In this article, we address the collaborative relationships among university teachers participating in a lesson study. Specifically, we examine teachers' changes in response to conflicts that arise during this professional development process. Data were collected through audio and video recordings and interviews during a lesson study conducted…

Integrative learning in early childhood is more than a teaching strategy; it is a philosophy that reflects how young children naturally view the world as a whole. Early childhood offers fertile ground for merging concepts of science, mathematics, and other domains through play, exploration, and discovery. Within this context, the present study…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and apply machine learning methods that accommodate and leverage process heterogeneity when investigating mediation. We develop causal machine learning methods that relax assumptions of (indirect) effect homogeneity, accommodate high dimensional mediator sets, capture heterogeneous,…

This paper presents the outcomes of the DigX project, aimed at supporting 44 Flemish secondary schools in embedding digital competences and media literacy into educational practice. Funded by the Flemish government, the project followed a bottom-up, co-creative and structured implementation strategy that combined the Four in Balance model and…

This analytic autoethnography offers a critical and personal reflection on two decades (2005-2025) of academic life at a South African university. Framed within South Africa's shifting higher education landscape, the study explores academic identity formation through eight thematic lenses: from early experiences as an unprepared lecturer to the…

Teachers use a Learning Module to create their learning designs, emphasizing the activities they select with knowledge-based processes. This paper aims to develop a TPACK-based teacher's module that provides detailed instruction in the planning for the teaching-learning process, giving more focus on the teacher's ability to maneuver, navigate, and…

Douglas Reeves, school leadership expert and founder of the Equity and Excellence Institute, describes how we can use lessons from the pandemic to reshape teacher learning.

Calls for leadership development and associated supports for faculty members are growing in prominence in higher education. Yet traditional leadership development efforts in higher education fail to account for both individual and institutional needs as critical to fostering a leadership pipeline with multiple entry points. This article offers…

This article features a collaborative autoethnography of its two authors: we are instructors, also life partners, whose teaching of statistics has been transformed through significant, intimate conversations. We implemented the collaborative autoethnography within an integrated theoretical framework, designed to underpin the function of…

Psychology's organizations have included community college faculty members in a variety of professionally enriching events and roles that have helped to shape the direction of the discipline.

Although it seems reasonable to assume that start-up packages are important for faculty success, the contribution of start-up packages to faculty professional development is understudied. The aim of this study was to explore how the number of benefits obtained in start-up package agreements (number of benefits), faculty satisfaction with the…

Adequate resources are essential for professional learning to achieve desired outcomes for educators and students. Time is one of the most valuable resources for learning, but it is also one of the greatest resource challenges for education leaders, especially in the U.S. In the recent book "The Learning Principal," authors Kay Psencik,…

Action Research is now frequently practiced and promoted as a form of continuing professional development for language teachers, with recent studies reporting many benefits for those who engage in Action Research. Less frequently reported, but equally as important for sustainability, are the wider impacts of Action Research engagement on teachers'…

All teachers need high-quality, relevant, ongoing professional development, but it is particularly hard to come by in rural areas. The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative (KVEC), an educational service agency serving some of the most economically distressed rural counties in America, has been leading one promising model for delivering…

Career trajectories within the academic enterprise elicit copious amounts of literature, much of which focuses on individuals who hail from faculty and rise through the academic ranks to college and university administration. However, scholarly discussions that conversely pay attention to administrators who transition to faculty roles are not as…