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Language Ideologies and Identity Construction Among Dual Language Youth
(2016-05-13)Cross-cultural learning and identity formation are an under-theorized but fundamental aspect of dual language bilingual schools, where heritage speakers and English-only learners of a foreign language are educated together ... -
Leadership and Collaboration in Complex Organizations: Principals’ Interactions With Central Office in Two Large School Districts
(2015-05-15)There is increasing pressure on the central office, particularly in large school districts, to improve student outcomes across schools and to close large achievement gaps between groups of students based largely on race ... -
Leadership for Social Transformation: Portraits of Three K-12 Black Male Education Leaders in Southern Dallas
(2018-03-28)Twenty-first century K-12 education leaders are increasingly positioned as critical levers in transforming chronically underperforming schools and school systems. Efforts to enhance student and school performance however ... -
Leading and Learning From Innovation at Teach for America
(2015-05-04)This capstone explores my efforts to lead the implementation of new learning structures for internally funded innovation projects at Teach For America (TFA), a nationwide non-profit organization with a twenty-five year ... -
Leading on the Line: Reimagining the High School Experience at the Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academies
(2017-05-01)Before the national trend arose of ensuring college and career readiness for all students, the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) adopted the bold mission of supporting children and their families with a birth through college ... -
Leading the Implementation of the Strategies for Children Community Readiness Initiative
(2017-05-02)Strategies for Children (SFC) is a nonprofit organization that works to expand access to high-quality preschool for all Massachusetts children. In 2015, under the guidance of a revised strategic plan, the organization ... -
Leading the Initial Implementation Phase of the TandemED Community Initiative in Relationship with the Pittsburgh Public Schools
(2015-05-05)TandemED is a start-up entity that begins its efforts with a belief that Black community leadership is the key lever for the educational success of its K–12 youth. TandemED organizes and facilitates Black communities to ... -
Leading, Learning, and Disequilibrium: Defining the Role of a Harbormaster Organization in a System of Schools
(2017-05-01)This capstone examines the role of a new type of nonprofit in education reform efforts. Referred to as “harbormasters” or “quarterbacks,” these city-based organizations represent a shift to locally developed and executed ... -
"Learning About Where You Are": Pedagogies of Place and Placemaking in an Urban Community Art Studio
(2018-10-15)In recent decades, the concepts of place and placemaking have become influential for practitioners in numerous fields, including the arts, community development, and education. While pedagogies of place and placemaking are ... -
Learning and Leading for an Evolving Profession: Rethinking the New Teacher Support System in Mapleton Public Schools
(2023-05-30)Mapleton Public Schools serves 7,100 students on the northern edge of Denver. In terms of student demographics, Mapleton is similar to many urban districts in Colorado, with 66% of students eligible for free and reduced-priced ... -
Learning for Adaptation: Building Teacher Career Pathways at DSST Public Schools
(2015-05-04)The past five years have witnessed unprecedented changes in teacher evaluation systems, as states and districts have responded to federal incentives under the 2009 Race to the Top grant competition. Across the country, ... -
Learning from the Students Not Yet in the Room: Using Inclusion Planning to Promote Organizational Learning, Equity, and Innovation
(2022-05-06)The American preK-12 education system is struggling. Challenges resulting from navigating the global pandemic, the growing consciousness of the education system’s role in perpetuating cycles of inequity for students furthest ... -
Learning to Belong, Belonging to Learn: Syrian Refugee Youths' Pursuits of Education, Membership and Stability in Lebanon
(2018-05-08)The need to belong is a fundamental human need, yet in contemporary contexts of migration, conflict and forced displacement, it remains severely contested and continually undermined. The policies of education institutions ... -
Learning to Grow: Designing a Cohesive Professional Growth System with the New Bedford Public Schools
(2023-04-21)Abstract Our nation’s 16,800 school districts spend billions of dollars a year on professional development. The best professional development is a critical need. Many educators enter teaching underprepared, especially in ... -
Learning to Learn: A Cultural Transformation at United Way of Greenville County
(2022-10-28)Founded in the early 1900s and organized as a franchise model of approximately 1,800 local fundraising affiliates, United Way has established itself as a premier nonprofit dedicated to supporting the well-being of its ... -
Learning to Teach to the Common Core State Standards: Examining the Role of Teachers’ Collaboration, Principals’ Leadership, and Professional Development
(2015-02-18)Recent research on the relationship between standards and teachers’ practice suggests that teachers are unlikely to make changes to practice without extensive opportunities for learning about standards with colleagues. My ... -
Learning to Teach: A Mixed-Methods Study of Interns Learning the Skills of Teaching
(2018-05-03)Our understanding of learning has improved dramatically throughout the last century; cognitivists built upon behaviorists, and in turn provided the foundation for increasingly advanced insights into the learning process. ... -
Letting Go of Clecha, While Holding Corazón; Developing a New Approach to Empowering Youth in Gangs the Homeboy Industries Way
(2016-05-02)This capstone seeks to assess and support Homeboy Industries (HBI), a leader in wrap-around services for formerly gang-involved and incarcerated men and women, in their co-creation of a youth services committee and a ... -
Lift Every Voice: Centering the Voices of Paraeducators in Public Education
(2023-05-22)This capstone project focuses on the use of Improvement Science Methodology to improve the onboarding, training, and retention of paraeducators. The project aims to involve those closest to the work in identifying and ... -
Locked Up Means Locked Out: The Effects of the Federal Drug Laws of the 1980s and 1990s on Black Male Students’ College Enrollment
(2018-02-06)While research documents that rates of college access and completion have increased during the past several decades, the trend data also reveal differences by race and gender, with Black men having lower levels of college ...