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Hamm, Jill V.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Little, Todd D.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Harris, Mallory V. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
This study examines the ties of sixth-grade teachers to their interdisciplinary team colleagues and explores the dimensions of their efficacy beliefs for their own and their colleagues' teaching. Teachers (n = 238; 83% female, 88% White) from 26 middle schools completed surveys about the relational aspects of ties to team colleagues, the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers
Marraccini, Marisa E.; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2022
The middle school transition year poses known challenges to early adolescent adjustment, particularly for students from ethnic and racial minoritized backgrounds who face ethnic and racial discrimination from school personnel and classmates. Drawing on a sample of 711 African American and Latinx sixth-grade students attending 17 schools, we…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Racial Discrimination
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Norwalk, Kate E.; Dawes, Molly; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of a professional development program on sixth grade teachers' use of social dynamics management (SDM) practices. SDM practices represent teachers' active attempts to incorporate classroom social dynamics into everyday instructional and behavior management strategies. Sixth grade teachers…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Peer Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Social Isolation