Students & Alumni
Recent Doctoral Dissertations
2019
- Michael Bailey: Disciplinary D/discourses: Navigating and negotiating disciplinary paradigms.
Major Professor: Zorka Karanxha -
Jennifer Galbraith Canady: Leadership advocacy, ethical negotiations and resignations to High-Stakes Assessment: A pilgrimage.
Major Professor: Bill Black -
David Fisher: Education in the settler colony: Displacement, inequality, and disappearance via charter school.
Major Professor: Zorka Karanxha - Tara Nkruma: Weaved Journeys: Life writings of Leading and Engagement in Science Education.
Major Professor: Vonzell Agosto - Omar J. Salaam: A family history study of parents engaging issues of race and racism.
Major Professor: Bill Black - Shane Silpe: A cross-case analysis of strategies used by novice elementary school principals to
understand school culture.
Major Professor: Judith Ponticell
2018
- Cynthia Bauman: Exploring the ‘spaces between’: Teachers’ perceptions of teacher leadership within
professional networks.
Major Professor: Judith Ponticell - Pakethia Harris: Efficiency paradox: An examination of special education characteristics in efficient
and inefficient school districts.
Major Professor: Bill Black - Roderick Jones: Variations in experience and meaning: Accounts of leadership involvement and identities
with special education and disability.
Co-Major Professors: Vonzell Agosto and Bill Black - Angela Passero Jones: Enrollment and disenrollment in voluntary prekindergarten: A study of educational
leader’s decision-making.
Major Professor: Vonzell Agosto - Jennifer Rinck: Leading and learning: Principal and instructional leadership team implementation of
a district Multi-Tiered System of Support initiative.
Major Professor: Bill Black - LaSonja Roberts: Leader self-renewal: Mind, body, spirit connection inherent in sustainable leadership.
Major Professor: Bill Black - Ericka Roland: The power to transform: Teaching in educational leadership preparation programs
Major Professor: Vonzell Agosto - Holly Tabak: Union representatives’ stories: From leading the classroom to leading a district.
Major Professor: Vonzell Agosto
2016
- Karen Ramlackhan: The elusiveness of inclusiveness: A discursive analysis of inclusion in a district
level exceptional education leadership team.
Assistant Professor, USF-St. Petersburg
Major Professor: Bill Black - Christen Tonry Gonzalez: A Content Analysis of Teacher Perceptions of the Implementation of Small Learning
Communities at a High School.
Principal, Pinellas County Schools
Major Professor: Judith Ponticell
2014
- Carlos J. Diaz: Perceptions of Latino Students Who Enrolled in the Adult Basic Education/Under-aged
General Education Development Program: Searching For a Caring High School Experience.
Counselor, Hillsborough County Schools
Major Professor: Bill Black - Claudius B. Effiom: Principal Experiences in a School Consolidation.
Principal, Pinellas County Schools
Major Professor: Bill Black - Bradley Finkbiner: Can a One-Size-Fits All Parental Involvement Framework Be Applied to an Entire School
District? A Comparative Case Study of a District Magnet Program.
Principal, Pinellas County Schools
Co-Major Professors: Leonard Burrello and Zorka Karanxha - Eric Hall: A Portraiture of Leadership as Enacted by School Administrators Working in Alternative
Educational Settings.
Superintendent, North Carolina Achievement School District
Major Professor: Zorka Karanxha - Heather Sadler Jones: I Demand…Sorry, I Apologize: Power, Collaboration, and Technology in the Social Construction
of Leadership Across Diversity.
Educational Consultant, Virginia
Major Professor: Leonard Burrello
2013
- Lewis Curtwright: A Descriptive Study of Four Principals’ Experiences in Leading.
Administrator, Pinellas County Schools
Major Professor: Leonard Burrello - Lisa Grant: How Does a Principal Use Intention and Strategy in the Enactment of Advocacy Leadership.
Superintendent, Mossyrock School District, Mossyrock, Washington
Major Professor: Leonard Burrello - James Lane: The Man Behind the Mask: A Principal’s Search for a Moral Leadership Purpose.
Retired Administrator, Pasco County Schools and Adjunct Professor
Major Professor: Leonard Burrello - Felita Grant Lott: Marginalized African American Grandmothers Raising their School-Aged Grandsons: Perspectives
on Parental Involvement.
Director, Title 1 Programs, Pinellas County Schools
Co-Major Professors: Zorka Karanxha and Vonzell Agosto - Amy Samuels: Negotiating Race-Related Tensions: How White Educational Leaders Recognize, Confront,
and Dialogue about Race and Racism.
Assistant Professor, Montevallo University
Co-Major Professors: Bill Black and Leonard Burrello