Background: Marginalized mothers are disproportionately impacted by depression and face barriers in accessing mental health treatment. Recent efforts have focused on building capacity to address maternal depression in Head Start; however, it is unclear if mental health inequities can be addressed by two-generation programs in Head Start settings.…

Team-based learning (TBL) is a flipped classroom model, where small group discussions and peer learning play a central role. Some of its features, such as scalability to large classes and a high degree of structure, together with a well-documented success rate in other fields, could make TBL an attractive option for the mathematics educator…

For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars, reflecting on our journey to becoming academic writers can reveal important lessons for crafting justice oriented academic futures. Interweaving the pain, joy and wisdom from narratives on academic writing, this piece synthesizes BIPOC scholars' lessons learned, representing the…

Background: A need-supportive group climate is a prerequisite for successful treatment in secure residential youth care. For girls, positive relationships with peers are an essential part of the group climate. Relational aggression threatens the residential group climate. Objectives: This study explored whether a group counseling program can…

Problem behavior during hallway transitions are likely for several reasons: (a) students are in closer proximity of each other, (b) teacher monitoring of students is more difficult and/or (c) there are fewer competing behavior options that have been reinforced (Myerson & Hale, 1984). The current study compared the effects of small- and…

Ha and Kim (this issue) qualitatively portrayed how a marginalized student's attempts to position himself as an accepted member were constrained or afforded by other members in the small-group argumentation activities. From a framing perspective, the authors described the features and changes of the marginalized student's participation in…

The effectiveness of a leadership team is central to the overall effectiveness of the school. Leadership teams that collectively attend to actualizing instructional goals, building relationships and developing the culture of the school often find success in their efforts (Leithwood et al., 2020). However, some leadership teams struggle to develop…

Background: Computing degree programs have struggled immensely over the years with broadening participation in the field. In the United States, scholars and educators alike have grappled with the many barriers that impede the participation of women and people of color and exacerbate the education debt so prevalent in computing.…

Shared book reading is necessary for learning Chinese as a second language (L2), but its effectiveness requires further empirical exploration and support. Scholars emphasise considering parental and child characteristics alongside school-based interventions. Guided by the bioecological framework, this study included three groups: an experimental…

The purpose of this collaborative reflective article is to explore the promises and problems of whites-only anti-racist groups. Throughout the article, the authors analyze such groups by applying three lenses to a set of critiques of whites-only anti-racist groups: (1) critical race theory (CRT); (2) journaled experiences of the first two authors…

The Texas Student Success Program Inventory (SSPI), available at https://www.highered.texas.gov/sspi, is an online database of information related to student success programs at public colleges and universities, commissioned by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB). Consistent with nearly every other state, prior to the creation of…

When Dr. Tina Lupton and Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones joined the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Opportunity Culture implementation was happening in the midst of COVID. Lupton, the executive director of professional learning, and Barnes-Jones, the area superintendent for a network of 15 transformation schools, used their experience in other…

Prior research documents that, even after controlling for a variety of potentially potent student background and achievement factors, education abroad exerts favorable effects on indices of college student success, such as timely college completion. Racial-ethnic minority students, however, are both generally underrepresented in education abroad…

Purpose: This paper aims to describe how the multidisciplinary studies in the special issue expand and enrich the framework of authentic talent development in sociocultural context. Design/methodology/approach: The study presents a framework of authentic talent development in sociocultural context and identifies key themes from the seven…

Drawing from Strayhorn's model of educational sense of belonging and Vaccaro and Newman's model of belonging for privileged and minoritized students, this study utilized a mixed-method approach to examine to what extent students from minoritized groups feel like they belong in the sport management classroom. Significant differences in sense of…