This study addressed the effects of Strategies for Teaching Reading, Information, and Vocabulary Effectively (STRIVE), a distributed professional development (PD) model designed to help teachers implement reading comprehension and vocabulary practices in fourth grade social studies classes. Schools (n = 81 schools, n = 235 teachers, n = 4,757…

This research aims to evaluate the impact of a visual competence intervention on early childhood and primary school teachers (N = 224) assessing its educational and social significance. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the study involved a questionnaire on socio-demographic information and visual habits, alongside an…

In recent decades a body of research has emerged supporting the effectiveness of a plethora of science teaching practices in improving learners' science achievement and scientific literacy. However, if the benefits of evidence-based science practice are to be realised consistently and at scale we need to improve our understanding of how teachers…

Educators' experiences play a key role in how effectively they support and model SEL (Schonert-Reichl, 2017; Brackett et al., 2012). This study investigated the experiences of elementary school educators, support staff, and leadership in implementing and integrating an SEL curriculum, specifically "Second Step." The research applied the…

Schools are becoming increasingly diverse; yet, most elementary teachers are White, middle-class females (NCES, 2021; Urrieta, 2009). Principals are charged with support all students' literacy instruction, not just those whose cultural background aligns with school leaders and teaching staff. In this study, an elementary principal designed a…

A solid foundation in math is important for children's long-term academic success. Many factors influence children's math learning--including the math content students are taught in school, the quality of their instruction, and the math attitudes of students' teachers. Using a large and diverse sample of first-grade students (n = 551), we…

What does a scientist do? What is an engineer? What is technology? What do mathematicians do? Questions about the nature of STEM are fundamental to help elementary students gain a deep understanding of the STEM disciplines. Yet, starting a lesson with such abstract questions can be difficult for any learner. Instead, teachers can use concrete STEM…

Teacher-directed and self-directed learning have been compared across various contexts. Depending on the settings and the presentation of material, mixed benefits are found; the specific circumstances under which either condition is advantageous are unclear. We combined and reanalyzed data from two experimental studies investigating the effects of…

School librarians are in a time of great change. Their positions, across the United States of America, have been cut in recent years. School librarians must find a way to gain the support of school library stakeholders in order to survive library attrition. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore school library…

The purpose of this study was to privilege the views of both pupils and staff in one school's adoption of the Daily Mile Challenge (DMC). Listening seriously to the views of pupils, who are often the unheard subjects in whole school exercise interventions, the aim was to understand the meanings derived from the requirement to practice the DMC.…

This paper focuses on determining the opinions of primary school third-grade pupils about the conceptual meaning and use of the numbers "0" and "1". The current study employed the case study design, which is one of the qualitative research methods. In the selection of the sample, the criterion sampling method, one of the…

The authors think it is likely that there is no 'right' way to teach. They believe that some teaching approaches work better in some situations to achieve some goals. In this article the authors are proposing that the best way to improve primary science is for colleagues with different views to talk more -- and listen more. Specifically, the…

This study investigates the effectiveness of the PRIMA antibullying program for elementary education using a cluster-randomized trial with two experimental conditions (with and without student lessons) and a control group. Students of 31 schools participated in the study (N = 3,135; M[subscript age] = 10 years). Multilevel regression analyses…

This study is focused on the relational thinking of first-grade students following their first 3 months of instruction from the Measure Up (MU) curriculum, an adaptation of the El'konin-Davydov curriculum. Following Davydov's outline of instructional material, the MU first-grade materials were designed to have students identify the quantitative…

The research project partly presented in this paper aims at investigating the potential of the design of learning environments based on research to enhance language for mathematics learning in order to foster conceptual and language development. In this paper I present a collaboratively designed learning environment on angles, with a focus on…