A new institution with a running start”: celebrating 50 years of UTC

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Material created for an exhibition curated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections. Although the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) was established as a legal entity 50 years ago in an agreement between the University of Tennessee and the University of Chattanooga (UC), the roots of the university date back to a private school founded in 1886. The materials in this exhibition illustrate UTC’s growth and development into the vibrant and engaged metropolitan university it is today.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

"We Demand an End to Racism!": The Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga

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Material created for an exhibition curated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections. Series of five posters describing various aspects of the Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga Tennessee, including reproductions of primary source materials. Chattanooga Divided: The Fight for School Desegregation “Protest for Dignity”: Black Power in Chattanooga Recovering Perspectives: Desegregation of the University of Chattanooga White Opposition to a Changing Chattanooga Chattanooga Youth Activism: How Howard Students Impacted the Civil Rights Movement

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Primary Source

Author: Susan Eckelmann Berghel

Chattanooga Racial Justice Biographies

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Works in this series were created as part of an open pedagogy assignment for Professor Eckelmann Berghel's HIST 3920: History of White Rage course in 2021 Spring at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Each work in this series profiles a Chattanooga citizen working toward racial justice based on primary source materials and oral history interviews.

Material Type: Reading

Global contemporary artists analysis archive

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Works in this series were created as part of an open pedagogy assignment for Professor Wolf's ART 4190r: Global Currents in Contemporary Art in Spring 2021 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Each work in this series includes a video presentation and associated paper with a biographical sketch and analysis of themes in the work of contemporary global artists.

Material Type: Reading

Strategies for Early Learners

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Welcome to learning about how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. This textbook will address: • Developing curriculum through the planning cycle • Theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning • The three components of developmentally appropriate practice • Importance and value of play and intentional teaching • Different models of curriculum • Process of lesson planning (documenting planned experiences for children) • Physical, temporal, and social environments that set the stage for children’s learning • Appropriate guidance techniques to support children’s behaviors as the self-regulation abilities mature. • Planning for preschool-aged children in specific domains including o Physical development o Language and literacy o Math o Science o Creative (the visual and performing arts) o Diversity (social science and history) o Health and safety • Making children’s learning visible through documentation and assessment Acknowledgements This book is a work in progress. My goal is to adapt an open textbook on strategies for young learners for students in the state of Tennessee. This book began as a remix of the open textbook Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education (2018) by Jennifer Paris, Kristin Beeve, and Clint Springer of the College of the Canyons. This text forms the primary “skeleton” that this text was organized by, although this had to be modified to fit with state of Tennessee early learning developmental standards. The open textbook Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education (2018) is freely available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11An_WtG1dioTbe6bSXdGquADVjYT91Ha and here: https://www.open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-curriculum-for-early-childhood-education I have sought to make this text consistent with the State of Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards, available here: https://www.tn.gov/education/instruction/academic-standards/early-learning-development-standards.html In addition to my original content this textbook uses open source content. My goal is to give credit and proper citation to any material used in this text.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: D.R. Meece

Playing the policy game: basic knowledge and skills for effective policy process participation

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Many of us have likely heard the expression “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” Yet, it is the people who are often excluded from the public policy process. Citizen engagement is typically reactive rather than proactive and passive as opposed to active. Voting and protesting are not the only ways that governments hear the voices of the people. Voting allows citizens to choose individuals who represent their interests, yet their interests are not always represented in ways they desire. Protesting brings attention to issues but doesn’t always lead to problems being solved. This book aims to empower readers to be active participants in the policy process rather than centering elected officials, appointed officials or bureaucrats as the only sources of policy power. This book is written in the spirit of equity. In order to have equitable public policies the voices of those who are impacted by these policies need to be heard as “gaps exist between the services governments deliver and what citizens want or need” (Mintrom & Luetjens, 2018, pg. 122). This is not simply a matter of contributing to policy discourse, but perhaps more importantly, a matter of contributing to the design, development and evaluation of public policy. Further, it is about holding policy makers and other decision makers accountable for their actions and the results of the actions. This book draws from lessons learned from my practical experiences, teaching and research. It is my hope that it equips those on the front lines of public policy and social equity with the tools needed to be effective producers and consumers of public policy ideas.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Marcus D. Mauldin