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Submissions from 2019
Preface, John A. Weaver
Life Out of Sequence: Data Driving Life and Science Studies, John A. Weaver and Thiago Ranniery
Creativity in Counselor Education: More than Case Studies, Pamela Wells and Kristen Dickens
“If I Don't Laugh, I'm Going to Cry”: Meaning Making in the Promotion, Tenure, and Retention Process: An Auto-Ethnography, Pamela Wells, Kristen N. Dickens, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, and Richard E. Cleveland
The Use of Smart Technology on Improving Time Management of College Students with Intellectual/Developmental Disability, K. Ryan Wennerlind, Joshua Baker, Stephanie M. Devine, and Mona Nasir-Tucktuck
Book Review of Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs , Jamie Workman, Daniel W. Calhoun, and Steve Tolman
Submissions from 2018
An Invitation to Modeling: Building a Community of Shared Explicit Practices, M. Aikens, K. D. Dahlquist, Joseph Dauer, S. Donovan, C. D. Eaton, and Robert Mayes
Developing Perspective Consciousness Via Middle Grades Trade Books that Feature the Global South(s): A Case for Using Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, Elizabeth C. Barrow and K. Caprino
Seek solutions for ‘Mixed immigration status’ families, Scott A. Beck
Teaching Contentious Books Regarding Immigration: The Case of Pancho Rabbit, Scott A. Beck and Alma D. Stevenson
Thinking outside the Box: A Critical Literacy Collaborative, Vivian Bynoe and Anne Katz
Forward in The forgotten ones: Perceptions of faculty and staff in remedial education programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities , Daniel W. Calhoun
Integrating LEGO Robotics Into a 5th Grade Cross Curricular Unit to Promote the Development of Narrative Writing Skills, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Robotics and math: Using action research to study growth problems, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
The Effects of Integrating LEGO Robotics into a Mathematics Curriculum to Promote the Development of Proportional Reasoning, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Spirituality and Faith Development Issues, Richard E. Cleveland
The Hero’s Journey: Using Narrative in Group, Richard E. Cleveland
Using Digital Portfolios: Reflection, Assessment and Employment, Richard E. Cleveland
Evaluating and Infusing Participants’ Stress Levels in Dynamic Training, Richard E. Cleveland, Jonathan Hilpert, and Andrew E. Cleveland
Promoting Employee Handbook Comprehension for Postsecondary Students with Intellectual Disability and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Stephanie M. Devine, J. N. Baker, K. R. Wennerlind, and M. Nasir-TuckTuck
A walk within two worlds: Faith, science, & evolution advocacy, Amanda L. Glaze
Dr. Workload, or: How I learned to be more productive and put self care first, Amanda L. Glaze
Dr. Workload, or: How I learned to be more productive and put self-care first, Amanda L. Glaze
Évangélisme contre théorie de l’évolution dans le Sud-Est des États-Unis: Tenter de dépasser les conflits par la littératie scientifique et le dialogue, Amanda L. Glaze
From worldviews to classrooms: Framing evolution acceptance in pre-service science teachers in the southeastern United States, Amanda L. Glaze
Looking back at Epperson, fifty years later, Amanda L. Glaze
Student Feature: Coloring Cell Biology: Book review Cellfies: A Cell Biology Coloring Book by Hannah Sage Yoder, Amanda L. Glaze
Teaching and learning science in the 21st century: challenging critical assumptions in post-secondary science, Amanda L. Glaze
Controversial Before Entering My Classroom: Exploring Pre-Service Teacher Experiences with Evolution Teaching and Learning in the Southeastern United States, Amanda L. Glaze and M. Jenice Goldston
Perceptions of Teaching, Research, and Service Expertise, Workload, Organizational Support, and Satisfaction among U.S. Faculty Members’ Intent to Stay in Tier 1 or Tier 2 Organizations: A Structural Equation Model, Antonio P. Gutierrez and Lori Candela
STEM Education in Rural Schools: Implications of Untapped Potential, Rachel S. Harris and Charles B. Hodges
Effects of a Professional Development Design on Teachers’ Self-efficacy, Jackie Hee-Young Kim and Moon-Heum Cho
Guided Reflective Journaling with Case-Based Instruction in a Dysphagia Course: Learner Self-Efficacy and Reaction, Charles B. Hodges and Christene L. Stackpole-Hodges
Learning frog calls when you can't hear: Fieldwork with high school students who are deaf and hard-of-hearing, Lacey D. Huffling, Aerin W. Benavides, Catherine E. Matthews, Mary V. Compton, Stephanie Kurtts, and Heidi B. Carlone
Educator Development, Virginia Jagla, Kim Winter, Amanda Wall, Dana Bickmore, Heather R. Haverback, and Kriss Kemp-Graham
A community literacy partnership: Malala’s story as a lens for educational equity, Anne Katz
Developing the Critical Literacy Instructional Abilities of Pre-Service Educators, Anne Katz, Patricia G. Holt, and Vivian Bynoe
Review of Force Ripe by Cindy McKenzie, Beverly A. King Miller
The Strong Poetry of Place: A Co/Auto/Ethnographic Journey of Connoisseurship, Criticality and Learning, Tricia M. Kress and Robert L. Lake
Utopia as Praxis: Paulo Freire Twenty Years After His Passing, Robert L. Lake
Chapter 15: Teaching and Learning with Technology, Matthew Marino, Maya Israel, Eleazar Vasquez III, Karin Fisher, and Benjamin Gallegos
21st Century STEM Reasoning, Robert Mayes and Bryon Jason Gallant
Interdisciplinary STEM Through Engineering Design-Based Reasoning, Robert Mayes, Bryon Jason Gallant, and Emma Fettes
Interdisciplinary STEM through Engineering Design-Based Reasoning, Robert Mayes, Casey Martin, and Michelle Thompson
Real STEM: An Interdisciplinary STEM Program, Robert Mayes, Kent Rittschof, Charlie Martin, and Bryon Jason Gallant
A System-Wide, Collaborative, Purposeful, and Sustainable Distributed Leadership Plan Utilizing Teacher Leaders to Facilitate Professional Learning Communities, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Julie Chance, Summer Pannell, and Pamela Wells
Balance of Instructional and Managerial Tasks as It Relates to School Leaders’ Self-Efficacy, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Torri Jackson, Summer Pannell, Carl Sorgen, Antonio P. Gutierrez, and Teri Denlea Melton
Transferability and Alignment of Program Exemplars in Alternative Teacher Preparation, Juliann Sergi McBrayer and Teri Denlea Melton
The Correlation Between Self-Efficacy and Time to Degree Completion of Educational Leadership Doctoral Students, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Teri Denlea Melton, Daniel W. Calhoun, Matthew Dunbar, and Steven Tolman
Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Evolution in the Curriculum: An Approach Based on Pedagogy of Difference, David C. Owens, Rachel S. A. Pear, Hanan A. Alexander, Michael J. Reiss, and Tali Tal
Teachers’ views on and preferences for meeting their professional development needs in STEM, David C. Owens, Troy D. Sadler, Christopher D. Murakami, and Chia-Lin Tsai
A Comparison of Principal Self-Efficacy and Assessment Ratings by Certified Staff: Using Multi-Rater Feedback as Part of a Statewide Evaluation System, Summer Pannell, Lisa White, and Juliann Sergi McBrayer
How Culturally Relevant and Culturally Responsive Healing and Coping Strategies Support the Success of African American Children, Fayth M. Parks
Group Counseling Intervention for Pregnant/parenting Students, C. Prater and Richard Cleveland
Experiences of Female Dropouts: A Study in South Georgia, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Seeking Gender Fair Measurement of STEM Reasoning Among Middle Grades and Secondary Students, Kent A. Rittschof, Robert L. Mayes, and Bryon Jason Gallant
Balancing Social Justice and Survival, Sabrina N. Ross
Recognizing the Academic Talents of Young Black Males: A Counter-Story, Sabrina N. Ross and Alma D. Stevenson
Sharing Experiences And Taking Responsibility: White Faculty And Staff Working Toward Racial Justice, Robin Selzer, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker, and Christina Black
My name is Peggy and this is How I Plan, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Review of "Promoting Inclusion in Education Abroad", Peggy Shannon-Baker
A Multicultural Education Praxis: Integrating Past and Present, Living Theories, and Practice, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
The Affordances and Challenges to Incorporating Visual Methods in Mixed Methods Research, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Cherie Edwards
Friendly Resistance: Narratives from a Preservice Teacher of Color Navigating Diversity Courses, Chelda Smith Kondo and Christian A. Bracho
Contrasting Mentor and Mentee Critiques of a New Mentoring Program for Pre-Service Teachers, Lina Soares, Scott A. Beck, and Gregory Chamblee
A Deeper Understanding of Metacomprehension: Development of a New Multidimensional Tool, Christian Soto, Antonio P. Gutierrez, Rodrigo Asun, Matthew Jacovina, and Claudio Vasquez
Exploring the Meta-Comprehension Abilities of Students with Intellectual Disabilities, Christian Soto, M. Fernanda Rodriguez Poblete, and Antonio P. Gutierrez
The Need for College Amenities and Their Benefit to the Student and Institution’s Success, Steven Tolman and Christopher Trautman
Using Technology to Support Common Core Based Close Reading Strategy: Preservice Teachers’ Experiences with the Use of New Online Platform, Aslihan Unal, Zafer Unal, and Yasar Bodur
Encouraging Teacher Candidates to Cultivate Habits of Reflection, Amanda Wall
Research Summary: Student Agency, Amanda Wall, Dixie Massey, and Margaret Vaughn
Past, present, future of HIV/AIDS science and practice in psychology, Sherry Wang and Fayth M. Parks
Through a Portanl and Finding Remnants: An Incomplete Report, John A. Weaver
Submissions from 2017
No Global Citizenship? Re-Envisioning Global Citizenship Education in Times of Growing Nationalism, Elizabeth C. Barrow
The Role of Photoblogs in Social Studies Classroom: Learning About People of the Civil War, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Janice Anderson, and Martinette Horner
Toad-ally cool math and science integration, Katie Bkrich, Melony Allen, Lacey D. Huffling, and Catherine E. Matthews
Online Learners And Technology: A Gap In Higher Education And Student Affairs Professional Preparation, Daniel W. Calhoun, Lucy Santos Green, and Panne Burke
Review of 10 Performance-Based Projects for the Math Classroom by Todd Stanley, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Students With Disabilities: Practical Information for School Counselors in Turkey, Elif Cimsir and Brandon Hunt
School Counselor Evaluation Instrument Pilot Project: A School Counselor Association, Department of Education, and University Collaboration, Richard E. Cleveland and Julie Hartline
Student Happiness, School Climate, and School Improvement Plans: Implications for School Counseling Practice, Richard E. Cleveland and Christopher A. Sink
Impacting Elementary In-Service Mathematics Teachers Content Knowledge, Georgia A. Cobbs and Gregory Chamblee
Enhancing In-Service Elementary Mathematics Teachers’ Content Knowledge: A Discussion of Two U.S. MSP Projects, Georgia Cobbs, Gregory Chamblee, and John Luebeck
Addressing College & Career Readiness Using Field-Based Internships, B. Creamer and Richard Cleveland
Ethical Decision Making, Kristen Dickens and Candace N. Park
Feminization of Poverty, Kristen Dickens and Candace N. Park
Distributed Retrieval Practice Promotes Superior Recall of Anatomy Information, John L. Dobson, Jose M. Perez, and Tracy Linderholm
Opportunity to Start Strong: Integration of Technology in Science Lessons in Early Elementary Grades, Dalila Dragnic-Cindric, Elizabeth C. Barrow, and Janice L. Anderson
Importance of STEM Extracurricular Activities for Students with Disabilities, Karin Fisher
An Exploration of Learner-Centered Professional Development for Reluctant Math Teachers, Ardyth Foster, Joshua K. Lambert, and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Teaching for Social Justice in the Early Childhood Classroom, Julie C. Garlen, Lisa Kuh, and Beth Coleman
Happily (N)ever After: the Cruel Optimism of Disney’s Romantic Ideal, Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin
Alabama science literacy threatened by anti-science legislation., Amanda L. Glaze
Amanda Glaze, Georgia Southern University on BioTweeps, Amanda L. Glaze
Bridging the Gaps: Evolution and Pre-service Science Teachers, Amanda L. Glaze
Divided We Fall: The Evolution Controversy as a Driver for Rethinking Science Education, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution: Review of Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory by James Costas, Amanda L. Glaze
