The quality of teachers' noticing in the inclusive classroom is supposed to depend on teachers' expertise. As part of professional development in video clubs, we compared Austrian and Swiss teachers' noticing of inclusive teaching. While, in Austria, teachers worked in an inclusive setting, in Switzerland the participating school ran special…

Special educators working in self-contained settings for students with extensive behavioral needs face high rates of teacher burnout and attrition. Research also indicates that these professionals face notable environmental stressors and poor working conditions, even when compared to special educators in other settings. To address teacher burnout…

This study was conducted to determine the effect of teachers' perceptions of organizational justice on organizational silence. A causal-comparative and correlational survey model was used in the research. The sample of the study consisted of 446 teachers working in Istanbul, selected through simple random sampling. The research data were collected…

Purpose: In professional learning communities (PLCs), teachers collaborate and learn with the aim of improving students' learning. The aim of this study is to gain insight into teachers' perceptions of their schools' changing toward PLCs and conditions which support or hamper this change. Design/methodology/approach: Questionnaires were completed…

Schools committed to equity are experimenting with creative and powerful ways for teachers to ensure all students receive what they need to learn in the classroom. Many of these efforts focus professional learning on strengthening the instructional core -- teachers' knowledge of and relationships with students, teachers' deep and critical…

Mutual learning between teachers and their colleagues plays a vital role in their professional growth. However, previous studies show that collaborative teacher learning tends to be confined to small groups, and that it is difficult to make it explicit, showcase, or transfer teachers' tacit knowledge. This study explores this problem by creating a…

Collaboration has been found to be a powerful tool for professional development and central for creating opportunities for teachers to reflect on their practice. However, school districts continue to have difficulty both implementing and sustaining collaboration. The purpose of this research was to investigate the experience of the teacher in a…

In general, diversity educators are hired to create, facilitate, and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to signal institutional value in these areas and ultimately creating a socially just environment. This qualitative study highlights 6 virtual focus group sessions and 8 one-on-one interviews. The focus group sessions and…

This quantitative research study explored the relationship between the quality of teacher collaboration in Professional Learning Communities and teacher sense of efficacy. The research has demonstrated that collective efficacy and teacher sense of efficacy have direct impacts on student achievement. Studies have found significant relationships…

This piece looks at the use of Twitter to share good practice among education professionals responding to the so-called 'pivot online': the sudden shift to online learning necessitated by the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. It presents a general overview on how Twitter provided a source of advice, ideas, and resources and how teachers shared…

The transition from doctoral student to higher education faculty member provides a unique set of challenges. Individuals attempt to balance research, service, and teaching requirements while also experiencing changes in their personal lives, such as geographical relocation. Peer-mentoring of early-career faculty may be used to support this…

Professional learning communities have developed into one of the greatest tools of school improvement, along with being a critical component of educational reform. The problem addressed in this study was decreased teacher performance and student achievement in six North Carolina schools resulting from negative perceptions of professional learning…

The evidence-based parenting program Video-Feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD) may have potential to also support teachers in primary schools in their interaction with children with behavior problems. We therefore adapted the intervention for use with primary school teachers (VIPP-School). Here we…

Purpose: This study examined the impact of school leadership on teacher professional collaboration, with collective teacher innovativeness and teacher self-efficacy (TSE) playing the mediating role. Two most commonly used leadership styles, instructional leadership (IL) and distributed leadership (DL), were analyzed using a multilevel design, i.e.…

In 2007, the Ministers of Education across Canada adopted the Canadian Degree Qualifications Framework, articulating learning outcomes for bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. Yet, by 2016, only 30% of Canadian institutions reported having learning outcomes for all programs (MacFarlane & Brumwell, 2016). One obstacle institutions face…