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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 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: 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: 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: 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...

Title: The Effects of an Interactive Vocabulary Strategy on Teachers' and Students' Perceptions of Word Learning
Author: Latham, Kendall
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading
Description: ABSTRACTKENDALL KISER LATHAM. The effects of an interactive strategy on teachers' and students' perceptions of word learning. (Under direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)It is a well established fact that the level and degree of vocabulary knowledge plays a...

Title: The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed-methods approach
Author: Yearta, Lindsay
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: ABSTRACTLINDSAY SHERONICK YEARTA. The effect of digital word study on fifth graders' vocabulary acquisition, retention, and motivation: A mixed methods approach. (Under the direction of DR.KAREN WOOD)Vocabulary and comprehension are so inextricabl...

Title: UNSILENCED: AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF FAMILY LITERACY PROVIDED BY A BLACK WOMAN SINGLE PARENT RESEARCHER
Author: Brandon, Paige
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: Family literacy research documents rich descriptions of literate experiences between families (Compton-Lilly et al., 2020), with parent research providing an insider’s in-depth perspective which would not be available to other researchers (Kabuto ...

Title: VIGNETTES OF SCHOLARS: A CASE STUDY OF BLACK MALE STUDENTS AT A STEM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL
Author: Adams, Tempestt
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: Ensuring students graduate high school ready to enter college or the workforce has become a prime focus within secondary education. High school graduates are often ill-prepared for college-level work and often have to register for remedial courses...