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Semillas: Elementary Spanish I is a comprehensive introductory Spanish open-access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and writing practice. This Open Educational Resource (OER) aims to help students begin learning Spanish in a comprehensive manner. This textbook was created in Pressbooks, a versatile platform that allows us to integrate interactive activities (h5p) and present authentic material such as video interviews with Spanish speakers and other resources. Grammar is not presented just as a standalone topic, but rather is seamlessly integrated into all parts of this book.

To ensure that our textbook is diverse and inclusive we have built a team of writers who cross gender, age, and nationality. We have consulted with people whose voices represent diverse demographic segments of the Spanish-speaking world to include a plurality of pronunciations and appearances. We have elected to use the feminine as the base form in our vocabulary lists and have introduced students to non-binary endings. This textbook underwent a rigorous review process that included professionals from more than ten higher education organizations in the United States.

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Centric, developed with University of Iowa students. Each chapter will describe the major concepts in students’ own words. Emily Hott, Leah Blask, McKenzie Paulsen, Caleb Moody, Isabella Caruso, and Sofia Rupert worked with DocMC to write the first draft of each of the chapters in 2019. Emily Hott, Leah Blask, McKenzie Paulsen, Caleb Moody continued to work on subsequent drafts to create what you see here, McKenzie and Caleb making edits right up through 2021.

Well-being at the University of Iowa is a process focused on life-long learning that promotes and sustains optimal health, personal connectedness, meaningful experiences, and a purposeful life. Health and well-being are essential elements for effective learning and are connected to a student’s ability to learn (Eisenberg, et al., 2013). As a teaching assistant, you play a key role in creating and fostering a positive learning environment that supports student learning. You can nurture your students’ success by creating an environment that is welcoming, supportive, and encourages healthy behaviors. This guide provides strategies and ideas to promote students’ well-being in your classroom and teaching practices.

Well-being at the University of Iowa is a process focused on life-long learning that promotes and sustains optimal health, personal connectedness, meaningful experiences, and a purposeful life. Health and well-being are essential elements for effective learning and are connected to a student’s ability to learn (Eisenberg, et al., 2013).  As faculty, you play a key role in creating and fostering a positive learning environment that supports student learning. You can nurture your students’ success by creating an environment that is welcoming, supportive, and encourages healthy behaviors. This guide provides strategies and ideas to promote students’ well-being in your classroom and teaching practices.

This eBook is a medical education resource intended to supplement the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of medical students and pediatric residents in furthering their own knowledge about the general inpatient management of pediatric diabetes mellitus. This book may be of further use to any physician, advanced practitioners, or nurses who may also encounter pediatric patients with diabetes mellitus in the inpatient hospital setting. This book is specific to protocols and preferences for pediatric diabetes management at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. However, it also contains overarching concepts that transcend location wherever pediatric diabetes may be managed. At the time of publication, this book includes 4 Units, each consisting of 4-7 Chapters. Unit 1 introduces readers to an overview of diabetes mellitus, including its definition, diagnostic criteria, laboratory evaluation, clinical diagnosis, and key differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Unit 2 dives into understanding different types of insulins and their uses. Unit 3 walks readers through the creation of initial insulin regimens for pediatric patients with new-onset diabetes. Lastly, Unit 4 dives into the details of pediatric diabetes management at Stead Family Children’s Hospitals according to the protocols and capabilities of the institution and the preferences of the pediatric endocrinology division.

In 14 chapters, this book guides students and practitioners as they analyze modern-day policies meant to suppress voting, including asking why? Why would anyone want to strategize to prevent people from voting? Then, they examine how nonprofits and public agencies can (completely legally) encourage the people they serve to register to vote, help to educate them about issues that impact them, and assist and energize them to vote.

It is crucial to a healthy democracy and responsive communities that voters from every societal strata vote and express their needs and interests. It’s also crucial that people with the interests of the community at heart, run for office. That can appear a very heavy, complicated, and mysterious climb. In the second half of the book, students and practitioners learn how to run for office and have the resources to plan a campaign, step by step.