Although native family students often learn more than immigrant family students in school (e.g. civics), scholars have not systematically demonstrated the mechanisms through which native family students outperform immigrant family students. The "Opportunity-Propensity" framework guides this study. We examine the link between students'…

This study applied multilevel modeling to examine the relationship between the percentage of children with mild/moderate disabilities in classrooms and children's language and literacy achievement over an academic year. The sample included 516 preschool children (mean age = 52.3 months, SD = 6.3) in 75 classrooms; 42% of the children had…

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly being measured using key performance indicators (KPIs) such as student retention, success, achievement and attendance. There is a dearth of research focusing on group dynamics within classroom settings, with very little focusing on cohesion. There is, however, evidence, in organisational and…

The study explores Excellent Teachers' strategies in managing students' misbehavior in the classroom. Students' misbehavior are escalating and getting more variant and serious. The need to investigate how teachers manage the students' behavior in the classroom is deemed important. In this study the participants are Excellent Teachers or "Guru…

The present study reports associations between features of directly observed classroom processes and school readiness skills across the academic year for 1498 children enrolled in publicly funded pre-K programs in a large and diverse county. In models adjusting for a range of child and family covariates, evidence was detected for the separate, and…

The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of active community-building in a classroom with culturally linguistically economically diverse (CLED) gifted learners in a semirural school district who underachieve. The central research question was, How does actively building classroom community interact with CLED gifted learners who…

In an effort to rehumanize the classroom through the cultivation of compassion, I wanted to examine the process of storying and the sense-making that occurs between students and myself as faculty when stories of lived experience are at the center of our educational experience. Mindlessly perpetuating transactional experiences in educational spaces…

Using and practicing intersectional active listening--a listening that values the Black girl's voice and self--is a first step we may take to address racialized listening practices and affirm the humanity and girlhood of Black girls in the classroom.

Recess, the bus ride home, the school corridor and other grey areas are ambiguous for both teachers and students and fall under less institutional regulation. The purpose of this study was to examine the ways teachers would react when they encounter students' informal political comments in the grey areas. We presented vignettes to 71 Palestinian…

In the present study (Schwarzl, Lena. 2020. "Ein mehrperspektivischer Blick in das Translanguaging-Klassenzimmer -- selbstbezogene Überzeugungen und Klassenklima im Fokus" [A Multi-Perspective Look into the Translanguaging Classroom - Focusing on Self-Centered Beliefs and Classroom Climate]. Doctoral diss., University of Vienna.…

"What is a fandom, and why do fandoms matter for school?" Fandoms are passionate communities dedicated to appreciating and engaging with texts of interest (movies, TV shows, books, bands, brands, sports teams, etc.) via personally and communally meaningful literacy practices. It is increasingly obvious that scripted literacy curricula…

The science of learning and development demonstrates the value of positive relationships for student success and well-being. This brief describes structures that secondary schools can integrate to cultivate conditions that enable healthy attachments to grow. Specifically, it highlights structures that can foster personal teacher--student…

A sample of 496 early childhood teachers was assigned randomly in two phases to a series of professional development (PD) interventions. Phase I intervention was a 14-week course on effective teacher-child interactions. Participants were then re-randomized into Phase II intervention, which consisted of individual, interactions-focused coaching.…

Tier 1 Instruction provides the essential foundation for all students to succeed, alleviating the need for more intensive support later. This Spotlight will help readers learn from schools implementing multi-tiered systems of supports (MTSS); analyze new laws on math supports for struggling students; evaluate the long-term benefits of early…

High-leverage practices (HLPs) are instructional approaches educators in K-12 can use to teach different types of learners and content. They are deemed "high leverage" because they are foundational to effective instruction, they help with managing and intervening in students' behavior, and they support successful implementation of the…