The human dimensions of ecological restoration have been considered with increasing focus over the past several decades. The Earth Partnership program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has presented an evolving model of restoration as education since 1991, with growing awareness of the need for multicultural approaches to learning about and…

Effective teachers produce effective learning environments for their students. To produce effective teachers, education programs must, in part, use assessments that can predict the ability of its teacher candidates teach in powerful ways. This dissertation was a case study of the pilot of the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) in two teacher…