Students across the country experience negative effects due to losses in classroom instruction time caused by exclusionary discipline. In Mississippi, 11.8% of students received 1 or more in-school suspensions and 9.7% of students received 1 or more out-of-school suspensions during the 2013-14 school year. This study sought to determine effective…

Kindergarten students in a Title 1 elementary school are lacking school readiness skills. When students enter kindergarten unprepared to learn, they may experience difficulties with approaches toward learning skills related to physical, language, social, emotional, and cognitive development, which are reliable predictors of subsequent academic and…

The cornerstone of transformational leadership is vision. For our school leaders to act as more than middle managers, they have to foster a school community's vision--cultivate the school community's direction and purpose. This qualitative study uses semi-structured interviews with school leaders and following focus groups with their teachers to…

Massive open online courses provide virtually unlimited numbers of learners with access to instructors and course materials from high-status institutions. These courses are technologically intensive in ways that traditional online courses are not, which invites an examination of how the work to create these new forms may or may not work within…

The Smith (pseudonym) School District's mathematics achievement data show disparities among subgroups with respect to middle and high school mathematics learning. Institutional data point to a variety of factors that may indicate low mathematics teaching efficacy and lack of supports for educators, particularly those new to teaching. Because…

Previous research has shown that diversity in the workplace can have varying effects, depending on how well organizations manage their workforce diversity (Mor Barak et al., 2016). When organizations properly manage their workforce, they can reap the benefits of diversity while avoiding the pitfalls. Diversity training interventions are one way…

Professional learning provides educators with tools to meet the changing needs of students. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to investigate the relationship between self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) and personalized professional learning as demonstrated by Pre-K-8 parochial school educators' interest in attainment of Google for Education…

Parents typically serve as the primary sexuality educators for their children. This qualitative research explored the experiences of parents from Arkansas in providing sexuality education to their children with intellectual disabilities. Semi-structured interviews were used to obtain the perspective of parents, followed by transcription and coding…

This study seeks to understand the practices and perceptions of presidents of Christian higher education regarding spiritual disciplines in strategic planning. The literature analysis provided no evidence or scholarly discussion on the use of spiritual disciplines in strategic planning. Lack of evidence in the literature does not equate to lack of…

The release and implementation of the Common Core National Standards of Mathematics (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010) have continually compelled teachers and students to rethink teaching and learning in math. For students to learn at the speed and rigor requested, they…

This is a qualitative phenomenological study of an urban high school. This study explores the teachers' perceptions of relevance of Constructivism, Professional Learning Community Training involving technology, and the impact those two have on student engagement. The study further considers various approaches to professional development and…

Currently, there is little known about the parent experiences of transitioning their child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to adulthood from a qualitative perspective. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore parents' lived experiences as their ASD children transition to adulthood. This study was grounded in…

This study examined the effects of rich vocabulary instruction (RVI) on reading comprehension in a second-grade classroom by comparing the RVI model with the non-rich vocabulary instruction (NRVI) model. The effects of RVI and NRVI on reading comprehension were analyzed by examining for a significant association between the RVI model or NRVI model…

This study aims to assess the relationship between spiritual involvement, goal complexes, student perception of classroom autonomy, academic achievement. This was done through survey research on a Large Public Midwestern University. Many college students enter the classroom with some form of spiritual identity and that spirituality has become a…

This is a small-scale qualitative case study exploring the importance of employability skills in fresh graduates, as perceived by faculty members and employers. Past studies on employability have primarily used quantitative research methods. This study used concept mapping along with semi-structured interviews to elicit rich data on participants'…