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Dissertations from 2023
Jardín de Anjelita: Utilizing Arts-Based Methods To Inform Interculturalization in the Third Space, Amanda Jeanne Bucher
Resilience in High-Achieving Music Ensemble Directors, Stacey Lynn Larson Dolan
Oikophilia: Relationships Among Life, Human Life, And Place in School Communities And Their Expressions in Curriculum, Mandi Leigh
Intercultural Competence for Educators: A Phenomenological Study, Kathryn McClintock
A Qualitative Case Study Into the Electronic Correspondence Between Fifth-Grade Students and Their College Mentors, Kevin Pribnow
A Word of Warning: Educational Activists And Public Instruction Conspiracy Theories, David Philip San Juan
The Experiences of Black Diplomat Families In United States Sponsored American International Schools, Teneshia A. Taylor
Dissertations from 2022
A Portraiture of Two Tribal College Leaders, Jessica Jasmine Buckless
College Students’ Perceptions of the Desert Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, Jeremy Roger Deem
“Beginning, Again and Again”: The Experiences Of Excellent White Educators In Diverse Urban Schools, Christopher DeRemer
Comparing Teacher Induction Programs, Catherine Teresa Linhardt
Development of Geoscience Interest and Identity Of Female First-Generation Undergraduate Geoscience Students, Dina London
At Risk for Success: Promising Practices In Their Own Voices, Amber Leigh McElwee
The Science Is in the Dance: The Curricular Intentions of an Innovation School, Tatum Michele Monaghan
A Narrative Inquiry Into the Impact of Chronic Within-Year Teacher Turnover on Students, Sara Ashley Myers
Youth Organizing From Within: A Case Study of a District Youth Equity Council, Amy Elizabeth Nelson
“I Don’t Believe the World Is Tilted”: Emotion, Struggle, and Relationship in Making Meaning With Texts, Alison Faye Oddie
Educational Experiences That Influence The Upward Mobility of Maya Women in Belize, Jennine Pettit
A Dialogical Approach to Peer Coaching For Asset Pedagogies, Elisabeth Van Beek
Alternative Education Programs: An Exploration Of Programs and Supports to Reduce Juvenile Recidivism Among At-Risk Youth, Sarah Elizabeth VanRensselaer
Emotional Labor and New Independent School Heads, Seth William Yocum
Dissertations from 2021
Pedagogy Is Research: Investigating The Teacher-Researcher Identity And Pedagogy of Teachers Who Completed an Action Research Project, Meagan Chelsea Brown Varona
It’s Elementary: The Curricular Decision-making and Instructional Practices of Black Male Elementary Teachers., Ashlea Jean Campbell
Student and Teacher Relationships At Secondary Level, Christine Fisher
Faculty-Student Interaction and Impact On Well-Being in Higher Education, Cortney Elizabeth Holles
Teachers “Write” Video--a Case Study on the Processes And Participants of a Video Composition Professional Development Program: A Utah Context, Nathan Smith Jones
Becoming Ourselves: A Photo-Narrative Inquiry Into Mindfulness in the Teaching Lives of Urban Educators, John Brian Miller
Upper Elementary Teacher Pedagogical Decision-Making in Title I English Language Arts Classrooms, Genevieve Skinner Prater
Influences on Student Choice and Voice: Agency, Engagement, and Equity, Theresa L. Reali
Exploring Teacher and Student Experiences In a Nature-Based Mathematical Environment, Brian Holt Tucker
Assigning Assessment Accommodations to English Learners: A Phenomenological Study, Heather May Villalobos Pavia
Dissertations from 2020
A Narrative Inquiry Into the Experiences of Alternatively Licensed Teachers, Courtney A. Berry
Shifting Sands: The Art of Ecological Place-Based Education, Emily Christine Bretl
Grounded Theory of Intellectual Humility for 6th-12th Mathematics Teaching, Catherine Nicole Carter
Caring About More Than Grades and Test Scores: The Work of Reputationally Caring Teachers, Gregory Max Chalfin
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: Student Success on the High Plains of Western Kansas, Matthew Alan Clay
The Impact of Teacher Beliefs on Relationship-Building in a High School Advisory Program, Insoon H. Olson
Building Positive Relationships in Title I Schools: Teacher and Student Perspectives in an Elementary Classroom, Alice Charlotte Pendlebury
The Connection Between Professional Development and Teacher Growth, Melody J. Person
Socio-Emotional and Socio-Cultural Perceptions of Young Women and Their Interests in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, Danielle Ann Riney
The Influence of Care: An Exploration of Student and Teacher Experiences, Allison Marie Schnell
Dissertations from 2019
Dispositions of Junior Elementary Teacher Candidates, Amy Lynn Bartlow
Using Online Communities to Prepare Teachers to Operate as Transformative Intellectuals, Zachary Morgan Clancy
Phenomenological Curiosity, Ryan Russell Katz
Experiences of Secondary Social Studies Educators: The Redheaded Stepchildren of Education, Rebecca N. Reed
An Inquiry into the Internationally Minded Curriculum, Matthew Justin Thompson
Dissertations from 2018
A Male Elementary School Principal’s Experience of Gender and Leadership, Joanne Eileen Chatlos
Conquering Math Anxiety, Kendra Ellett
Alaya Preschool: A Culture of Care and Meaningful Work in Contemplative Early Childhood Education, Christina Marie Taylor
Ecological Teacher Preparation: Rooting Place to Practice, Rosalind Elise Zimmerman Wright
Dissertations from 2017
“Their Whole World at School”: Portraits of Students, Their Teacher, and Emerging Culture in a Middle School Newcomer Program, Megan Finney Edmiston
Creating and Implementing Professional Development with Self-Selected Literacy Content for Teachers in a Developing Country, Tiffany Arnett Regan
Educators’ Perceptions of the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition Model for Technology Integration, Mark Angelo Savignano
Dissertations from 2016
Co-Teaching in Secondary Field Experience Practica, Stephanie A. Fanselow
Dissertations from 2014
Implementation of an inter-district curriculum consortium among ten rural school districts in Colorado: a case study, Jim D. Copeland
Student perspectives of classroom assessment, Kyle Hemje
Perspectives of elementary teachers and Ethiopian immigrant parents on parent-teacher relations and the education of Ethiopian children, Keno Abdeta Nagasa
Portraits of successful Thai English teachers: an exploration of teaching journeys, Denchai Prabjandee
Dissertations from 2013
In their words: teachers' journeys to sustainable direct instruction implementation, Tina Errthum
Dissertations from 2012
Dissertations from 2011
Multi-language education for indigenous children in Taiwan, Cheng-Kan Chen
"I think of myself as a talented writer:" understanding fifth and sixth grade students' self-concepts in writing, Bonita L. Hamilton
Beyond sentiment: a descriptive case study of elementary school teachers' experiences selecting children's literature for read-alouds, Stacy Mae Loyd
Dissertations from 2010
Qualitative and quantitative inquiry into the affective domain of preservice teachers enrolled in children's literature courses, Jennifer Augusta Davis-Duerr