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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 ... -
Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ... -
Academic Discussions: An Analysis of Instructional Discourse and an Argument for an Integrative Assessment Framework
(American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2012)This article describes the structure of academic discussions during the implementation of a literacy curriculum in the upper elementary grades. The authors examine the quality of academic discussion, using existing discourse ... -
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 ... -
Accelerating Antimicrobial Discovery With Controllable Deep Generative Models and Molecular Dynamics
(2021-03-11)De novo therapeutic design is challenged by a vast chemical repertoire and multiple constraints such as high broad-spectrum potency and low toxicity. We propose CLaSS (Controlled Latent attribute Space Sampling) — an ... -
Adapting Educational Measurement to the Demands of Test-Based Accountability
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)Accountability has become a primary function of large-scale testing in the U.S. The pressure on educators to raise scores is vastly greater than it was several decades ago. Research has shown that high-stakes testing can ... -
Adjusting treatment effect estimates by post-stratification in randomized experiments
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Experimenters often use post-stratification to adjust estimates. Post-stratification is akin to blocking, except that the number of treated units in each stratum is a random variable because stratification occurs after ... -
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 ... -
Anchoring and Adjusting in Questionnaire Responses
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)When ordering items on attitude/opinion questionnaires, do survey designers bias respondents’ answers by the mere act of choosing to organize their survey in a particular way? We hypothesize that, under specific ... -
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 ...