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Danielle Renee Sherman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Believe-Empathy-Wellness-Empower-Listen-Learn (BE WELL) program offers a promising replacement for traditional punitive suspensions in California schools. Amidst the over 6 million suspensions reported in 2022, this on-campus program fosters self-reflection, academic growth, and life skills within a compassionate and accepting learning…
Descriptors: Suspension, Discipline Policy, Resilience (Psychology), Empathy
Rashonne Founts-Saenz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), Summer Bridge Programs (SBP)across the California State University (CSU) system vary in design and delivery. This mixed-methods study investigated six CSU SBP designs, delivery, and 4-year graduation rates of SBP participants during the 2015 through 2019 years. The qualitative portion of this study consisted…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, State Universities, Transitional Programs, Program Design
Julianna Sikes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leadership experiences of district intern program leaders in California play an important role in addressing the teacher shortage and diversifying the teaching workforce. However, limited information about their experiences exists in the empirical literature. Additionally, due to the recency of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is limited…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Leaders, COVID-19, Pandemics
Benjamin J. Fobert – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative historical single-case study examines how a practitioner-directed approach to professional development for teachers resulted in successful technology integration in a newly unified school district in California's Central Valley. The study details the process of creating and implementing a professional development plan for newly…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Faculty Development, Teacher Empowerment, Program Development
Puraci, Ligia Tabita – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Although many studies make important contributions to understanding the process and outcomes of school-based parent involvement initiatives, more work needs to be done to measure parent perceptions of parent involvement practices, policies, and barriers in low SES schools serving minority students. This qualitative case study looked to identify…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Disadvantaged Schools, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
Veronica Casillas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While food insecurity exists in the United States, research has shown it is felt at larger rates among the undergraduate student population. Those colleges with higher numbers of enrolled students of color also have larger numbers of students who are facing food insecurity. The California community college (CCC) system serves a diverse population…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Community Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Food
Ann Marie Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation explored the effectiveness of a well-researched social skills intervention for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder for ethnically and linguistically diverse families. The UCLA PEERS program (Laugeson et al., 2009; 2012) has largely been studied using predominately White and affluent populations; thus, the study explored…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adolescents, Intervention
Moran-Lanier, Miguel C. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation examines individual, constricted agency in a multilingual environment within the context of a language discussion group and the form of social capital possessed by their Mexican Indigenous diasporic community living on the California Central Coast. The research is based on participant-observation ethnographic work with a language…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Literacy
Gamboa, Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Three article dissertation is a program review of the Counseling 50 college preparedness program at Fullerton College, Fullerton California. Article I is a comprehensive review of literature on educational legislation during the 1960s that led to the development of educational programs and opportunities for students from underrepresented…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Guidelines, Higher Education, College Preparation
Callella, Trisha – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to research and identify which elements of a collaborative, hands-on series of STEM training sessions may have related to perceived changes in teachers' self-efficacy, classroom lesson design, and conceptual understanding of engineering within STEM at the elementary level. The study involved eleven teachers of grades…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Training, Faculty Development, Self Efficacy
Lira, Dylan Kyle; Maldonado, Regina Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This project was a dissertation of practice designed as a needs assessment of a specific program. Specifically, the project identified the needs of an After School Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program in a Southern California School District (SCSD). The purpose was to provide recommendations to address the needs of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, STEM Education, Needs Assessment, Educational Quality
Maldonado, Regina Marie; Lira, Dylan Kyle – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This project was a dissertation of practice designed as a needs assessment of a specific program. Specifically, the project identified the needs of an After School Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) program in a Southern California School District (SCSD). The purpose was to provide recommendations to address the needs of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, STEM Education, Needs Assessment, Educational Quality
Powell, Tamara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Physician workforce shortages in California are projected to grow rapidly in the next ten years, particularly in inner-city and rural regions. In response to this anticipated need, the University of California's medical schools are increasing enrollment and working to implement and evaluate new programs and curricula to prepare graduates to work…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Service Learning, Outreach Programs, Health Education
Studdert, Thomas Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using an innovation adaptation of the gap analysis approach of Richard Clark and Fred Estes, the collegiate First-Year Experience (FYE) consisting of comprehensive and intentional curricular and co-curricular initiatives was examined. Conceptualization and operationalization of the goal for a FYE program was based on 3 student development theories…
Descriptors: Universities, Program Development, First Year Seminars, Problem Solving
Boesch, Julie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
California allocates $550 million to expanded learning through After School Education and Safety (ASES) state grants, and $140 million of federal money in 21st Century Community Learning Center grants each year; more than all other states combined. Much variability exists in program quality, and research has identified mixed results as to the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Summer Programs, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Quality
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