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Howard Pitler – Advocate, 2024
As K-12 education undergoes rapid evolution to meet the demands of a changing world, educational leaders must navigate complex challenges to drive meaningful transformation. This article delves into the imperative for change in educational systems globally and explores tailored strategies for fostering a culture of change within K-12 schools.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, School Culture, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Environment
Ruday, Sean; Azano, Amy Price; Kuehl, Rachelle – English in Education, 2022
Much has been written about the instructional insights illuminated by viewing texts as windows through which readers can view the experiences of those who are different from them in some way, mirrors through which they can see themselves reflected, and sliding glass doors through which they can step to experience a world different from their own.…
Descriptors: Books, Rural Schools, Reading Attitudes, Grade 9
Yong, Shirley A.; Kawtharani, Malak; Ashcroft, Jared M.; Rodriguez, Brandon A. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
To promote a STEM career pipeline, a mentor outreach program was created within a K-12 charter school network, with a pilot year focusing on eighth and ninth-grade students. Utilizing a small cohort of volunteers from a nearby community college as student mentors and one faculty member, 12 visits were conducted throughout the school year. The…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Mentors, Guided Pathways, Student Empowerment
Jose L. Bedolla – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine how the application of the community cultural wealth model can help raise the capacity of first-generation Latino at-promise youth towards finding greater educational success in a secondary school setting. Participants included first generation Latino at-promise students and their parents…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Cultural Capital, Educational Attainment, Student Empowerment
Emily M. Mercado; D. Michael Draut – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this collaborative action research project was to examine eighth- and ninth-grade female (assigned at birth) students' perspectives of their singing voice when implementing a practitioner/researcher designed curriculum titled "Supporting Adolescent Female Vocal Development: Teaching Anatomy and Physiology in the Middle School…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 8, Females, Singing
John Yandell – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2024
Current policy in England, informed by a version of cognitive science, enforces an absolute distinction between experts and novices, or teachers and learners; from this binary, operating in tandem with regimes of performativity instantiated in a curriculum shaped by high-stakes testing, are derived particular forms of pedagogy and particular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Lesson Plans, Student Experience
Kai Zhuang Shum; Shannon M. Suldo; Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick; Lindsey M. O'Brennan – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2024
In this study, we used an extreme case approach to examine the facilitators and barriers of cognitive engagement among freshmen in Advanced Placement (AP) or Pre-International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. Twelve ninth-grade AP/IB students participated in semistructured interviews focused on cognitive engagement. After analyzing the data using a…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Advanced Placement, High School Freshmen, Grade 9
Jarrod Kayler-Thomson – Education Research and Perspectives, 2023
The developmental shifts encountered by boys during adolescence can have long-term implications for mental health. This paper describes a holistic approach to wellbeing and development (the On Queenslea Drive, or OQD, program), which draws upon a traditional Rites of Passage framework to support the development of boys during this period. This…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being
Eva Kosberg – Educational Research, 2024
Background: Civic participation is a fundamental element of democracy; therefore, upholding and supporting civic participation, especially among the upcoming generation, is important. Political efficacy -- an individual's understanding of their capacity to participate in civic life -- has been found to exert an important influence on the expected…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Civics, Citizenship Education, Democracy
Ramirez, Pablito; Jaffee, Ashley Taylor – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This qualitative study investigated the ways in which one secondary social studies teacher engaged bilingual youth through translanguaging and citizenship education. We employed a translanguaging framework (García 2014) to document the ways in which a ninth grade bilingual teacher created language spaces with students. This study demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Citizenship Education, Bilingualism
William Thomas Smith IV – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Schools are under tremendous pressure to close achievement gaps and increase students' college and career readiness. Research has shown that students' interactions with rigorous curriculum and instructional practices positively impact their postsecondary outcomes (e.g. Adelman, 2006; Oakes and Saunders, 2007). With an established standard of rigor…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Grade 9, History Instruction, High School Students
Asanjarani, Faramarz; Asgari, Mostafa – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2021
School-based empowerment programs are types of interventions targeting students with or without behavioral, psychological, and emotional difficulties at schools. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of a school-based social and mental empowerment program on students' behavioral and developmental problems. We…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, School Counseling, Well Being, Mental Health
Bonner, Sarah M.; Diehl, Katharine; Trachtman, Roberta – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
We present a case study that examined the role of teacher belief change and agency development through enactment of an innovative student-centered STEM program in three public urban secondary schools. In the program, 9th grade STEM classrooms were restructured to incorporate daily small group instruction facilitated by 10th grade near-peers. We…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Centered Learning, STEM Education, Public Schools
Daggöl, Gökçe – Participatory Educational Research, 2020
Language learning has become one of the needs of humans to maintain communication in the globalized world. However, it is not an isolated process and confined to linguistic skills. It gets affected by a lot of affective factors and learners' beliefs. One of these elements is undoubtedly academic motivation, which makes language learning a more…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Empowerment, Student Attitudes, High School Students
Nisle, Stephanie; Anyon, Yolanda – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study explores the association between school-level poverty rates and young peoples' perceptions of student empowerment, drawing on survey and administrative data from a large urban district. Participants included 29,318 diverse youth in grades 6-12 from 211 schools. We used multilevel linear regression models to estimate the relationships…
Descriptors: Poverty, Secondary School Students, Urban Schools, Student Attitudes