Nearly 4 in 10 children report experiencing maltreatment by adulthood. Early detection mitigates maltreatment's negative effects. Yet factors that drive early detection remain understudied. We examine one possible source of early detection: educators in school settings. Administrative data on reports of child maltreatment across the U.S. over a…

Immigrant youth accumulate expansive linguistic, cultural, and experiential knowledge through their border-crossing experiences. These transnational funds of knowledge accompany immigrant youth as they enter various literacy development contexts, including community-based heritage language (HL) schools. This ethnographic case study focuses on a…

Teaching sustainability topics puts teachers in a tense relationship: on one hand, they should convey the importance and urgency of the topic, but at the same time, this should be done in such a way that students can form their own judgements. In addition, teachers may themselves become privately involved and interested in the topic, which…

Purpose: This study aims to explore the authentic questioning practices of English Language Arts teachers. Although language arts (LA) education emphasizes the value of authentic questions in discussions about literature, teachers still tend to ask known-answer questions that guide students toward one literary interpretation. However, outside…

Recent research highlights teachers' key role as language policy interpreters, yet few studies have explored whether and how teachers learn about policy interpretation. This article explores how language policy interpretation is addressed within a statewide teacher education initiative in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Since 2012, the state has…

We examine in-service high school teachers' journals to explore the emerging themes in a mathematics content course for their professional development. We use a sociocultural perspective and characterize journals as signifying teachers' communication and written discourses about their thinking and experiences in the course. We use applied thematic…

The complex role of academic language and learning (ALL) professionals in higher education is poorly understood, even though it contributes to key outcomes such as improved study skills, academic language enhancement, curriculum development and student retention. In this paper, we explore the multiple professional identities of people working in…

The professionalization of disciplines often leads to formalization of disciplinary training. As professionalization occurs, informal training roles are typically supplanted as the normative method of training but can continue to exist in parallel with formal methods. As in other fields, the ongoing professionalization of faculty development has…

Shulman (1986) conceptualized pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) at the intersection of content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. In this paper, I re-explore the intersection of content--in our case, mathematics--and pedagogy, not in terms of domains of knowledge, but in terms of domains of practice. I conceptualize, describe, and exemplify…

The article discusses the question of the co-construction of knowledge between the university and its communities in the pursuance of community engagement, which is one of the key mandates of universities in South Africa. It reflects on the limitations of most academic approaches to the concept and practices associated with the scholarship of…

Educators have a central role in the advocacy and implementation of children's rights. In reframing Western notions of wellbeing, rights, and student voice from a Maori view, educators are more likely to provide more meaningful support for rangatahi, whanau, and community. This research is underpinned by He Oranga Mokopuna, which repositions…

Multiculturalism in Indonesia is an intriguing characteristic since it touches on so many different sectors of life. Teachers, particularly those in Early Childhood Education (PAUD), must comprehend multiculturalism and religious tolerance. This study aims to analyze the level of multicultural understanding and religious moderation of PAUD…

Job exhaustion is not uncommon among Chinese middle school teachers, but the key antecedents of job exhaustion and the underlying mechanisms in this historically underrepresented population remain poorly understood. This study examined the association between job demand and exhaustion, and tested the mediating role of job satisfaction and the…

This article shares an approach specifically for fostering equitable small-group, student-to-student discourse (S[superscript 3]D). The S[superscript 3]D approach is a two-phase process focusing on implicit strategies. Phase 1 involves assessment of current small-group discourse through three lenses: group dynamics, discourse quality, and teacher…

Representations are used throughout school mathematics for students to both think through a problem and communicate their ideas. Students also often come to mathematics class with a repertoire of representations. This article presents the ideas of different and multiple representations with conceptual connections as their underlying distinguishing…