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From Training to Learning in Workforce Development: A Critical Discourse Analysis
(2020-08)
Although labor market dynamics are highly complex, workforce development programs typically attempt to remediate unemployed or underemployed individuals through trainings focused on “soft skills,” or nontechnical skills ...
Parent Engagement in an Independent School Setting
(2020-09)
Many independent schools today struggle to engage parents in ways that meet parents’ needs, particularly as these critical stakeholders have become more demanding and involved in recent years. Parents assume multiple roles. ...
Student Engagement in Advanced Placement Courses at Rosenblatt High School
(2020-09)
With the growth in interest in Advanced Placement courses, administrators are often faced with
concerns about how to create a program that both achieves the goals parents and students have
for AP study and creates an ...
Professional Learning for Teachers: Aligning Needs & Vision at an Independent School
(2020-07)
This study sought to understand instructional staff perspectives on professional development that was provided or facilitated by the organization and the ways in which school leaders at the site planned for and managed ...
Why Teachers Don't Look Like Us: Critical Race Theory and Social Capital in Education
(2020-07)
The K-12 teaching career is a field that is heavily dominated by a white female demographic, with a large underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic educators. There are more than 50 million students in the public school-age ...
Exploring How Pilgrimage Experiences Affect Identity: Place, Religion, Culture, Community, and Individuality
(2020-08)
This study uses a pilgrimage experience in Israel as one example to inform the process through which identification with Judaism and Israel is formed. Participants expressed their identification in response to events and ...
Thriving Online: Retention Factors for Students in a Graduate Online Nursing Program
(2020-08)
This study examines the relationship between retention and student satisfaction within a graduate nursing program offered fully online by a large, private university in the northeast region of the United States. Relying ...
An Attack on Education: How South Carolina independent schools ensure campus safety and security in theface of potential violence
(2020-07)
This project was an investigation into safety and security measures implemented by Heads of
School within the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA). Interviews and an
open-ended survey were conducted with ...
Admissions, Enrollment & Pre-College Preparation: A Foundation Year Program In The Arabian Gulf
(2020-08)
Knowing more about student enrollment at preparatory programs is particularly significant to the field of international admissions and recruitment. Struggling to meet aggressive admissions targets, and the inability to ...
Removing the Lens of Bias: Promoting Self-Efficacy of Black Female Leaders in Turnaround Schools through Organizational Systems
(2020-07)
This is a study of how organizations support the self-efficacy of Black female principals leading turnaround schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted of Black female principals who currently lead or have lead ...