Monday, April 20, 2026
9:30 a.m., Off Campus
Geraldo Medina, "hifting the Pipeline: The Impact of Early Childhood Suspension Bans on Exclusionary Discipline" (Detra Johnson)
Dissertation in Practice Final Defense
 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
12:00 p.m., Off Campus
Brandi Stokes, "Building Teacher Capacity for TEKS Understanding: A Professional Development Framework for Instructional Fidelity in Texas Classrooms" (Kristi Santi)
Dissertation in Practice Proposal Defense
 
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
12:30 p.m., Off Campus
Clarissa Giddings, "An Examination of how School Administrators Experiences and Beliefs Inform how Black Girls are Disciplined" (Virginia Rangel)
Dissertation in Practice Final Defense
 
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
1:00 p.m., Off Campus
Adam Garcia, "Religion, Spirituality, and Supervision: Training School Psychology Clinicians in Aspects of Diversity" (Bradley Smith)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
5:00 p.m., Off Campus
Camila Ferreira Lins e Silva, "The Disproportionality of English Learners in Special Education and Gifted and Talented Programs" (Kristi Santi)
Dissertation in Practice Proposal Defense
 
Thursday, April 23, 2026
10:00 a.m., Off Campus
Shaila Sharmin, "Learning Climate, Self-Efficacy, and Negative Achievement Emotions Across Instruction Modes: A Latent Profile Analysis and Latent Change Score Approach" (Weihua Fan)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Thursday, April 23, 2026
12:00 p.m., Off Campus
Yesenia Zetino, "The Role of Latinx Cultural Values in the Relationship Between Trauma and Mental Health Symptoms in College Student Women" (Consuelo Arbona)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Thursday, April 23, 2026
1:00 p.m., Off Campus
John Tovar-Cortes, "Teacher professional development in a pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study of instructional coaches’ ex" (Virginia Rangel)
Dissertation in Practice Final Defense
 
Friday, April 24, 2026
1:00 p.m., Off Campus
Judy Jacob-Matthew, "Psychological Safety With First-Line Responders with Maternal Care" (Robert Hausmann, Sara McNeil)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
1:00 p.m., Off Campus
Hien Tran, "Empowering Teachers for Translanguaging in Science Education" (Jie Zhang)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
3:00 p.m., Off Campus
Kahyun Lee, "Changes in Growth Mindsets among Adolescents and College Students" (Allison Master)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
9:00 a.m., Off Campus
Kimberly Smoots, "Implementation and Process Outcomes of HEARTspeak 101©: A Formative Evaluation within the Equity Action Project" (Bradley Smith)
Dissertation Final Defense
 
Thursday, April 30, 2026
2:30 p.m., Off Campus
Bradley Eanes, "Simulating the Distributional Effects of Performance-Based Funding Models on Public Universities in Texas" (Catherine Horn)
Dissertation Final Defense