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Rozela McCoy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) is a schoolwide approach to promote positive school safety in which student academic success can occur. However, at least one third of students in United States schools are suspended once in their K12 school career for violating a school's code of conduct. School suspensions have been linked to…
Descriptors: Nonprofessional Personnel, Employee Attitudes, Positive Behavior Supports, Urban Schools
Ashley A. Grant; Douglas J. Mac Iver; Vaughan Byrnes; Emily Clark; Robert Balfanz; Richard Lofton – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2025
This study tests the impact of adding Restorative Practices within secondary schools implementing the Diplomas Now turnaround model in 8 large U.S. urban districts on: (a) the severity of disciplinary problems in these schools, (b) the probability that students would be suspended three days or more during the school year, and (c) the chronic…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Attendance, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools
Sellers, Kathleen Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examines the professional experiences of three teachers in a national network of urban, low-income serving, Catholic high schools. These teacher-participants were chosen to participate in this study because they engaged in experiential, community-based pedagogy within this national network and exemplified a commitment to social justice…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teaching Experience, Urban Schools, Low Income
Suneal Kolluri – Education and Urban Society, 2024
Young Black and Latino men transition from high school to 4-year universities at rates considerably lower than their peers. College-going disparities by gender are partly influenced by young men's constrained access to social capital in high school. This research explores how gendered inequalities in social capital arise for college-aspiring…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Capital, Guided Pathways, College Readiness
Sinclair, Kristin – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2023
In this paper, the author draws on a qualitative case study of a place-based food justice project (FJP) at an urban public charter high school to examine the role of community-school partnerships (CSPs) in the FJP and marginalized students' experiences of these partnerships. Observations and interviews with students, teachers, and community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Place Based Education, Social Justice
Rezai-Rashti, Goli M.; Segeren, Allison – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2023
This paper investigates how test-based, standardized accountability is impacting on urban school leaders' everyday work in Ontario and British Columbia, Canada. This critical policy analysis draws on theories of new public management and governmentality to document the experiences of school leaders as they enact and navigate test-based…
Descriptors: Accountability, Urban Schools, Leadership, Standardized Tests
Sarah Thomas; Laurence Parker – Urban Education, 2024
The purpose of this research was to examine the disconnect between urban school expectations and actual lived realities of marginalized students. Taking into consideration the conversation surrounding the definitions of urban education, and the importance of school connectedness with youth, we chose to focus on the lives of five former high…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Urban Education, Academic Achievement, Student Experience
Joyce Beldecos – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative comparison study was conducted to determine if there is a significant difference in multicultural and social justice competencies (MSJCC) between urban and rural school counselors in Pennsylvania. The purpose of the study was to discover how school counselors in different geographical areas assess their work within a…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Urban Schools, Rural Schools, School Counselors
Naughton, Meredith R. – Education and Urban Society, 2022
This qualitative case study explored the unique ways recent college graduates serving as full-time, near-peer mentors supported students along the path to college in three different urban public high schools. By applying the theory of figured worlds to school spaces and practices, this study sought to both define the physical and figurative ways…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Graduates, Mentors, Public Schools
Chad R. Vinansky – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) enacted a new law called Act 44, which provided new form of funding for school safety in school districts across the State of Pennsylvania. The study focused on how school superintendents and high school principals prioritized each category in Pennsylvania Act 44 from highest to the lowest…
Descriptors: State Legislation, School Safety, Superintendents, Principals
Or, Mor Hodaya; Berkovich, Izhak – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
Despite the popularity of distributed leadership theory, the investigation of the micro-political aspects of such models have scarcely been explored, and insights on the cultural variety of distributed practices in schools are limited. The present study aimed to explore what micro-political aspects emerge in participative decision making in…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Individualism, Collectivism, Cultural Differences
Kirby, Catherine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The integration of Social Emotional Learning into the secondary curriculum is recognized globally as an important set of skills to have, especially since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of combining these skills within a virtual reality program is to engage and enhance the experience the students have learning the new skills.…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Computer Simulation, Urban Schools, High Schools
A Narrative Inquiry Study about the Perceived Social Supports of Urban Alternative School Principals
Tameka Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative narrative inquiry study aimed to understand the social supports that current urban, alternative, high school principals perceive to have contributed to remaining in the role and providing the support to lead effectively. This study utilized House's (1981) model of social support to understand how the various types (instrumental,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Nontraditional Education, Social Support Groups
Johanek, Michael – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2023
Since 1980, Chicago's United Neighborhood Organization (UNO) has been a major player in school reform, organising Mexican-American communities to build a neighbourhood high school, founding a local technical institute, passing radical school governance reform, and launching a major charter network. At UNO's apex in 2013, a corruption scandal…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Justice, Social Action, Mexican Americans
Delilah Holmes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this action research study was to investigate and improve the school choice experience for students in a large urban school district on the East Coast. Participants in Cycle 1 were comprised of middle and high school staff, and data was collected via surveys, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. Action steps included…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Action Research, Urban Schools