Dan W. Butin

Undergraduate College

SOC 201 Cultural Anthropology

SOC 260 Themes in Sociology

EMC 319 Social Foundations of Education

EMC 401 Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary Grades

EMC 420 Strategies for Teaching

BAM 490 Capstone Seminar

Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership

EDL 830 Schools and Social Justice

EDL 840 Social and Cultural Foundations of Educational Leadership

EDL 870 Quantitative Research for School Improvement

EDL 900 Introduction to the Dissertation

EDL 910 Dissertation Seminar

Gettysburg College

First-Year Seminar 152: How Did You Get Here? College Access and the American Dream

Education 209: Social Foundations of Education

Education 304: Techniques of Teaching & Curriculum of Social Studies  

Education 476: Student-Teaching Seminar

University of Virginia

EDLF 760:  Success and Failure

EDLF 764:  Anthropology of Education

EDLF 763:  Sociology of Education

DISSERTATION CHAIR

Graduated 2008-09

• Julio DeCarvalho, The Uncertain Journey: The Diasporic Effects on the Identity, Education, and Achievement of Cape Verdean Immigrants
• Vivian Lee, Nonnegotiable Expectations: A Program Evaluation of the Transformation of East Technical High School
• John Moschella, Setting Academic Fires: A Cross-National Evaluation of Fire Centric Graduate Programs
• Lillian Norris-Holmes, Implementing High-Quality, Federally Funded Afterschool Programs in a High-Poverty Public School District
• Betty Wilson, Shall I Stay or Shall I Go? The Impact of Mentoring on Teacher Retention

Graduated 2007-08

• Brenda Grimes, Multidimensional Classrooms: Developing a Comprehensive Research Base for Holistic Education

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE MEMBER

Graduated 2008-09

• Sam Whack, To Grade Level and Beyond: A Study Examining the Impact of Intervention Styles with Fourth Grade
• Sylvia Henry, Does Mentoring Matter? Rethinking Support for New Primary School Principals In Barbados
• Sally Orme, When School Reform Fails: The Hidden Dynamics of Power, Culture and Leadership and Impact on School Change Initiatives
• April Howell, Cultural Self-Efficacy and Leadership: Adolescent African-American Male Perspectives through Digital Diaries
• Kathy Sikes, Investigating Teachers' Perceptions of the Data-Driven Decision Making Process at a Georgia Elementary School

Graduated 2007-08

• Natalya Burdman, Teaching Staff Notation in Fourth-Grade General Music: Exploring the Effectiveness of a Multisensory Approach
• Tammy Graham, Race and Referrals: Teacher Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Teaching, and the Special Education Referrals of African American Males
• Vickie Seigler, Parent and Teacher Perspectives on Kindergarten Readiness of At-Risk Students at a Title One School African-American Males