Writing studies in the United States has a long history of advocating for linguistic equity, starting with the passing of the Students' Right to Their Own Language (SRTOL) in 1974 and more recently in the form of translingualism (Lu & Horner, 2013) and anti-racist writing (Baker-Bell, 2020) theoretical frameworks and pedagogies. Alongside…

Teachers play a critical role in deciding what curricula are used in their classrooms. We examine the factors that teachers describe as influencing their sustainment or discontinuation of a literacy curriculum, "Zoology One," following their participation in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) examining the curriculum's efficacy. This…

Purpose: Within the scope of broadening participation and developing diverse talents in STEM leadership, this paper aims to deliver a research study that explores faculty leaders' caring intelligence as STEM leadership intelligence. STEM leadership intelligence is the knowledge, skills, traits and aptitude essential to effective leadership in STEM…

In this article, we attempt to understand English teachers' perceptions, practices, and challenges concerning social agency through an integrative literature review to build and draw an interpretative framework and generate new knowledge. To achieve this, 58 empirical studies published in a period of seventeen years--2006 to 2023--were selected…

Research has emphasized that SEL program implementation in preschool settings not only merits special consideration regarding content, instructional approaches, and opportunities to practice skills (Bierman & Motamedi, 2015; Denham, 2018; Jones & Doolittle, 2017; Mahoney et al., 2021), but also should be implemented using a culturally…

Intrinsic motivation is fundamental for teachers to have. The principal plays a vital role in growing it so that activities in the school run smoothly. Therefore, proper leadership practices are needed. This study examines the effect of transformational school leadership on the intrinsic motivation of 335 private school teachers in South…

This study aims to portray Master Teachers' experience of teacher professional development in post-1976 China. Interview data were collected from 22 Master Teachers from Shanghai in 2019-2020. Analyses of the findings revealed that these Master Teachers experienced three historical stages of teachers' professional development in China: a…

Recently, researchers have focused on various factors influencing work engagement, particularly in the EFL context. In this vein, this study was carried out to investigate the relationship among proactive personality, flow, and work engagement in China. In so doing, three instruments including Proactive Personality Scale, Work-Related Flow…

Examples play a variety of roles in proving and disproving. Buchbinder and Zaslavsky (2019) have produced an a priori mathematical framework for assessing students' understanding of the role of examples when proving and disproving universal and existential statements. In this paper, I highlight three important aspects that suggest an extension of…

This study examines pre-service teachers' understanding of technology integration and the role of AI tools in shaping this perspective. Open-ended responses, analysed using topic modelling, reveal the main themes in pre-service teachers' views and compare them with topics generated by AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Bing AI. Key themes in…

This article delved into the realm of EFL assessment in Iraq by investigating the beliefs of Iraqi EFL teachers about assessment practices they employed in their classroom and determining whether there was any congruency between their beliefs and actual assessment practices. For this purpose, 140 experienced Iraqi EFL teachers were selected by…

This study aims to examine teachers' expectations regarding the family's contribution to education process in special education. This study was conducted with a qualitative research design. Accordingly, the study group consisted of 23 teachers (15 females, 8 male) working in totally 7 schools in the Karamürsel district of Kocaeli province in…

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the knowledge and alternative conceptions of climate change in a group of Chilean science and non-science teachers with different teaching experiences. Design/Approach/Methods: The study used a quantitative approach with an exploratory, descriptive, and transversal design, in which a Climate Change…

Preschool classrooms serve children of varying abilities, including those who may benefit from social communication intervention. Research supports the use of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions (NDBI) to effectively increase the social communication skills of young children. Yet, little is known about preschool teachers'…

Receiving appropriate, unbiased advice from their teachers is important for students' smaller- and larger-scale educational decisions. However, teachers' concerns about being or appearing to be prejudiced may interfere and lead them to provide encouraging advice to students belonging to negatively stereotyped groups even when it is not warranted…