This qualitative study investigated veteran teachers' professional experiences over 3 decades of their teaching careers. Drawing from professional capital theory (Hargreaves & Fullan, 2012), I present 4 veteran elementary public-school teachers' experiences and development of their professional capital over nearly 3 decades of their careers. I…

The early childhood years are a unique and distinctive time where teachers can provide children with opportunities to cultivate not only academic skills, but also foster their social emotional competencies (SEC) to prepare them for their future endeavors. For children to be successful in an early childhood education (ECE) program, teachers must be…

Hearing loss is a low incidence disability. The incidence decreases even more when a child has a hearing loss and a comorbid disability. The number of students who are DWD continues to increase in classrooms around the country. These students demonstrate many different skills and abilities and teachers of the deaf express frustration in their lack…

Middle school students in an urban school district located in the northeastern United States struggled to improve their academic performance. In response to this problem, the superintendent initiated a districtwide professional learning community (PLC); however, students' test scores in five schools declined. The purpose of this basic qualitative…

Purpose: The paper describes two reflective instruments: a reflective diary (RD) and a joint learning protocol (JLP) for teachers' knowledge creation in lesson study (LS), reflects on teachers' reactions and encountered challenges and draws inferences on how teachers' learning and knowledge creation could be facilitated more effectively in LS…

Through the use of interview and observation data, collected over two years, this qualitative study describes the perceptions, attitudes, and experiences of two Cooperating Teachers (CTs) and their assigned Pre Service Teachers (PST; n = 12) who were mentored over the course of two Special Education practicum experiences and five CT professional…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the perceptions of community college professors regarding the instructional practices for addressing the needs of students with disabilities at postsecondary institutions in Southeast Texas. The participants for this study were purposefully selected from within a population of faculty as a…

Given the immense challenges of the principalship and the high turnover of school principals, school districts--and other organizations--have looked to assistant principals as a major source of leadership talent to take up the role of principal. In this qualitative dissertation, I explored how eight principals--from different USA…

Social-emotional learning is prevalent in schools and society. The problem addressed in this study was the possibility that general education teachers do not have enough professional development in social-emotional learning to support their students. A lack of professional development in social-emotional learning impacts teachers, but it also…

Teacher self-efficacy is positively related to student achievement; however, the impact of specific training protocols to increase teachers' self-efficacy were unknown. The research purpose was to clarify the effect of a professional development training on elementary school teacher self-efficacy to promote better instruction. Guided by social…

This mixed model study analyzed the relationship between school culture and teachers' intentions to remain in their current position, teacher job satisfaction, and teacher absenteeism. Among PreK-12th educators, significant negative relationships existed between four subcomponents of school culture that are collaborative leadership, teacher…

This qualitative inquiry explored district-based educators' sensemaking of an ongoing, statewide professional learning series focused on special education eligibility for students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) using a response-to-intervention (RtI) approach within a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS). Specifically, the professional…

A recent review of research on virtual manipulatives (VMs), defined as technology-based interactive representations of mathematical ideas (Moyer-Packenham, & Bolyard, 2016), suggests strengths relative to other instructional tools in supporting student learning of mathematics (Moyer-Packenham & Westenskow, 2013). Researchers have…

This study examined teachers' perspectives and professional development experiences about the teaching of English as an International language (TEIL) in relation to World Englishes (WE) at junior high school levels in Indonesia. Considering the growth of the number of English speakers around the world, it has been argued that WE-based TEIL is more…

This dissertation case study examines how teachers' levels of units coordination afford their ability to reason multiplicatively and fractionally, as well as use their mathematics knowledge for teaching to analyze student multiplicative and fractional reasoning, when a two-year intervention is put into place to evoke new mathematical reasoning.…