This doctoral research study examined how professional-technical faculty experienced their onboarding and support as they transitioned from industry into teaching. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven professional-technical instructors who were within their first five years of full-time employment at a two-year community college…

In this dissertation, I build on scholarship on antiracist, culturally sustaining, translingual and ecological theories in composition studies to argue that equitable, accessible pedagogies affirm students' role as co-creators in producing knowledge alongside their peers and instructors and that antiracist ecological frameworks can aid writing…

This study explored best practices for onboarding new faculty in nursing programs in Washington State of the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine, (a) onboarding practices to orient new faculty currently used at nursing programs that provide an Associate Degree, (b) the perceived nurse administrator's role in providing…

The demands and challenges of starting a new job as a school superintendent can be overwhelming. According to Short and Scribner (2002), "the role of the school superintendent has evolved into one of the most complex leadership positions seen today" (p.1). The choice of a leader is perhaps the most important selection a school district…

This study seeks to describe how elementary principals in a large Washington school district perceived the district office administration's implementation of Response to Intervention over a four-year period. RTI is a widely used intervention system that requires schools to assess whether each of their students is learning, adapting instruction for…