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Angela R. Guzman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Ethnic Studies has existed in higher education for more than fifty years. In high school, critical education researchers have recognized Ethnic Studies as vital to improving attendance, lowering suspension rates, and boosting GPAs for BIPOC students. This has given rise to the recent K-12 Ethnic Studies model curriculum adoption by the State Board…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Elementary Education, Public Schools, Barriers
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Qijie Vicky Cai; Liyan Song; Scot McNary; Suzhen Duan – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
This design case presents a detailed account of how we navigated various ethical issues observed in a robotics program that aimed to engage underrepresented students in robotics and STEM experience. The ethical challenges we encountered revolved around uneven participant engagement and interpersonal tensions. We tackled these challenges by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Ethics, Power Structure
Kyle Evan Bacon – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a promising framework for addressing academic and disciplinary disproportionality for racial and ethnically minoritized (REM) students, yet these problems continually manifest in schools that implement PBIS with fidelity. In response, researchers have developed culturally responsive PBIS…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Intervention
Bookman, Samantha Allese – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mindfulness research is growing as educators and practitioners place emphasis on social emotional learning (SEL). Evidence supports mindfulness benefits are both physical and mental to include lowering blood pressure, decreased anxiety, increased executive functioning, and increased ability to pay attention. While the benefits of mindfulness…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Metacognition, Intervention
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Hyunwoo Yang – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Many states and communities have invested in public early childhood education programs to improve children's readiness to enter school and narrow achievement gaps in later grades. This study asked whether and how Wisconsin's universal state-funded prekindergarten program, Wisconsin 4K, has improved student achievement and helped to reduce the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Grade 3, Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education
Newell, Sherese G. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In public schools in Pennsylvania and across the nation an academic achievement gap exists between African American students and their White peers as African American students have consistently performed lower than White students on standardized tests in reading and mathematics (NCES, 2019). Since the achievement gap has persisted for decades,…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Primary Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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H. Frank McKay – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2024
Education thought leaders highlight the need to expand access to high-quality STEM learning for students historically underrepresented in STEM fields, and project-based learning (PjBL) is often seen as a key strategy. Introducing PjBL to classrooms typically focuses on building teacher capacity, but principals also play a key role in effective…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Principals, Active Learning, Student Projects
Michelle Sweezey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This problem of practice explores disproportionality and its relationships with K-12 student social emotional learning experiences, out-of-school suspensions, and academic outcomes at Choice Public Schools (a pseudonym) a Charter Management Organization (CMO). It examines properly implemented culturally responsive multi-tiered systems of support…
Descriptors: Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Program Implementation
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Abudiab, Sally; Eizadirad, Ardavan; Baartman, Brice – Excellence in Education Journal, 2023
This study examined the efficacy of an afternoon and weekend academic program called the "Community School Initiative" (CSI) during the COVID-19 pandemic. CSI was offered to racialized students and families from the Jane and Finch community in Toronto which is one of the most under-resourced neighbourhoods in Canada. It involved a…
Descriptors: After School Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Partnerships in Education
Montoya, Elena; Powell, Anna; Austin, Lea J. E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Petig, Abby Copeman – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, 2022
California is expanding transitional kindergarten (TK) to become a universal preschool program for all four-year-old children. Upwards of 300,000 children are expected to enroll in universal transitional kindergarten (UTK) by 2025, requiring thousands of additional lead teachers and classroom aides to meet lower student-to-teacher ratio…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Experience, Early Childhood Education
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Austin, Tatiana; Roegman, Rachel – Education and Urban Society, 2021
In this study, we examine teacher perspectives of magnet school implementation in two recently converted elementary schools that had received federal grants to reduce minority group isolation. We draw on 2 years of data on teacher perspectives related to satisfaction, preparedness, and implementation of the magnet program. Surprisingly, we found…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Magnet Schools, Elementary Schools, Federal Aid
Education Trust, 2023
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD) is a holistic approach to supporting students' development and learning that is integral to ensuring positive outcomes in school and beyond. Schools must ensure students experience healthy development and rigorous learning. Unfortunately, students of color, students from low-income backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Social Development, Emotional Development
Hill, Laura; Prunty, Emmanuel – Public Policy Institute of California, 2022
California is on the cusp of implementing universal preschool--a step that could help level the playing eld for young children. Over the next few years, all four-year-olds will become eligible for Transitional Kindergarten (TK), which has been part of the state's early learning programs since 2012. In this report, the authors examine the…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, State Programs, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Hujar, Julia; Matthews, Michael S. – Roeper Review, 2021
The Primary Education Thinking Skills program (PETS) was implemented in three third grade classes and two kindergarten classes in a Title I school. The PETS program is a Talent Development program designed to teach students critical thinking skills and other gifted behaviors with the expressed goal of the program's creators that the regular…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Program Effectiveness, Grade 3
Lora J. Henderson; Belinda E. Hernandez; Kate Joshua; Dustina Gill; Jessika H. Bottiani – Grantee Submission, 2022
Indigenous communities demonstrate immense cultural strengths despite being impacted by mental health and academic disparities due to ongoing systemic racism and historical trauma. Given that schools are a context in which indigenous youths' needs have potential to be met through preventive intervention, this scoping review explores and summarizes…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Prevention, Indigenous Populations, Minority Group Students
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