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Submissions from 2024
Template for Humanizing Online PD Development, Lacey D. Huffling, Allison Freed, Heather C. Scott, Aerin Benavides, and Jodie L. Ward
Learning From One Another: Growing Critical Friendships Across Disciplines to Develop Our Professional Identities as Science Teacher Educators, Lacey Huffling, Heather Scott, Asli Aslan, Kelly Moore, Miranda Simmons, and Natalie Sumner
Aspirational Mexican American Parenting in the Rural South: Multilingualism, Hard Work, and the Middle Class, Alma D. Stevenson and Scott A. Beck
Assessing The Fidelity Of School-level Professional Learning Community Implementation, William W. Thigpen II, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Kathleen M. Crawford, Cordelia Zinskie, Monika Krah, and Summer Pannell
Submissions from 2023
Exploring The College Enrollment of Students from Rural Areas: Considerations for Scholarly Practitioners, Elise J. Cain and Samantha Class
Building Classroom Community in Elementary Literacy Methods Courses, Kathleen M. Crawford and Heather M. Huling
Out with the Old, in with the New: Digital Interactive Journals in an Elementary Language Arts Methods Course, Kathleen M. Crawford and Heather M. Huling
Help Me before I Quit! Reimagining New Teacher Mentoring Programs, Kathleen M. Crawford and Courtney Toledo
Reconceptualizing Kolb’s Learning Cycle as Episodic and Lifelong, John Egan, Steven Tolman, Juliann Sergi McBrayer McBrayer, and Emily Ballesteros
Characteristics of Special Education Field Placements: An Exploratory Study, Karin M. Fisher and Angela Norris
Peeling Away the Taken-For-Grantedness of Research Subjectivities: Orienting to the Phenomenological, Melissa Freeman and E. Anthony Muhammad
Tempe Wilson: An Observation-based Case Study, Kathryn L. Haughney
The Journey Behind and the Road Ahead, Kathryn L. Haughney, Jeongae Kang, and Aftynne E. Cheek
“I CAN'T SAY IT”! Doodling to Emancipate Adolescents' Voices in a Transformative Mixed Methods Study of Covert Bullying in Jamaican High Schools, Ingrid Hunt-Anderson and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Influence of Perceived Intensity in the Police Academy on Exercise Intention Post-academy, Nicholas Hunt, Richard E. Cleveland, Joseph Dulla, Gregory Ryan, Mark G. Abel, and Bridget Frugoli Melton
A “Post” Pandemic(s) Village Check-In: Pulse Checks and Recommendations for a Hard Re-Set in Education, Jarvais J. Jackson, Alesia Mickle Moldavan, and Anne Valauri
Collective obituary for Nel Noddings, Liz Jackson, D. R. Phillips, Susan Verducci, Lynda Stone, Barbara Stengel, Lynn Sargent De Jonghe, Cris Mayo, Michael S. Katz, and Robert L. Lake
Creative Learning with Music and Mathematics: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Graham Johnson and Alesia Mickle Moldavan
How to Review for the Journal of Case Learning and Exceptional Learners, Jeongae Kang, Kathryn L. Haughney, and Victoria VanUitert
Preservice Special Education Teachers’ Experience of a Math Methods Course: Examining the Development of Personal and Pedagogical Efficacy, Cynthia C. Massey and Edward Anthony Muhammad
Engaging Preservice Teachers with Equity-Related Cases to Make Visible the Inequities in Mathematics Teaching, Alesia Mickle Moldavan and Monica Gonzalez
The Concept of Alterity: Its Usage and Its Relevance for Critical Qualitative Researchers in the Era of Trump, E. Anthony Muhammad
An AI-enhanced Pattern Recognition Approach to Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Children's Embodied Interactions, Ceren Ocak, Theodore J. Kopacha, and Raunak Dey
Cup Running Low? It May Be Time for a Refill, Jennifer Perry
Providing College and Career Counseling to Students in Rural Settings, Jennifer Perry
Undergraduate Students’ Perception of Leadership Development Programs and Leadership Self-Efficacy, Benjamin Phillips, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Brandon Hunt, Antonio Gutierrez de Blume, and Katherine Fallon
Problematizing Niceness: A Teacher Educators' Learning Community on Culturally Responsive Teaching, Michelle Reidel, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Courtney Toledo, Kathleen M. Crawford, Leslie Roberts, Heather M. Huling, and Delores D. Liston
An Examination of Faculty and Staff Collaboration and Relationships In Higher Education, Jennifer Syno, Juliann S. McBrayer, Daniel W. Calhoun, Cordelia D. Zinskie, and Katherine Fallon
Role Play: Actualizing the IEP Meeting for Pre-Service Teachers, Courtney A. Toledo
Inquiry as Practice: The Pathway to Redesigning an Educational Leadership Doctoral Research Seminar Series, Steve Tolman, Daniel W. Calhoun, Juliann S. McBrayer, Nikheal Patel, and Elise J. Cain
Design of Flipped Lessons in the Classroom and Opinions of Teachers with Different Degrees of Experience, Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal
The Relationships Between Internal Program Measures and a High-Stakes Teacher Licensing Measure in Mathematics Teacher Preparation: Program Design Considerations, Jeremy Zelkowski, Tye Campbell, and Alesia M. Moldavan
Submissions from 2022
Art Integration and Identity: Empowering Bi/Multilingual High School Learners, Sahar Aghasafari, Kelli Bivins, E. Anthony Muhammad, and Brendan Nordgren
Using Twitter to Form Professional Learning Communities: An Analysis of Georgia K-12 School Personnel Discussing Educational Technology on Twitter, Mete Akcaoglu Ph.D., Charles B. Hodges, and Lucas J. Jensen
Critical friendship as vital to the development of RPCK, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Taylor A. Norman
What Makes a Study Strategy Intervention Impactful? An Interview-Based Study, Anna C. Brady, Lauren C. Hensley, David M. Sovic, Amy E. Kulesza, Christopher A. Wolters, and Caroline A. Breitenberger
Learning in the Face of Digital Distractions: Empowering Instructors to Support Self-regulated Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom, Anna C. Brady, Yeo-eun Kim, and Jacqueline von Spiegel
Turning “I should be writing” into “We should be writing”: Accountability groups as a motivation regulation strategy, Anna C. Brady, Robin Sayers, Jacqueline von Spiegel, Yeo-eun Kim, and Kristin Henkaline
Self-regulation of Time: the Importance of Time Estimation Accuracy, Anna C. Brady, Christopher A. Wolters, and Shirley L. Yu
Toward A Black PlayCrit in Educational Leadership: What School Leaders Need to Know About Black Boyhood Play, Nathaniel Bryan, Darrel R. Davis, Rachel McMillian, Jarvais J. Jackson, and Robin Cooper
The Struggle Is Real: Creating Opportunities for Productive Struggle in Math, ELA, Social Studies, and Science, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, Taylor Norman, Elizabeth C. Barrow, and Amanda L. Glaze
Examining General Education and Special Education Teacher Preparedness for Co-Teaching Students with Disabilities, Cindy Causey, Lina B. Soares, Catherine Howerter, and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Psychobiological, Clinical, and Sociocultural Factors That Influence Black Women Seeking Treatment for Infertility: A Mixed-methods Study, Morine Cebert-Gaitors, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Susan G. Silva, Samad Jahandideh, Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, and Eleanor L. Stevenson
A Brief History of the First 10 Years of the Curriculum Studies Summer Collaborative, Daniel Chapman and Julie C. Garlen
Improving Employee Handbook Comprehension for College Students with Intellectual Disability, Stephanie M. Devine, J. N. Baker, C. More, and J. Morgan
Understanding and Reacting to the Digital Distraction Phenomenon in College Classrooms, Abraham E. Flanigan, Wayne Babchuk, and Jackie Hee-Young Kim
Individual and Institutional Productivity in Educational Psychology Journals from 2015 to 2021, Carlton J. Fong, Abraham E. Flanigan, Eric Hogan, Anna C. Brady, Marlynn Griffin, Cassandra Gonzales, Agustín J. García, Zohreh Fathi, and Daniel H. Robinson
Preventing “I Never Learned How to Study”: How Teachers Can Develop Students’ Effective Learning Strategies, Lauren C. Hensley, Yeo-eun Kim, Robin Sayers, and Anna C. Brady
An Autoethnographic Reflection of My Academic Privileges While Working with High School Interns, Eric Hogan
Changing My Language and Understanding: An Autoethnography of My Dumb-Upness, Eric Hogan
Co-Teaching Professional Development: Did it work? Yes, no, maybe so!, Catherine Howerter, Courtney Toledo, and Kathleen M. Crawford
Case Studies on Students With Idd and Moderate to Extensive Support Needs: A Document Analysis, Jeongae Kang, Kathryn L. Haughney, and Aftynne E. Cheek
Should We “just Stick to the Facts”? The Benefit of Controversial Conversations in Classrooms, Elizabeth Kraatz, Jacqueline von Spiegel, Robin Sayers, and Anna C. Brady
The Scholarship Development Program: A Team-based Mentoring Approach to Support Scholarship Productivity for Untenured Faculty, Tracy Linderholm, Alejandro J. Gallard, and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
SoTL and Social Justice: Developing Forms of Curriculum Inquiry, Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi
The Effect of Flipped Instruction on Special Education Preservice Teachers' Perceptions, Cynthia C. Massey, Selcuk Dogan, E. Anthony Muhammad, Eric Hogan, Cindy N. Head, and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Black Masculinity, Media Stereotyping, and Its Influence on Policing in the United States: A Functionalist Perspective, Jack S. Monell and E. Anthony Muhammad
Philosophical hermeneutics as an interpretive framework in the analysis of Colin Kaepernick’s NFL protest, E. Anthony Muhammad and Cynthia Thomas
Developing a Comprehensive Mixed Methods Evaluation to Address Contextual Complexities of a MOOC, Pamela Musoke, Antigoni Papadimitriou, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker, and Chihiro Tajima
Seasonal Variation in Terrestrial Invertebrate Subsidies to Tropical Streams and Implications for the Feeding Ecology of Hart's Rivulus (Anablepsoides hartii), David C. Owens, Thomas N. Heatherly, Kent M. Eskridge, Steven A. Thomas, and Colden V. Baxter
State of the Methods: Leveraging Design Possibilities of Qualitatively Oriented Mixed Methods Research, Cheryl N. Poth and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Building on What We Know: Best Practices for Engaging Emergent Bilinguals in Learning, Alexandra J. Reyes, Alisa Leckie, and Alma Stevenson
Motivation to Read in the Middle Grades, Leslie Roberts
Going with the Flow: Shifting Face-to-Face PD to Fully Online in the Era of COVID-19, Heather C. Scott and Lacey D. Huffling
Memories × Dreams, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Philosophical Underpinnings of Mixed Methods Research in Education, Peggy Shannon-Baker
Virtual Special Issue on “Mixed Methods Designs, Integration, and Visual Practices in Educational Research”, Peggy Shannon-Baker
A Story of My Name: A Micro-memoir, Peggy A. Shannon-Baker
Chapter 20: Beyond Expanding an Acronym: Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ+ People in Schools, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Nikki DiGregorio
Integrating Arts-Based Approaches in Mixed Methods Research with Diverse Stakeholders, Peggy Shannon-Baker and Claudia Martinez
Integrating Art and Artistic Practices in Mixed Methods Research in Education, Lyric Smith and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Review Planning for the Success of Students With IEPs: a Systematic, Supports-based Approach by J.R. Thompson, Courtney Toledo
“There Are No Emotions in Math”: How Teachers Approach Emotions in the Classroom, Meca Williams-Johnson, Dionne I. Cross, Ji Hong, Lori P. Aultman, Jennifer Osbon, and Paul A. Schutz
Submissions from 2021
Understanding Children’s Problemsolving Strategies in Solving Game-based Logic Problems, Mete Akcaoglu, Lucas J. Jensen, and Daisy Gonzalez
Defining Intercultural Competence: How Four Pre-service Teachers Developed a More Complex Understanding of ICC, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Learning to Teach Mathematics With Robots: Developing the ‘T’ in Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Integrating Mathematics, Science, and Literacy into a Culturally Responsive STEM After-School Program, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, Alma D. Stevenson, and Beverly A. King Miller
The Power of Student Voice in Affecting Change, Leigh Colburn, Taylor A. Norman, and Alisa Leckie
Using Peer-Delivered Simultaneous Prompting to Teach Health Content to Students with Moderate Intellectual Disability, Belva C. Collins, Ya-yu Lo, Kathryn L. Haughney, and Gwitaek Park
The Effects of Graphic Organizer Completeness and Note-taking Medium on Computer-based Learning, Tiphaine Colliot, Kenneth A. Kiewra, Linlin Luo, Abraham E. Flanigan, Junrong Lu, Carrie Kennedy, and Sheldon Black
Emotional Dimensions of Teaching in Elementary Education Preparation, Kathleen M. Crawford, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, and Katherine Fallon
The Impact of Training in Action Research on School Counseling Students’ Data Attitudes and Data Self-Efficacy, Merry Leigh Dameron, Jennifer Perry, Rachel Saunders, and Sejal Parikh Foxx
School Leaders’ and Teachers’ Preparedness for the Online K – 12 Setting: Student Learning and Engagement, Curriculum and Instruction, and Data-Driven Decision-Making, Deirdre Daniels, Juliann McBrayer, Marlynn Griffin, Taylor Norman, Summer Pannell, and Katherine E. Fallon
Addressing the Needs of Black Students Returning to In-Person Instruction, J. Anthony Elizondo, Maylee Vázquez, and Jennifer Perry
Characteristics of Rural STEM Clubs and Implications for Students with Disabilities, Karin M. Fisher, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Kelly Brooksher, and Kania Greer
Perspectives of Students With Disabilities and Their Parents on Influences and Barriers to Joining and Staying Extracurricular STEM Activities, Karin M. Fisher, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Kania A. Greer, and Barbara Serianni
Research, Vision, and Pieces of Advice, Abraham E. Flanigan
Initiation and Maintenance of Student-Instructor Rapport in Online Classes, Abraham E. Flanigan, Mete Akcaoglu, and Emily Ray
Curbing Student Digital Distraction With Non-Traditional Teaching Strategies, Abraham E. Flanigan and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Initiating and Maintaining Student-instructor Rapport in Face-to-face Classes, Abraham E. Flanigan, Emily Ray, Scott Titsworth, Angela M. Hosek, and Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Transformative Study Abroad and the Development of Preservice Teachers’ Culturally Competent Pedagogy as Action Toward A Re-imagined Future, Allison L. Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
Integrating Video Evidence in Mixed Methods Research: Innovations, Benefits, and Challenges for Research Exploring How Beliefs Shape Actions, Tashane K. Haynes-Brown and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Online IDEAL Role-Play to Increase Problem-Solving Skills and Higher-Order Thinking in a Teacher Education Course, Jackie HeeYoung Kim
Using a Community Farmers’ Market to Engage Students From an Alternative School, Eric Hogan and Sean Forbes
Academic Social Capital of Students From an Alternative School: An Ego Network Perspective, Eric Hogan, Sean Forbes, and Carey Andrzejewski
Using Critical Environmental Agency to Engage Teachers in Local Watersheds through Water Quality Citizen Science, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Using critical environmental agency to engage Teachers in local watersheds through water quality citizen science, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather C. Scott
Exploring The Zooniverse: Using Wildlife Camera Citizen Science Projects to Engage Students in Academic Language Acquisition, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Melissa Weeks, Hayward Johnson, Britt Gant, and Regina Collins
Middle School Student Empowerment Through The Sun Is Also a Star: An American Library Association Collaborative Grant Initiative Exploring the Immigrant Experience, Anne Katz and Vivian Bynoe
Educational Psychology Early Career Award Winners: How Did They Do It?, Kenneth Kiewra, Linlin Luo, and Abraham E. Flanigan