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Title: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER AGENCY IN PROMOTING CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PEDAGOGY
Author: Sanczyk, Anna
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: With an increasing immigrant population in the United States, there is a growing number of English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in adult education institutions. Given that English language learners (ELLs) come from various backgrounds, they ...

Title: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT CRITICAL SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG SCIENCE EDUCATORS
Author: Crabtree, Lenora
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Science--Study and teaching
Description: Justice-oriented pedagogies support students’ sociopolitical, or critical, consciousness. Research reveals, however, that science educators, the majority of whom are white, struggle to enact these practices. The purpose of this Design-based Resear...

Title: EXPLORING THE INFLUENCE OF DRAMATIC ARTS ON UNDEREXAMINED LITERACIES: EXPERIENCES OF BLACK GIRLS IN AN URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Author: York, Portia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This study examined the influence of drama participation on foundational, digital, and Black Girls’ literacies of urban middle school Black girls. This interpretive case study used the Culturally Relevant Arts Education framework with Black Femini...

Title: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AT ONE URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Author: Morgan, Jonimay
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: Beginning with the Lau decision (Sugarman & Widess, 1974), it has been the responsibility of schools to provide educational support to English Language Learners (ELL). However, as elucidated by Hakuta (2017), educators continually struggle to supp...

Title: ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
Author: Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary
Description: While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...

Title: Factors Influencing Teen Suicide-Related Behaviors Among Racially Diverse High School Students in a Southeastern Urban School District
Author: Richardson, Sonyia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Social service
Description: This quantitative study explores factors related to suicide-related behaviors among high school students in a southeastern urban racially diverse school district. It sought to examine whether race was a moderator of identified predictors and the o...

Title: HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
Author: Dymes, Laurie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...

Title: STAYING THE COURSE: THE PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BIOLOGY MAJORS AT A PREDOMINATLY WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Pass, Michelle
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: ABSTRACTMICHELLE B. PASS. Staying the course: the persistence of African American biology majors at a predominantly White Institution. (Under the direction of Dr. CHANCE W. LEWIS) Increasing the number of African Americans graduating with STEM deg...

Title: USES OF ARGUMENTATION IN AN UNDERGRADUATE CALCULUS CLASSROOM: MEDIATING STUDENT GENERALIZATION WITHIN RIEMANN SUMS AND INTEGRATION
Author: Bumgardner, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Education, Secondary
Description: Many of the struggles students face in postsecondary mathematics courses arise from their rote memorization of mathematical concepts, rather than having developed a relational understanding of these concepts. A relational understanding of mathemat...

Title: “Sixth grade is too late”: A case study of diversity education for elementary grades
Author: Norwood, Jessica
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Elementary
Description: Recent high-profile events and rhetoric surrounding White supremacist ideology in conjunction with recent data about White Americans’ understanding of structural racism has illustrated the problematic nature of White Americans’ conceptions of race...