Interscholastic athletics represent the most significant body within the sport industry (Fraina, Forsyth, Johnson, & Whisenant, 2022) given the lasting positive outcomes that can be enjoyed by student-athletes through their participation. With the impact of head coaches, both positively and negatively, in shaping the achievement of these…

Engaging in instructional coaching to prepare educators for leadership is the change agent needed within a school to improve teaching and learning. This study focuses on one of the informal roles of educational leadership: instructional coaching. There is an insufficiency of research focusing on instructional coaching; therefore, this study will…

Quantitative research on education and training attainment involving wage data using "Human Capital" theoretical constructs provides insights based on monetary returns. However, similarly determining quantifiable values for the education and training attainment of individual governmental organization employees relative to their…

A qualitative self-study was employed to describe the experiences of three literacy coaches during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to understand how these three literacy coaches coped with challenges inherent in their transition to remote or hybrid teaching as well as used such understanding to inform literacy instructional…

Children are being introduced to organized sports programs at younger ages today. The first experience sets the stage for how they may view their physical competency and acceptance within a group. In these experiences, frequently, the coach is a well-intended parent who may not have any background in coaching or physical education training. Dr.…

The performance of a university depends on departmental activities in a network framework. The university is efficient only if these departments are efficient in their operations. The connection between departments is fundamentally complicated and should be scrutinised to offer more suitable ways for more enhancement. However, to our knowledge, no…

This qualitative case study explored the perceptions of instructional coaches in order to understand the ways in which context influenced their view of their roles and how they supported teacher growth. The theoretical and conceptual foundations for this study include a distributed perspective, a phenomenologically informed lens, and a pragmatic…

While Reinforcement learning (RL), especially Deep RL (DRL), has shown outstanding performance in video games, little evidence has shown that DRL can be successfully applied to human-centric tasks where the ultimate RL goal is to make the "human-agent interactions" productive and fruitful. In real-life, complex, human-centric tasks, such…

Recent research has provided evidence that performance change during a student's test event can indicate the presence of test-taking disengagement. Meaningful performance change implies that some portions of the test event reflect assumed maximum performance better than others and, because disengagement tends to diminish performance,…

Caregiver coaching is a recommended practice in early intervention; however, many barriers exist that can prevent early interventionists (EIs) from implementing it. This mixed method study was designed to understand if EIs' perceived use of caregiver coaching changed after Illinois' COVID-19 pandemic stay-at-home order. Questionnaire data and…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between ICF coaching and early career principals' self-efficacy related to their a) management skills and b) instructional leadership. The sample for this study were principals in a larger urban school district in the northeast who began their principalship between July 2017 and June…

In spring 2022, the continuous improvement team at the Bank Street Education Center (the Ed Center) set out to articulate what it means to "center equity" in their work with school districts and how to ensure that they do so consistently. They have identified a series of thinking routines that they use regularly to infuse…

Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are crucial facilitators of undergraduate education, yet many begin their teaching appointments with minimal knowledge of teaching practices. Chemistry Instructional Coaching offers GTAs at the University of Michigan an opportunity to develop their instructional practice through a collaborative, nonevaluative,…

Recent trends in "educational technology" have led to emergence of methods such as teaching analytics (TA) in understanding and management of the teaching-learning processes. Didactically, "teaching analytics" is one of the promising and emerging methods within the Education domain that have proved to be useful, towards…

Teacher education programs have widely used edTPA to assess if a teacher candidate is ready to teach. Using a framework of Baudrillard's (1994) hyperreality, this study examined how preservice music teacher candidates performed the discourses of edTPA within their planning, instruction, and reflection in their student teaching placements.…