The purpose of this Capstone Research Project was to determine whether targeted technology professional development increased communication, employee engagement, beliefs about change, and strategic planning among teachers. These four areas of growth were named in a survey disseminated to all staff members within the study site’s district during ...
A key component of the Pittsburgh Public Schools’ five-year strategic plan includes professional learning practices. Incorporating collaborative teams as part of the Professional Learning Community (PLC) within our schools is essential to achieving the outcomes outlined in the strategic plan. This research study considers the impact of collabora...
With the growing need to address a more holistic approach to child development, social and emotional learning has emerged as a leading support to improve students' overall success. Still, schools and districts are challenged with finding ways to integrate social and emotional learning, and teachers are left to implement these supports and strate...
An n-body gravitational simulator was created and used to analvze the efficiency and efficacy of parallelizing a workload across a number of parallel processing cores in personal computing systems. While parallelizing does have definite performance advantages, there exist hurdles and limitations to implementing such. Honors thesis advisor: Paul Sible.
