Amidst the backdrop of rising censorship legislation, it is important to understand the influence of teachers' particular contexts on their perceptions of potentially controversial texts and subsequent instructional choices. This study explores five in-service teachers' acts of positioning observed in year-long antibias antiracist professional…

Office hours are an integral component of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses at nearly all colleges and universities. Despite their ubiquity as a support mechanism, there has only been limited work examining how instructors approach office hours and what shapes these approaches. Here, we conduct a phenomenographic study to…

New management strategies and digital technologies are the key to reaching innovative scientific potential. This article discusses the effectiveness of the Arduino Science Journal app in implementing a scientific participatory model. The research hypothesis is that the electronic form of participatory scientific activity can reduce anxiety and…

In recent years, there has been increasing awareness on the benefits of social-emotional competencies (SEC) on Israeli students. A self-report SEL measure tailored to the Israeli context, however, has yet to be developed. This research aims to validate the Social-Emotional Questionnaire for Grades 4-6 (SEQ [G4-6]), a new self-report questionnaire…

This action research project aimed to introduce and examine the impact of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), the Meeting Wise Process, and the Data Wise Process on teaching practices at a Chinese middle school. PLCs, a collaborative model for continuous professional development, have been widely adopted in various educational contexts but…

The purpose of the study was to analyze the historical patterns in the relationship between specific types of disabilities and frequency of drug abuse or weapon offenses in public schools in the United States using the U.S. Department of Education Open Data Platform's (n.d.) data sets from 2011-2012 through 2020-2021. The problem is that students…

This article aims to explore the innovation-related qualities of an ideal-type university as perceived by Polish academics at a public university who are characterized by attachment to the tradition of academic self-governance, Humboldtian ideals, autonomy, and academic freedom. The study employs Weberian ideal-type methodology and analyzes…

For the past three years, Digital Promise has embarked on an expansive and human-centered endeavor to empower school districts to cultivate context-relevant solutions to the teacher of color workforce disparities. Through Digital Promise's Inclusive Innovation approach, teachers of color from various school districts were engaged to develop and…

The purpose of our instructional design team is to service the faculty and staff of a multi-campus state university system with pay and benefits educational programming. Our learning population includes the university's diverse workforce of over 25,000 benefits-eligible employees. We support faculty and staff with resources to make informed…

This article explores preservice teachers' (PSTs) experiences engaging in a program initiative blending antiracist teaching and project-based learning (PjBL) to create an antiracist PjBL. Informed by critical race theory and racial literacy theory we used children's literature as a catalyst for engaging PSTs in sustained conversations about…

Based on a long-standing centralized appointment process for principalship, Yogyakarta's secondary school principals have typically taken an authoritarian approach to leadership, and this stance has persisted even amid Indonesia's recent political modernization. To examine the recent emergence of an allocative approach, this case study documented…

The rationality and the effectiveness of classroom teaching behavior directly influence the quality of classroom instruction. Analyzing teaching behavior intelligently can provide robust data support for teacher development and teaching supervision. By observing verbal and nonverbal behaviors of teachers in the classroom, valuable data on…

This study examines the knowledge representation of Japanese university students assessed using grammaticality judgement tests (GJTs) and a metalinguistic knowledge test (MKT). The study also investigates the role of automatised and non-automatised explicit knowledge in general L2 language proficiency. Participants were 87 late learners of English…

Historically, racially marginalized communities are less likely to access health care, partly due to structural inequities as well as distrust for white providers. This need for increased racial and ethnic representation is specifically an issue in the pharmacist career, as more than 90% of the United States population lives within five miles of a…

While the United States leads the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation, schools lag behind in preparing teachers and students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To help accelerate action in U.S. public education and develop a short-term roadmap for districts and other education leaders, the Center on Reinventing Public Education…