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Dionne Cross Francis, Editor; Meredith Park Rogers, Editor; Andrew M. Gatza, Editor; Kathryn E. Engebretson, Editor – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2024
Students in grades 3-5 are undergoing significant cognitive growth and beginning to understand what fairness and equity mean in a diverse and interconnected world. "Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking" presents carefully crafted tasks that nurture multi-disciplinary literacies, including ecological and cultural…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3, Grade 4
Melinda Kirk – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
In an era of socio-ecological challenges and uncertain times, it is imperative that student voice is supported to enable student transformative agency and desired positive change in their lives and community. Although international policy, the Australian Curriculum, School Strategic Plans, communities, teachers, and students often advocate for…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Personal Autonomy, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Ava Gilani Jacobs – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purposes of this action research study were to: investigate the ways I was able to support my students' self and social transformation through their analysis of the inequities in the literature and unearth how I used my leadership role to promote and foster conditions necessary for a teacher in my grade level to adopt culturally relevant…
Descriptors: Action Research, Literature, Social Change, Teaching Methods
Bush, Sarah; Cook, Kristin – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2019
How do you create an innovative and equitable classroom experience that prepares elementary students for jobs that don't yet exist while placing a critical focus on mathematics and science content and practice standards-all while meeting the demands of high-stakes testing? The answer to this question is Step into STEAM, by Sarah Bush and Kristin…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Acharya, Kamal Prasad; Devkota, Govinda Prasad; Prasad Dhakal, Krishna – Higher Education Studies, 2020
This article explores the possibilities of the use of eco-san in the school garden in the Nepalese community school, focusing on transformative pedagogical impacts on the social learning environment of the school. In particular, the use of urine as a fertilizer in the school garden through eco-san and linking pedagogical alignment to provide a…
Descriptors: Gardening, Teaching Methods, Transformative Learning, Foreign Countries
Stromholt, Shelley; Bell, Philip – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2018
In this study, we present a case for designing expansive science learning environments in relation to neoliberal instantiations of standards-based implementation projects in education. Using ethnographic and design-based research methods, we examine how the design of coordinated learning across settings can engage youth from non-dominant…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Environment, Neoliberalism, Standards
Ormiston, Meg; DeCarlo, Sheri; Raymond, Sonya; Kowalski, Grace; Gonzalez, Justin – Solution Tree, 2017
Developed specifically for grades 3-5, this resource presents classroom-ready lessons that support the ISTE Standards for Students. Use the lessons, which focus on four essential skills-- communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity--to take instruction and learning to the next level through the use of technology. Each chapter…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Skill Development, Communication Skills
Curwen, Margaret Sauceda; Ardell, Amy; MacGillivray, Laurie – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2019
This qualitative case study examines how fifth graders and their teachers participated in critical literacy instruction grounded in systems thinking on the topic of slavery. Systems thinking seeks to discover relationships and patterns in diverse underlying systems; critical literacy examines everyday texts, focuses on social justice and change,…
Descriptors: Activism, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Systems Approach
De Lisle, Jerome; Seunarinesingh, Krishna; Mohammed, Rhoda; Lee-Piggott, Rinnelle – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In this study, methodology and theory were linked to explicate the nature of education practice within schools facing exceptionally challenging circumstances (SFECC) in Trinidad and Tobago. The research design was an iterative quan>QUAL-quan>qual multi-method research programme, consisting of 3 independent projects linked together by overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Research Design, Low Achievement
Carla C. Johnson; Virginia L. J. Bolshakova; Tammy Waldron – Urban Education, 2016
This study examined the ability of Transformative Professional Development (TPD) to transform science teacher quality and associated impact on science achievement, including particular focus on English Language Learners (ELL). TPD was implemented in a large, low-performing, urban district in the southwest with predominantly Latino ELL populations.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Transformative Learning, Science Teachers, Science Instruction