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7 Leadership Blind Spots: Adult Development, Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership Effectiveness Among Biotech R&D Leaders
(2015-05-15)In this multiple-case study of 6 mid-level leaders working in biotech R&D--an archetype of a complex, uncertain, turbulent, and, multidisciplinary 21st-Century workplace--I explore the importance and interaction of mental ... -
A Culture of Candor: Leveraging Developmental Principles to Create a Learning Culture within a Non-profit Startup
(2021-10-15)The Principal Impact Collaborative (PIC) at the University of North Texas at Dallas creates transformative learning experiences for principals in school districts across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. In its fifth year, ... -
A Foundation of Trust: Building Bridges Across the District to Support School Leaders in Boston Public Schools
(2021-10-15)As home to the oldest elementary and high schools in the United States, Boston has always been one step ahead of the rest of the country in education policy. Amid the calamity, strife and uncertainty of 2020, Boston Public ... -
A Marathon at a Sprinter’s Pace: Improving Retention in a Turnaround Environment Through Manager Development
(2018-04-30)Across all sectors, attracting and retaining talent is a pressing challenge. At the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a non-profit working to transform 18 of Los Angeles Unified School District’s highest-need schools, ... -
A Sandbox for Innovation: My Exploration of Pay for Success in K-12 Education
(2018-04-30)Pay for Success is an innovative financing tool through which private investors provide upfront capital for high quality, evidence-based social services programs, and are paid back by government once pre-determined outcomes ... -
Academic Strategy in Action: Instructional Focus and Coherence in Chicago Public Schools
(2021-10-15)School systems can be terribly fragmented and incoherent organizations. A lack of clear and focused priorities often results in poor execution of initiatives as well as duplicative, conflicting, non-coordinated, or ... -
Advancing and Sustaining the Oceanside Promise: A Collective Impact Initiative Anchored Within Oceanside Unified School District
(2017-05-01)In addition to preparing students academically, public schools are increasingly expected to address the complex social, emotional, and safety needs of students. Collective impact, first defined by Kania & Kramer (2011) as ... -
Adventure Girlz: A Restorative Leadership Program Model for Interrupting Black Girls’ School Pushout in New York City
(2016-05-02)Young, poor, and undereducated women of color make up the majority of women who are incarcerated in the U.S. correctional system (Covington & Bloom, 2003). Black girls, in particular, are at risk of incarceration when ... -
Algebraic Functions, Computer Programming, and the Challenge of Transfer
(2015-05-17)Students' struggles with algebra are well documented. Prior to the introduction of functions, mathematics is typically focused on applying a set of arithmetic operations to compute an answer. The introduction of functions, ... -
Alternative routes to teaching as a state policy mechanism: Implications for teacher supply and composition
(2022-02-18)States first implemented alternative routes to teaching (ARTs) as a policy mechanism to attract qualified candidates into teaching and alleviate rising teacher shortages. They hoped that ARTs would reduce reliance on ... -
Apoyo Sacrificial, Sacrificing Support: Understanding Undocumented Latina/o Parents’ Engagement in Students’ Post-Secondary Planning and Success
(2018-05-07)Educational research has highlighted the importance of parental engagement in Latina/o students’ post-secondary planning and success; when parents develop their children’s college-going identities early, students are more ... -
Applying Lean Methodologies to the Development of an Entrepreneurial Venture in Education
(2015-05-04)“The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit.” - Marc Andreessen Many educational products have flooded the American K-12 market in recent years, launched by startups and established educational institutions ... -
An Assets- and Equity-Based Approach to Multilingualism, Multiliteracy, and Multiculturalism: Harnessing the Development of a District-Wide Strategy to Foster Learning, Shift Mindsets, and Seed System-Level Change
(2017-05-01)In the United States and globally, there is growing recognition of the extensive cognitive, emotional, social, and economic benefits of multilingualism, multiliteracy, and multiculturalism. At the same time, a double ... -
The Baby and the Bath Water: Improving Metaphors and Analogies in High School Biology Texts
(2017-02-10)This dissertation is concerned with understanding how metaphors and analogies function in biology education and whether some of the philosophical critiques of the language used in the field of biology — and in particular ... -
Be Alive! Building The Capacity & Playlist for an Irresistible Revolution
(2022-10-28)You will not be able to stay home, brother You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out You will not be able to lose yourself on skag And skip out for beer during commercials, because The revolution will not be ... -
Beyond Minimally Adequate: Building Public Support for High-Quality, Accessible Charter Schools in South Carolina
(2017-05-01)This capstone examines a strategic initiative to bring about policy changes that would facilitate the growth of high-quality charter schools specifically serving historically underserved students in the state of South ... -
Beyond the Fourth Grade Glass Ceiling: Understanding Reading Comprehension Among Bilingual/Bimodal Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
(2015-05-08)Research has found that, on average, deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students graduate from high school reading at the fourth grade level (Allen, 1986). Additionally, DHH children of deaf parents (Charrow & Fletcher, 1974) ... -
Beyond ‘Hire and Hope’: Leading Instructional Improvement across a Rural School District
(2022-10-28)Most school districts lack a coherent, actionable strategy for improving teaching and learning across the system. Current instructional improvement strategies enacted in many districts could best be described as hire and ... -
A Bias Toward Teams: Are We Teaming Well? Does It Even Matter? Implications for Teams in Public School Districts From a Case Study at Boston Public Schools
(2017-05-01)Teams are at the heart of change efforts in public school districts all over the country. Within central offices, the nature of systems-level reform generally requires collaboration amongst diverse people with diverse ... -
Big Aspirations: Constructing a Collaborative Evaluation Culture to Support the Impact Goals of an Intermediary Organization
(2022-10-28)Intermediary organizations seek to make change in the world by strengthening the practice or building the capacity of direct service providers. In the education sector, these types of organizations often play important ...