Background: In efforts to address chronic absenteeism, educational stakeholders have begun to focus on which school factors might link to how and if students miss school. One underexplored area within school is the context of the classroom and, namely, the spillover effects of peers. This study examined whether students were more likely to be…

This study examines the culturally responsive teaching self-efficacy (CRTSE) of graduates from an undergraduate Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) program focused on social justice issues. We examined experiences that facilitated CRT and the areas alumni felt most efficacious. Graduates (n = 43) of a PETE program completed the CRTSE Scale…

Over the past decade, there has been an increase of 1:1 laptop schools across the United States. Yet, minimal research exists which examines the experiences of school site administrators as they lead the implementation of a 1:1 laptop school initiative. This case study investigated the roles of principals and assistant principals leading 1:1…

Purpose: The study seeks to understand what teachers know about students' friend networks and how they use that information for instruction. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study relied on interviews and sociograms that teachers drew of students' friend networks. Findings: Our data suggest that teachers' awareness of their students'…

Professional learning communities (PLCs) are a powerful school improvement strategy designed to advance teacher professional development. Protocols are tools for structuring teacher conversations in PLCs. In this article the authors present the results of a qualitative study of teacher perspectives about the value and effects of systematic…

Persistent educational inequity for immigrant and refugee students and their families calls for instructional practices centering on access, quality, and social justice. Drawing on two qualitative case studies, this article examines how three U.S. urban school teachers attended to the systemic inequalities and unique challenges confronting…

Developing students' source-based argument writing skills is a vital educational goal for the 21st-century information society. Consequently, researchers and educators continually seek ways to understand and improve students' capacities for advancing arguments and synthesizing multiple documents, texts, or sources in a range of subject areas in…

This study found that the MATC Promise increased college attainment by encouraging Milwaukee high school students to access state and federal aid, and to consider matriculating to their local two-year college. The MATC Promise exemplifies the last-dollar model of college aid. If seniors at Milwaukee area public high schools complete academic…

The COVID-19 pandemic created a huge demand in using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. Teachers are believed to be a main influencer in a student's learning, so it is important to have a deep insight of teachers' perceptions of ICT integration in teaching and the problems they have been facing in ICT…

The aim of this study is to determine teachers' digital competency on the basis of European DigCompEdu framework and its relationships with some demographic and teacher characteristics. It was designed as a cross-sectional survey within the quantitative research paradigm. The sample consisted of 368 (199 male and 169 female) teachers working in a…

The purpose of this sociolinguistic study is to examine language beliefs, emotions, and practices of twenty bi/multilingual fourth-grade children of immigrants in monolingual U.S. schools in relation to societal language ideologies. This qualitative multiple case study included individual semi-structured interviews with bi/multilingual children…

Twenty-five-year-old inner-city students acquiring their high school diploma via an online forum experience stress. The research question is: How do faculty develop effective strategies to help online adult students mitigate stressors (from curriculum or technology)? The conceptual framework used in this research aligns with both the wellness…

Background: This study examined student and caregiver preference for school communication and explored the feasibility and acceptability of a digital tool to assist with communication about school meal program between schools and families. Methods: The study used qualitative methodology through youth focus groups and caregiver semi-structured…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between teacher leadership and collective teacher efficacy in Chinese urban primary schools in the education change context using quantitative research methods. Based on valid answers from 1117 teachers, the results of path analysis revealed that the dimensions of teacher leadership…

The leader has the responsibility of creating participatory management models that demand competencies in accordance with institutional challenges. This study aims to analyze the functions, areas of action and deficiencies perceived by teachers and members of management teams in a leader's professional performance. From a quantitative…