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Coronel, Jacobo – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of technological tools that were used by language teachers to develop their students' English language skills. As a result of the sudden shift to online instruction, teachers at the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Academy middle school had little time to prepare and had limited…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Adolescents
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Lucko, Jennifer – Educational Action Research, 2020
This article examines the participatory impact of a storytelling project on a small group of Latinx English learners in a sixth grade classroom. The storytelling project unexpectedly emerged as a positive ripple effect from a Participatory Action Research (PAR) initiative to foster civic empowerment among middle school students in an English…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Story Telling, Action Research, Participatory Research
Kelley Dixon, Juanita E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand how middle school teachers describe their use of the four elements of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management) to reduce student behavioral referrals. In addition, it was the purpose of this study to discover the…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Emotional Intelligence, Best Practices, Classroom Techniques
Hough, Heather; Marsh, Julie; McKibben, Susan – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
Social-emotional learning refers to the beliefs, attitudes, personality traits, and behaviors that students need to succeed in school and life. Our study looks closely at ten "outlier schools" in California's CORE districts whose students report strong social-emotional learning outcomes compared to other, similar middle schools. This…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Middle Schools, Urban Schools
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Dwivedi, Rajeev; Kumar, Arpan; Babu, Bharathy; Grandhi, Nipun; Meka, Rishi; Ahuja, Varun – Education Sciences, 2021
Finding context, examples, and ample hands-on experimentation is fundamental for understanding complex ideas in subjects such as science and math. Recent popularity of competitive robotics has become a catalyst in the development of DIY and hobby kits. Manufacturers have made available easy to work, re-configurable, and functional, structural…
Descriptors: Competition, Robotics, Class Activities, Skill Development
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Zhang, Jingshun; Halpern, Clarisse – Educational Research and Development Journal, 2021
While the COVID-19 pandemic challenged educators, parents, and students to adapt to online learning, it significantly impacted Asian Americans, especially the Chinese immigrant families, with increased anti-Asian acts of racism and xenophobia. The case study investigated a Chinese immigrant family's experiences transitioning to online learning in…
Descriptors: Experience, Immigrants, Foreign Countries, COVID-19
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Andes, Sarah; Fitzgerald, Jason C.; Cohen, Alison K.; Warren, Scott – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
Using a student-centered approach, Generation Citizen's (GC) action civics model helps students gain civic knowledge and skills as they work together to take action on a local issue in their community. This paper draws upon reflections from GC's decade-plus of teaching action civics at scale in middle and high schools across the United States,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Centered Learning, Civics, Citizenship Education
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Muñoz-Muñoz, Eduardo R.; Briceño, Allison – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Within a policy climate that is permissive to Dual Language (DL) programs in California and within the social context of the ongoing gentrification of those programs, this case study explored the leadership and organizational structures required to expand DL programs beyond the elementary years. We asked: (1) What organizational arrangements may…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Schools
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Cowgill, Burton O.; Herrmann, Alison; Richardson, Jessica; Guthmann, Debra S.; McKee, Michael M.; Malzkuhn, Mallory; Berman, Barbara A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2020
Electronic cigarette use has become epidemic among American youth. Little is known about the extent of use among d/Deaf and hard of hearing (d/Dhh) youth or prevention programming for this population. In a qualitative study with d/Dhh youth and school staff and administrators serving them, four focus groups were conducted with middle school…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Smoking
Andrade Johnson, Maria Dulce Silva – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The accelerated growth of 1:1 educational computing initiatives has challenged digital equity with a three-tiered, socioeconomic digital divide: (a) access, (b) higher order uses, and (c) user empowerment and personalization. As the access gap has been closing, the exponential increase of 1:1 devices threatens to widen the second and third digital…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Critical Theory, Qualitative Research
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Rondy Yu; Wesley A. Sims – Preventing School Failure, 2024
The practice of serving students with emotional and behavioral challenges in the United States has been fraught with anxiety, fear, and stress. Fortunately, researchers in the field of emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) have identified a range of empirically supported interventions to improve outcomes for students with EBD. This study sought…
Descriptors: Feasibility Studies, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Emotional Disturbances
Bataller, Carliza – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to identify and describe best practices in technology integration in middle school classrooms as perceived by expert middle school teachers. Additionally, it was the purpose of the study to determine the most important best practices and perceived barriers to successful…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Best Practices, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Weddle, Hayley; Yoshisato, Mariko; Hopkins, Megan – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: Although schools across the United States are becoming increasingly linguistically and culturally diverse, many teachers remain underprepared to work with students classified as English learners (ELs), especially at the secondary level. Acknowledging the importance of developing systems of support for teachers of ELs, this paper examines…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Urban Schools
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Hughes, Andrew J.; Denson, Cameron D. – Journal of Technology Education, 2021
Highly proficient expert engineers begin the iterative process of design by thoroughly investigating the design problem. Engineering students are often distracted by surface details, leading to a faulty conception of the problem and inappropriate solution strategies. Adequate problem-scoping is arguably the most important step in the design…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Middle School Students, High School Students, Design
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Laura Nichols; Maria Valle – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Undermatching, or students attending less selective colleges than they are academically qualified to attend, is seen as a contributing factor to the lagging college completion rate of low-income and first-generation college students. Addressing the mismatch has been mainly limited to the individual level. Through analysis of interview and…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Hispanic American Students, School Choice, Barriers
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