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Who Pays to (Re)Build our Schools? Resource Equity in State School Capital Finance Policy: The Case of Washington
Modern, high quality school facilities are essential to safe and effective learning environments for K-12 students. However, current spending on school facilities has been identified as insufficient to meet the health, ... -
Exploring General Education Classroom Teachers' Balancing Act: Navigating Myths, and Instruction for Multilingual Learners from a Meso-Level View
This dissertation addresses a critical gap in the literature by examining how the organizational environment shapes the understanding of instruction and practice for multilingual learners (ML) among general education (GE) ... -
University Supervisor Feedback to Preservice Teachers: Influential Factors and the Role of Subject Matter
Teacher education programs have the responsibility of preparing future educators to teach in ways that support student learning and foster deep understanding of subject matter. For this reason, it is important teacher ... -
Graduation Equity for Undergraduate Black Men: A Multilevel Analysis of Four-Year Institutional Outcomes
This study examined the organizational and state factors related to graduation equity for undergraduate Black men at 1,242 public and not-for-profit four-year institutions across the United States in 2020. Using data from ... -
Supporting the Whole Child During Pandemic Remote Learning
The education system is like a dialectical system that holds both hope and harm in its operations. However, at the same time, the realities of the educational system have historically and continue to bring great harm to ... -
Online classroom engagement: A Mixed-Method Exploration of Effective Engagement Strategies of Online Classrooms in the College of Education During COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the idea of classroom teaching in many ways, and the notion of online learning becomes more popular as teachers and students both find themselves benefiting from this learning experience. ... -
Wondering With People, Places, and More-Than-Humans as an Ontological Orientation to Ethical Socio-Ecological Education: Towards More Just & Livable Futures through Design-Based, Mediational, and Quantitative Analyses
This dissertation is aimed at articulating and empirically characterizing an expansive orientation to field-based socio-ecological systems learning that elevates participatory and ethically-engaged approaches to teaching ... -
Examining Social Positioning Across Settings in an Undergraduate Education Course
University of WashingtonAbstract Examining Social Positioning Across Settings in an Undergraduate Education Course Maria Hays Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Katie Headrick Taylor College of Education The benefits of ... -
Predicting Change in Life Satisfaction During a Summer Treatment Program for Children with ADHD and ASD
Life satisfaction in children is associated with psychological well-being as well as quality social relationships, physical health, and positive schooling experiences. Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ... -
Teacher Learning for Responsive Civics Instruction with Immigrant Youth: Student-led Transnational Dialogues as Professional Development
Social studies teachers can advance more equitable democratic education for multilingual immigrant and refugee youth by enacting responsive instruction, based in knowledge of superdiversity within migration, and in students’ ... -
The Impact of the Juvenile Incarceration System and Protective Factors that Mitigate Offending
Extant literature suggests that involvement with the juvenile incarceration system can predict negative outcomes for young people; however, there has been limited research exploring the association between involvement with ... -
Warriors of Lyari: Karachi's Hip Hop Movement and its Impact on Society and Education
Globalization, social media, and transnational trends have facilitated the transcension of Hip Hop culture across borders. In Pakistan, the movement gained momentum in Lyari, a neighbourhood from Karachi, Pakistan which ... -
Predicting the Academic Success of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing University Students: A Multilevel Analysis
Second Language (L2) learners and Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Deaf/HH) students share some commonalities. Both groups are required to obtain a minimum score on Language Proficiency Tests (LPT) to gain acceptance into university ... -
Self-Monitoring Using a Digital Versus Paper DBT Diary Card Format: Predicting Fidelity of Completion, Self-Reported Mental Health Symptoms, and Social Acceptability
Prevalence of mental health needs, particularly those related to anxiety, depression, and emotion regulation, are on the rise in higher education institutions (Auerbach et al., 2016; Blanco et al., 2008). Research has shown ... -
Teacher Learning in Preschool to Third Grade (P-3) Alignment: How a P-12 School District Supports Teacher Learning of a P-3 Approach
Districts across the country are using Preschool to Third Grade (P-3) approaches to address long-standing barriers to achieving positive outcomes for young children, for example by helping increase children’s readiness for ... -
The Familismo Coaching Model (FCM): Using a Values-Based Coaching Framework for Latino Caregivers
With the rates of autism and the Latino population steadily rising in the United States, Latino families face marked disparities with access to timely and quality care. To date, there is little documented literature for ... -
Second-Generation South Asian American Muslim Mothers: Constructing Knowledge, Perspectives, and Practice of Mental Health and Well-being
Mental health and well-being have been studied through various lenses across time and cultures. However, cultural knowledge, perspectives, and practices are limited in the current western psychology field. The present study ... -
A Mixed Method Study of Prevent, Teach, and Reinforce for Families: The Effectiveness for Culturally Diverse Families
Prevent, Teach, and Reinforce for Families (PTR-F) has been found effective in increasing parents’ use of positive behavior support (PBS)-based strategies and decreasing children’s challenging behavior. However, only few ... -
Camp Sensibilities: Tradition, Narrative, and Playing Indian at American Summer Camps
Storytelling is an integral tradition at American summer camps. Summer camps allow children to participate in a form of narratological escapism and abandonment of ‘real world’ societal rules: where children play with their ... -
Tracing Shifts in the Language Ideologies of Latina Dual Language Elementary Teacher Candidates: Narratives of Disruption
This dissertation investigates shifts in the languages ideologies of four Latina English-Spanish dual language teacher candidates (DLTCs) over four quarters in a Teacher Education Program (TEP) and bilingual endorsement. ...