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Exploring Teachers’ Collective and Individual Adaptations to an Evidence-Based Summer Literacy Program
(2016-10-17)
While the field of educational research has produced an enormous amount of literature relevant for improving teaching and, ultimately, student achievement, the field has been less successful at producing deep and lasting ...
Media, Curricula, & Socioacademics
(2016-10-18)
This dissertation is inspired by the creativity in children’s books and films, and by the possibilities for education as they are advancing with modern technology and media. Research tells us that youth are spending less ...
Teachers Learning: Engagement, Identity, and Agency in Powerful Professional Development
(2016-10-13)
Professional development (PD) is seen by a broad cross-section of stakeholders — teachers, principals, policymakers — as essential for instructional improvement and student learning. And yet, despite deep investments of ...
Promoting Argumentation Skills in Urban Middle Schools: Studies of Teachers and Students Using a Debate-Based Social Studies Curriculum
(2016-05-12)
Argumentation skills are essential to individuals’ career prospects in future economies (National Research Council, 2008) and to the success of our democracy. Unfortunately, these skills are often challenging to teach, and ...
Developing Teaming Capacity of District-Level Teacher Leaders in Service of System Coherence
(2015-05-04)
In recent years, school districts have paid increased attention to closing opportunity and achievement gaps while raising performance standards for all students. Historically, teaching has been characterized as professionally ...
Partnership-Ready Schools: Building Systems and Mindsets for the Achievement Schools to Receive and Utilize Community Organizations as Partners in Student Success
(2015-05-11)
Over the last decade, the call for schools to leverage partnerships with community organizations as a means to provide services that will mitigate the effects of poverty in the pursuit of achieving ambitious academic ...
Cross-Departmental Teaming for Strategy Execution
(2015-05-04)
This capstone examines how a newly formed senior-level team worked together to complete a complex task, while driving towards a larger goal of becoming a learning organization. For the 2014-2015 academic year, central ...
The Effects of Academically Productive Talk in Group Discourse in a Virtual Internship for Engineering
(2016-05-10)
Skills associated with collaborative problem solving (CPS), especially in STEM-related disciplines, are increasingly regarded as essential for success in work and life. In the last decade, simulation-based games have ...
How Do Experts and Novices Think About Climate Change? Thinking Routines as Learning and Assessment Tools
(2016-05-10)
Developments in the last century – the global economy, unprecedented migration patterns, and the digital revolution – have forced a challenging shift in the way we think about what matters most to learn. As traditional ...
Effects of Socio-Cognitive Conflicts on Group Cognition and Group Performance
(2014-10-22)
Socio-cognitive conflict is a mechanism that drives cognitive development/learning in collaborative learning. Such conflicts occur when individuals have different perspectives on the same problem. To adequately solve ...