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Erin E. Turner; Amy Been Bennett; Monica Granillo; Nishaan Ponnuru; Amy Roth Mcduffie; Mary Q. Foote; Julia M. Aguirre; Elzena McVicar – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
Mathematical modeling is a high-leverage topic; it is critical to students' participation in STEM education and supports civic engagement. Until recently, research on modeling at the elementary level has been underemphasized, particularly research on supports and challenges for teachers who engage in designing authentic modeling tasks. In this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
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Baltutis, Peter E. – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
This article offers a model of how to construct a course that makes the abstract principles of the Catholic social tradition more concrete through community-service learning (CSL). Primary source readings from scripture, the Apostolic Fathers, Thomas Aquinas, and the major documents of Catholic social thought provide the academic theory of the…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Service Learning, Community Services, Social Action
Holly S. Kidder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study is to determine how four rural school districts in East Tennessee worked to implement the third-grade retention law within their understanding and interpretation of the law to the benefit of the students and overall communities they serve. The study used a semi-structured questionnaire format conducted with a…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, Grade 3, Rural Schools, Elementary School Students
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Garret J. Hall; Peter M. Nelson; David C. Parker – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
School context can shape relative intervention response in myriad ways due to factors, such as instructional quality, resource allocation, peer effects, and correlations between the school context and characteristics of enrolled students (e.g., higher-poverty students attending higher-poverty schools). In the current study, we used data from…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Reading Achievement, Intervention, Reading Instruction
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Chaehyun Lee – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This qualitative study employed a discourse analysis methodology to compare Korean bilingual students in first and third grades by examining different functions and forms of translanguaging in Korean heritage language (HL) classrooms in the U.S. By identifying linguistic functions and forms of each translanguaging occurrence, the study presents…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Grade 1
Jason Michael Koepke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
When observing and consistently hearing about the obstacles our current public educational system faces, many are left wondering what can be done to produce genuine, significant, and continuous improvement. Upon deeper analysis of educational systems, one can see that many areas need system improvement. SOAR School (pseudonym) is a Pre-K-5 school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3, Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction
Laura Gore – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of effective professional learning communities while learning their impacts on staff members. The study also discovered the role of educational leaders during an effective implementation of professional learning communities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with staff members of an…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Elementary School Teachers, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Robert C. Schoen; Catherine C. Lewis; Christopher Rhoads; Kevin Lai; Claire M. Riddell – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
Lesson study, especially when conducted with support from targeted resources, is often identified as a potentially effective means to support teacher learning. In this study, 80 school-based teams of educators, representing 80 classrooms of third- or fourth-grade students in the US, were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: lesson study…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3
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GuoDong Li – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
Reading interest serves as an inherent driving force for children's reading. Current research shows that family cultural capital, school reading environment, and community reading culture all influence children's reading interests. According to the "family-school-community" collaborative education model, families, schools and communities…
Descriptors: Reading, Student Interests, Rural Areas, Children
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Goetschius, Melissa A.; Smith, Tawnya D. – Music Education Research, 2023
Elementary-aged students likely participate in an in-school Community of Musical Practice (CoMP) in addition to CoMPs outside of school. Therefore, knowing a student's entire Landscape of Musical Practice (LoMP) can help music teachers align in-school music practices with those outside of school to support students' developing musical identities.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 4
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Fang, Yanping – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Drawing on discourse analysis and interview data, this case study uncovers how a lesson study team, supported by a curriculum specialist and an experienced teacher, anchored anticipating of student learning in sound curriculum deliberation, which enabled novice teachers to teach effectively inferencing skills, a highly demanding domain, through an…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Inferences, Skill Development
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Vitor H. Oliveira; Paula C. Martins; Graça S. Carvalho – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Children's time use is a complex developmental phenomenon in need of a more in-depth, detailed understanding. The present study aimed to provide a comprehensive description of children's everyday lives in middle childhood and examine how different portfolios and patterns of daily activities occurring at home, school, and community are influenced…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Lisa Suther Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This action research study identified the effects of learner-centered professional development (PD) and continuous support of effective teaching practices during professional learning communities (PLCs). This study focused on four specific areas--(1) building the teacher's content knowledge through PD, (2) providing support for the implementation…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Communities of Practice
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Caitlin F. Spear; Jennifer O. Briggs; Tiffany Sanchez; Marla Woody; Jennifer Ponce-Cori – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In this article, we provide an overview of the ways one ecosystem-based literacy program uses high quality racially affirming picturebooks with kindergarten-third grade teachers within communities of practice to develop racial literacy and enact more effective and equitable reading practices. Racial literacy here refers to teachers' ability to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Da Ponte, João Pedro; Quaresma, Marisa; Mata-Pereira, Joana – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2023
Purpose: This paper seeks to understand how teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) is developed during a lesson study regarded as a professional development process that places particular emphasis on teachers' knowledge of tasks, representations and students' learning. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on the networking…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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