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Leading Betwixt and Between: The Development of a Liminal Leadership Scale
(2020-04-13)
Liminal Leadership is a new, adaptive leadership paradigm (Shaw-VanBuskirk, Lim, & Jeong, 2019). Liminal is a Latin word that means at a threshold or boundary; betwixt or between spaces. Liminal Leadership occurs when an ...
A Critical Examination of How U.S. Schools Structure Inequalities in Science Learning Opportunities Based on Intersectional Student Backgrounds
(2020-05-08)
For decades, U.S. education policy has focused on the persistent achievement gap based on race and class in public schools. Within this test-based accountability context, math and reading achievement have been prioritized, ...
The Role of Teacher Preparation and Efficacy in Teaching for Deeper Learning and Student Mathematical Understanding in Elementary School: A Comparative Study of the United States and Singapore
(2020-05)
Student achievement in mathematics in the United States is lagging when compared to other subjects and other countries. This is even more apparent when considering deeper learning in mathematics, being able to apply the ...
Sistas in Crisis: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry into the Lives of Black Women Student Affairs Practitioners within Historically White Institutions
(2020-04-23)
Black women practitioners who work at Historically White Institutions occupy institutional spaces that were not created to support how they exist and thrive as Black women. Through their intersectional identities, they ...
Empowering Solutioneers: A Teacher Leadership Development Case Study
(2020-05-08)
Teacher leadership has been a prominent feature of school reform in the United States for nearly three decades. During this time, researchers have identified numerous benefits teacher leaders bring to their school and ...
BUILDING A LINE OF INQUIRY INTO STUDENT PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED FRUSTRATION AND RELATED SCHOOL-SOCIAL CONDITIONS
(2020-07-20)
According to Gallup data, U.S. public school students increasingly endorse disengagement from school and hopelessness about the future. Over the years, research around student psychological ill-being has focused on it as ...
Music Performance Ensemble Participation and the Cultivation of Student Grit
(2020-05-08)
Myriad empirical studies show that music participation has numerous cognitive and non-cognitive benefits, but there is limited research studying the influence of music participation on the development of grit. Through a ...
Insights into what influences school administrators to adopt a school dress code: an analysis of school administrators' perceptions of safety, discipline, and student voice
(2020-12-18)
Abstract
Research in the field of school dress codes has in general been centered around whether they improve the learning environment in areas of safety discipline and academic performance. Researchers have studied the ...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS SATISFACTION AND TRUANCY
(2020)
In spite of intense efforts to reduce student truancy, the prevalence of truancy at the high school level has remained consistent. The body of knowledge exploring truancy has identified myriad correlational relationships ...
From zero-tolerance to restorative practices: a narrative inquiry of the transition in policy and practice
(2020-12-04)
This dissertation explores an educational leader’s unique journey to establish a new culture for school discipline in a Midwest urban middle school. This study chronicles three years of the implementation of restorative ...