Dissertations from 2024
Progressive Education and the Quality Agenda: Contradictory Views of Children, Childhood, and the Purposes of Education for Young Children, Kristen Cameron
Supporting School Leaders: A Case Study to Explore Leadership Development Through the Lens of Adult Learning Theory, Jenny Douglas
Articulating the Teacher: Gottlieb, Dreyfus, and Heidegger on Language, Kenneth Driggers
Blessed Assurance: A Phenomenology Exploring The Lived Experiences of Black Women Superintendents Leading With Conviction, Tanisha Frazier
BWT Codes: A Study of Activist Black Women Teachers and Their Wellness, Danie Marshall
Transformational Leadership For Rural School Improvement, Charles Meyer
Forgotten Voices: Experiences of Five Female Public School Teachers in the Rural South, Abigail S. Ruth
Manufacturing Ignorance: Agnotology, Epistemology, and Education Policy, Erin C. Scussel
Relationship between College Graduate Job Placement and Faculty-Led, Team-based, Undergraduate Research Experiences: A Propensity Score Analysis, Julia Sonnenberg-Klein
Finding Our Sanctuary: An Exploration Of Leader Perceptions Of Trauma-Informed Practices In An Urban Title I Middle School, Krystye Tatum
Dissertations from 2023
Access, Participation, and Empowerment: Exploring Leadership Practices that Promote Social Inclusion, Ashley Bidlack
Structural Leaders: The Intersection of School Principals, Business Leaders, and Social Networks, Nateil Carby
School Leaders’ Transformational Strategies for Successfully Preparing for Algebra I in Eighth Grade, Brooke Humphrey
George S. Counts on the Role of Indoctrination in Education: An Exegesis, James Alexander Aucoin Keller
Won't He Do It?! African American Males Who Achieved Their Doctor of Education (EdD): Perceptions of Success Factors, Felicia Lewis
Perceptions Of Principal Practices Influencing Organizational Learning And Collective Teacher Efficacy, Bindu Sunil
Dissertations from 2022
Exploring Employees' Perceptions of the Learning Organization and Their Learning Experiences in a Georgia State Government Agency ? A Concurrent Mixed Methods Study, Olufunmilayo Adeolu Adesesan
Perspectives in Leadership and Program Management of Preschool Directors, Caroline Diaz
Black on Black School Discipline: Double Consciousness and the Perspective of Disciplining Your Own, Teruko Dobashi-Taylor
Exploring a Model of Clinical Leadership Grounded in Radiography: Developing Clinical Radiography Leaders, Kerry O'Fallon Dunn
Intersections: Black female school leaders' lived experiences of leading and mothering Black children, Rolandria N. Justice-Emenuga
Discourse Framing Educational Policy in the Quasi-Public Sphere: The Case of the Atlanta Beltline Tax Allocation District, Anne E. Martin
Student Success According to Whom? A Black Aesthetics-Informed Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Natasha McClendon
Perceptions of Leading and Supporting School and District Leaders Through a Personalized Learning Initiative in the Southeastern United States, Christian S. L. Padgett
Context Matters: Controlling the Narrative about the College Board's AP Expansion to Urban Minority Youth, Angelann Teretta Stephens
If These Ivory Tower Walls Could Talk: Examining the Experiences of Ph.D. Students in Education, Kerry A. Wallaert
Dissertations from 2021
Factors Influencing the Accuracy of Estimates in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study, Brandon Attell
Using Differential Item Functioning and Anchoring Vignettes to Examine the Fairness of Achievement Motivation Items, Jacquelyn Bialo
Illusions of opportunity? A critical discourse analysis of Atlanta's opportunity youth initiative, Alexander Camardelle
Individual Mobility Across Clusters: The Impact of Ignoring Cross-Classified Data Structures in Discrete-Time Survival Analysis, Christopher Cappelli
Investigating the Performance of (Multiple-Factor) Multiple-Group Methods for the Detection of Differential Item Functioning, Theresa L. Dell-Ross
Unlocking Cross-Divisional Sharing: A Multiple-Case Study of Vertical Collaboration in Independent Schools, Wade A. Hanse
Principal Empowerment: Leader Perspectives In Rural Georgia Charter Systems, Brock R. Holley
Beyond Access: A Principal's Behaviors Displayed In The Implementation Of A District-Wide Initiative Focused On Students With Disabilities, Nicklaus Emmanuel Khan
Leading Against the Grain: An Exploration of an Educational Leader's Experience with Consent in the Sex Education Curriculum, Jaray Mazique
Creating Digital Content for the Individual Learner: A Personalized Approach to Online Learning, Genna Sengstacke McCurley
Exploring the Collision of Instructional Leadership and Destructive Leadership, Amanda B. Merritt
A Principal as Literacy Leader: Promoting Literacy Outcomes for Third-grade Students of Color, Lisa D. Thompson
Dissertations from 2020
Understanding the Impact of K-12 Principals on African American Male Teachers' Educational Self-Efficacy, Sean P. Antonetti
Aqu¡ Estamos: A Portrait of Four Latinx School Leaders in Georgia, Taylor Barton
More than Free Speech: Politics, Higher Education, and the First Amendment, Kristina Clement
Exploring Assistant Principals' Preparedness to Lead Diverse Schools as Culturally Responsive Leaders in an Urban School District, Catana Harris
Experiences and perspectives of graduate teaching assistants at a large urban university, Justina Jackson
The Implementation of Organizational Systems to Reduce Novice Teacher Attrition: A Case Study of One High-Needs School, Eldread Nunnally
Perceptions of transformational leadership: The effects of organizational justice for English language learners, Graham Allen Oakley
Educational Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Matthew Tyson
Perceptions of How Leadership Interactions Influence the Development of Collective Efficacy in Professional Learning Communities, Toni Ross Weir
Influence of Transformational Principal Practices on Developing a Teacher Leadership Pipeline, Deborah White
What's Culture got to do with it? Leadership for Culturally Responsive SEL Implementation, Lindsay Welles Wyczalkowski
Seizing The Opportunity: Principal Exercise Of Budget Autonomy In A Decentralized Environment, Kenneth Zeff
Dissertations from 2019
Empty Seats at Circle Time: A Phenomenological Perspective of Social-Emotional Learning in Preschool, Alicia C. Burford
Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Preparation Program Quality and Beginning Teacher Retention, Brittany Cunningham
The Perceptions and Experiences of Elementary Georgia Science Ambassadors: What Educational Leaders and Policymakers Need to Know, Charles E. Harper Jr
Educational Social Justice Agnostic to Zealot: One White Male Elementary Principal's Journey, Jamie C. Hitzges
Writing HERstory: Examining the Intersectional Identities of Black Women in Educational Leadership, Natasha N. Johnson
Culturally Responsive School Leadership and Gifted Identification in a Heterogeneous School: A Case Study, Kimberly Kranzlein
The Impact of Transformational Leadership Practices on the Cultural Responsiveness of Academic Parent Teacher Teams (APTT) Implementation, Sally Seana Lehmann
Seeing Beyond the Stereotype to See the Whole Human: Teachers? Perceptions of Media Stereotypes and Black Youth, Syreeta Ali McTier
Teacher Mobilization: A Case Study on Organizational Factors & The Movement of Teachers within an Urban District, Jason A. Patterson
A Comparison of Student Growth Percentile and Value-added Models on School Quality Measures, Qi Qin
Examination of the Development, Implementation, and Monitoring of One Instructional Coaching Program in an Urban, Title I, Elementary School, Joseph Sanfilippo
An Examination of Data Management Systems and Utilization-Focused Participatory Evaluation, Syreeta Skelton
A School Like Me: Culturally Responsive School Leadership and Organizational Learning in a Secondary School Serving Traditionally Marginalized Students, Joshua Sturtevant and Joshua Sturtevant
Structural Validity Evidence of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children- Fifth Edition with African-American Students who have been Referred for Evaluation, Rachel Y. Taylor
Analyzing Dimensions of Academic Persistence: A Case Study of a Transfer Student Program at a Public University in California, Bobby Thomas Tyner II
Declassification of Students With Disabilities, Kristin Willis
Examining Professional Learning Communities in a Title I High School, Ronald Scott Wynn
Dissertations from 2018
Humanization in the Digital Age: A Critique of Technophilia in Education, Morgan Anderson
Teacher and Administrator Perspective of Project-Based Learning, Nicholas Boyers
"Soul In A Can": Exploring How Black Male Students And Artists Navigate The Constraints Of Urban Classrooms And The Music Industry, Garfield R. Bright Jr
An Anchor Action Research Study on Student Achievement Utilizing the Teacher-Intern-Professor Model, David Curlette
Embodied Hope in an Urban Elementary School: Stories of Veteran Educators, Martha Donovan
Examining the "Just-us" League: A Heuristic Inquiry of African American Male Teachers in a Predominantly White School District, Brian K. Harmon
Testimonios: A Twenty-First Century Colonial Project and the Closure of Historically Black High Schools in New Orleans, Elizabeth K. Jeffers
Rescuing the Individual from Neoliberalism: Education, Anarchism, and Subjectivity, Gabriel Keehn
Adolescent Economic Empowerment in a Kenyan Urban Rural Context, Amanda Lane Moll
The Principal's Influence on Teacher Efficacy to Foster Student Engagement: A Case Study of Two Elementary Schools, Emily Nelson
Implementation of Technology in the Primary Grades: Transformational Leadership and Teacher Motivation, Kristi Ryczek
"Because I'm Regular, Too": Educational-Life Narratives of Metro-Atlanta Students in Special Education, 1975-2005, Cristy Sellers Smith
Racial Injustice: A History of the Segregated School System in Jackson, Mississippi, Susan C. Thompson
Teachers' and Leaders' Perceptions of an Induction Program's Influence on Teacher Retention in a Title I School with a High Population of English Language Learners, Cynthia B. Tookes
Icing the Batter: The MYP Coordinator, Principal Leadership, and School Reform, Susan M. Waterbury and Susan M. Waterbury
Unheard Voices: Counterstories of Latinx Immigrant Parents? Experiences Navigating Metro Atlanta Public Schools, Michelle Yrigollen-Robbins
Dissertations from 2017
The Life of a Policy: An Afrocentric Case Study Policy Analysis of Florida Statute 1003.42(h), CHIKE AKUA
Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Decision-Making, Michael C. Barr