Nancy Bellows
Teaching Experience
Since the Fall 1999 semester at Austin Community College, I have taught psychology and developmental mathematics. Each course and the approximate number of times I have taught the course appear below.:
- Basic Math Skills: 30 sections
- Elementary Algebra: 20 sections
- Intermediate Algebra: 5 sections
- Enhancing Math Skills 3 sections
- Statistics Foundations 3 sections
- Support for College Algebra 3 section
- Introduction to Psychology 40 sections
- Statistical Methods for the Behavioral Sciences 3 sections
- Social Psychology 1 section
As a Teaching Fellow or Teaching Assistant in the 1970s at The University of Michigan, I taught or assisted in teaching many sections of introductory psychology and one section each of the following: statistics, experimental psychology, and social psychology.
In addition, I worked at the Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory in Austin, Texas from 1991 to 1999, conducting 8 case studies of K-12 schools with large minority and low-income populations; training educators, and preparing resource materials for educators.
Between 1978 and 1991, I worked for 13 years at the Texas Department of Human Services, including four years in Community Care for the Aged and Disabled, five years in Children's Protective Services, and four years in a couple of research and evaluation positions.
Professional Publications
Nisbett, R. E., & Bellows, N. (1977). Verbal reports about causal influences on social judgments: Private access versus public theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35, 613-624.
“Maryetta School: The Center of a Rural Community,” Issues … about Change, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1995). Austin, Texas: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, by Nancy (Bellows) Fuentes and reviewed by Joy Hall at Maryetta School.
“Changing Mental Frameworks: One High School's Success through a Triad Partnership,” Issues... about Change, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994). Austin, Texas: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, by Nancy (Bellows) Fuentes, Gloria J. Crum, and Esteban Garcia, Jr.
Native Education Resources for the Southwestern Region: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, 1999 (focuses on a wide range of organizations, conferences, and contact persons to help teachers of American Indian students in the Southwest).
Profiles of Native Language Education Programs: A Source Book for Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, 1999 (describes 24 programs in SEDL's region and gives teachers and other educators who serve American Indian students in the Southwest access to organizations and resources that can help them meet the educational needs of this often underserved population).
Outdoors Austin: A Sierra Club Guide, 3rd edition, edited by Nancy (Bellows) Fuentes, 1995. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. (This book is out of print but still available online.)
Membership on Boards
At different times, I have been on the following boards or executive committees:
Executive Committee of the Austin Regional Group of the Sierra Club, including being Chairperson in 1986-1987
Travis County Children's Protective Services Board, including being Secretary
Ecology Action, an environmental organization
Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption (SARA), a farm sanctuary with about 700 animals. I am still on SARA's board.
Published: August 28, 2024