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Submissions from 2023
Leveraging Technology to Engage Students in Discussions, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Engaging in productive struggle: Pre-service teacher's experience in face-to-face vs. online methods classes, Shelli Casler-Failing
Engaging in Productive Struggle: Preservice Teachers' Experiences in Face-to-Face vs. Online Methods Classes, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Revealing the Stories of a Place: Designing Curricula on an Island, Ariel Cornett, Delandrea Hall, Kathryn L. Haughney, Cynthia C. Massey, Amanda Wall, and Kania Greer
Graduate Faculty Perceptions of Student Readiness: Supporting Graduate Students' Success, Regina Rahimi, Lina B. Soares, and Amanda L. Townley
KEYS to Teaching Success: OER to Support Georgia’s Preservice Teachers, Nancy L. Remler
Fostering Scientific Literacy Through Connected Discourse, Amanda L. Townley
My Science or My Soul: Evolution Teaching and Learning in the United States, Amanda L. Townley
Submissions from 2022
Facilitating Productive Struggle in an Online Mathematics Methods Course: Experiences of Secondary Education Preservice Teachers, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Input and Output: Using LEGO Robots to Understand Functions, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Understanding Unit Rates and Slope Using LEGO Robots, Shelli L. Casler-Failing and Erin Schmidt
Understanding Unit Rates and Slope Using LEGO Robots, Shelli L. Casler-Failing and Erin Schmidt
Without It, It’s Incomplete: Incorporating Narratives of Georgia’s Gullah Geechee Community in the Classroom, Delandrea Hall, Ariel Cornett, Michelle Ann Reidel, Amee Adkins, Alexandra J. Reyes, and Peggy Shannon-Baker
Writing for ABT, William McComas, Valerie Haff, Kathleen Westrich, Amanda L. Townley, William H. Heyborne, Kate N. Walker, Emily Weigel, and Suann Yang
An Interdisciplinary Pathway to Activating Productive Struggle through Problem-Based Learning, Regina McCurdy, Taylor A. Norman, Elizabeth C. Barrow, and Shelli L. Casler-Failing 3762344
Struggling in Math: Ensuring it is Productive, Regina McCurdy, Taylor A. Norman, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, and Amanda Wall
Taking Grades out of Field Experiences through an Ungrading Model, Regina McCurdy, Taylor A. Norman, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, and Amanda Wall
Self-Regulation in the Classroom: Using an Understanding of the Tides as a Model for Students’ Time Management Skills, Taylor A. Norman, David C. Owens, Alisa Leckie, R. Warner, and B. Wells
Ready or Not? The Effectiveness of Online Support Modules for Graduate Students, Regina Rahimi, Lina Soares, and Amanda L. Townley
Kicking and Screaming: The Shift to Online Instruction in Teacher Education, Michelle Reidel and Taylor Norman
I Thought I was One of the Good Ones: Books to Challenge White Complacency, Michelle Reidel, Taylor Norman, and Elizabeth C. Barrow
Cultivo Una Rosa blanca: The Power of the Simple Verse for Connection and Learning, Alexandra J. Reyes
Engaging Families of Multilingual Learners in the Upper Grades, Alexandra J. Reyes
Engaging Families of Multilingual Students in the Upper Grades, Alexandra J. Reyes
Providing Effective Professional Development for your Colleagues, Alexandra J. Reyes
Navigating Curriculum and Critique in a Community-based Heritage Language Program: A Collaborative Autoethnography, Alexandra J. Reyes and Jamie Schissel
How Two Heritage Language Programs Foster Immigrant-School-Community Engagement in the New Immigrant South, Wenyang Sun and Alexandra J. Reyes
A Leap of Faith: Fostering Discourse to Break Barriers to Science Literacy, Amanda L. Townley
Capstone Client Presentation on Evolution Education Research, Amanda L. Townley
Evolution and Religion in the United States, Amanda L. Townley
Submissions from 2021
Is voting a privilege that can be taken away?: How one middle grades social studies methods class investigated the history of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Looking Beyond the Battles: A Review of Civil War Standards Across the United States, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Anti-racism in White Educators’ Classrooms: A Complicated Journey Toward Conscientization Maturation, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Taylor A. Norman
How do I do this?: Using a critical friendship to harness RPCK in a social studies methods class, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Taylor A. Norman
Children’s Books as Instructional Tools in EFL, Scott A. Beck
Perusall: An Electronic Silver Lining in a Dark COVID Cloud, Scott A. Beck
The Struggle Is Real: Creating Opportunities for Productive Struggle in All Content Areas, Shelli Casler-Failing, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Amanda L. Glaze, and T. Norman
Learning to teach with robots in a mathematics methods course, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
FIKA With Fellows, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Managing Difficult Conversations Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Unpacking Privilege Workshop, Lisa Costello, Nikki DiGregorio, Rochelle Bornett Lee, Alexandra J. Reyes, Peggy Shannon-Baker, Stacy W. Smallwood, and Clare Walsh
Invited talk at the General Education Symposium at West Georgia University, Delena Bell Gatch, J. O'Connor, M. Cawthorn, and Taylor A. Norman
A House on Solid Ground: Science and Faith in the Evangelical South, Amanda L. Glaze
Deciphering meaning: Truth or truth?, Amanda L. Glaze
How To Talk About Evolution When Your Audience a Biblical Literalists, Amanda L. Glaze
Navigating Cultural Borders in Science Education, Amanda L. Glaze
Overcoming Barriers to Scientific Literacy in the United States: Reflections and Vision for Evolution Education, Amanda L. Glaze
People, Pressure, Public Perceptions: Science Communication in a World of Denial, Amanda L. Glaze
Walking Through Darkness: Interpersonal Communication as a Tool for Navigating Experiences After Trauma, Amanda L. Glaze and D. L. Townley
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Engaging Diverse Learners in the College Context, Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi
Partnering Leadership Preparation and Teacher Preparation Programs, Juliann Sergi McBrayer and Regina Rahimi
Writing for the ABT, William McComas, Valerie Haff, Kathleen Westrich, Amanda L. Townley, William H. Heyborne, Kate N. Walker, Emily Weigel, and Suann Yang
Bridging the Partisan Gulf: Employing Compassion Toward the Successful Resolution of Socioscientific Issues, David C. Owens
Trauma Informed Practice in College, Regina Rahimi, Amee Adkins, and Delores D. Liston
Honestly Its Going Great So Far… I Did Have a Mental Breakdown: Exploring the Experiences of Paid Residents in Their First Year, Regina Rahimi and Nedra Cossa
Jumping Right In: Examining A Teacher Residency Model, Regina Rahimi and Nedra Cossa
Bringing Trauma Informed Pedagogy to Campus: Exploring Strategies for Working with College Students, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Trauma Informed Classroom Management, Regina Rahimi and Delores D. Liston
Methods for fostering RPCK in Future Social Studies Educators, Michelle Reidel and Elizabeth C. Barrow
Voice as a Tool for Learning: Using Personal Narratives to Eliminate Boundaries, Alexandra Reyes
Voice as a Learning Tool: Using Personal Narratives to Eliminate Boundaries, Alexandra J. Reyes
Visualizing the Systemic Structures within the American Schoolhouse, Janel Smith and Taylor A. Norman
Large Scale, Small Feel: Revising a Middle Grades Program, Amanda Wall, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Taylor A. Norman, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, and R. McCurdy
Collaborating with Teacher Candidates to Create Place-Based Integrated Curriculum, Amanda Wall and Taylor A. Norman
Middle-Level Teacher Candidates' Collaboration: "Each Day, I Am Becoming a Better Teacher", Amanda Wall and Taylor A. Norman
Submissions from 2020
Teaching the Election of 1860 Using the Inquiry Design Model, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Teacher Education in the United States and at Georgia Southern University, Scott A. Beck
Mapping Reader Responses to Young Adult Novels and Children’s Storybooks with Muslims and Islamic Themes, Scott A. Beck, Yasar Bodur, and Alma Stevenson
Mapping Reader Responses to LGBTQ Young Adult Novels and Children's Storybooks, Scott A. Beck, Dina C. Walker-Devose, Laura E. Agnich, and Caren Town
LEGO robotics: A new method for teaching Mathematics, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
LEGO robotics – Play, learn, share, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Teaching productive struggle in a math methods course, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Teaching Proportions with LEGO robotics in a seventh-grade mathematics class, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Integrating Literacy into a Culturally Responsive STEM After School Program, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, Alma Stevenson, and Beverly A. King Miller
Impact of a Self-Reflection, Expert Discussion, Self-Reflection Model on Pre-service Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers’ Ability to Assess Their Classrooms, Gregory Chamblee and Elizabeth C. Barrow
Training Middle and High School Teachers at OUR2SWAMP, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Kania Greer, Shainaz M. Landge, and Mary Thaler
Engaging teachers in citizen and community science increases critical environmental agency, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Kania Greer, and Mary Thaler
Bringing the learning home: Leveraging study away experiences to develop culturally competent teachers, Allison Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
The transformational journey from international experience to culturally responsive teaching, Allison Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
Transformational impact of international EE experiences on classroom EE/teachers, Allison L. Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
An Evolution (r)Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze
Barriers, Beliefs, and Border Crossings: Worldview and the Pursuit of Scientific Literacy, Amanda L. Glaze
Can science and faith truly co-exist?, Amanda L. Glaze
Controversial before entering my classroom: Qualitative research in evolution education, Amanda L. Glaze
Conversations about Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze
Every classroom matters-impacting science denial one class at a time, Amanda L. Glaze
Navigating academic border-crossings: teaching science in a culture of faith, Amanda L. Glaze
Storytelling as research medium: shifting the lens on understanding, conceptualization of controversy, and mitigating anti-science worldviews, Amanda L. Glaze
Creating a personal watershed story: Students as citizen scientists, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Critical environmental agency: Engaging teachers with citizen science, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Using Deepwater Horizon to engage students in water quality discussions, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Learning To Assess With a 3-D Lens: First Attempts at Creating 3-D Formative Assessment and Rubric, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather C. Scott
Teaching Hard History: Skills and Strategies for Classroom Teachers, M. Karpyn, B. Laughlin-Schultz, and Elizabeth C. Barrow
GCTE’s “Future is Now”, R. Kent and Taylor A. Norman
Teaching human evolution-reasons, resources, and relationships, John Mead, Amanda L. Glaze, and Molly Selba
Let's Talk About the Bridge: Sustaining Teacher Identity Past Induction Through Narrative, Taylor A. Norman and J. M. Alsup
Compassion as a Framework for Understanding and Responding to Socioscientific Issues, David C. Owens
