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Submissions from 2020
Dreams, Dragons, and Swords: Goal Setting for Life On and Off the Trail, David C. Owens
Impacting Practice Through Science Education Research: Communicating Within and Across Places, Contexts, and Communities, David C. Owens
Cultivating Water Literacy in Undergraduate STEM Education: Students' Socio-Scientific Reasoning about Socio-hydrologic Issues, David C. Owens, Destini N. Petitt, Diane Lally, and Cory T. Forbes
Preparing Students to Work With Students Affected by Trauma, Regina Rahimi
Kicking and Screaming: Six Teacher Educators Confront their Inherent Beliefs about Online Teacher Education, Michelle Reidel and Taylor A. Norman
Preparing Secondary Educators for High Poverty, High Minority Rural Schools, Michelle Reidel, Heather Scott, Taylor Norman, Lacey D. Huffling, and Shelli Casler-Failing
Critical Environmental Agency: Collaborating to Envision a More Just Future, Heather C. Scott
Using Photovoice to Explore a Community Watershed, Heather C. Scott
Ain’t I a Woman?, Heather C. Scott, Christine Draper, and Michelle Reidel
Using personal watersheds to enhance environmental and science literacy, Heather Scott, Lacey D. Huffling, Elissa Blount, and Gabby Coumes
Enhancement and validation of the GAENE--Generalized Acceptance of EvolutioN Evaluation scale, Scott Snyder, Amanda L. Glaze, Mike U. Smith, and Randolph Devereaux
Online field experiences: Oxymoron or opportunity?, Amanda Wall, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, and Taylor Norman
Creating Place-Based Integrated Curriculum, Amanda Wall and Taylor A. Norman
Submissions from 2019
How to Shine a Light on a Hidden Dimension of Cultural Competence: An Agenda to Promote Trauma-informed Pedagogy, Amee Adkins, Regina Rahimi, and Delores D. Liston
International Sojourns: An Investigation of Middle Grades Preservice Teachers' Development of Intercultural Competence, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Social Studies Education for the Inclusive Classroom, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Using Photovoice in Social Studies Teacher Education, Elizabeth C. Barrow
What’s Your Story?: Engaging Students in Historical Inquiry with Photoblogs and Photovoice, Elizabeth C. Barrow
How Do We Teach War in America? Examining Civil War Standards Across the South, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Michelle Reidel
From Onion Fields to Soccer Fields: Work, Language, Values, and Sports in Post-Immigrant/Migrant Parenting, Scott A. Beck and Alma Stevenson
From pre-service to in-service: Robotics in action, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Input and output: Using LEGO robots to understand functions, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Teaching math with LEGO robots, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
The power of LEGO robotics to engage students, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Using LEGO robots to understand the relationship between rate of change, unit rate, and slope, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Google certification - It takes a village, Shelli Casler-Failing, Heather Scott, Taylor Norman, Michelle Reidel, and Lacey D. Huffling
Teaching about Phenomena using the NGSS 3-D framework, Alejandra Lara Chavez and Lacey D. Huffling
Citizen Science: Collaboration that authenticates scientific practice, Regina Collins, Britt Gantt, Melissa Weeks, Heather Scott, Lacey D. Huffling, and H. Johnson
Reexamining Bridges in Today’s Climate of Diversity, M. Evans, Alexandra J. Reyes, and B. Williams
Toward Inclusion: Accessibility and Equity for All Students, Kevin Fleming, Deborah Hanuscin, Michele Koomen, Lacey D. Huffling, Sami Kahn, Judith Lederman, Dina Secchiaroli, Jonte’ Taylor, Delinda Van Garderen, and Tiffany Wild
Collaborative research for equitable access to transformational EE study abroad, Allison L. Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
Student or Learner? Engaging Desire and Collaborative Imagining in ELA Methods Courses, Emily L. Freeman and Alexandra J. Reyes
Acceptance, Understanding & Experience: Exploring Obstacles to Evolution Education among Advanced Placement Teachers, Amanda L. Glaze
Bridging the Gaps: Conversations about Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze
Engaging the Public about Human Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution and the Public Arena, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution in the United States as a Model for Impacting Science Literacy Worldwide, Amanda L. Glaze
Find it, Write it, Fund it: Funding for Education Research, Amanda L. Glaze
Five problems with the evolution-religion “controversy”, Amanda L. Glaze
Hands-on, Minds-on: Science in Inclusion Classrooms, Amanda L. Glaze
Mind and Soul: Intersections of Science and faith in the Push for Science Literacy, Amanda L. Glaze
Negotiating worldviews: reconciling science, community, culture and self, Amanda L. Glaze
Reflections of an Evangelical Evolutionary Biologist: Walking in a World of Science and Faith, Amanda L. Glaze
Southern (r)Evolution: All Y’all Evolved, Amanda L. Glaze
Ways of thinking influencing the teaching and learning of evolution, Katie Green, Brandon Foster, Margaret M. Lucero, Jose M. Pavez, Sandhya Krishnan, David F. Jackson, and Amanda L. Glaze
Students’ Scientific Explanations and Associated Nos Views Within a Place-based Socioscientific Issue Context, Benjamin C. Herman, Robert T. Oertli, David C. Owens, and Laura A. Zangori
Students’ Place-based SSI Instruction Influenced Trophic Cascade Explanations and Their Association with NOS Views, Ben Herman, Robert T. Oertli, David C. Owens, and Laura A. Zangori
Leveraging the power of google sheets to auto-fill templates, Lacey D. Huffling, Elissa Blount, and Regina Collins
Using Citizen Science to Teach Biodiversity, Data Analyses, and Reflection, Lacey D. Huffling, Britt Gantt, Melissa Weeks, and Regina Collins
Okefenokee Swamp, TriState Water Conflict, and the Deepwater Horizon event: Leveraging water as a tool to engage students in problem-based learning., Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Students as citizen scientists: Creating a personal watershed story, Lacey D. Huffling and Heather Scott
Phenomena, 3-D framework, and Collaboration: Working together to better our practice, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Elissa Blount, Gabby Coumes, Regina Collins, CJ Elmore, and Jonathan Riggins
Critical environmental agency: Collaborating to envision a more just future, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Roberta H. Hunter, Kania Greer, Leah Rush, and Mary Thaler
Connecting biodiversity, literacy, and culturally responsive pedagogy, Lacey D. Huffling and Alma D. Stevenson
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: A Hidden Dimension of Cultural Competence, Delores D. Liston, Amee Adkins, and Regina Rahimi
Writing for ABT, William McComas, Valerie Haff, Kathleen Westrich, Amanda L. Townley, William H. Heyborne, Kate N. Walker, Emily Weigel, and Suann Yang
Using LEGO robots to support understanding of absolute value in a mathematics classroom, Ann Mitchem, Jillian Arnold, and Shelli L. Casler-Failing
We Are All Literacy Teachers Now: Teacher Educators Speak in Disciplinary Literacies, Taylor A. Norman
We are all literacy teachers now: Teacher educators speak in discipline literacies, Taylor Norman, Elizabeth C. Barrow, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, and Amanda Wall
Examining Pre-service Teachers’ use of Sentence Diagramming to Boost Self-efficacy., Taylor Norman and Nancy L. Remler
“This is Complicated”: Preservice ELA Teachers Learn to Teach Grammar in Context, Taylor Norman and Nancy L. Remler
Engaging students in reasoning about socioscientific issues: Are STEM teachers prepared?, David C. Owens, Benjamin C. Herman, Robert T. Oertli, and Troy D. Sadler
Secondary Mathematics and Science Teachers' Reasoning About a Socioscientific Issue, David C. Owens, Ben Herman, Robert T. Oertli, Amy A. Lannin, and Troy D. Sadler
Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Evolution: an Approach Based on Pedagogy of Difference, David C. Owens, Rachel Pear, Hanan Alexander, and Michael Reiss
Students' Socio-hydrological Reasoning and Water Literacy in an Undergraduate Water Course, Destini N. Petitt, David C. Owens, Diane Lally, and Cory T. Forbes
Classroom Practices for Addressing Trauma, Regina Rahimi
Educators and Trauma Informed Pedagogy: Measuring Understanding, Regina Rahimi, Delores D. Liston, and Amee Adkins
Art Integration: Creative Pathways to Equity & Empowerment, Alexandra J. Reyes
"But I’m Not an Artist" (Re)Positioning Pre-Service Teachers through Arts-Integrated Pedagogies, Alexandra J. Reyes
Community Portraits as Transformative Pedagogy: Examining Preservice Teachers' Positioning Through a Month-Long Arts-Integrated Project, Alexandra J. Reyes, Sarah Byrne Bausell, and Kristin Papoi
Leveraging Navigational Capital: Strengthening Family-School-Community Connections in Chinese and Spanish Heritage Language Programs, Alexandra J. Reyes and Wenyang Sun
The Diversity of School Cultures in the USA, Alexandra Reyes and D. Thomas
Putting Data in the Hands of Our Learners, Heather C. Scott, C. Dean, L. Ike, and B. Moss
Difficult Topics. Strong Emotions. And the Power of Story, Heather C. Scott, Christine Draper, and Michelle Reidel
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Digging Deeper in English Language Arts through Inquiry, Lina B. Soares and Taylor Norman
Building Bridges: How Two Community-Based Heritage Language Programs Encourage Immigrant-School-Community Engagement in the Shifting South, Wenyang Sun and Alexandra J. Reyes
Fine Tuning Our Approach to Academic Language, Amanda Wall, Elizabeth C. Barrow, and Shelli L. Casler-Failing 3762344
Automated Scoring of a Constructed Response Vision II Scientific Literacy Assessment, A. J. Womack, Robert T. Oertli, Troy D. Sadler, David C. Owens, and Andrew T. Kinslow
Submissions from 2018
Defining Intercultural Competence: How Four Pre-Service Teachers Developed a More Complex Understanding of ICC, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Teaching the Civil War: Finding Time for Politics, People, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Teaching the Civil War: Finding Time for Politics, People, Passion, Elizabeth C. Barrow
An American Teacher in Korea: Teaching Politically Charged Presidential Elections, Elizabeth C. Barrow and A. Ford
Putting an Identity Lens on a Longitudinal Look at Fieldwork, Aerin W. Benavides, Catherine E. Matthews, Lacey D. Huffling, and Heidi Carlone
The Effects of Integrating LEGO Robotics into a Mathematics Curriculum to Promote the Development of Proportional Reasoning, 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
Integrating LEGO Robotics Into a 5th Grade Cross Curricular Unit to Promote the Development of Narrative Writing Skills, Shelli L. Casler-Failing, Mete Akcaoglu, Valerie Woodrum, Valerie Morris, and Jay McNeely
Intercultural sensitivity and environmental identity: Experiences with study abroad programs, Allison L. Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
Looking for Resources for your Science Classroom?, Britt Gantt, Kristen Lecomte, Zach Weaver, and Lacey D. Huffling
Connecting Science and Classrooms, Amanda L. Glaze
Crossing the Divide—building bridges between science and the public, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution Conflict and Resolution, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution Education Around the Globe, Amanda L. Glaze
Hands-on, Minds-on: Science in Inclusion Classrooms, Amanda L. Glaze
Knowledge, Beliefs, Understanding and Acceptance of Evolution: Goals, Roles, and Measures, Amanda L. Glaze
Laboring for Science, Laboring for Souls: Obstacles and Approaches to Teaching and Learning Evolution in the Southeastern United States, Amanda L. Glaze
STEM Partnerships in Science Ed: Challenges, Collaborations, and Lessons from the Inside, Amanda L. Glaze
Teaching evolution through anthropological lenses, Amanda L. Glaze
Spirited Science: Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze, P. Z. Garte, S. Garte, and J. Wheat
CONnected! Adolescent Art and Pop Culture as Mediums for STEM Education, Amanda L. Glaze and Kania Greer
Evolution Teaching and Learning, Amanda L. Glaze, John Mead, and Kania Greer
