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Saling-Pusa Tayo [We Are Saling-Pusa]: Toward Being and Teaching Filipinxs on Indigenous Lands
Filipinxs in the United States/Turtle Island are both racialized “others” and settlers on Indigenous lands. This study asks the two following questions: What does it mean to be Filipinx on Indigenous Lands? How do Filipinxs ... -
Scaffolding Disciplinary Engagement and Literacy for Reclassified as Fluent English Proficient (R-FEP) Middle School Students
This study investigated the instructional practices and aspects of the classroom environment that middle school social teachers used to establish and cultivate engagement and learning with content and discipline-specific ... -
Scaffolding Student Learning in the Discipline-Specific Knowledge through Contemporary Science Practices: Developing High-School Students’ Epidemiologic Reasoning through Data Analysis
Science is a disciplined practice about knowing puzzling observations and unknown phenomena. Scientific knowledge of the product is applied to develop technological artifacts and solve complex problems in society. Scientific ... -
Scaffolding Teacher Candidates' Development as Linguistically Responsive Teachers via a Team-Based Rehearsal Process with Structured Talk Tasks
To address the need for more research on second language teacher education pedagogies, this qualitative self-study investigates how a team-based rehearsal process scaffolds pre-service and in-service K-12 teacher candidates’ ... -
The School Calendar: An Examination of Its Past, Present, and Potential
(2013-07-25)This paper reviews the existing research and literature on the school calendar - its history, purpose, contemporary issues, and potential alternatives - and analyzes the feasibility of altering the calendar model as an ... -
School District Investment in the Preparation and Induction of Student Teachers
There has been increasing negative attention cast on the preparation of our Nation's teachers given the rise in accountability and evaluation measures focused on students and their teachers. Efforts presume that an increased ... -
School district reorganization in Polk County, Oregon
(1939)In the United States modern transportation facilities and other social and economic factors are tending to make obsolescent multitudinous small school administrative units. Several of the states have been experimenting ... -
School Exclusion and Why Seattle is Not So Progressive
As of 2013 Seattle Public Schools District has been under investigation by the Department of Education for the disproportionate and disparate impact of school exclusion policies upon students of color—specifically black ... -
School improvement planning and the development of professional community
(2005)Rigorous, standards-based accountability systems have strengthened the call for educators to pay more attention to the nature of change in schools and to invest in developing a culture of ongoing improvement. Curricula ... -
School principal response to central office collapse in conflict zones: A multi-site case study
The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how conflict influences the priorities, attitudes, and beliefs of school principals towards educational leadership and management during times of war. Four school principals ... -
Science Education in the Early Childhood & Special Education Setting: An Analysis of Science Education Across Lake Washington, Bellevue & Seattle School Districts
(2012-09-13)This survey based research illustrates science education in the early childhood setting, specifically across Lake Washington, Seattle and Bellevue Public School Districts, with a lens on programs serving children with ... -
Science Teachers in Research Labs: Expanding Conceptions of Scientific Practices
Argumentation is a central epistemic process contributing to the generation, evaluation, and application of new scientific knowledge. A key challenge for science educators and researchers is to understand how important ... -
Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) Education MUST Begin in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Analysis of Washington State Guidelines Used to Gauge the Development and Learning of Young Learners
This paper reflects future direction for early Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, science in particular. Washington State stakeholders use guidelines including: standards, curriculums and ... -
Science-for-Teaching Discourse in Science Teachers' Professional Learning Communities
(2014-02-24)Professional learning communities (PLCs) provide an increasingly common structure for teachers' professional development. The effectiveness of PLCs depends on the content and quality of the participants' discourse. This ... -
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 ... -
SECONDARY EDUCATORS KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF SECTION 504 PLANS
In informal conversations to the research, students and their families reported 504 Plans going un- or underserved. As 504 Plans are legal documents, and the usage of them has increased since 2008, there is a need to ... -
Secondary mathematics teacher education: a methods course syllabus
(2005)The purpose of this study was to learn more about how secondary mathematics teachers are educated in reform-oriented methods courses and use the results to inform the creation of a methods' course syllabus. The research ... -
See You After Circle Time: Strategies to Support Toddlers' Transition to Group Settings
Transition occurs when children move from activity to activity or from one program to another. Transition, however, can often create separation anxiety, especially for infants, since children are attached to their caregivers. ... -
Segregation to Desegregation: The Journey of African American Students to Academic Excellence or Academic Despair
(2013-07-25)This study was designed to investigate the perceptions of a group of former African American students of their former teachers prior to and after the desegregation of schools in Columbus, Georgia. The theoretical framework ... -
Self-Compassion as a Protective Factor for Sexually Assaulted College Students
Sexual assault is a common type of traumatic event on college campuses. It is associated with mental health disorders, including anxiety and depression. However, not all people who experience sexual assault will go onto ...