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Lightner, Sarah C.; Kersten Parrish, Sara; Drewry, Robert; Scharer, Patricia L. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
The purpose of this research was to examine the ways in which the principal and literacy coach collectively developed and maintained relational trust in order to establish school literacy reform efforts. Drawing from a larger set of data, we employed qualitative methods to explore interviews and surveys from the principals and literacy coaches at…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Trust (Psychology), Principals, Literacy
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Cooper, Christen Cupples – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The majority of children aged three to five in the U.S. attend childcare or preschool, where they may consume up to two-thirds of their daily calories and nutrition. Teachers at preschools serving low-income families are responsible for guiding children in their food choices. Feeding style, or caregivers' overall emotional tone and approach at…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Teaching Styles, Urban Schools, Preschool Teachers
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Cuellar, Matthew J.; Coyle, Samantha; Weinreb, Karly S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Research suggests that parents and principals perceive school shootings as one of the leading threats to school safety and among the most likely hazardous events that would affect safety at school. However, exposure to nonfatal victimization, such as fighting, threats, theft, vandalism, bullying, hate crimes, and gang activity, has become far more…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Victims, Academic Achievement, Bullying
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Waxman, Hersh C.; Padrón, Yolanda N.; Keese, Jeffrey – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2021
This study examined whether there are significant differences between effective, average, and ineffective urban schools with regard to (a) students' classroom behavior and (b) students' perceptions of their classroom learning environment. Students from four effective, average, and ineffective urban elementary schools that served predominantly…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Behavior, School Effectiveness, Urban Schools
Primus, Timothy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Education is a construct in American culture that is ever changing. School leadership is a primary function of public education. School leaders in 21st century schools have been tasked with many new functions that differ from their predecessors. With the advent of these new functions, it is necessary to ensure that competent well-versed educators…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Principals, Urban Schools, School Districts
Christina Grant – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation study explores the lived experiences of Black women leaders of public school districts across the United States. Black women superintendents comprise roughly 2% of urban superintendencies in the United States, so understanding their journeys to and experiences in the position is critical to understanding ways that these systems…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, African Americans, Superintendents, Public Schools
Danielle Renee McNeil Lawton – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this research study was to explore the lived experiences of Black teachers who were employed in an urban school district in Southern California. This study focused on teachers who made the decision to remain at their current school in their current teaching position. The findings from this research inquiry can provide district-level…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence, Decision Making
Darcy L. Woodcock – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Principals in urban school districts directly and indirectly affect school communities through student achievement, teacher retention, and school climate. When a high-quality school principal leaves a school, it can negatively affect these areas due to the interruption of progress toward school improvement goals to increase student achievement.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Principals, Job Satisfaction, Administrator Attitudes
Rebecca Woodard; Kristine M. Schutz – Teachers College Press, 2024
"Teaching Climate Change to Children" describes the journey of two literacy researchers to learn about climate change and support relevant literacy pedagogy for young children (pre-K-6). The authors argue that climate change and social justice are inextricable from each other; that children in the younger grades are capable of learning…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Young Children, Preschool Education
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Takafumi Tomura; Takahiro Sato; Ryan T. Miller; Yu Furuta – Education 3-13, 2024
The purpose of this study was to describe and explain in-service Japanese elementary classroom teachers' experiences with parental involvement of immigrant parents as it pertains to physical education (PE). The study was framed using the theory of teacher development. This study used a descriptive-qualitative methodology and an explanatory case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Parent Participation, Immigrants
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Robert Kaiser; Daniel Hamlin – Education and Urban Society, 2024
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federal program that provides free and reduced priced lunch to millions of low-income children in urban schools. Empirical research shows mixed results on the physical and nutritional health of urban students participating in the program. However, a considerable limitation of this literature is that it…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Lunch Programs
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Jenney M. Hall – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2024
A First-Year Seminar course was designed using high-impact practices supporting food justice at a university serving mainly urban, minority, Hispanic, and first-generation students. The course was initially taught using participatory experiential learning but without service-learning. After an urban farm was added to campus to support the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Food, Hunger, Minority Serving Institutions
Barbara Ann Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The active engagement of parents in the educational experiences of their children has been suggested to support high academic achievement for the children. In the project setting, an urban elementary school, educators were struggling to find effective strategies to promote family involvement in their children's education. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Parent Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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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
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Gazi Mahabubul Alam – Education 3-13, 2024
"It is dark under the lamp"-a proverb that frequently refers to the misery that prevails in confined, lit environments. In terms of economic development, urban regions have risen to prominence as centers of excellence. Cities are populated by individuals from varied cultural, professional, and economic backgrounds. The disparities in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Slums
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