The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore African American male teachers' factors why they remained in K-12 urban public education in Northern New Jersey. African American male teachers are absent in K-12 public education, comprising only two percent of the all-teacher population, according to the data reported by…

During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools shuttered quickly and re-opened slowly. These decisions impacted the well-being of teachers and students. Upon re-opening, schools in New Jersey adopted a range of instructional approaches--including virtual and hybrid models--that prioritized safety and diminished human connections. This…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how adjunct faculty experienced transformative learning as a result of their efforts to teach information literacy for their classes at community colleges in New Jersey. Information literacy was defined as the ability to identify information needs and the skills to discover, evaluate, and…

Demands placed on novice teachers, who must perform at the level of experienced educators from day one, underscore the need for effective educational mentorship programs. Without proper mentorship, many novice teachers leave the profession within five years. Successful mentorship programs contribute to teacher retention, student achievement,…

In March, 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in nationwide school closures and a sudden, unexpected transition to remote teaching and learning for teachers and students across the US. These changes permeated the teaching experience during the 2020-21 school year. Educators in different areas of the country returned either to fully virtual…

Embodied pedagogy is a way of facilitating lessons which use the body as a locos of learning. Through a practice of storytelling, reflection, and imagination, embodied pedagogy evokes enactment and a release of emotions. This qualitative narrative study created multimodal portraits of embodied educators in the Newark Board of Education using the…

Faculty preparedness is a crucial parameter that influences students with learning disabilities' success. With limited research on faculty preparedness to teach students with learning disabilities in community colleges, this qualitative study took on a crucial and often overlooked area of inclusive education. The study focused on faculty…

Insufficient teacher preparation, ineffective instructional methods, and cultural biases often lead to the misapplication of culturally responsive practices, exacerbating the educational opportunity gap between marginalized and nonmarginalized students. When schools do not address these issues of ineffective teaching and bias, marginalized…

Teachers in American public schools have been challenged with implementing effective instructional practices for students with disabilities (SWDs) in inclusive classrooms. Among the broad category of SWDs, students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBDs) are among those whose social and academic progress continues to be of concern. The…

The problem addressed in this study was the challenging lived experiences, beliefs, and perceptions of K-12 public school teachers from the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri-state areas who were precipitously forced to move from face-to-face to online during the COVID-19 pandemic despite their lack of skills and preparedness to perform in…

Perceptions of student-teacher relationship quality have been shown to directly impact student achievement and the long-term career success of teachers. Students who perceive supportive relationships with teachers show increased school attendance, higher graduation rates, and more engagement in school. Moreover, teachers who perceive greater…

This study aimed to ascertain teachers' perceptions about SEL and whether they are currently utilizing a social-emotional learning (SEL) program in their classroom. Teachers are tasked with implementing SEL to promote character education and wellness concepts in the various grade levels. Demographic factors including the gender of the teacher,…

A nurse faculty shortage has been identified by the American Nurses Association (ANA, n.d.a) and the National League for Nursing (NLN, n.d.). Research has identified factors which negatively impact a nurse's successful transition to the faculty role, including lower compensation, uncertainty as a novice nurse faculty, lack of pedagogy skills, and…

This qualitative case study served to investigate teachers' and students' experiences implementing BASE Education, an electronic learning (e-learning) platform for social and emotional learning (SEL), in an urban charter middle school in Paterson, New Jersey. Convenient purposeful sampling was used to recruit seven students and three…

Education has changed over the past 20 years to accommodate students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in inclusive classrooms. The problem addressed by this study was that elementary school teachers of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle to know which evidence-based practices (EBPs) to utilize to effectively educate…