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Cherie Chu-Fuluifaga; Martyn Reynolds – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2024
Teachers have responsibility and can assume agency for enhancing the education of Pacific students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Pacific education is an area which needs improvement and, consequently, Pacific communities seek actions -- deliberate strategies -- to enhance educational provision. Among the strategies available is the engagement of role…
Descriptors: Pacific Islanders, Role Models, Role, Elementary Secondary Education
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Beth Krone; Patricia Enciso – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
In this article, we describe a year-long superhero storytelling project we facilitated with youth in a midwestern middle school. In this project, students read "Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spiderman," designed superhero stories set in their community, and presented artistic representations of their stories to their families and peers. We…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Imagination, Media Literacy, Social Networks
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Sam Stiegler; LJ Slovin – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2024
This article explores the dynamics of inter-generational conversations between queer and trans youth and queer and trans adults through an analysis of a routine segment on the reality show, RuPaul's Drag Race. At the end of each season, the drag queen contestants are asked to give a piece of advice to photos of their younger selves and, by proxy,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Youth, Adults, Intergenerational Programs
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Ina R. Knight – English in Texas, 2024
Protecting children and investing in their education and wellbeing can often feel like a battle. The seat that the author now holds at the proverbial education table is crucial in not only developing a well-rounded and well-equipped student body, but it is also in seeing herself as a role model to future leaders--both women and future leaders of…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Secondary Education, Females, Minority Groups
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Christopher Barton Merica – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2025
The purpose of this article is to share Coach Vermeil's foundational commonsense coaching principles for youth sports coaches, and more broadly health and physical educators, to help create a more positive culture for their team.
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Coaching (Performance), Teamwork, Physical Education Teachers
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Isaac Burt; Luis A. Tosado II – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Comic book characters (CBCs) provide an escapism from reality while still confronting real issues. However, for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) there is a lack of characters that look, talk, and think like them. Black Panther is an example of a character more inclusive of BIPOC populations, especially Black males. What…
Descriptors: Males, African Americans, Cartoons, Group Counseling
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Stein M. Wivestad – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
How can an open access database annotating pictures, films, music and texts support adults as existential exemplars? This article explores the opportunities of a Norwegian database called the OE-database. Its target group is all adults who want to become better exemplars for children through encounters with art and conversations in small groups.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Information, Databases, Independent Study
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David Fleming – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Abstract When he returned to Amsterdam in spring 1945, Otto Frank discovered that not one but two versions of his daughter's diary had survived the Holocaust: the three notebooks of so-called version A and the revision of that diary on loose sheets of paper, called version B. Other texts also survived, including a notebook Anne titled "Tales…
Descriptors: War, World History, Authors, Writing (Composition)
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Mandee Flores; Mi-Hwa Park – Childhood Education, 2024
Research has shown that male teachers in early childhood settings play a crucial role in providing male role models, offering diverse perspectives, and helping children develop positive gender-role stereotypes. Therefore, it is crucial for Early Head Start programs to increase the representation of male teachers to ensure that all children can…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Intervention, Social Services, Preschool Teachers
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Liza Bondurant; Liesl McConchie – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
The concept of a learner's identity in mathematics is complex and multifaceted. Based on a review of the relevant research, the authors believe most factors that influence one's mathematical identity fall within these four categories: (1) past mathematics experiences; (2) personal beliefs and efficacy; (3) future self-representation and belonging;…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Self Concept, African American Students
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Angela Kolen; Natalie Houser; Dean Kriellaars – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
This 'teaching tip' shares the success of a service-learning opportunity created to work with university students in a meaningful way in the community. It describes a program called Fit 4 Tots that resulted in more toddlers, university students and community members benefiting from learning and movement experiences.
Descriptors: Toddlers, Physical Activity Level, Role Models, Program Implementation
Melanie Shimano; Becky Klein-Collins; Holly Custard, Contributor; Colin Matsinhe, Contributor; Gloria Mwase, Contributor; Mitchell Stevens, Contributor – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
As the movement to tap and grow the talents of working adults continues to gain momentum, CAEL continues its thought leadership by spearheading a research partnership with Stanford Pathways Network (pathways.stanford.edu) and Strada Education Foundation. In this joint initiative, "Designing Opportunity for Working Adult Learners," the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Attitudes, Motivation, Nontraditional Students
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Gary A. Hoover; Ebonya Washington – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Economics has a well-documented problem with diversity. Literacy-targeted (LT) courses designed for a broader spectrum of students have the potential to help address the underrepresentation of women and racial/ethnic minorities in the discipline. The authors of this article explore how, by using the LT approach, introductory economics instructors…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Economics Education, Diversity, Inclusion
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Chanel De Smet; Jasmine Nation; Alejandra Yep; Alan Henriquez – American Biology Teacher, 2024
This paper presents a novel approach to teaching how vaccines work in the body, and introduces a community outreach project and activity we piloted with youth. Our Nuestra Ciencia program addresses scientific misconceptions among bilingual elementary school children in engaging and scientifically accurate ways. Utilizing analogies and…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions, Elementary School Students