This practice brief provides practical, research-based strategies educators can use to de-escalate challenging student behavior in the classroom. Despite the development of supportive, safe, and predictable school environments, students may, at times, become agitated, and their behavior may escalate to unsafe levels. With some advance planning,…

Computational thinking (CT) skills are accepted as fundamental literacy. Although the idea that K-12 teachers should teach students CT skills in an interdisciplinary context is heavily expressed, there is a need for a measurement tool in Turkish that measures teachers' self-efficacy in this regard. This study aims to adapt the T-STEM CT scale,…

This study explored how high school principals utilize leadership practices to address the access and opportunity gap for Black and Hispanic students in advanced courses. Using a qualitative methodology, high school principals were interviewed using a semi-structured interview protocol. The results of this study found that principals influence the…

This research aims to determine the views of mothers, teachers, and caregivers about the role of caregivers working in special education schools in the education of children with special needs. In line with this purpose, in the 2020-2021 academic year, five state and five private special education centers with school caregivers in Nicosia,…

"Language Acquisition in a Nutshell: A Primer for Teachers" will be your definitive guide on second languages and how they are acquired. Written in an easy-to-understand tone with an occasional touch of light-heartedness, "Language Acquisition in a Nutshell" is made for both teachers and teachers in training. It will show you…

The impacts of individual and collective efficacy on increasing student achievement and effective teacher practices have been presented in numerous studies, yet many teachers lack the efficacy described by researchers. Teachers with low levels of efficacy are restricted in implementing practices to propel students' academic success. Knowledge of…

Black faculty and staff are often expected to engage in university service their White peers are not (Reddick et al., 2021). More specifically, Hirschfield and Joseph (2012) found that faculty of color are expected to bear the responsibility of diversity-related work in ways their White counterparts are not. The term 'cultural taxation' was…

This qualitative phenomenological study looked at how female faculty in higher education who teach high-stakes courses may experience a role of academic momism (AM) and how they negotiate their roles and responses within a patriarchal system. Gender bias and prescriptive stereotyping of women as communal may lead female STEM instructors to be…

While the internationalization of American higher education has seen significant growth in the past decade, little is known about the advisor-advisee relationship in American transnational institutions and, more specifically, at American-style institutions abroad. This quantitative study examined students' expectations of and satisfaction with…

Academic tracking or ability grouping is the process of placing students in different courses, or tracks, of educational programing based on their perceived ability level. This concept is based on an ideology of merit. Tracking research in the field of education has generally focused on K-12 education. However, higher education has long tracked…

The music curricula and the pedagogical methods used in the United Kingdom and in Kenya share trends that are both common and diverse. In this article we present our comparisons of the Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and the Kenyan music curriculum. We approach this comparative study using Ralph Tyler's definition of…

Students' learning environments often change during school career, due to school transitions and the introduction of educational innovations, causing discontinuity in teaching and learning. Success of students entering a new learning environment depends in part on their prior expectations of education, as these influence later perceptions.…

Purpose: The present study aimed to validate the Indonesian-language version of the psychological capital questionnaire (PCQ), specifically within the context of higher education, by utilising Rasch analysis to evaluate the reliability and validity aspect such as item-fit statistics, rating scale function, and differential item functioning of the…

Limited attention has been given to faculty members' perceptions and experiences relating to working with online students with disabilities, even though they are the ones with whom students must interact most to access knowledge and have fair opportunities to demonstrate their learning; therefore, this study was guided by two research questions:…

In a collaborative effort to better understand the microschooling experience, EdChoice and KaiPod Learning conducted a survey (in the field March 3-28, 2025) of parents (N=170) whose children are currently enrolled in KaiPod's network of microschools. Kaipod Learning is a national network of microschools, helping to connect families with…