Disciplinary practices play a critical role in shaping students' academic, emotional, and social development. Research shows that use of punitive school disciplinary measures is associated with negative life outcomes, including post-traumatic stress, depression, aggressive behavior, poorer academic performance, and increased school dropout. This…

"Meet Every Learner's Needs" delivers research-backed techniques to transform classrooms into dynamic learning environments in which all students are appropriately challenged--and appropriately supported--every day. Based on teacher and Modern Classrooms Project cofounder Robert Barnett's experience training thousands of teachers…

This study explores how online assessment tools can support the development of pre-service secondary teachers' assessment competencies, with a focus on the impact of prior teaching experience. It was conducted with a sample of 3,780 pre-service teachers at Pegaso University in Italy, 64.9% of whom had experience of working in a school for an…

A successful transition to school is critical for both short- and long-term academic and social success. Understanding children's transition experiences, including their academic and social experiences, is essential for identifying the social-emotional competencies needed to support a successful transition. While much of the existing research on…

Growing evidence links early life adversity (ELA), including Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and unpredictability, to disrupted health and development. This knowledge has led to increased screening for ELA in primary care settings and provided new opportunities to further research associations between ELA and health. It is imperative to…

In today's increasingly multilingual classrooms, leveraging students' diverse linguistic resources is essential for fostering equity, inclusion and deeper learning. This action research explored the impact of translanguaging on student engagement, joy, and identity in a middle school science classroom. Translanguaging, which is leveraging…

Purpose: The recently emerging agile-blended learning (AB learning) is novel to researchers and practitioners alike, and previous research has not examined the characteristics that the AB learning approach has presented in metropolitan learners. The significance of the AB learning approach has been neglected. Design/methodology/approach: This…

Caregiver expectations for their youth with disabilities' post-school life significantly predicts engagement in employment. However, little research has examined this link for youth with more significant support needs. Understanding caregivers' views on the potential employment of youth with significant support needs is therefore crucial. In this…

The unprecedented switch to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for language teachers, such as conducting authentic language interactions with reduced modalities in virtual classrooms. Language teachers, therefore, have been confronted with identity tensions of how to reposition themselves to adapt to this new…

Research managers and administrators (RMAs) face several challenges due to the various tasks and roles required in university research management. One of the challenges is their workplace environment, including job satisfaction. However, little empirical research has statistically analyzed the relationships between job satisfaction and its factors…

Purpose: This study examined the training and knowledge of current practicing speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and their perceived competence in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is a follow-up to Schwartz and Drager (2008), with some modifications reflecting "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition"…

Online course delivery has increased in prevalence, particularly due to the onset in 2020 of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biomedical engineering laboratory courses pose unique challenges when transitioning to a remote or hybrid space. Here, we describe a novel approach to online lab delivery to improve student learning and engagement in a required…

This paper reports the results of a qualitative study that used in-depth interviews to understand the experiences and perceptions of six pre-service teachers as they engaged in microteaching at a tertiary institution in Hong Kong. Using a framework grounded in dialogism and positioning theory, the study describes the ways in which different…

Disruption to the status quo in education erupted from a worldwide pandemic in 2020. COVID-19 pushed university teaching to emergency online teaching. This disruption intersected with a national and international call for racial justice in the US and internationally. Challenges and new learnings emerged as teacher and learners worked to co-create…

This study aimed to examine Chinese college students' engagement and satisfaction with their university learning experience. In particular, the study focused on emotional engagement and how it was associated with student satisfaction. Nationally representative data from the 2012 China College Student Survey (CCSS) which drew from 55 higher…