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Browsing by Subject "Educational leadership"
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A Team of Heavy Hitters: Foregrounding Black Community Leadership to Disrupt Anti-Blackness in Educational Systems
The normativity of anti-Black racism in educational system has led to increasing efforts to disrupt the endemic status quo. Anti-Black racism in educational institutions is racial violence that does not merely disregard ... -
American Indian Students: An Exploration of Their Experiences in Doctoral Programs
(2013-02-25)This qualitative study explores the experiences of American Indian students in doctoral programs of study at a Research Extensive University. Ten doctoral students who identified as American Indian were interviewed about ... -
“Aye Maestro, ¿Qué Se Yo De español?”: A Mixed-Methods Study on the Use Of Translanguaging in L1 and L2 with Third Grade Bilingual and Emergent Bilingual Latino Students
In the age of high stakes accountability, districts are being asked to provide and demonstrate academic achievement for all students including English Learners(ELs), who maybe also be identified as Emergent Bilinguals ... -
Becoming an Instructional Leader for Elementary Mathematics: Transforming Principal Learning through a Research-Practice Partnership
Principals across the country are increasingly called on to support teacher learning and instruction as instructional leaders. As a result, districts are faced with the challenge of supporting principals to take on ... -
Black Male Intercollegiate Athletic Administrators: Ascending the Career Ladder A Qualitative Analysis and a Case Study
(2014-04-30)The purpose of this study was to analyze the underrepresentation of Black men in intercollegiate athletic leadership positions at the NCAA Division I level at predominantly White institutions of higher education (PWIHEs). ... -
Blending Career Development Practices with Principles of Intergroup Dialogue: A Social Justice Pedagogy
The purpose of this capstone project is two-fold: first to introduce a problem of advising practice and then offer a recommended solution. The problem is captured in my general overall question which ask, how (if at all) ... -
Building and Elevating the Coach-Athlete Relationship: Reported Behaviors of Effective High School Athletic Coaches
The relationship between a coach and an athlete lies at the heart of the athletic experience. This relationship can profoundly impact how a student-athlete experiences their sport, as well as their overall development ... -
Building Competence, A Case Study in Competency-based Education
University of Washington Abstract Building Competence: A Case Study in Competency-based Education Kristin A. Jones Chair of Supervisory Committee: Professor James Soto Antony College of Education The purpose of this study ... -
Collective Teacher Efficacy and High School Reorganization as Small Learning Communities: An Action Research Project in Southwestern Colorado
(2013-02-25)As a high school principal, I have been immersed in seeking effective ways to create school conditions in which teachers can perform their best instructional work with students. Small learning community (SLC) environments ... -
“Collectively We’re Stronger Than We Are as Individuals”: Understanding the Development of Inquiry-Oriented Communities of Mathematics Teachers
Students’ engagement in meaningful, rigorous mathematical work and seeing themselves as mathematics learners with power and agency requires that teachers have the support of colleagues in a robust, generative community. ... -
Cross Sector Collaboration Champions: How Collective Impact Network Directors Lead for Educational Equity
Collective impact, as a term and as a framework, has risen in popularity over the past six years as a set of guiding principles, processes, and measurement indicators aimed at addressing complex social issues. It has been ... -
Cross-Cultural Trust Networks and Advancing Education Equity in Place-Based Partnerships
Research suggests that trust can be a foundational element for the success and sustainability of multi-organizational partnerships focused on advancing education equity in a particular neighborhood or region. As these ... -
Developing a Critical Dialog for Educational Technology: Understanding the Nature of Technology and the Legacy of Scientific Management in Our Schools
(2012-09-13)This dissertation examines the legacy of scientific management and the dominance of one-dimensional thinking in the field of educational technology. Through this analysis, I demonstrate that the ways practitioners and ... -
Does Stacking Work? The Academic Value of Short-Term, Stackable Certificates
Community colleges confer professional/technical awards so graduates might attain labor market benefits, including earnings advantages. Short-term certificates, generally defined as academic awards in these fields requiring ... -
Educator-driven data use? A case study of P-20 data use in Washington State
The federal government has granted states millions of dollars to build longitudinal P-20 data systems. These systems link early learning, K-12, post-secondary and workforce data so the various educational pathways people ... -
Exploring two classroom teachers' experiences as they aspire to become literacy instructional leaders
(2012-09-13)Classroom teacher leadership has encompassed both formal and informal leadership roles--from organizational roles, such as department head, to instructional roles, such as literacy coach or facilitating a book study group. ... -
Free Teacher Education Policy Implementation in China
(2012-09-13)In 2007 the Chinese central government implemented the Free Teacher Education Policy (FTEP), which offered qualifying students admission to prestigious national universities, four years of free tuition, room and board, and ... -
How Asian American students experience campus culture in their first year attending a rural, primarily White institution (PWI)
Asian Americans are a diverse population and represent the fastest growing population in the United States with increasing demographic representation in the Southern United States. Additionally, they represent the highest ... -
How Asian American Women Perceive and Move Toward Leadership Roles in Community Colleges: A Study of Insider Counter Narratives
(2013-07-23)Asian American women are often misunderstood and disfranchised due to stereotypes and microaggressions, and they are frequently excluded from the mainstream leadership agenda in higher education discourse. Using critical ... -
How Principals Make Sense of and Influence the Implementation of Instructional Reform in Secondary Science
After decades of calls to change science instruction, including the recent Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), classroom practices remain largely stable. Research has much to say about who principals are and what ...