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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
Submissions from 2023
K-8 Preservice Teachers’ Statistical Thinking When Determining Best Measure of Center, Ha Nguyen, Eryn M. Stehr Maher, Gregory Chamblee, and Sharon Taylor
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
Submissions from 2022
Critical friendship as vital to the development of RPCK, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Taylor A. Norman
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
SoTL and Social Justice: Developing Forms of Curriculum Inquiry, Delores D. Liston and Regina Rahimi
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
Building on What We Know: Best Practices for Engaging Emergent Bilinguals in Learning, Alexandra J. Reyes, Alisa Leckie, and Alma Stevenson
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
Small-scale Mentoring Pilot Program for Future K-8 Teachers to Support Math Identities, Eryn M. Stehr Maher, Ha Nguyen, T. An, and Gregory Chamblee
Submissions from 2021
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
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
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
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
A Multi-State Study of the Dominant Discourses in Teacher Candidates' Memories of Writing, Sonia M. Kline, Grace Kang, Chinwe H. Ikpeze, Linda Smetana, Joy Myers, Jenn Raskauskas, R. Scales, K.N. Tracy, and Amanda Wall
Book Review: Action Research for Classrooms, Schools, and Communities. Teachers College Record by Meghan M. Manfra, Taylor A. Norman
Dotting, Slanting and Crossing Lines: Sentence Diagramming as a Scaffold to Teacher Candidates’ Metalinguistic Awareness, Taylor A. Norman
Pre-service Elementary Science Teacher Preparation through Children’s Literature, David C. Owens, Gillian E. McCall, Kimi Jaikaran, Nedra Cossa, and Thomas R. Koballa
Ease into Climate Change Instruction through Ocean Acidification, David C. Owens, Susanne Rafolt, and Erin M. Arneson
Exploring Undergraduates’ Breadth of Socio-scientific Reasoning Through Domains of Knowledge, David C. Owens, Troy D. Sadler, Destini N. Petitt, and Cory T. Forbes
Teacher Awareness of Trauma Informed Practice: Raising Awareness In Southeast Georgia, Regina Rahimi, Delores D. Liston, Amee Adkins, and Jamie Nourzad
“I Don’t Speak Science”: Preparing Monolingual Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners, Alexandra J. Reyes and Katie L. Brkich
Resource Pedagogies and the Evolution of Culturally Relevant, Responsive, and Sustaining Education, Alexandra J. Reyes and Taylor A. Norman
A Culturally Responsive Literacy Approach to Develop Scientific Conceptual Knowledge through Creative Narratives, Alma D. Stevenson and Lacey D. Huffling
Acceptance, Confidence, and Time: Exploring Dynamics of Middle and Secondary Science Teacher Autonomy in Teaching Evolution in the Southeastern United States, Amanda L. Townley
Teacher Visioning: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Margaret Vaughn, Amanda Wall, Roya Qualls Scales, Seth A. Parsons, and Vera Sotirovska
Putting It In Writing, Amanda Wall
Visions of Middle School: How Beginning Teacher Candidates Describe their Early Visions for Teaching, Amanda Wall
Teacher Candidates Collaborate to Create Place-Based Integrated Curriculum, Amanda Wall and Taylor Norman
Faculty-in-Residence: A Model to Enhance Rural Partnerships, Amanda Wall, Michelle Reidel, and Catherine Howerter
Submissions from 2020
1860: The Election That Started the War, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Give students a Voice: Teaching using Photovoice, Elizabeth C. Barrow
Teaching proportionality through robotics, Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Bridging the chasm between evolution and faith, Amanda L. Glaze
Driving reform through communities of practice in scientific fields, Amanda L. Glaze
Hey! There’s a light at the end of this tunnel (hope it’s not a train)…Full speed, head-on, into the unknown, Amanda L. Glaze
Holiday Edition: Children’s Books: Review of Little Kids Big Book of Why by Amy Shields, Amanda L. Glaze
Leveraging communities of practice to build integrated professional learning communities for STEM education, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Extreme Ocean by Sylvia A. Earle and Glen Phelan, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Glow Down Deep by Lisa Regan, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Nature at Night by Lisa Regan, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Sharks by Anne Schreiber, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of So Cool! Sharks by Crispin Boyer, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of The Ultimate Book of Sharks by Brian Skerry, Elizabeth Carney, and Sarah Wassner Flynn, Amanda L. Glaze
The Generalized Acceptance of EvolutioN Evaluation (GAENE) 3.0: Enhancement and validation of a new measure of acceptance, Amanda L. Glaze, Scott Snyder, Randolph A. Devereaux, and Mike U. Smith
What Writing Processes do Teacher Candidates Use? Findings from a Think-Aloud Protocol, Tracy Linderholm, Amanda Wall, Xiaomei Song, and Whitney Carter
Cultivating teacher candidates who support student agency: Four promising practices, Dixie D. Massey and Amanda Wall
Undergraduate Quantitative Biology Impact on Biology Preservice Teachers, Robert Mayes, Tammy Long, Lacey D. Huffling, Aaron Reedy, and Brad Williamson
Methods of a Narrative Inquirist: Storying the Endured Teacher Identity, Taylor A. Norman
Curriculum Integration: Walking the Walk, Taylor Norman and Amanda Wall
Student Motivation and Resistance in Active Learning Classrooms, David C. Owens, Angela T. Barlow, and Cindi Smith-Walters
Cultivating Water Literacy in Stem Education: Undergraduates' Socio-scientific Reasoning About Socio-hydrologic Issues, David C. Owens, Destini N. Petitt, Diane Lally, and Cory T. Forbes
Socio-Scientific Issues as Contexts for the Development of STEM Literacy, David C. Owens and Troy D. Sadler
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions of Mean and Median, Eryn Stehr Maher, Gregory Chamblee, H. Nguyen, and C. Smith
How Teacher Candidates Support Student Agency in an Early Field Experience, Amanda Wall
Review of Five Feet Apart by R. Lippincott, Amanda Wall and Dorothy Mortimore
Submissions from 2019
Every Picture Tells a Story: Teaching the Past with Photoblogs, Elizabeth C. Barrow
A History Teacher in South Korea: Teaching Elections as an Outsider, Elizabeth C. Barrow and Evelyn Alex Ford
Reading About What It Is Really like Is Eye-Opening: Literature for Youth and College-Level Critical Pedagogy, Scott A. Beck, Yasar Bodur, Dina Walker-Devose, Caren Town, and Trina Smith
Evolution education is a complex landscape, Ryan D. P. Dunk, M. Elizabeth Barnes, Michael J. Reiss, Brian Alters, Anila Asghar, B. Elijah Carter, Sehoya Cotner, Amanda L. Glaze, Patricia H. Hawley, Jamie L. Jensen, Louise S. Mead, Louis S. Nadelson, Craig E. Nelson, Briana Pobiner, Eugenie C. Scott, Andrew Shtulman, Gale M. Sinatra, Sherry A. Southerland, Emily M. Walter, and Jason R. Wiles
Teaching, Reflecting and Learning: Exploring Teacher Education Study Abroad Programs as Transformational Learning Opportunities, Allison Freed, Aerin W. Benavides, and Lacey D. Huffling
A Deeper Perspective on Darwin: Review of The Quotable Darwin collected and edited by Janet Browne, Amanda L. Glaze
Children's Books for Home and Classroom: Review of A Brief History of Life on Earth by Clémece Dupont, Amanda L. Glaze
Christian biologist: faith and evolution can coexist, Amanda L. Glaze
Evolution in Our Everyday Lives: Review of Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, & Evolution, Amanda L. Glaze
How we know what we know about evolution comes from an intersection of specialties and perspectives, Amanda L. Glaze
Our evolutionary underpinnings: evolution education in the 21st century, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Forgotten Beasts: Amazing Creatures That Once Roamed the Earth by Matt Sewell, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Little Kids First Big Book of Science edited by K. Zoehfeld., Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Ocean: Secrets of the Deep edited by S. Weiss and F. DeAmicis, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of The Book of Caterpillars edited by David G. James, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of The world of dinosaurs by M. Norell, Amanda L. Glaze
Review of Wilderness: Earth’s amazing habitatsedited by M. Cassany and M. Navarro, Amanda L. Glaze
Unique Scientist: Dr. Amanda L. Glaze, Amanda L. Glaze
Acceptance, understanding, and experience: Exploring obstacles to evolution education among Advanced Placement teachers, Amanda L. Glaze and Jenice Goldston
Exploring the Complexity of Students' Scientific Explanations and Associated NOS Views Within a Place-Based Socioscientific Issue Context, Benjamin C. Herman, David C. Owens, Robert T. Oertli, Laura A. Zangori, and Mark H. Newton
Why the Okefenokee?, Lacey D. Huffling
Chapter 8. Science Educators’ Perspectives on Learning to Utilize Citizen Science in Our Teaching, Lacey D. Huffling, Heather Scott, Regina Collins, Britt Gantt, Hayward Johnson, and Melissa Weeks
Creating Culturally Relevant Science Stories: Connecting Students’ Lives to Pedagogy, Lacey D. Huffling and Alma D. Stevenson
Quantitative Reasoning and Its Role in Interdisciplinarity, Robert Mayes
Quantitative modelling biology undergraduate assessment, Robert L. Mayes, Kent Allan Rittschof, Joseph Dauer, and Bryon Jason Gallant
Impact of Interdisciplinary STEM on Student Affect and Reasoning, Robert Mayes, Kent Allan Rittschof, and Bryon Jason Gallant
The Dynamic Integration of Content and Language during Bilingual Discussion of Mathematics Word Problems, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Carla Meskill, Karen Gregory, Patterson Rogers, and Shelli L. Casler-Failing
Overcoming Motivational Barriers to Understanding and Accepting Evolution Through Gameful Learning, David C. Owens
Secondary Science and Mathematics Teachers’ Environmental Issues Engagement through SocioScientific Reasoning, David C. Owens, Benjamin C. Herman, Robert T. Oertli, Amy A. Lannin, and Troy D. Sadler
Teaching Practices for Enactment of Socio-scientific Issues Instruction: An Instrumental Case Study of an Experienced Biology Teacher, David C. Owens, Troy D. Sadler, and Patricia Friedrichsen
Enhancing Motivation to Learn in a Biology Laboratory Course Through Gaming: A Design Case, David C. Owens, Cindi Smith-Walters, and Angela T. Barlow
“Languaging Race” - “Racing Language” - “Raciolinguistics” in the Contested Multicultural/Multilingual/Multiracial World, Alexandra Reyes
Birds: Using eBird to Create a Connection Between Kids and Nature, Heather C. Scott
Conceptualizing and Interpreting Mean and Median With Future Teachers, Eryn Stehr Maher, Ha Nguyen, Gregory Chamblee, and Sharon Taylor
Promoting This We Believe and the AMLE Standards with Teacher Candidates, Amanda Wall
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
