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Erika Gaylor; Elisa Garcia; Xin Wei; Madeline Cincebeaux – Grantee Submission, 2024
Research consistently shows that among young children, poor social skills and problem behaviors can lead to poor relationships with teachers and peers (Boivin et al., 1995), higher risk of academic failure (Buhs et al., 2006), and higher school dropout (Gilliam, 2005). Moreover, prekindergarten (PreK) and kindergarten (K) teachers report feeling…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Mae Lee Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Reading performance in third grade has significantly declined across the United States in recent years, suggesting a critical problem that was addressed in this study. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the perspectives of K-3 teachers working in a rural elementary school district regarding a decline since 2018 in the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten
Johnson, Angela; Kuhfeld, Megan; Soland, James – NWEA, 2022
About one in five students in the US attends a rural school, and over half of all school districts are in rural areas. And yet very little is known about achievement, achievement gaps, and academic growth in rural schools, including how school-year and summer changes in achievement may differ in these schools. This lack of information is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement
Jennifer Dingeldein – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed in this study was kindergarteners in public, rural schools struggle with phonemic awareness, causing their reading development to be delayed. The purpose of this qualitative narrative inquiry study was to explore through the stories of kindergarten teachers whether students from a public, rural setting struggled with a lack…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Phonemic Awareness, Kindergarten
Brian Cartiff; Svetlana Dmitrieva; Angela Starrett – SC TEACHER, 2024
Each year, SC TEACHER publishes different workforce profiles, sharing details and demographics around South Carolina educators for a better understanding of our public school workforce. Among these publications, this report is the first to examine the state's school "administrator" workforce. The analysis in this report uses statewide…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Public Schools, State Norms, Comparative Analysis
LaTonia N. Bills – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teacher occupational burnout has been a long-standing problem for K-12 educators. COVID-19 further exacerbated this dilemma as school districts nationwide tried to solve the crisis and provide quality education to students nationally. The international health scare created an atmosphere of stress, confusion, and emotional and physical trauma…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, COVID-19, Job Satisfaction, Rural Schools
Farber, Misty Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative comparative quasi-experimental study was to compare the perceptions of work-life balance and turnover intentions of four-day and five-day rural Oklahoma classroom teachers. Four-day school districts have become increasingly popular across the United States as a way to reduce operational expenses, with 92 four-day…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Faculty Mobility, State Legislation, Measures (Individuals)
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Md. Saiful Alam; Adelina Asmawi – Review of Education, 2023
The scarcity of teachers worldwide has led to educators teaching multiple subjects outside their area of expertise. This challenge of teaching out-of-field or multi-subject instruction raises the need for (re)constructing the identity of multi-subject generalist teachers (M-SGTs). However, the matter has received little attention in current…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Kindergarten
Briana G. Whitaker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed methods study sought to identify the incorporation of support for implementing evidence-based instructional practices within an MTSS framework among teachers and the impact on student growth outcomes in three K-2 schools. The study also determined teacher perceptions regarding how support in adult behavior change, which is the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Small Schools, Rural Schools, School Districts
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Friedrich, Nicola; Porter, Christine – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2020
This paper describes the textual practices of kindergarten children as they co-created and participated in a movie theatre play context within their rural classroom. Data informing this paper were drawn from classroom videos of children (aged 3-5 years) as they engaged in activities associated with the movie theatre, field notes from action…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Theaters
Presley, Amanda Yarborough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study aimed to determine whether a correlation exists, either positive or negative, between the concentration of Exemplary followers in a K-12 school with perceived school morale levels and teacher retention. Past research determined the connection between morale and retention. Robert Kelley's research on follower types highlights the…
Descriptors: Teacher Morale, School Districts, Rural Schools, Correlation
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Zhang, Nini; Yu, Dongqing; Guo, Karen – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2021
Home-school cooperation in children's education is complex. It could be even more complex in rural contexts, due to the potential contributions of isolated location, insufficient resources, a lack of teachers' professional competence, parental absence or parents' limited understandings about education. A questionnaire survey was designed to…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Rural Schools, Kindergarten
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Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette; Hannah R. Lawrence; Eliot Fearey; Jessica Shankman; Janet Nichols; Joy Walters; Elena Perello; Susan Smith – School Mental Health, 2024
The FRIENDS Resilience programs provide cognitive-behavioral skills across the developmental spectrum and can be applied as a universal or selective prevention program. In the current study, we assessed whether, relative to the schools' existing counseling curriculum ("guidance"), FRIENDS improved social skills, problem behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Evaluation, Mental Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Rachel Brown-Chidsey – Exceptionality, 2024
Five experienced special educators were interviewed to learn about their experiences working in a school district with a fully developed MTSS. The interviews revealed these special educators were highly supportive of tiered supports because they provide strategic and intensive interventions for students who are behind. Nonetheless, these educators…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Student Needs, Teacher Attitudes
Ladner, Matthew; Bedrick, Jason – Heritage Foundation, 2023
Rural students in Arizona enjoy far more education choice options than rural students in any other state. Education has flourished in rural areas under Arizona's robust choice environment just as much as in the remainder of the state. The data could not be clearer: Rural students with expanded opportunities thrive, as do their teachers and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice
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