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- Title
- "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
- Author
- Strong, Kellan
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...
- Title
- A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
- Author
- Kincaid, Nicki
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Reading
- Description
- This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...
- Title
- AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
- Author
- Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
- Description
- ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...
- Title
- An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
- Author
- Smith, Delphia
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...
- Title
- An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
- Author
- Ramadan, Kimberly
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...
- Title
- But Is it Service-learning?
- Author
- Steele, Lucy
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Rhetoric, Education
- Description
- Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...
- Title
- DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
- Author
- Wylie, Alonda
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...
- Title
- Do You See Yourself In Multicultural Literature? Seeking Self-reflections From Black Students
- Author
- Thomas, April
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading, Education
- Description
- In the United States, Muhammad (2020) explains how Black students who attend schools have a greater potential for success when they see themselves represented in the curriculum and when their cultural, gender, and racial identities are affirmed. T...
- Title
- EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATORS TOWARD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
- Author
- Mitchell, Karen
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
- Description
- KAREN SMITH MITCHELL. Expanding the conversation among secondary educators toward a shared understanding of student engagement (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) To describe how high school administrators and teachers perceive student enga...
- Title
- EXPLORING FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ONE COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
- Author
- Moore, Stacy
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Social sciences
- Description
- Behavioral and Social Science (BSS) classes provide students with understandings of human behaviors, motivations, and actions that are crucial to confronting both social and personal problems. Moreover, most community college degrees require that ...
- 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
- Impacts of Light Rail Investment on Commercial Landscapes in Transit Neighborhoods
- Author
- Shepard, Elina
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Transportation, Geography, City planning
- Description
- City governments across the country invest in rail transit to provide localized access to vital facilities for vulnerable groups of their populations, and to encourage development around transit lines and stations (Transit Oriented Development). S...
- Title
- Investigating the Influence of Literacy Coaching as Embedded PD on Teacher Instruction
- Author
- Mauzy, Katherine
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- Improving elementary student reading achievement has been a well-defined goal of many federal and state educational initiatives over the last several decades. To that end, vast amounts of resources have been funneled into professional development ...
- Title
- Literacy coaches: A case study of beginning teacher perceptions of literacy coaching
- Author
- Bambrick, Jennifer
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Reading
- Description
- The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perspectives of beginning teachers regarding their work with literacy coaches. The study took place at two elementary schools in a suburban school district in the Southeastern United St...
- Title
- On Improvisation, Learning, and Literacy
- Author
- Welsh, Ryan
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education--Philosophy
- Description
- Previously, improvisation has served as a term for describing a quality of the action taking place in classrooms between teachers and students. This project begins to theorize a way of understanding embodied literacies and scenes of learning throu...
- Title
- Place-based education, student writing, and cultural contexts: A case study of building community consciousness in a rural middle school classroom
- Author
- Donovan, Erin
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education
- Description
- The idea of place extends beyond just the location where people live. Place is a narrative, a story that involves interactions, characters, conflicts, and the rise and flow of humanity. By understanding the importance of place and the connection t...
- Title
- TALKING THROUGH WALLS: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY OF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS’ USES OF ONLINE DISCUSSIONS IN THEIR ELA CLASSROOMS
- Author
- Cather, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Language arts
- Description
- As the availability of digital technology in public schools spreads, teachers are tasked with implementing new technologies in their classroom. One of these technologies is online discussion forums. This qualitative multiple case study focused on ...
- Title
- TEACHER PERCEPTION OF ADHD AND ITS INFLUENCES WHEN TEACHING READING TO ELEMENTARY MALES WITH ADHD
- Author
- Keller, Beth
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Elementary
- Description
- The learning needs of students diagnosed with ADHD have been of interest of researchers over the last three decades. It is important to understand how best to support these learners in the classroom as they comprise about 10% of students in our na...
- Title
- TEACHER PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL
- Author
- Finley, Lauren
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Professional learning communities
- Description
- ABSTRACTLAUREN L.FINLEY. Teacher perceptions regarding the implementation of the professional learning communities at the elementary school level. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT RICKELMAN) The purpose of this study was to describe elementary s...
- Title
- Teaching the Teachers: A Case Study of Instructional Leader Professional Development
- Author
- Sykes, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Teachers--Training of, Adult education, Continuing education
- Description
- The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore professional development from the perspective of instructional leaders to identify if the assumptions of Knowles’s (1990) Adult Learning Theory were present in the planning and implementation of...