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Submissions from 2023

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Building Classroom Community in Elementary Literacy Methods Courses, Kathleen M. Crawford and Heather M. Huling

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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

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Help Me before I Quit! Reimagining New Teacher Mentoring Programs, Kathleen M. Crawford and Courtney Toledo

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Characteristics of Special Education Field Placements: An Exploratory Study, Karin M. Fisher and Angela Norris

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Tempe Wilson: An Observation-based Case Study, Kathryn L. Haughney

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The Journey Behind and the Road Ahead, Kathryn L. Haughney, Jeongae Kang, and Aftynne E. Cheek

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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

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Creative Learning with Music and Mathematics: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Collaborations, Graham Johnson and Alesia Mickle Moldavan

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How to Review for the Journal of Case Learning and Exceptional Learners, Jeongae Kang, Kathryn L. Haughney, and Victoria VanUitert

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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

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Engaging Preservice Teachers with Equity-Related Cases to Make Visible the Inequities in Mathematics Teaching, Alesia Mickle Moldavan and Monica Gonzalez

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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

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Role Play: Actualizing the IEP Meeting for Pre-Service Teachers, Courtney A. Toledo

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Design of Flipped Lessons in the Classroom and Opinions of Teachers with Different Degrees of Experience, Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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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

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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

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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

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Improving Employee Handbook Comprehension for College Students with Intellectual Disability, Stephanie M. Devine, J. N. Baker, C. More, and J. Morgan

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

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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

Review Planning for the Success of Students With IEPs: a Systematic, Supports-based Approach by J.R. Thompson, Courtney Toledo

Submissions from 2021

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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

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Characteristics of Rural STEM Clubs and Implications for Students with Disabilities, Karin M. Fisher, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Kelly Brooksher, and Kania Greer

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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

All Means All: An Inclusive Educational Model for Panama to Address the Need for STEM and Literacy, Beverly A. King Miller

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Expanding STEM Membership: Using Science Process Skills in a Social Justice Curriculum to Combat Stereotype Threats and Build Self-Efficacy in African American Students, Beverly A. King Miller, Alma D. Stevenson, and Shelli Casler-Failing

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Review of the book Autism through a sensory lens: Sensory assessment and strategies, by J. Beaney, Nai-Cheng Kuo and Karin Fisher

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Self-Monitoring Among Secondary and Post-Secondary Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Review, Melvin S. Marsh and Stephanie M. Devine

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Practice Makes Progress: Utilizing a Simulated IEP Meeting in Teacher Preparation, Courtney A. Toledo

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Preparing Teachers for Diverse Schools - An Online Tool for Calculating School Diversity for Field Placements, Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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Using Flipped Classrooms in Middle Schools: Teachers’ Perceptions, Aslihan Unal, Zafer Unal, and Yasar Bodur

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How Teacher Choice and Voice can Improve Professional Development Design and Implementation, Zafer Unal and Aslihan Unal

Submissions from 2020

Latina Parental Involvement: Contributions to Persistence in STEM Fields, Katie Brkich, Alejandro José Gallard Martínez, Alma D. Stevenson, Gillian Ursula Bayne, Wesley B. Pitts, Beth A. Wassell, Lorena Claeys, and Belinda B. Flores

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Legal brief Endrew F. v. Douglas County, Karin Fisher, Courtney J. Hodge, and Peggy Schaefer-Whitby

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Legislative Advocacy for Special Educators, Karin Fisher and Katie Miller

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Parent knowledge of the definition of FAPE in light of the Endrew vs. Douglas County School Board decision, Karin Fisher, Cassandra B. Willis, and Barbara E. Ransom

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Quality of Feedback in Higher Education: A Review of Literature, Kathryn L. Haughney, Shawnee Wakeman, and Laura Hart

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Transgressing for Access: A Call for Higher Education Reform to Support Black Females in STEM, Beverly A. King Miller

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Walking in Two Worlds: An Autoethnographic Reflection of Establishing a STEM Program in Panama City, Panama, Beverly A. King Miller

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Effects of Mass Trials versus Distributed Trials During a Shared Story Reading for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities, Mona Nasir-Tucktuck, Joshua N. Baker, Cori More, K. Ryan Wennerlind, and Stephanie M. Devine

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Culturally Responsive Planning, Instruction, and Reflection for Young Children With Significant Disabilities, Christopher J. Rivera, Kathryn L. Haughney, Kelly A. Clark, and Robai N. Werunga

Toward a radical Black humanity, Chelda Smith Kondo

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Designing an Interactive Gamified Online Case Study Platform for Preparing Preservice Teachers to Work With Parents, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Yasar Bodur

Submissions from 2019

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Creating a Task-Analysis for Teaching Emergent Literacy Skills to Students with Autism, Joshua N. Baker, Christopher Rivera, Stephanie M. Devine, and Lee Mason

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The Effects of a Computer-Aided Listening Comprehension Intervention on the Generalized Communication of Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disability, Belva C. Collins, Diane Browder, Kathryn L. Haughney, Caryn Allison, and Kathy Fallon

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ESSA, students with disabilities and robotics, Karin Fisher

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Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders Who Participate in FIRST Robotics, Karin Fisher, Benjamin Gallegos, and Taylor Bousfield

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Front Streeting: A challenge in preparing culturally diverse teachers for diverse students, Chelda Smith Kondo

Mama, am I hip-hop? Unpacking the intersections of race, culture, and gender with a young Black boy, Chelda Smith Kondo

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An Examination of K-12 Teachers' Assessment Beliefs and Practices in Relation to Years of Teaching Experience, Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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Preservice and inservice teachers’ beliefs about parental involvement and their selection of parental involvement strategies, Aslihan Unal, Zafer Unal, and Michael R. Sampson

Measuring Diversity in Teacher Candidate Practicum Placements and Its Relationship to Outcomes, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Yasar Bodur

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Inservice teachers’ beliefs about classroom assessment and their selection of classroom assessment strategies, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Michael R. Sampson

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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

Submissions from 2018

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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

Review of Force Ripe by Cindy McKenzie, Beverly A. King Miller

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Chapter 15: Teaching and Learning with Technology, Matthew Marino, Maya Israel, Eleazar Vasquez III, Karin Fisher, and Benjamin Gallegos

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Friendly Resistance: Narratives from a Preservice Teacher of Color Navigating Diversity Courses, Chelda Smith Kondo and Christian A. Bracho

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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

Submissions from 2016

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A Journey of Service-Learning: Three Different Professional Lenses, Nancy M. Arrington

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The Child in Question: Childhood Texts, Cultures and Curricula, Lisa Farley and Julie C. Garlen

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Escape from Tomorrow: Disney, Institutionalized Whiteness, and the Difficult Knowledge of Being, Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin

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Popular Culture and Disney Pedagogies, Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin

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A New Dimension of Disney Magic: MyMagic+ and Controlled Leisure, Gabriel S. Huddleston, Julie C. Garlen, and Jennifer A. Sandlin

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Feeling Disney, Buying Disney, Being Disney, Jennifer A. Sandlin and Julie C. Garlen

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Experimenting With Asset Pedagogy in Elementary Teacher Education: One Semester-Two Perspectives, Chelda Smith Kondo and A. Wells

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Book Review: The Classroom Teacher’s Behavior Management Toolbox by Roger Pierangelo and George Giuliani, Aslihan Unal

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Investigating and Comparing the Impact of Two Strategies (Lesson Design with MS Word and Online Tool) Used for Improving Inservice Teachers’ Knowledge, Skills, and Practices on Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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Investigating and Comparing the Impact of Two Strategies (Lesson Design with MS Word and Online Tool) Used for Improving Inservice Teachers’ Knowledge, Skills, and Practices on Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Aslihan Unal and Zafer Unal

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Case Studies to Deepen Understanding and Enhance Parental Involvement Skills in Pre-Service Teacher Training Programs, Aslihan Unal, Zafer Unal, and Yasar Bodur

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Teaching Assessment with Technology-Based Case Studies and Scenarios, Aslihan Unal, Zafer Unal, and Yasar Bodur

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Students Matter: Quality Measurements in Online Courses, Zafer Unal and Aslihan Unal

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An Online Experiment of Using Case Studies and Scenarios to Teach Preservice Teachers About the Code of Ethics, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Yasar Bodur

Submissions from 2015

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Service-Learning with Young Students: Validating the Introduction of Service-Learning In Pre-Service Teacher Education, Nancy M. Arrington

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Enhancing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through Micro-Level Collaboration across Two Disciplines, Nancy M. Arrington and Adrienne L. Cohen

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Migrants, Farming, and Immigration: Beginning a Dialogue in Agricultural Education, Scott A. Beck and Yasar Bodur

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Using Online Case Studies to Contextualize Diversity Issues: Analysis of Student Responses to Case Studies, Yasar Bodur, Zafer Unal, and Aslihan Unal

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A Constant of Change, Katie Brkich and T. Lamb

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Critical Media Literacy in the Digital Age, Julie C. Garlen and Daniel Chapman

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Pop Culture Pedagogies: Process and Praxis, Julie C. Garlen and Jennifer A. Sandlin

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Private Schools in Public Systems, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández and Julie C. Garlen

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Developing a Service-Learning Student Facilitator Program: Lessons Learned, Jerri J. Kropp, Nancy M. Arrington, and Veena Shankar

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Disney’s Pedagogies of Pleasure and the Eternal Recurrence of Whiteness, Jennifer A. Sandlin and Julie C. Garlen

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Review of Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity, and Education in a New Land by M. H. Bigelow, Chelda Smith Kondo

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Implementing Assessment Case Studies in Teacher Education with the Aid of Web Technology, Aslihan Unal, Kymberly Drawdy, and Zafer Unal

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Designing Common Core Close Reading Lessons with a New Online Tool, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Yasar Bodur

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Scenario-Based Approach for Teaching Parental Involvement to Preservice Teachers, Zafer Unal, Aslihan Unal, and Yasar Bodur