Using Standards to Guide Learning and Performance.

Use the Colorado Department of Education School View website –or your state or country’s resources instead — to analyze district- or school-level student growth data, in at least one grade level and content area, to determine student performance strengths and weaknesses.

For this assignment, present the findings in a 1-page professional summary for community stakeholders, including a graph of the data. In addition, complete a 1-2 page reflection of your actions that includes challenges and successes around your learnings from this week. Support your actions with 2-3 research-based practices (e.g., the student achievement data, communicating with parents, etc).

Combine both requirements into one document to submit for feedback.

Ensure your assignment is well written, organized and adheres to Writing and APA Requirements. Remember to add a formatted title page and APA formatted Reference page (if sources are cited) to all of your Critical Thinking assignments

The Colorado Growth Model is an example of one state’s way to explore growth and achievement of Colorado Districts and Schools based on state assessment results. View the Colorado Growth Model Quickstart pdf on how to interpret available public student achievement data:

The Colorado Growth Model

Then access Schoolview to practice interpreting District performance results on state assessments:

SchoolView

If you reside in or want to teach in another state or country, consider exploring the resources available for performance data in that specific state or country.

Read pages 8-10 of the Guide to Using Data in School Improvement Efforts (Learning Point Associates, 2004) which focuses on the different tiers of assessment data.

 

Cybersecurity’s importance is on the rise. Fundamentally, our society is more technologically reliant than ever before and there is no sign that this trend will slow. Personal data that could result in identity theft is now posted to the public on our social media accounts. Sensitive information like social security numbers, credit card information, and bank account details are now stored in cloud storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive. Ensuring cybersecurity is becoming tougher every year as cyber criminals perform new attacks, exploit new vulnerabilities, and execute new attacks constantly. As technology grows more sophisticated, so do hackers as they constantly work on new threats and software. Hackers are using valid credentials and connections to make it substantially more difficult for businesses to detect them. However, at a time when we are increasingly relying on connected devices that store and utilize vast pools of valuable information, organizations must take the time to develop a sound security strategy to prevent their data from falling into the wrong hands.

We must definitely remain proactive in the approach to prevent and deter cyber threats and disruptions that have been commonplace in government and corporate industry. A solid plan against cyber threats should consist of; training employees in cybersecurity principles, installing, using and regularly updating antivirus and antispyware software on every computer used, using a firewall for your Internet connection, download and installing software updates for your operating systems and applications as they become available, making backup copies of important business data and information, controlling physical access to computers and network components, securing Wi-Fi networks, requiring individual user accounts for each employee, limiting employee access to data and information and limit authority to install software and regularly changing passwords. Gone are the days of simple firewalls and antivirus software being your sole security measures

Cybersecurity is important because it encompasses everything that pertains to protecting our sensitive data, personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), personal information, intellectual property, data, and governmental and industry information systems from theft and damage attempted by criminals and adversaries.

 

 

Q1. In Sumer the ______________ constituted the principal unit of organization.

a. family

b. city

c. clan

d. satrap

Q2. According to the Sumerians, human beings were created

a. to rule the earth.

b. to act as the god’s representatives on earth.

c. so that the gods would have servants.

d. by the moon in a moment of wild passion.

Q3. Urbanization tends to lead to

a. a decrease in population size.

b. a weak and fragmented central government.

c. a specialization of arts and professions.

d. the growth of small family farms.

Q4. The famous listing of the 282 laws on an eight-foot-high block of basalt stone from

ancient Babylon is called the

a. Code of Hammurabi.

b. Ten Commandments.

c. victory stele of Naram-Sin.

d. Book of Deuteronomy.

Q5. The Mesopotamians

a. did not believe in an afterlife.

b. believed in heaven, but not hell.

c. believed in hell, but not heaven.

d. believed in an underworld where the shades of the dead resided.

Q6. The cultivation of wheat and barley allowed people for the first time to

a. live in permanent shelters.

b. domesticate animals.

c. navigate rivers.

d. live by hunting and gathering.

Q7. In the bas-reliefs that decorated the walls of Assyrian palaces, one is likely to see

depictions of

a. captives being humanely treated.

b. royal lion hunts.

c. beautiful Assyrian queens.

d. Assyrian army conquests.

Q8. The Sumerian writing system is called

a. cuneiform.

b. hieroglyphics.

c. phoenetics.

d. alphacuneus.

Q9. The Sumerian creation myth stated that

a. there was a single male creator god.

b. all people were given immortality by the gods.

c. the first people arrived on earth in magic boats.

d. the cosmic mountain arose from the primeval sea.

Q10. In Sumer symbolic mountains called ______________ were constructed, featuring a

temple on the top.

a. pyramids

b. ziggurats

c. mastabas

d. basilicas

Q11. After the Assyrian and Persian invasions during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.,

the next foreign rulers of Egypt were the

a. Hyksos.

b. Babylonians.

c. Romans.

d. Greeks.

Q12. Nubia is a geographical term that refers to

a. the portion of the Nile valley below Thebes.

b. all of West Africa.

c. the area that is now modern Morocco.

d. the portion of the Nile Valley between the first and sixth cataracts.

Q13. The French scholar Champollion was able to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics because

he realized that

a. hieroglyphics are a form of Assyrian script.

b. the Egyptian language contained very few words.

c. the Rosetta stone contains the same message in three languages.

d. the Rosetta stone was actually written in a Phoenician dialect.

Q14. The New Kingdom began at the end of the Seventeenth Dynasty when

a. King Tutankhamen was crowned.

b. Queen Hatshepsut ruled.

c. the Greek historian, Herodotus, made his visit to Egypt.

d. the Hyksos invaders were finally expelled from Egypt.

Q15. The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains

a. rituals and secret magical formulas to help individuals pass into the afterlife.

b. the Ten Commandments, which Moses gave to the Israelites.

c. the story of the pharaoh Akhenaton’s worship of Ra, the sun.

d. a list of all those who died in battle.

Q16. During the period of history in which Egyptian culture flourished, known as the

______________ period, the sun god Aten was worshiped, and Egypt was very prosperous

And powerful.

a. Theban

b. Kushite

c. Amarna

d. Hyksos

Q17. Which statement about the Nubian kingdom of Kush is incorrect?

a. Queen mothers played an important role in selection of the king.

b. The kingdom founded by Kashta survived for over a thousand years.

c. A Nubian king conquered Egypt and ruled for fifty years.

d. Social class structure was based on occupation and education.

Q18. No other aspect of the Egyptian mentality is more fundamental to Egyptian culture

than its belief in

a. the soul’s ability to survive death.

b. the view that the soul and body die together.

c. heaven and hell.

d. reincarnation as an animal.

Q19. Under the Pharaoh ________________, the god Aten was elevated to new

importance.

a. Amenophis IV

b. Hatshepsut

c. Tutankhamen

d. Akhenaton

Q20. Menes was the Egyptian pharaoh who

a. united Upper and Lower Egypt.

b. built the first dikes along the Nile.

c. built the first step pyramid.

d. ruled as regent for a nephew.

Q21. The Greeks maintained that an individual had choices to make and a pattern of life to

fulfill, called

a. nemesis.

b. stele.

c. hubris.

d. moira.

Q22. The lyric in Greece was inseparable from

a. music.

b. public religious rites.

c. theater.

d. public civic rituals.

Q23. In Homer’s Iliad, the heroes of the two opposing sides were

a. Memnon and Penthisilea.

b. Menelaos a

nd Paris.

c. Agamemnon and Aeneas.

d. Achilles and Hektor.

Q24. The civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome are often referred to collectively as

a. symbolic.

b. lyrical.

c. romantic.

d. classical.

Q25. Which of the following most inspired Minoan art?

a. the Egyptians

b. the storm gods

c. nature

d. matriarchal figures

Q26. Where did the earliest Greek civilization develop?

a. on Crete

b. in Egypt

c. in Troy

d. in Macedonia

Q27. Cronos was deposed by his son ____________ who became lord of the heavens.

a. Poseidon

b. Juno

c. Pluto

d. Zeus

Q28. Throughout the Iliad, the following three levels of interpretation are intertwined:

a. humankind, the gods, and spirits of nature.

b. internal, external, and universal.

c. love, hate, and indifference.

d. individual, collective, and cosmic.

Q29. Sappho’s lyric poetry developed

a. as an alternative to the male world of politics and warfare.

b. along the same lines as epic poetry.

c. in order to praise the god Apollo.

d. from earlier poetry of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

Q30. During the Archaic period in Greece in which the political unit of the city-state, or

polis, was formed, the government that evolved was called

a. a plutocracy.

b. a democracy.

c. an aristocracy.

d. an oligarchy.

Q31. The first Greek temples were shaped like

a. circular huts.

b. crosses.

c. perfect squares.

d. rectangular boxes.

Q32. Which statement about Athenian society is correct?

a. Male and female citizens took part in government.

b. Many slaves lived and worked in the city.

c. The Assembly of the People was chosen by lot.

d. Citizens supervised slaves but did no work.

Q33. In Greek architecture the two most important “orders” were

a. Metope and Triglyph.

b. Doric and Ionic.

c. Abacus and Echinus.

d. Spartan and Athenian.

Q34. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, Athens was defeated by

a. Sparta.

b. Persia.

c. Troy.

d. Crete.

Q35. Which statement about the wives of citizens in classical Athens is correct?

a. They took an important part in politics.

b. They served as hostesses at dinner parties and learned to discuss philosophy.

c. They owned land and rode around to manage their distant farms.

d. They were expected to stay at home and manage their servants and children.

Q36. In his treatise on architecture, Vitruvius describes Doric and Ionic respectively as

a. oppressive and enlightening.

b. lofty and earthy.

c. idealistic and realistic.

d. masculine and feminine.

Q37. Athenian women

a. could be citizens.

b. could not be citizens, but did have rights in law.

c. could not be citizens and did not have rights in law.

d. played key roles in public political life.

Q38. The Greeks’ society and art was ruled by the ideal of

a. nemesis.

b. moderation.

c. retribution.

d. hubris.

Q39. The forms of government of Athens and Sparta were, respectively,

a. anarchy and democracy.

b. socialism and capitalism.

c. oligarchy and aristocracy.

d. democracy and oligarchy

Q40. One of the first female nude sculptures is the fourth

-century B.C. Cnidian

a. water nymph.

b. Helen.

c. Athena.

d. Aphrodite.

 

 

 

Select an organization of your choice to analyze based on the 12 sections listed in Project Details Word document.

You may use an organization you have researched and discussed earlier in this course. You may also choose your own organization if you can provide proper reference material support any of your conclusions. You may use personal communication as well, but ensure you properly cite it in your work.

The actual layout of the PowerPoint (background, etc.) is not overly important. Present your ideas as bullet-statements in the presentation. Use your NOTES section to provide details on your bullet-statements. Write your notes as you would verbally present them. I do NOT grade your notes section for writing or APA errors. I review your notes section for depth of content.

Note: Have fun and be creative with this assignment. This is your chance to demonstrate what you have learned and how to apply what you learned.

* Please name your file as follows: last name_first name_HRT6575.E1_#GRP (Reagan_Matthew_HRT6575.E1_#GRP)

There are not a minimum or maximum number of slides. However, you will want to address each of the 12 sections below. Your grade will be based upon the following:

• Did you cover each of the requirements below?
• How thorough did you cover each requirement?
  • Does your presentation demonstrate a thorough understanding of the concepts you presented?
• Spelling/etc.
• Citations included? (Make sure you include citations for your references; construct your citations just like you would for a normal paper and primarily use parenthetical citations)
  • Paraphrase example: It is always important to include citations (Reagan, 2013).
  • Direct quote example: “Always cite your references in order to avoid the possibility of plagiarism” (Reagan, 2013, p. 1).
• Did you utilize concepts learned/covered throughout the entire course?
• Did you include a References slide? (This slide should look like a reference page in a normal written APA document.)
  • You need to use your textbook as a reference plus at least THREE outside references

The following 12 sections should be a part of your presentation. You should present and “discuss” the following:

• Environmental Pressures for change
• Internal Organizational Pressures for change
• Which of the Six Images of Managing Change would be most effective in your chosen organization?
  • Why?
• Are there any reasons your organization may not change despite the environmental pressures?
  • If so, what are they?
• What types of changes are you anticipating or planning?
  • First-order; second-order; etc.
• Which, if any, of the models for diagnosing change will or would you use?
• Why will people resist change in your organization?
• What actions will you take to mitigate or eliminate resistance to change?
• Which approach(es) would/will you utilize to implement change?
  • Why?
• Either utilize the organization’s current vision statement or develop a new one and link it to the change you are recommending/planning.
• How are you going to communicate change?
  • What strategies will you use?
  • What kind of media will you utilize?
  • What skills will be important in communicating change?
• What impact is the multi-generational workforce impacting the change process?
• What actions will you implement to sustain change?
  • Why those specific actions?