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Minoritized Students In STEM Pathways at Community Colleges
Community colleges are a prominent academic pathway for future scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and serve as a gateway to higher education for traditionally marginalized student populations. Because of this, community colleges are uniquely positioned to combat the underrepresentation of African American, Latino/a, ...
Survey of Washington State Early Childhood Coaches’ Communities of Practice
The need to improve the quality of early childhood education is urgent. Researchers are diligently studying which forms of professional development will yield positive changes in teacher practices. Communities of practice (COPs) and coaching have both been shown to be potentially effective and efficient means of professional ...
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 employed perhaps the most by regional or city-wide efforts that aim to increase educational attainment, ...
“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 (EBs), or Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD). This becomes increasingly challenging especially for ...
Individual, Family, and School Factors Indicative of Caring: Predicting High School Graduation for NLTS2 Students with ED
This study examined data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) to determine if factors indicative of caring were predictive of high school graduation for students with ED. Selection of NLTS2 variables was guided by resiliency theory, which implies that an individual can successfully adapt to factors that ...
The Effects of the Implementation of Parent Coaching to Increase Quality of life for Children and Families Affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder
As the prevalence of children diagnosed with autism continues to rise, the need for high quality parent coaching practices to ensure generalization of skills targeting in early intervention services is pronounced This mixed methods study investigated the results of implementation of a parent coaching treatment package developed ...
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 practices they engage in, yet there is little research explicating how principals and their school leadership ...
Institutional Effects on Community College Completion Rates: An Analysis of Washington State’s Community and Technical College System
Today nearly half of all U.S. undergraduates at public institutions are community college students. Despite being the fastest growing sector of American higher education, the success rates of these colleges are extraordinarily low. Only one-third of community college students earn a certificate/award within six years of ...
Racialized Narratives of Female Students of Color: Learning Mathematics in a Neoliberal Context
There is a growing body of scholarship in mathematics education that has attended to the salience of race in mathematics teaching and learning. However, in the context of secondary classrooms with equity-oriented instruction, we know little about race and processes of racialization, and even less from the perspectives of ...
Girls’ Vocational Education at Chemawa Indian School 1900-1930s: A Story of Acculturation and Self-Advocacy
This dissertation focuses on female student experiences at Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon between 1900 and the 1930s. It examines the broader meaning and significance of the federally-funded boarding school education provided to Indigenous female students at Chemawa during this period of educational reform in which ...