Developing school leaders' skills to ensure high-quality instruction in every classroom and high achievement for every student doesn't happen overnight. It takes time, intentionality, and a cohesive set of supports that are often referred to as a principal pipeline. Research shows that when all the pieces are in place, principal pipelines can lead…

The anatomy lab has traditionally been a cornerstone of medical education, combining technical skill acquisition with professional identity formation. However, a predominant focus on academic performance, coupled with the intensity of this experience, has raised concerns about learner burnout and diminished humanistic development of students. To…

The challenges of modern societies and health issues call for complex understandings in psychological practice. These include existential aspects of life related to health and wellbeing. A specific focus is needed when educating future psychologists on being aware of cultural differences as well as addressing clients' existential conditions or…

Teaching topics like racism, diversity, and social justice have complex effects on counselor education faculty, including personal discomfort, exposure to student microaggressions, and negative student evaluations. We conducted an autoethnography-style inquiry into the collective experiences of three counselor educators who teach multicultural…

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the effects of a self-paced digital working memory (WM) intervention on preschoolers with ADHD symptoms and explore the relation between WM and time perception (TP) through a randomized controlled trial. Method: Fifty preschoolers between four-to-six years of age (M = 4.93 years) were randomly assigned to…

Organisational success increasingly depends on data-driven decision-making, which is making data literate talent essential. However, building a data-literate workforce is challenging, as data literacy is complex, context-dependent, and varies across sectors. This study explores the challenges middle managers face in using data for decision-making…

Background: Physiotherapy education traditionally relies on face-to-face instruction for teaching complex manual therapy techniques. Current remote teaching methods struggle to convey spatial aspects of physical techniques, limiting their effectiveness for practical skills training. Few examples were found of immersive training systems for…

This paper explores the affordances of learning experiences gained in undergraduate students' professional ethics courses during the pandemic. The article also touches upon the possible contributions of the practices within the scope of the professional ethics course to students' professional and personal lives. Action research was used.…

Volunteer-based organizations are dependent on volunteers to meet the goals of the organization. Identifying and training volunteers as leaders of the organization is one way to increase positive social change in their community. However, there is limited literature investigating the outcomes of providing leadership training to volunteers. This…

College students employed on campus are in a setting ripe for learning career-based competencies related to leadership. Through incorporating intentional reflection opportunities into student employment settings, institutions can increase their contribution to graduating students ready to lead in the workforce or any other setting. This chapter…

In "Coaching in Communities," researcher Melissa Mosley Wetzel and her coauthors distill the lessons of an eight-year study into a transformative educator training model, Coaching with CARE (critical and content-focused, appreciative, reflective, and experiential). They demonstrate how effective, contextual teacher training can be a…

Sleep-related infant deaths are one of the top causes of infant mortality in the United States. A few behavior analytic studies have examined behavioral skills training to teach adults to arrange safe infant sleeping environments. These studies were conducted in an analogue environment, and no data were collected outside the training setting. The…

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate existing practices of transversal skills training in doctoral education and provide recommendations for improvement for universities, industry and doctoral students in Europe. The results offer a detailed picture that has implications for the design of doctoral education programs that aim to support…

Social exclusion has a myriad of negative effects on students' psychological and social well-being. One way to combat such negative effects is to raise awareness about social exclusion in schools. Here, we describe and evaluate a training program that was carried out across schools in The Netherlands. The program relies on basic experiential…

Exposure to communicative gestures, through their parents' use of gestures, is associated with infants' language development. However, the mechanisms supporting this link are not fully understood. In adults, sensorimotor brain activity occurs while processing communicative stimuli, including both spoken language and gestures. Using…