Teacher leadership research often focuses on individuals in formal leadership roles, including administrative roles outside of the classroom, attending to their knowledge, skills, and dispositions, and their impact on instructional improvement. An emerging view of teacher leaders focuses on individuals who take on responsibility for instructional…

Research shows that a highly stressed brain does not absorb or remember information, causing learning to essentially shut down. Today's students are more stressed and anxious than ever, and classrooms have become tense places. Educators require knowledge and skills to facilitate and teach students stress-management techniques and find creative…

Professional industry experience can be a benefit to kinesiology and sport management faculty members' pedagogy. Staying abreast of changes in the industry through direct experience can inform faculty and directly influence the quality of classroom instruction. This essay asserts that one way a sport management faculty member at collegiate…

Although there is a growing body of research on teachers' responses to bullying, the question of how teachers decide to respond is still under-researched. The present paper investigates participants' intended responses to a case of relational bullying, the structure of the proposed intervention, the implicit aims of that intervention and the…

Designing, creating, and leading new degree programs can be an arduous and unpredictable task for any college or university faculty member. Faculty, typically trained within a specific discipline and who are charged with creating new degree programs, are rarely prepared for the process. In addition to being ill-prepared, faculty and academic…

Enrollment management (EM) was established as an area of study about 50 years ago, yet the first definition of graduate enrollment management (GEM) only emerged in 2014. In the past decade, despite pressure to increase graduate enrollments to address institutions' budget challenges and impending undergraduate enrollment declines, few empirical…

I first overview the literature on progressive education and locate Herndon within this tradition. I suggest that Herndon's progressive methods are undermined by his refusal to perform the role of teacher in accordance with expectations. I apply Bourdieu's concept of habitus operationally to use data from Herndon's memoir to construct a…

In this article, the authors explore the concerns surrounding academic dishonesty related to generative artificial intelligence (GAI). The authors argue that while there are valid worries about students using GAI in ways the displace student work, these anxieties are not new and have been observed with previous disruptive technologies such as the…

Intercultural mediation has developed significantly in recent decades in various public systems, including the education system. In Israel, hundreds of mediators from various social groups serve to bridge between the parents and community on the one hand, and the school on another. This role involves a personal and professional challenge given the…

At the request of a fifth-grade teacher and former student teacher, Vivian Gussin Paley spends two mornings in her classroom to help address a problem, a seemingly garden-variety scene where a boy is excluded from a playground ball game. As discussion unfolds, deeper issues of friendship and unfairness for the individuals (the one who did the…

In the era of increasingly stringent accountability, teacher voice is pivotal to student learning and school improvement. The nature and dynamics of teacher voice greatly vary with the organizational, societal, and cultural context. However, existing research on the concept of teacher voice tends to focus on issues in a particular domain,…

The COVID-19 pandemic presented novel and heightened levels of uncertainty for educators. Contributing to a growing literature conceptualizing the role of uncertainty in organizational change, this article explores the changes in practice that teachers made during the pandemic as efforts to either mitigate or leverage different types of…

Teachers are struggling with issues and conversations around masculinities in schools. How do we discuss problem areas associated with masculinities, without demonising the young men we are engaging with? How do we create safe spaces for young people to discuss and challenge their masculinities together? It has never been harder to engage young…

The early years of education are a crucial time to develop a strong foundation of critical mathematical skills. A growing body of research continues to demonstrate that this foundational knowledge can be successfully built through teacher-facilitated, or guided, approaches to play. Despite its benefits, the implementation of guided play is…

In today's evolving educational landscape, the 'broker teacher' plays a pivotal role. These educators manage cross-sector partnerships involving government, business and non-profit sectors to introduce innovative practices in schools. This study seeks to explore broker teachers' nuanced roles and the perceptions, which have not yet been…