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Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: "Because We're Unique": The Literate Lives of Black Adolescent Females
Author: Strong, Kellan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Education, Reading, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the way...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: A Window into My Mirror: An Autoethnography of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy with LGBTQ+ Students
Author: Kincaid, Nicki
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Education, Reading
Description: This research portrays a personal journey of a middle school language arts teacher working with LGBTQ+ students. Using autoethnography as the method, this study interprets personal narratives about the researcher’s adolescent identity development ...

Title: AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
Author: Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
Date Created: 2019
Description: ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...

Title: AN EXPLORATION INTO TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS AND OPERATIONALIZATION OF ACADEMIC LANGUAGE AND EXPLICIT READING COMPREHENSION STRATEGY INSTRUCTION FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH LEARNERS
Author: Lenis-Sucerquia, Elkin
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: ABSTRACTAn exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners.It has been established that language is at the heart of teachi...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An Examination of Teachers’ Understanding and Use of Text Complexity and Complex Text in Second Grade Classrooms
Author: Smith, Delphia
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Communication in the 21st century is no longer limited to a mastery of literal level comprehension, although it is an essential element of understanding. Now, more than ever, it is paramount that students are able to read and critically analyze te...

Title: An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
Author: Ramadan, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Description: The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...

Title: An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
Author: Ramadan, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Description: The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...

Title: An exploration of blended learning in fifth grade literacy classrooms
Author: Ramadan, Kimberly
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Elementary
Description: The development of the Internet allows for hybrid models of instruction that marry face-to-face and online learning (Osguthorpe & Graham, 2003). The purpose of this study was to explore blended learning and traditional instruction in three fifth g...

Title: But Is it Service-learning?
Author: Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2019
Description: Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...

Title: But Is it Service-learning?
Author: Steele, Lucy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Rhetoric, Education
Description: Two-year schools serve a high population of traditionally marginalized students, including students of color, first-generation college students, older students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds (Ma & Baum, 2016). Historically, two-y...

Title: DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
Author: Wylie, Alonda
Date Created: 2019
Description: Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...

Title: DIGITAL LITERACIES: A CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE READING PROCESSES OF GRADE SIX STUDENTS IN A LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSROOM ENGAGING WITH INFORMATIONAL TEXTS ONLINE
Author: Wylie, Alonda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Reading
Description: Researchers suggest that youth involvement with digital texts and online media is essential to developing critical readers and writers in the twenty-first century (Alvermann, 2008; Buckinghann, 2003; Doering et al., 2007; Sperling & DiPardo, 2008;...

Title: Do You See Yourself In Multicultural Literature? Seeking Self-reflections From Black Students
Author: Thomas, April
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Reading, Education
Description: In the United States, Muhammad (2020) explains how Black students who attend schools have a greater potential for success when they see themselves represented in the curriculum and when their cultural, gender, and racial identities are affirmed. T...

Title: EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATORS TOWARD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Author: Mitchell, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Description: KAREN SMITH MITCHELL. Expanding the conversation among secondary educators toward a shared understanding of student engagement (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) To describe how high school administrators and teachers perceive student enga...

Title: EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION AMONG SECONDARY EDUCATORS TOWARD A SHARED UNDERSTANDING OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Author: Mitchell, Karen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Curriculum planning
Description: KAREN SMITH MITCHELL. Expanding the conversation among secondary educators toward a shared understanding of student engagement (Under the direction of DR. REBECCA SHORE) To describe how high school administrators and teachers perceive student enga...

Title: EXPLORING FACULTY PERCEPTIONS OF ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN ONE COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Author: Moore, Stacy
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Social sciences
Description: Behavioral and Social Science (BSS) classes provide students with understandings of human behaviors, motivations, and actions that are crucial to confronting both social and personal problems. Moreover, most community college degrees require that ...