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Michelle LaBounty – ProQuest LLC, 2021
While there are many common challenges that are experienced by all new teachers, pressures on new teachers can differ based on the context in which they work. This qualitative study aims to highlight the first-year challenges and most effective supports experienced by first-year teachers in a small Canadian public school district situated in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Beginning Teachers
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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
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Nelson, Donna Faith; Jones, Don; Kingston, Kathleen – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2023
Smart Board Technologies (SBTs) are prevalent in K-6 schools and teachers are expected to use them to enhance student learning. The Smart Board (SB) may not be used effectively in the classroom. The effective use of the SB increases student engagement and performance. To ensure the effective use of the SB, the principal's role is crucial. The…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Claire McGuinness; David Nordstokke – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Post-secondary students experience elevated levels of academic stress. The objective of the current study is to examine the relationship between a three factor model of resilience (ie, mastery, emotionality reactivity, and relatedness), mindful self-care and flourishing in first-year undergraduate students. Participants: A sample (n =…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Resilience (Psychology), Metacognition, Urban Schools
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Alonso-Yanez, Gabriela; Friesen, Sharon; Preciado-Babb, Armando Paulino; Brown, Barbara – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2021
The theoretical framework for this study draws on conceptual advances from two bodies of scholarship: (1) complexity thinking in education, which has recently focused on school system change; and (2) school leadership research, which has recently attended to the effects of leadership interventions to school improvement. Using a complexity-thinking…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Public Schools
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Wallin, Dawn C.; Scribe, Christopher – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2022
This paper stories the creation of the Wahkohtowin teacher preparation model on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatchewan, Canada. The model was created out of an educational partnership that responded to the teachings of Nehiyaw (Cree) Indigenous Elders. We describe the theoretical framework of this Professional Development School (PDS) teacher…
Descriptors: Decolonization, Teacher Education, Rural Schools, Urban Schools
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Stoddart, Alexandra L.; Humbert, M. Louise – Curriculum Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore what current physical education specialists and generalists know and understand about physical literacy and how the concept is operationalised in physical education. Six teachers from an urban school district in Canada participated in semi-structured interviews as part of a larger physical literacy…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education Teachers, Multiple Literacies, Concept Formation
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Kozak, Donna L.; Schnellert, Leyton M. – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2023
Critical participatory action researchers (CPAR) (Kemmis et al., 2014; Ledwith & Springett, 2014) created conditions for 25 parents and teachers to join as co-researchers in this research study. Together, they co-created a hybrid discursive third space (Gee, 1996; Gutierrez, 2008) that invited alignment of their respective funds of knowledge…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Family School Relationship
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Astrid H. Kendrick; Theodora Kapoyannis; Rachel Pagaling – Teaching Education, 2024
Concerns about teacher burnout, compassion fatigue, and retaining early career professionals have prompted teacher education programs to seek out ways to promote mental and emotional health during pre-service teacher training. This two-year, educational design study explored pre-service teachers' experiences with the implementation of two…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Teaching Conditions, Well Being, Preservice Teacher Education
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Inwood, Hilary – Educational Action Research, 2022
A team of teacher-researchers in a large urban school board is working in partnership with researchers from a leading Canadian university to use action research to broaden and deepen environmental education in their teaching practice. This research-informed approach involves teachers, students and their communities in collaboratively deepening…
Descriptors: Action Research, Environmental Education, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
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Wendzich, Tessandra; Andrews, Bernard W. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2021
Making Music: Composing "with" Young Musicians is a multi-year, multi-site research project partnered with the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Canadian Music Centre to commission composers to collaborate with teachers and students (age 11 to 18) to write a piece of music. This article outlines findings on the analysis and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Composition, Foreign Countries
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Omercajic, Kenan – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: The experiences of trans students in all-gender bathrooms are largely underexplored, as is the trans-activism by students to procure these spaces. Additionally, the role of teachers in supporting the creation of these spaces is largely absent from research regarding bathroom spaces. Purpose: This article elucidates the impact…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Sanitary Facilities, Teacher Role, Activism
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Hauseman, Cameron – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2020
Work intensification has heightened and accelerated the need for Canadian school principals to manage their emotions. This case explores the emotional aspects of a contemporary principal's work in a large urban school and highlights effective coping strategies and approaches used to regulate her emotions. The teaching notes describe several…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Self Control, Principals, Urban Schools
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Mizzi, Robert C. – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine how educational leaders interpret job applications from international teachers who are planning to repatriate. Ten rural and urban educational leaders from the Canadian province of Manitoba were presented with three different fictitious cases to screen and analyze for shortlisting purposes. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Workers, Teacher Selection, Superintendents, Principals
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Lal, Rita; Adams, Pamela; Mombourquette, Carmen – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to gain insight from parents and guardians about their experiences of involvement in the education of their high school aged children. Data were gathered using interviews for nine randomly selected participants from an urban high school in Alberta, Canada. Thematic analysis identified the types of activities parents…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Experience, Parent School Relationship, Urban Schools
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