creating a statewide program stems from the creative minds of Wetlands Watch’s former Executive Director, Skip Stiles, retired Virginian-Pilot reporter, Dave Mayfield, and Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) assistant professor, Dr. Derek Loftis. Throughout the year, trained tidal flood mappers use the free Sea Level Rise mobile application (iOS / Android) developed by Wetlands Watch and Open Health Innovations (formerly Concursive) to walk the high water lines in public spaces near them to digitally trace GPS contours of the maximum extent of tidal flood waters. These data are shared publicly after the end of the mapping event and used as a public annual tidal calibration for the forecast predictions generated from VIMS' Tidewatch Map. Annually, a live tidal calibration of the forecasts driven from the Center for Coastal Resources Management's SCHISM hydrodynamic model (developed by Dr. Joseph Zhang) is conducted by the trained participatory scientists engaged with Catch the King, and analyzed by Dr. Loftis at VIMS. Catch the King 2025 took take place on the weekend of October 10-12, 2025, during some of the highest astronomical tides of the year, which were harmonically forecasted to be 3.22-3.63 ft. above MLLW at Sewells Point in Norfolk, VA. The king tide took place at many different times and occurred at different peak amplitudes throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia's coastal region, yet each was forecasted to be the highest tides of the year for those areas. Catch the King 2025 had 167 volunteers map 27,120 high water marks using Wetlands Watch's Sea Level Rise App during the king tides on October 10-12. The volunteer breakdown for Catch the King in 2025 revealed that the most GPS data points (by region; 6,892 pins) were mapped by 35 community scientists in Virginia Beach. Tied by number of volunteer flood mappers, Norfolk (35 mappers) collected the second-most high water marks, with 5,963, in terms of total mapped GPS flooding extents. VA's Middle Peninsula region collected the third-greatest quantity of data across a very wide area with the help of 29 volunteers mapping 4,433 high water marks throughout the king tide weekend. Here is a daily breakdown of data collected during the 2025 Catch the King Tide Weekend: 36 people mapped early, from October 6-9, documenting 4,765 GPS maximum flood extents and captured 124 time stamped geotagged pictures 61 people on Friday, October 10, mapped 7,395 GPS maximum flood extents and captured 341 time stamped geotagged pictures 77 people on Saturday, October 11, mapped 7,139 GPS maximum flood extents and captured 211 time stamped geotagged pictures 64 people on Sunday, October 12, mapped 7,821 GPS maximum flood extents and captured 200 time stamped geotagged pictures
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Catlett Islands Reserve Component Resource Management Plan
(Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia, 2025) Reilly, Erin; Lerberg, Scott; Hunt, Dagan; Reay, William; Shields, Erin; Demeo, Alex; Brooks, George
The Catlett Islands is one of four components of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia. This management plan describes the current state, infrastructure and uses of the Reserve Component, threats to the ecological and cultural resources, and management actions to help sustain the Reserve as high quality conservation land with a mission to support informed management of coastal resources through estuarine research, education, stewardship, and advisory service.
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1-km ROMS Model Output for Iceland Basin (May 2018)
(Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 2025-10) Ferris, Laur; Simmons, Harper
Model output with 1-km, 1-hr resolution and 50 sigma layers was produced using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS, https://www.myroms.org/), a free-surface, hydrostatic, primitive equation model (Shchepetkin and McWilliams, 2005). A run covering 15-May-2018 through 31-May-2018 was initialized using 1/12º resolution GLORYS12V1. Flux forcing was computed with turbulent fluxes from bulk formulae (Fairall et al., 1996; Large and Pond, 1981) using the atmospheric state obtained from MERRA (Gelaro et al., 2017). The model is described in Ferris & Gong (2024) and is provided courtesy of Harper Simmons.