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Developing Operational Systems of Principal Growth and Development: A Systematic Agreement Approach
(2016-04-27)
This capstone details the process of developing a qualitative principal appraisal system for the Houston Independent School District (HISD). I employed observational research, in-person interviews, and historical data ...
Staying on Mission and Staying in Business: Strategic Planning in the Education Nonprofit Sector
(2016-05-02)
This capstone explores a strategic planning process I carried out at the NYC Leadership Academy (NYCLA), a nonprofit organization. Through the development and launch of a strategic plan for the NYCLA alumni network, I ...
Changing How Schools and the Profession Are Organized: Building a Foundation for a National System of Teacher Career Ladders at the National Center on Education and the Economy
(2016-05-03)
This capstone examines the National Center on Education and the Economy’s (NCEE) efforts in its initial planning stage to lead the design of and build support for a proposed national system of teacher career ladders. In ...
Prime Public Charter School: A New Approach to Professionalizing Teaching
(2016-05-02)
In the last 30 years, the U.S. education reform movement has focused primarily on increasing school choice, accountability linked to standards, and leadership capacity in our schools. In particular, charter schools have ...
Scaling Instructional Improvement: Designing a Strategy to Develop the Leaders of Leaders
(2016-05-02)
With close to 50 million children attending 98,000 public schools in the United States, the public school classroom continues to be an essential locus of change that, if improved at scale, could increase educational and ...
Walk Through the Fire: Practicing Adaptive Leadership to Build a Systemic Approach to Family Engagement in a Large Urban School District
(2016-05-02)
Although correlated with student achievement, strong family and community engagement is often at the margins, separate from the central work of school districts. This has previously been true in San Diego Unified School ...
General Knowledge Among the People: Rural Strategy Development at the College Board
(2016-05-02)
10 million students walk into rural schools every school day, representing about 20% of the United States’ public school population. More than a third of all public schools and almost three-fifths of local education agencies ...
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 ...
“Until Justice Rolls Down Like Water” Revisiting Emancipatory Schooling for African Americans – a Theoretical Exploration of Concepts for Liberation
(2015-06-05)
African Americans have a long history in the United States of being asked to live within, and flourish in spite of, a racist society. Throughout this history, African Americans built education institutions – often referred ...
Measuring and Modeling Intercultural Attitudes Among Adolescents Across Europe: A Multi-Level, Multiple-Group Analysis Examining Student Attitudes, Intergroup Contact, and School Climate
(2015-05-15)
European nations, built on democratic foundations, rely on participation that is inclusive of all groups. Among efforts to support social cohesion in Europe, investigating the development of intercultural attitudes—attitudes ...