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Each student learners differently and so do I. Because of my experience of having a learning disability, I will better able to have patience and understanding of students various learning styles. To ensure every student is successful in my class, I will incorporate UDL in my teaching, so I can reach as many students as possible.

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Whether there are students who are opposite sides of the spectrum all students should be learning a safe, inclusive environment. Every student is different, thus we should provide equity for our students, so they can achieve success in the class. Understanding your students learning style will help create in-class activities, homework, and lesson plans which cater to the needs of the students.

For example, "educators should remember that exceptional children with disabilities and those who are gifted are more like than unlike non-exceptional children. Their basic needs are the same as all other children’s".  (Pg. 149)
Gollnick, D. & Chinn, P. (2016). Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.

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Link to picture: http://blog.ncpad.org/2011/02/04/signs-of-learning-disabilities/

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My High School.
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Students of color are not inspired to learn when the teacher can not relate to them because the teacher does not share or understand the life of being a minority from the inner city, while they are white from middle-class background. Students will not be willing to learn about cultures which do not relate or represent them. The lack of diversity of teachers and curriculum are a few of the many causes for students of color be disinterested in education and learning

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History is whitewashed. I will not teach this fake history

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Texas School Books Whitewash Slavery From US History

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Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill will rewrite part of its "World Geography" book after being accused of whitewashing the role of slavery in bringing Africans to America by Houston-area mother Roni Dean-Burren. Why is slavery being written out of Texas school books? We discuss it on the Lip News with Nik Zecevic and Margaret Howell.

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In the textbook Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, the problem students of color have with their educational experience is "they do not see their culture or the contributions of their ancestors in textbooks, books, and movies used in school"(pg. 40). Students are not interested in learning about white heroes and historical figures. They are shown and told by society all day, everyday how people of color have not contributed to America or the world. It is the teachers responsibility to not impose the systematic racism within the curriculum. Every cultures stories need to be told, and as a history teacher I have to include all cultures in my lesson plans and curriculum.

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In Gollnick and Chinn's Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society, the recent number of children homeless were

nearly 2.5 million children were homeless at some point during 2013 according to

(National Center on Family Homelessness, 2014). (pg. 67). Furthermore, helping students achieve academically in schools that serve students from low-income families requires competent educators who know the subjects they are teaching as well as believe that all students can learn. (Pg. 81). Thus, my belief in all students can learn will be the driving force to serve students and families from low-income and homeless communities. Student sacrifice to learn, so as educators we need to sacrifice to provide tools, and opportunities for all of our students to be successful.

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Reflection of Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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Reflection of Socioeconomic Status (SES)

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School was my escape from life. My drive to get up everyday to get to class was to get my degree, so I can create a better life for myself and my mom. She gave her life to ensure my siblings and I had options to choose our opportunities and the least I can do is show her that her hardwork has paid off. I know every student wants a better life than they currently have and it is my job to show them the way.

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Link to article: http://abc7.com/education/1-in-10-csu-students-struggling-with-homelessness-study-says/1529547/

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Graduating from college is tough enough. But Shellv Candler has been studying at Cal State Long Beach while struggling with homelessness.

"Unexpected things can happen in your life and homelessness can hit anyone. Everyone is one paycheck away from being out in the streets," Candler said.

During Candler's first year in school, she lost her job and soon after her mother became ill and ultimately placed on disability. For a while, without anyone knowing, she juggled with school while trying to find shelter at night.

"It's hard, it's stressful and overwhelming at times. There were times when I broke down, there were times when I wanted to give up."

A preliminary study by Professor Rashida Crutchfield found that 1 in 10 students in the nation's largest public university system, Cal State, have food insecurities or are lacking a place to sleep at night.

"We could say that the economy might be having an influence on what's happening. We could say the cost of living definitely has an influence on whether or not people are going to be able to find affordable housing," said Crutchfield, with the CSU Long Beach School of Social Work.

Crutchfield says a study like this has never been done before and collecting data was not easy, because struggling students don't like to talk about the issue.

For Candler, things changed once she reached out to the school's student emergency intervention and wellness program. Now she works on campus and lives in a transitional home with her mother.

"There is light at the end of the tunnel," she said.

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1 in 10 CSU students struggling with homelessness, study says

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Graduating from college is tough enough. But Shellv Candler has been studying at Cal State Long Beach while struggling with homelessness. "Unexpected things can happen in your life and homelessness can hit anyone. Everyone is one paycheck away from being out in the streets," Candler said.

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Even though there was not a visible father in our home, my siblings and I had great mentors in our lives from our grandfather, to church leaders, teachers as well as my mom playing the role of both mother and father. So, family means a lot to me. My life would be different if I was not raised in a strong family unit and mentors which set blueprints for me to follow, so I would not fall into the pitfalls of being in a broken home.

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Cal State is making efforts to identify and help its homeless students.

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Racing from her last class of the day at Cal State Long Beach, Shellv Candler had about an hour to get to Wilmington. Her mother was trying to save her a bed at the Doors of Hope Women's Shelter, but curfew was 6:45 sharp.

The college student's commute by bus and train was stressful. But she and her mother had been through worse. The foreclosure of the family home. Evictions. Relatives who could give them shelter for only so long. Some nights, with nowhere to go, they'd ridden the bus until daylight. Once they'd slept in a hospital morgue.

Six classes from graduating, Candler persevered.

"There were times I thought about dropping out," she said. "But going to school was my escape - to be able to take all that anger, frustration, sadness, disappointment, to take all of that and put it into something as proactive as my education.... This is my chance to be able to do something with my life."

Cal State, the nation's largest public university system, has embarked on an unprecedented effort to identify and count its many students who, like Candler, quietly juggle classes, multiple jobs and the anxiety of figuring out where to sleep at night - those who dutifully show up at classes but then curl up in their cars, shower at the gym and shuffle between couches and motels.

The goal, said Cal State Chancellor Timothy P. White, is to build momentum to "provide the necessary support" and change policy - both on campus and in the state Legislature.

Neither data nor social services exist at the higher education level in the way they do for students in kindergarten through high school, which "frankly, limits the attention that's paid to the issue," said Barbara Duffield of the National Assn. for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.

The only official clue to the number of homeless college students in the country is the 56,588 who identified as such on their federal financial aid applications - a number that advocates say understates the problem.

Cal State's initial findings - based on focus groups, student surveys and interviews with faculty and staff - led university officials to estimate that as many as 1 in 10 of the system's 475,000 students lacked fixed, steady places to sleep at night.

Are so many students really homeless?Perhapsnot, by a strict definition - but, said Eric Rice, who teaches social work at USC and has studied homeless youth for 14 years, "we have this very severe idea of homelessness, which is that it's a schizophrenic adult who's lying in essentially a nest of dirty clothes and shopping bags. The issue is just much more nuanced."

Because Cal State is relatively inexpensive - about $5,500 a year, less than most rents in L.A. - some students choose to spend their limited resources on tuition over housing "because that's a way to get ahead," he said.

The research conducted by Rashida Crutchfield, who led the initial phase of the Cal State study, illuminated why many students go unnoticed: Ashamed, they don't seek help, or they don't see themselves as homeless because they're not literally living on the street. Some speak out about their circumstances only when they're about to flunk or drop out or have nowhere else to turn.

The reasons for their troubles vary - violence at home, mishandled financial aid forms, confusing bureaucracy, said Crutchfield, who teaches social work on the Long Beach campus.

Gabe Rosales' parents kicked him out two days before he started at Cal State Long Beach, after years of fights over his bisexuality. A friend took him in, and he shopped for groceries, cleaned - anything to express his gratitude.
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"Half my brain was battling schoolwork. The other half of my brain was like, your parents don't love you and you're sleeping on a cot," Rosales said. He searched Google for answers "but I just didn't know what to look for, I didn't even know where to begin."

He eventually found an assistant dean who showed him how to file for independent status on financial aid forms and get a loan. His high school credentials - class president, choir leader - helped him land a job as president of the Residence Hall Assn., which includes a shared room and $300 stipend for the upcoming school year. To pay tuition and everything else, he took two additional jobs, working in a campus office and as a summer camp counselor.

Fearful that this newfound stability could falter, the 18-year-old doesn't go out, rations his meals and treats his responsibilities with gravitas.

"I have stable housing for the next year, but that's only a year," he said. "I don't know where I'm going to live a year from now."

Some people dismiss the woes of "the starving college student" or say the problem is wasteful spending on alcohol and lattes, Crutchfield said. "Sometimes people ask me, are these students getting financial counseling? And I say: 'Well yeah, we can offer them financial counseling, if you can offer financial counseling on how to make $100 last 30 days.' "

It can become this domino effect if we don't catch it and find a way to help. - Duan Jackson

In the next phase of the study, she said, her team will find and interview many more students after sending out thousands of surveys to all 23 schools.

The findings ultimately will help Cal State launch intervention support programs on every campus, Crutchfield said. Eleven - including Long Beach - offer some sort of support, such as food pantries or emergency housing. Others have a long way to go.

A number of higher-education bills have also been moving through the California legislature, including one to designate homeless point persons on state campuses and another to keep some dorms open when classes are out of session.

At Long Beach, academic advising director Duan Jackson - once a neighbor of Candler's - remembers the day Candler came into her office and confided that she and her mom would lose their apartment if she didn't drop out and get a full-time job. Holding back tears, Jackson started spinning through all the campus contacts she'd made in 26 years, hoping someone knew how to help.

Her calls and emails led her to Carol Menard Fulthorp, assistant dean of students, whose team had put together a budding emergency support program. They gave Candler a temporary dorm room to get through finals. Students' meal donations were loaded onto her dining card. Menard gave Candler an office job.

The Student Emergency Intervention and Wellness Program, running on donations and a campus grant, so far has helped 137 students, including Candler and Rosales. The initiative also has gotten nine students jobs and recently added a food pantry and hotel vouchers.

"It can become this domino effect if we don't catch it and find a way to help," Jackson said of the kind of struggle she saw Candler go through.

Candler and her mother now stay in a transitional home in north Long Beach, which they found after their time was up at the shelter. The two cram into a room smaller than most walk-in closets. She sleeps on the top bunk for $250, her mother on the bottom for $300. A third roommate lives an arm's width away.

Candler squeezes in three jobs between classes to support herself and her mother, who's been out of work since she had surgery to replace a femur with a metal rod and was put on disability because of an adrenal gland hemorrhage.

The bills add up. The beds eat up one whole paycheck, and $187 a month in food stamps stretches only so far. Then there's about $4,000 a semester for tuition and books, and doctor visits that Candler insists on attending so she understands which medicines to give her mother. Not to mention phone bills and the Wi-Fi, which Candler finally sprung for because her late commutes home from the library worried her mother.
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When it gets too overwhelming, she thinks about how much easier it would be to make ends meet if she dropped out and got a full-time job.

"You are not giving that up, this is your dream," her mother says, reminding her of her journey from community college to Long Beach, where she is studying to be a history teacher.

"Mom," she says, " you need to be taken care of."

One recent morning, Candler helped her mother out of the bottom bunk, selected an outfit from one of five storage bags stacked in the corner, then took two buses to get to campus, where she clocked a full morning of work before heading to her three-hour history class - an intensive summer course that counts toward both her major and the teaching credential program.

"I'm this close to graduating," she said. "I'm not going to let anything stop me."
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At Cal State, student homelessness has been hidden until now

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Racing from her last class of the day at Cal State Long Beach, Shellv Candler had about an hour to get to Wilmington. Her mother was trying to save her a bed at the Doors of Hope Women's Shelter, but curfew was 6:45 sharp. The college student's commute by bus and train was stressful.

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My sister and I

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My grandpa

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my mom and me

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My mom and I after my graduation from CSULB

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My nephew and I

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In the Supplemental reading of Chapter 8 Today's Students there are statistics of today's households such as, married couples made up less than 50 percent of U.S. households in 2014, down from 71 percent in 1970. During the same period, nontraditional households increased from 29 percent in 1970 to over 50 percent. (Pg 267). Thus, more students are raised in single-parent homes. Educators, like myself, have to be understanding of the stresses which come with being raised in household with one parent. Students may have the extra responsibility of helping their parent with younger siblings, or getting a job to bring income into their household. I will have to flexible with my student(s) who have to balance their responsibilities at home and at school. I will start by having a conversation with the student(s) and their parent(s) about what can be done to ensure the student(s) in successful in class, whether it's tutoring, extended time on assignments or giving both the student(s) and their parent(s) resources they can apply for to help ease the hardship.

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I have a learning disability. I have problems with reading comphension, and short term memory. I am a visual learner. History was a subject that I connected with because I could see the timeline of humankind through the stories and events of the world. What may have happened 50 years ago, still effects our lives today. Understand those concepts are easy through primary sources such as documents, photographs, artifacts; and their our documentaries the showcase history. Research is the fun part, writing was the worst part of history for me. I have a hard time putting my thought on paper or in forming essays. Powerpoints are great tool for me to use because it’s not too much writing plus I can add visual aides.

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I have always been poor. My mom was a single mother who worked three jobs to take care of me and my two older siblings. My parents did not go to college. They were both in the military. My mom always stressed the importance of education and how beneficial getting educated can be. Throughout my adulthood my mom and I have been in and out of homelessness. We are currently living in transitional housing. We have not had a stable place to stay since my mom lose her house in 2007. I spent my college years in shelters and taking multiple buses to get to school. I know how hard it is to be homeless as an adult and going to college. I can not imagine how it feels for a child or teen to be homeless.

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Being a black takes endurance, patience, willingness to continue to strive for greatness and its an everyday battle against systematic racism. These values and life experiences will be helpful for me to connect with students from different backgrounds. The common theme in the educational experience of minorities is the lack of diversity of who is teaching them. The classrooms are more diverse than ever, but people of color are rarely in front of the class teaching. In my educational experience, I did not have a black teacher until my 11th grade U.S. History teacher. Her name was Ms. Allen and she opened my eyes to the importance of history as well as inspired me to become a history teacher. If students can see themselves in positions of change in society, such as teachers, this could awaken something in them to want to create goals and strive to achieve them.

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My mom and grandfather have been the two of the most influential people in my life, besides God. I was taught that family are suppose support one another, trust one another, and depend one another. Without family, I would not be where I’m at. I was raised by a single-mother. My parents divorced when I was five years old. My father was not in my life, so my grandfather was my father figure. He set an example of what a man, husband, and father should be. My mother showed me the strength, couragousness, tenancity, determination, will, drive power, love, kindness, and care that women possess within. She worked two sometimes three jobs to take care of myself and my two older siblings. She instilled in us those same qualities, but most important she made sure to always stress the ideas getting education as a means to improve ourselves and gain knowlegde that no one could take away. She fought and sarcficed to ake sure none of us became a statistic. The statistics that creates a stereotype of black children ending up dropping out of class; girls getting pregnant; boys joining gangs, selling drug, and/or being in jail if they are raised by a single black mother.