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- Teachers' Read-Aloud Preferences: Perpetuating Sex-Role Stereotypes
- This article describes a study of Kansas and Texas teachers' read-aloud choices to demonstrate the impact of this teaching strategy on children's acquisition of attitudes toward sex roles.
- EXERT and TEAM21: Partnerships for Professional Development
- This article discusses the process of developing professional development programs for educational leadership in response to the 1984 Texas Education Reform Bill, also known as House Bill 72.
- America 2000 and Special Education: Can the Two Be Merged?
- This paper uses systems theory and force field analysis to evaluate the potential for combining special education with America 2000 national educational strategy and goals.
- Can Regular and Special Education be Integrated into One System? Political Culture Theory May Have the Answer
- This paper examines proposals to integrate regular and special education.
- The Missing Link for the Administration of Special Education: The Ethic of Care
- This paper discusses the application of a care orientation to special education service delivery and administrative practice.
- Creating Student-Centered Classroom Environments: The Case of Mathematics
- This book chapter provides examples of how mathematics instruction emphasized meaning and understanding, skills embedded in context, and connections between and among subject areas and school and life outside of school.
- The PRO Program: One District's Experience with Decentralizing Staff Development
- This article examines one district's staff development plan that has successfully engaged teachers and administrators in designing and implementing relevant programs that make a positive difference for schools and students.
- Idiot's Guide or A People's History: Teaching U.S. History in Mexico
- This article discusses how textbooks can influence the classroom as a political space, using the example of the "Consorcio Clavijero" program, which offers Mexican professionals the opportunity to enter bilingual contexts in the U.S. as interns and classroom teachers.
- Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision
- This article focuses on the importance of contextualizing school policies by illuminating how one school rule, In-School-Suspension (ISS) disengages students from the learning process.
- Leading with Heart: Urban Elementary Principals as Advocates for Students
- This article explores how urban elementary school principals reconcile the challenges of educational accountability within the constraints of standardized testing policies required by the No Child Left Behind Act.
- Teacher Qualification and the Achievement Gap in Early Primary Grades
- This article examines the relationship of the qualification requirement of the No Child Left Behind Act to the goal of reducing the academic achievement gap.
- Teacher Efficacy as a Multigroup Model Using Latent Class Analysis
- This article used Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to find that mathematics efficacy groups of preservice teachers vary based on where they were in their academic program.
- Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas
- This article explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil.
- NCLB: The Myth, The History, The Reality
- This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on No Child Left Behind. In this presentation, the author discusses the law's impact on curricula and student learning, particularly in mathematics.
- La Importancia De Promover La Educación Bilingüe Alrededor Del Mundo
- Presentation promoting the importance of bilingual education on behalf of the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
- The Enlightenment Meets Twitter: Using Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom
- This article explains how social studies educators can, and have, used the microblogging service Twitter.
- International Perspectives Curriculum Project: EDAD 5680 Administration of the EC-12 Curriculum
- Poster presented as part of the 2013 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses the international perspectives curriculum project. The project described in this poster was developed as part of the "Globalizing your Curriculum" Transformational Instructional Innovation (TII) Fellowship sponsored by the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and redesign (CLEAR) and UNT - International.
- Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience
- This article seeks to better understand to what extent the Individual Education Plan (IEP) adequately prepared one girl for major life transitions following high-school graduation.
- Book Review: On Rereading
- Book review of "On Rereading" by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
- Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies
- This article uses the example of the Arab Spring to discuss how new media lowers barriers so that more voices may be heard.
- Ethical Leadership: A Texas School District's Efforts Toward Cultural Proficiency
- This article discusses the use of cultural competency training at a Texas school district to bring about openness in talking about issues of diversity.
- Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals
- This article describes implications for school leadership and the need for preservice and continuing professional development concerning all aspects of response to intervention (RTI).
- Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media
- This article examines the work of media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman in the wake of participatory media.
- Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas
- This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.
- (Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District
- This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.
- “Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus
- This article examines the quality of public schooling in primarily low socio-economic status (SES) areas of El Paso, Texas and reflects on the dismal realities established by the hegemonic social order.
- Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts
- This article argues that whole district reform is possible in ways that increased student achievement results on standardized tests across two districts.
- Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter
- This article describes results from a survey of 109 English teachers describing their frequent and versatile uses of Twitter.
- Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders
- This article explores the authors' experience using an ethical framework to teach a course on disability law to graduate level education students.
- Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter
- This article draws on Deweyan conceptions of participatory learning and citizenship aims of the field as lenses through which to consider social media activities.
- Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field
- This article uses a qualitative, multi-case study research design to gain insight into the perceptions and experiences of special education teachers and administrators.
- Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context
- This article highlights one Latina school leader in the National Latina/o Leadership Study and her experiences developing a professional and racial identity within urban school contexts.
- "Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers
- This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated professional learning network experiences through the analysis of survey data from 732 P-12 teachers.
- The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow
- This article discusses educators' use of professional learning networks and its impact on their teaching and student learning.
- Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators
- This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.
- Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves
- This article describes a duoethnography of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives.
- “Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism
- This article reports findings from a qualitative case study of an Islamic school in the United States that counters religious extremism through the promotion and development of an American Muslim identity in its students, an ideology that advances the idea that an individual can be wholly American and wholly Muslim without any incongruity.
- A Book Review: Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance By Kristen L. Buras
- Book review of "Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space: Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance" by Kristen L. Buras.
- A Fresh Perspectives: Newbies Implementing the SIOP Model
- Presentation sharing a program to support English language learners in mathematics and science by training in-service and pre-service teachers using the SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) model. It was presented at the TexTESOL conference in 2017.
- Ignorance or Indifference? Seeking Excellence and Equity for Under-Represented Students of Color in Gifted Education
- This article discusses data on under-representation of students of color in gifted education programs in the U.S., along with contributing factors and recommendations.
- La indagación como estrategia clave en el aula bilingüe
- Presentation highlighting how to use inquiry-based practices in the classroom. It was presented at the National Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2017.
- "Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders
- This article discusses two democratic media literacy skills that teachers can model and teach to help students as 21st century citizens.
- Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort
- This article uses nationally representative data from the Early Chlidhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort used to examine child care experiences with repreated cross-sectional analysis at 9, 24, and 52 months for dual language learner and non-dual language learner children.
- Creating Bilingual Instructional Activities
- Presentation exploring research related to translanguaging and creating bilingual instructional activities. It was presented at the 10th International Conference for Teachers of English held in Honduras.
- Student Motivation Strategies to Start the New School Year!
- Presentation for developing student motivation with an emphasis in bilingual education or ESL students. It was presented as part of the Education for Hispanic Dual-Language Institute held at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas, Texas on October 14, 2017.
- ¡Muévete! Integrating physical education and language learning in bilingual classrooms
- Presentation sharing strategies for developing academic vocabular in Spanish and English through movement. It was presented at the Texas Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2018.
- Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use
- This article identifies 120 parents' intentions to adopt mobile technology and gathers in-depth perceptions about mobile technology adoption with a smaller subset of 13 parents.
- Predictors of Portable Technology Adoption to Support Elementary Children Reading in the Home
- Article identifying predictors of parent's portable technology adoption to support children's reading development in the home by applying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology to informal elementary education.
- Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race
- Article describes study which examines the intersectionality between professional identities and race/ethnicity among Latina/o school leaders.
- Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom
- This article compares the leisure and school-related computer use of students in inclusive classrooms.