Browsing Graduate School of Education by Title
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Making Advanced Courses Equitable and Effective: Aligning Approaches, Philosophies, and Decision-Making Structures in Bellingham Public Schools
(2017-05-01)This capstone outlines my strategic project on creating a coherent system for advanced course taking across Bellingham high schools. The Bellingham School District offers three dual-enrollment and dual-credit options for ... -
Making Every Study Count: Learning From Replication Failure to Improve Intervention Research
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2019-12)Why, when so many educational interventions demonstrate positive impact in tightly controlled efficacy trials, are null results common in follow-up effectiveness trials? Using case studies from literacy, this article ... -
Making Meaning of Risk: Exploring Resilient Adolescents’ Interpretations of the Impact of Negative Life Experiences
(2015-05-15)Our understanding of the relationship between risk factors and resilience has been framed primarily by probability. Resilience has been conceptualized as “beating the odds”: doing better than our statistical predictions ... -
Making Scientific Americans: Identifying and Educating Future Scientists and Nonscientists in the Early Twentieth Century
(2017-05-08)While specialists in all academic disciplines identify with their subjects of study, speaking of themselves for example as Classicists or Sociologists, the status of “scientist” is a uniquely distinctive social category. ... -
Making social studies social: Engaging students through different forms of social perspective taking
(2011)People are intrinsically motivated to connect to others socially. One of the most important mechanisms in fostering social relationships is social perspective taking (SPT) – our capacity to discern the thoughts and feelings ... -
Making Space for Generation Next: Or Using Design Thinking and Career Imprints to Create a Next Generation Fellowship at 50CAN
(2023-05-22)50CAN is a national education policy advocacy nonprofit committed to high-quality education for students regardless of zip code. Keeping to its organizational commitment to being "nationally led, but locally run," the ... -
Making the Main Thing the Main Thing: A Learning-Centered Strategy for Jeffco Schools
(2018-04-30)Since 2013 Jefferson County Public Schools (Jeffco) has undergone one of the most tumultuous periods in its history. Following this tumultuous period in which changes in leadership reflected opposite ends of an ideological ... -
Making the Routine Routine: Administrative Support and Improvement in New York City’s High Schools
(2015-05-04)Modern schools are complex organizations, tasked with wide-ranging responsibilities. Too frequently, schools have few tools and limited support to carry out those responsibilities. Much attention has been paid to instructional ... -
Many Ways to Walk a Mile in Another’s Moccasins: Type of Social Perspective Taking and its effect on Negotiation Outcomes
(Elsevier, 2015)The process of social perspective taking holds tremendous promise as a means to facilitate conflict resolution. Despite rapidly accumulating knowledge about social perspective taking in general, scholars know little about ... -
Mapping Multicultural Education
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Marbles in a Jar: Unlocking Family Allyship in Atlanta Public Schools
(2022-10-28)Decades of research highlight the positive outcomes produced when families and schools work in partnership: student academic achievement improves, families develop larger personal networks, and there is increased job ... -
The Marshmallow Test: Delay of Gratification and Independent Rule Compliance
(2016-05-13)The Marshmallow Test, a self-imposed delay of gratification task pioneered by Walter Mischel in the 1960’s, showed that young children vary in their ability to inhibit impulses and regulate their attention and emotion in ... -
Master of Education for Health Care Professionals – Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Mastering Academic Language: Organization and Stance in the Persuasive Writing of High School Students
(Sage Publications, 2012)Beyond mechanics and spelling conventions, academic writing requires progressive mastery of advanced language forms and functions. Pedagogically-useful tools to assess such language features in adolescents’ writing, however, ... -
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ... -
Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study
(2004)This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was ...