Professional development of teachers and certificated staff has long been a concern for school districts and is generally completed in a top down approach with little input from the participants traditionally. Teacher credential programs also often fall short in ensuring that teachers are prepared to teach in the current day classroom due to…

Supporting online faculty at the "community college" level to prepare them to "teach online" can be a complex matter. Faculty who are first entering the online teaching environment often start with training to help them prepare to teach online. Supporting faculty who are teaching online means understanding faculty and their…

This qualitative, interview-based study examined the experiences of 14 teachers with their professional development. The research was conducted to understand teacher perspective of professional development. Many billions of federal dollars have been spent on teacher professional development, and there has been neither a dramatic increase in…

Elementary science teachers have long been underprioritized in classrooms across the United States. English language arts and mathematics take precedence, especially when considering accountability and high-stake assessments. By ignoring science teaching and learning in the elementary classroom, science instructional practices are lacking, if not…

The evidence supporting the link between collaboration and outcomes in both organizations and educational settings is based primarily in Western cultures. However, in societies where collaboration is foundational to the culture itself, such as in a collectivistic society, the relationship between collaboration within an organization or educational…

Robotics education has been an addition to K-12 education to increase STEM motivation. The problem addressed by this study is the lack of understanding of how and to what extent robotics education supports STEM initiatives. The purpose of this qualitative interpretive study was to understand the role of robotics education within STEM initiatives…

Black women are severely underrepresented in faculty careers. To begin moving towards action in eradicating the policies and practices used against Black women to keep them from successfully obtaining faculty roles, we must first look to challenges and opportunities faced during doctoral training that negatively impact the faculty pipeline. As…

Environmental Education (EE) has an overall goal of fostering eco-literate citizens who are capable of building a more sustainable planet (North American Association for Environmental Education, 2019). While EE is associated with a plethora of benefits, it is still not widely implemented in the field of education due to the many types of barriers…

The purpose of this study was threefold. First, it examined K-6 pre-service teachers' Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) self-efficacy for math content area. Second, it identified the impact of Technology Knowledge (TK), Pedagogy Knowledge (PK) and Content Knowledge (CK) self-efficacy on TPACK self-efficacy. Third, it evaluated…

Student retention, success, and the teaching and learning process should be the focus of community colleges. Employee job satisfaction contributes to this success. Consistency in faculty employment comes in part from job satisfaction, which leads to higher success rates for the students. The literature indicates a connection between shared…

The qualitative research study created a rich knowledge base of contributing factors to successful transition planning by prioritizing the importance of poverty resources on transition outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to explore the meaning that secondary special educators assign to students' access to poverty resources related to…

Teacher retention is at the top of current hot topics in education. This study explores the retention of teachers in high-poverty secondary schools in Southeastern South Carolina. To gather data for this study, the researcher surveyed fifty-two teachers from four high-poverty secondary schools in Southeastern South Carolina. Evidence was collected…

The American higher education system is at a crossroads. As it contends with a more diverse and demanding student body, shortages in funding, and increased demands from the job market higher education institutions are striving to keep up with a changing society. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological research study was to explore the…

This study examined teacher personal characteristics and how this impacted their discipline style and office discipline referral (ODR) frequency. It was hypothesized that certain classroom discipline styles in combination with a teacher's personal characteristics may influence inequitable discipline referral rates in non-White student populations.…

With the backdrop of an increase in hiring of Educators of Color in predominantly white independent schools (PWIS) yet also a trend of these educators leaving PWIS at a quicker rate than their white peers because they encounter additional challenges, this mixed methods study explored the experiences of Educators of Color in the Los Angeles area.…