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The Recruitment and Retention of Teachers of Color in NAIS Independent Schools
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-04)
Within the past year, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) updated its mission, vision, and values to better reflect the trends impacting its more than 1,700 members. An increased emphasis on diversity, ...
The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools: An Investigation of Essential Skills and Diverse Student Enrollment
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-05)
The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools provides STEM-based educational experiences to students in a 50,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in Longmont, Colorado. Several local business and industry partners ...
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 ...
Alma Mater Matters: Designing Meaningful and Impactful Alumni Engagement within Independent School Communities
(2020-07)
Independent schools' alumni engagement programming often lacks creative strategy and valid measures of engagement beyond dollars donated and attendance at alumni events. Despite the fact that independent school alumni are ...
A Moment Defined: Corporate Board Composition and Intersectionality, the Broadening Conceptualization of Gender-only to Gender and Race
(2020-08)
This study explores the experiences of African-American females (AA/Fs) who serve as corporate board directors of public and private corporations in the United States. Questions that guided this research attempted to offer ...
How Do First American Tribes Define and Achieve Success in Tourism?
(2020-09)
Since the early 2000s, First American tribes in Oklahoma began establishing tribal tourism departments within their sovereign government structures to promote tribal businesses and tribal territories as travel and tourism ...
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 ...