Browsing Peabody College by Title
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(2021-08-08)The Laundromat Project (The LP) is an arts-based non-profit organization that is deeply committed to providing professional development and leadership training opportunities for their staff members. However, leadership ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-04)
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-03)For my capstone experience, I designed a project-based learning (PBL) unit for implementation as an after-school enrichment program in an urban, low-income girls’ public school in Karachi, Pakistan, specifically, Government ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)Inequity in achievement and opportunities to learn mathematics among different subpopulations of students permeate every level of the United States education system: national, local, school, and even individual classrooms. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-06-14)This paper provides the rationale underlying the integrated reading-history unit I have created in fulfillment of my Capstone requirements. I begin by calling for the incorporation of any of the content areas into the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2013-05-29)The purpose of this paper is to argue for the implementation of an education program that is effective at preventing mental disorders and promoting mental wellness. This interdisciplinary paper between the fields of ...
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(2022-08)Education Development Center (EDC), headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a non-profit organization founded in 1958 that serves communities both domestically and internationally. The health promotion, practice, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008)The purpose of this essay is to identify criteria within curricula that contribute to providing equitable education and to analyze and evaluate one curriculum based on these criteria. I first describe school-based factors ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07-15)This paper explores the issue of tracking and equity in urban schools. Implications for detracking as well as differentiation are given as possible solutions to the growing gap between our highest and lowest performing ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-07)While many ideas abound in the literature about what effective mathematics instruction entails, procedural instruction still dominates in United States mathematics classrooms. Many math teachers seem to have a natural ...
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(2022-1)This capstone project explores the goals and practices of CAI’s job readiness training (JRT) function within their Austims2Work (A2W) initiative. The primary purpose of this capstone project is to examine the goals of the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-06-01)This paper serves two purpose: First, it explores existing research on queering family engagement, and secondly, it describes two potential resources that have been created as part of a holistic approach to queering family ...
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(2021-12)Addressing racism and equity in the US is a complex challenge no matter where it is undertaken. Doing that work in a predominantly white, rural community has presented unique complexities for a grassroots organization in ...
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(2021-04-19)This capstone project looked at the positive and negative aspects of PreK-12 school accreditation with an eye towards re-imagining the 10-year accreditation cycle currently used by the Southwest Association of Episcopal ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-05-06)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-10-14)This paper explores the different modifications of a read aloud that are appropriate for diverse learners. Information about a typical read aloud has been analyzed to find which modifications are necessary to include all ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)Adolescents in the United States lag behind much of the world in reading achievement (Bozack, 2011). Researchers find that personal and situational interest acting together increase reading achievement in adolescents. In ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2007-10-24)Comprehension is the ultimate purpose for reading and is the key to reading success. Research has shown that children as young as five years old can be taught comprehension strategies and implement these strategies when ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2008-10-01)This essay explores the topic of teaching reading through the strategy of differentiated instruction. While the concept of differentiated instruction is discussed and some of the principles of reading instruction are ...