In this article the author examines and reflects about what anti-racism education can look like in a privileged suburban high school that includes mainly White students. She draws on the work of anti-racism and equity-focused authors to provide suggestions to teachers of all grade levels across multiple contexts.

While student agency is considered an important aspect of classroom learning, opportunities to support and promote agency can be easily missed. This book addresses the inner dimensions of student agency to show what it is, why it is needed, and how it can be translated into instructional practices. In Part I, Locating Student Agency, Vaughn offers…

At the heart of education are two fundamental questions: "What should we teach?" and How should we teach it? Educators striving to design and deliver the best-possible learning experiences can feel overwhelmed by the possibilities. To help them make these critical decisions, Angela Di Michele Lalor identifies five key priorities of a…

Racial literacy is a skill and practice by which individuals can probe the existence of racism and examine the effects of race and institutionalized systems on their experiences and representation in US society. Students who have this skill can discuss the implications of race and American racism in constructive ways. Racially literate teachers…

Recent studies on student engagement suggest that students become decreasingly engaged as they proceed through their secondary-level school experience (Gallup Inc, 2015; Hodges, 2018; Washor & Mojkowski, 2014; Yazzie-Mintz, 2007). The consequences of low student engagement or disengagement in schools can be significant, leading to poor…

Chinese choral music has been developing for more than a century, as has higher choral music education in China. There is not yet a standard choral curriculum system in Chinese music colleges and universities. Furthermore, because of the language barrier and cultural differences, Chinese choral educators and conductors show a strong preference for…

This engaged scholarship study includes three parts, a grant proposal to redesign the greenhouse at Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School into a learning garden and two mixed method studies. The Costco Charitable Giving grant proposal to redesign the greenhouse is provided as a supplemental document to this dissertation. The two mixed method studies…

The current study applies a qualitative research design to explore the perceptions of curriculum and technology leaders in regards to the integration of 1:1 technology into the written curriculum within their respective districts. The current study reviewed the thinking of curriculum and technology leaders separately to look for similarities and…

This study addresses how high school band directors operationalize their values for music education in their band programs. High school band directors described that their values developed from a variety of influences, namely their educator identity, and the experience of their own participation in high school and collegiate music. I employed a…

In this research study, importance and resistance scores representing secondary school principals' attitudes towards financial literacy education in Pennsylvania were investigated. An original questionnaire was developed to measure the importance of ten financial topics as well as the importance given to four possible barriers to adding these…

Social and emotional learning (SEL) programs have traditionally evaded or been silent on issues of (in)equity and, thus, critiqued for their lack of attention to how social injustices create different outcomes for different groups (The Education Trust, 2020). Furthermore, these efforts have been criticized for placing the burden on individual…

The general decline of the Diploma in Nursing (DIP) nurse has been a product of nursing governing bodies and their views on patient care needs. Although all nurses must pass the same NCLEX-RN exam to become a registered nurse (RN), DIP nurses are not educated in management, research, and other advanced areas, but they are trained and needed for…

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate a collaborative online course development program, Digital Learning Collaborative, utilizing the first three levels of Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model. Although there is a growing body of research that supports collaborative models of online course design, there are few studies that…

In the landscape of writing instruction in higher education, there has been a longstanding critique of the efficacy of Generalized Writing Skills Instruction (GWSI) for preparing students to write in the genres of their majors, disciplines and workplaces (Petraglia, et al 1995). The Writing Studies movement, with its grounding in the overlapping…

This study investigates what teachers believe to be the purpose of school curriculum, which is also called their curriculum orientation. Eisner and Vallance (1974) proposed five curriculum orientations and subsequent research has found that many teachers favor at least two or three orientations, not just one. There were three goals to this study.…