As IMSA’s institutional repository, DigitalCommons reflects the scholarly, innovative, and pedagogical culture of our academy. The goal of this online repository is to share the intellectual output of IMSA and to increase visibility and impact through worldwide access.
This full-text, multimedia database links to open-access articles, conference proceedings, teacher resources, image and audio files, as well as provides references to books and other creative works not fully accessible online.
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- Departments, Centers, and Programs
- Conferences and Events
- Archives and Special Collections
- Faculty and Staff Author Profiles
- Student Works
Congratulations to all of the IMSA faculty and staff who have recently presented and published. Below is an alphabetical list of their scholarship, including links to content, that is being shared through DigitalCommons:
Articles:
- D-STEM Equity Model: Diversifying the STEM Education to Career Pathway : Adrienne Coleman, PhD
Book Chapters:
- Why Analyze a Sonnet? Avoiding Presumption through Close Reading : Devon Madon, PhD
Conference Papers/Presentations:
- Aurora Smart Cities Youth Summit : Betty Hart
- Back to Basics: Mathematical Play : Lindsey Herlehy
- Be the Change: Re-ignite Student’s Passion for Problem Solving & Mathematics : Joseph Bolz and Marti Shirley
- Building a Multicultural Competent Counseling Approach Focused on Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Students : Kevin Kusy and Adrienne Coleman, PhD
- Building a Positive Culture Around Mental Health : Kevin Kusy
- Classroom Assessment Literacy: A Think-Pair-Share Workshop : Hannah R. Anderson
- Collaboration and inquiry for the science classroom : Jessica Amacher, PhD, Sarah O’Leary-Driscoll, and Crystal Randall PhD
- Content Validity of a Mathematics Placement Test for a Gifted High School : Hannah R. Anderson
- Context is Critical: K-5th Grade Three-Act Math Tasks : Lindsey Herlehy
- Context is Critical: 6th-12th Grade Three Act Math Tasks : Lindsey Herlehy
- Create Pretty Documents with LaTeX! : Evan Brummet, Patrick Davis, PhD, and Micah Fogel, PhD
- Creating a Culturally Responsive STEM Classroom : Adrienne Coleman, PhD and Sowmya Anjur, PhD
- Diversifying the STEM Education to Career Pathway!!! : Sowmya Anjur, PhD and Adrienne Coleman, PhD
- D-STEM EQUITY MODEL…Diversifying the STEM Education to Career Pathway!!! : Adrienne Coleman, PhD
- Educator Stress: Finding Solutions to Combat Negativity, Exhaustion, and Burnout : Kevin Kusy and Sarah O’Leary-Driscoll
- Effective Questioning : Janice Krouse, PhD and Marti Shirley
- Effect of Short Term Exercise and High Fat Diet on Skeletal Muscle miR133a : Sowmya Anjur, PhD
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Materials Science and Algebra in Prairie Style Art Glass : Lindsey Herlehy, content developed by Patrick Young
- He, She, They, Them, Us: Teaching Gender Studies in a STEM Environment : Erin Micklo and Leah Kind, PhD
- High School Physiology Innovations: the Arduino Blood Pressure Monitor : Sowmya Anjur, PhD
- Holistic Approach to Academic Support at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy : Amy Keck and Diane Hinterlong
- IMSA Allies: The Power of Near Peer Teaching : José M. Torres, PhD, Gwen Seeley-Joosse, and Megan Scherer
- MicroCredentials: Promoting IMSA’s Signature Strategy : Angela Rowley and Nicole Ross, PhD
- Modeling Cardiac Physiology : Sowmya Anjur, PhD
- PhUn week 2018: An Innovative Approach to Systems Biology – Human Diseases Graphic Novels : Sowmya Anjur, PhD
- Preparing Students for Future Work : Richard D. Busby
- PROMISE: Diversifying the STEM Education to Career Pathway : Anita White, PhD and Adrienne Coleman, PhD
- Reimagining Introductory Biology Pilot Study:Preliminary Findings : Amber Stitziel Pareja, PhD and Hannah R. Anderson
- Seeing the Unseen: Inquiry Driven Campus Hydrogeology Project : Melissa E. Lenczewski, PhD; Northern Illinois University and Sarah O’Leary-Driscoll
- STEM Pathways for the Future of Work : Betty Hart
- Teaching in a Competitive Science-focused High School : Crystal Randall, PhD
- Teaching in the Classroom with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals : José M. Torres, PhD, Robert Hernandez, PhD, and Crystal Randall, PhD
- Teaching with a Full Deck: Card Sorts : Lindsey Herlehy
- “Twins in Blood Only: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and the Failure of Foils” : Leah Kind, PhD
- Upskilling, Reskilling and Learning Agility : Richard D. Busby
- Using Forensics to Introduce IR Spectroscopy & Molecular Modeling : Joe Golab, PhD
- Year of Inquiry into Student Mental Health : José M. Torres, PhD, Amber Pareja, PhD, Katie Berger, Monika Narain ’21, and Ray Shang ’20
- Year of Inquiry into Student Mental Health : Amber Stitziel Pareja, PhD and Katie Berger
- What STEM Can Learn from the Digital Humanities : Eric Rettberg, PhD
- Who is a Gifted or Talented Student? : Kevin Kusy
Keynotes:
- “Designing Conditions for Talented Students to be Creative, Ethical, and Scientifically Minded” : José M. Torres, PhD
Op-eds:
- Moving the needle on diversity: Why it matters : José M. Torres, PhD
Master’s Theses:
