As the rise in need for social emotional learning (SEL) becomes apparent in schools, the lack consistent implementation in schools is apparent. Information has been collected stating how districts, schools, and teachers implement their own SEL lessons into the classroom to promote student well-being. The purpose of this qualitative study was to…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant disruption to public school education particularly regarding the mode of instruction as it shifted from face-to-face to virtual. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of this rapid and major change on the socialization, academic achievement, and application of executive function skills of…

In the U.S., state guidance to schools in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was politicized. We used state-level political affiliation to explore whether access to curricular resources differed pre-pandemic or during pandemic remote teaching and teachers' reported control over curricular resources during pandemic teaching. We found that…

Recently, school districts have relied on professional learning (PL) to help teachers adopt curricula and implement practices aligned with the science of reading and to help students recover from learning interruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Elementary English Language Arts teachers in Cecil County Public Schools are adopting Bookworms…

This article will discuss how Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) elementary school mathematics team helped teachers acquire the knowledge and skills to implement mathematics instruction and the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) 5 competencies concurrently, with the goal of addressing the social and…

The problem this qualitative case study addresses is the lower academic achievement of students in urban districts in the United States. In Baltimore City Schools, fewer than 20% of third to eighth grade students are on grade level, and over half of the students are below grade level. In addition, students may or may not appear connected or vested…

Elementary educators across the nation are utilizing educational technology (EdTech) in a variety of ways to transform teaching and learning in their classrooms. While once seen as an additional component to learning, EdTech is now widely believed to provide alternative pathways to success for many students. EdTech can provide access to content…

The current brief provides an overview of the 2021-2022 school year student-to-school psychologist ratio for every United States territory, using the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) counts of school psychologists. In addition to this, data are presented on the percentage change in student-to-school psychologist ratio from the…

Educational technology plays a role in most classrooms. Online education has permeated elementary school programs, offering technology-rich instruction. The problem is a digital use divide has been created because teachers who have transitioned from a traditional setting to a virtual setting may implement and use more technology tools in the…

Green School Programs are an internationally recognized effort that transforms schools into environmentally friendly entities and engage school communities in environmentally impactful efforts. Such efforts may increase student awareness about their connection to the environment and have the potential to increase achievement through opportunities…

North Salisbury Elementary School (NSS) is located in Salisbury, Maryland, and has the distinction of being a school that serves dual academic programs. The school serves a traditional population of students who live within the school's district, and it also serves the high performing students in the Magnet program, an accelerated academic…

Chronic absenteeism in public K-12 schools is a national crisis. More than 8 million students attending public schools are absent 15 or more days each school year. Research shows students attending school daily are better prepared academically and socially. In Maryland, a large urban school district has not met the state's 94% attendance…

This article describes a three-dimensional 5E (Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, Evaluation) lesson that investigates 3-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived. A phenomena-based approach was used to engage third graders in the story of Maya, who…

Teacher attrition is increasing (Torpey, 2018), and approximately 100,000 teachers will leave this field annually from 2016 to 2026. Addressing wellbeing constructs retain more employees and decrease presenteeism (Hemp, 2014). Teachers cite a lack of job satisfaction and burnout as their main reasons for attrition (Brasfield et al., 2019; Fisher,…

Children's early accuracy on place value (PV) tasks longitudinally predicts their later multidigit calculation skills. However, another window into children's emerging base-ten concepts is the pattern of errors -- "smart errors" -- they exhibit on these measures. Past research has speculated that these smart errors -- similar to invented…