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A Justice-Oriented System: Practicing Teachers' Conceptions of and Perceived School and Environmental Supports for Culturally Responsive Instruction
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Meghan Comstock – Teachers College Record, 2025
Background or Context: Culturally responsive instruction (CRI) has garnered significant attention in local and state policy in recent years amid politicization of what is taught in schools, and the scholarly field is increasingly focused on how to develop culturally responsive "schools" and "systems," not just culturally…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Social Justice, Knowledge Level, Teacher Attitudes
Using Appreciative Inquiry to Explore Approaches towards Mental Health in a Scottish Secondary School
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Seaton, Fiona S. – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Rationale: In Scotland, two-thirds of children have faced at least one adverse childhood experience. Research demonstrates a graded relationship between adversity and mental health outcomes. As adolescents spend a large amount of time in school, it is no surprise that schools are vital when supporting and delivering mental health interventions.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Secondary School Students, Adolescents
Promoting the School Learning Processes: Principals as Learning Boundary Spanners
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Benoliel, Pascale; Schechter, Chen – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The ongoing challenge to sustain school learning and improvement requires schools to explore new ways, and at the same time exploit previous experience. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to expand the knowledge of mechanisms that can facilitate school learning processes by proposing boundary activities and learning mechanisms in…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Learning Processes, Knowledge Level
Comparing Attitudes and Practices among Educators Serving Large Proportions of English Learners in California and Three Other States. Knowledge Brief
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Crane, Eric W.; Makkonen, Reino – WestEd, 2019
For several years, WestEd's Measure to Learn and Improve (MLI) project team has kept California state policy leaders informed about the statewide implementation of the California Academic Standards in English language arts and mathematics, by summarizing and disseminating results from the RAND Corporation's annual American Educator Panel (AEP)…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Policy, Language Arts, Mathematics Instruction
School Nurses' Perceived Barriers to Discussing Weight with Children and Their Families: A Qualitative Approach
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Steele, Ric G.; Wu, Yelena P.; Jensen, Chad D.; Pankey, Sydni; Davis, Ann M.; Aylward, Brandon S. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Previous studies have documented the presence of specific barriers to school nurses' communications with families about weight-related health. The purpose of the present study was to contribute to the literature by further analyzing, using focus group methodology, school nurses' perceived barriers to addressing weight-related health…
Descriptors: Barriers, Body Weight, Obesity, Health Promotion
The Role of Special Schools for Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties: Is Segregation Always Best?
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Simmons, Ben; Bayliss, Phil – British Journal of Special Education, 2007
The education of young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties continues to raise challenges and controversies. In this article, Ben Simmons, an ESRC funded PhD student and research assistant, and Phil Bayliss, programme director for the masters degree in special education and disability, both based in the School of Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Problems, Knowledge Level, Special Schools