The United States educational system struggles to provide supportive services as rates of autism spectrum disorder rise. Teachers face challenges in "shared decision-making" with caregivers for developing high-quality intervention plans tailored to the strengths, challenges, and needs of students with autism and their learning…

This paper explores the impact of student participation in staff recruitment processes at a UK distance learning Higher Education Institution, examining its contribution to quality in teaching and learning. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory, the study investigates how students' involvement in high-level decision-making affects their sense of…

Group preventative parent training programs (PPTPs) have been used successfully to improve outcomes for families living in poverty in settings such as Head Start. Nevertheless, such programs face significant enrollment and engagement challenges. Given that research on factors related to parent preferences for group PPTP participation is limited,…

This research examined the needs assessment and development guidelines for participatory school management to enhance academic effectiveness in Provincial Administrative Organization (PAO) schools across Northeast Thailand. The study employed a mixed-methods design conducted in two phases. The first phase involved document synthesis and survey…

This study investigates teacher participation in Norway's most recent national curriculum reform. During the reform period, teachers were invited to take part in macro curriculum making as members of national curriculum committees. In policy documents, teacher participation is emphasised as key to the legitimacy of the curriculum. In this study,…

In this article, we introduce a new approach to advancing equity in student learning experiences through student-staff-faculty partnerships within academic departments. Drawing on a re-imagined conception of accountability, informed by abolition, community organizing, disability justice, and transformative justice, we propose a conceptual…

Background: People with intellectual disability have higher rates of cancer mortality than the general population. Cancer prevention programmes and screenings are recommended in adults, including those with intellectual disability. The opinions of relevant parties are important to ensure that people with intellectual disability can achieve equity…

Existing research has revealed various beneficial teacher-level outcomes of distributed leadership (DL). Yet these studies lack important operational nuances. The DL effectiveness literature mainly stresses one dimension of DL study operations of how leadership is distributed (e.g., interaction), being grounded in the agency view. However, it is…

Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) are used to document the needs of students with disabilities and outline provisions with which to support access and inclusion in educational settings. However, often the programs focus on students' specific needs rather than giving agency to students or considering how wider ecosystems impacts students'…

This qualitative study employs thematic analysis of open-ended survey data to examine how 187 low-income college students in a need- based scholarship and support program perceive contributors to their success and barriers they face. Using an abductive approach that integrates inductive coding with theoretical alignment, we identified key themes,…

Meaningful improvement in schools and districts is just small shifts away. How can administrators and teachers work together in ways that lead to significant--and sustained--improvement over time? How can schools accomplish this goal without adding to the work of overstretched educators? This practical guide answers these questions with…

The extent to which collegiality conflicts or merges with managerial ideas and practices has recently given rise to a lively scholarly debate: have universities surrendered to managerialization or, on the contrary, do they continue to exhibit collegial traits? Part of this debate arises from the lack of a clear definition of…

Purpose: This paper proposes a new conception of school systems arising out of the collision of three forces--(1) a longstanding press to rationalize the technical work of schools in the service of educational excellence; (2) a growing democratic press to equitably engage community members in the process of defining educational excellence; which…

Purpose: While the literature includes multiple studies on the relationship between school leadership and instructional quality, they often use instructional practice as a continuous variable, assuming that a teacher would perform all sub-dimensions of instructional practice at a similar rate and failing to link distributed leadership to classroom…

Schools are a complex system made up of not only relationships, infrastructures, and challenges, but also constraints. It seems essential that schools, as complex organizations, work in synergy, according to a shared vision with all the actors involved in the educational process. School management is now part of a process that is increasingly…