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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

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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.
Date: 2015
Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The PRO Program: One District's Experience with Decentralizing Staff Development (open access)

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.
Date: April 2000
Creator: Huffman, Jane B.; Caldwell, Dottie & Taber, Katherine L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: On Rereading (open access)

Book Review: On Rereading

Book review of "On Rereading" by Patricia Meyer Spacks.
Date: 2014
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas (open access)

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.
Date: March 2, 2011
Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Auxiliadora Lima Dias da Silva, Maria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leading with Heart: Urban Elementary Principals as Advocates for Students (open access)

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.
Date: April 2009
Creator: Rodriguez, Mariela A.; Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Ruff, William G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Counterstories about Leadership: A Latina School Principal’s Experience from a Less Documented View in an Urban School Context (open access)

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.
Date: November 11, 2015
Creator: Hernandez, Frank & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who says I don’t want to come to school? School policies disenfranchise American Indian youth’s educational vision (open access)

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.
Date: 2009
Creator: Quijada, Patricia D. & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EXERT and TEAM21: Partnerships for Professional Development (open access)

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.
Date: 1988
Creator: Adkison, Judith A.; Camp, William E. & Meeks, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teachers' Read-Aloud Preferences: Perpetuating Sex-Role Stereotypes (open access)

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.
Date: 1985
Creator: Smith, Nancy J.; Greenlaw, M. Jean & Scott, Carolyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field (open access)

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.
Date: 2016
Creator: Sledge, Ann & Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves (open access)

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.
Date: October 3, 2016
Creator: Guerra, Patricia L. & Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies (open access)

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.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders (open access)

"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.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals (open access)

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).
Date: March 2014
Creator: Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L. & Yates, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience (open access)

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.
Date: 2013
Creator: Sayman, Donna M. & Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media (open access)

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.
Date: 2015
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District (open access)

(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.
Date: February 3, 2015
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development (open access)

Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development

This article argues that the development of rap song lyrics or lyrical concept mapping can be a viable pedagogical alternative to the development of concept maps as a means to reinforce STEM vocabulary.
Date: July 31, 2018
Creator: Young, Jamaal; Young, Jemimah L.; Cason, Marti; Ortiz, Nickolaus; Foster, Marquita & Hamilton, Christina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating Student-Centered Classroom Environments: The Case of Mathematics

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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.
Date: 1999
Creator: Reyes, Pedro & Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ignorance or Indifference? Seeking Excellence and Equity for Under-Represented Students of Color in Gifted Education (open access)

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.
Date: 2017
Creator: Wright, Brian L.; Ford, Donna Y. & Young, Jemimah L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Out of School and into STEM: Supporting Girls of Color Through Culturally Relevant Enrichment (open access)

Out of School and into STEM: Supporting Girls of Color Through Culturally Relevant Enrichment

This article explains how teachers can adapt traditional STEM enrichment activities to support girls of color through culturally relevant institutional practices.
Date: 2017
Creator: Young, Jemimah L.; Young, Jamaal & Paufler, Noelle A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teacher Efficacy as a Multigroup Model Using Latent Class Analysis (open access)

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.
Date: November 16, 2010
Creator: Eddy, Colleen & Easton-Brooks, Donald
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethical Leadership: A Texas School District's Efforts Toward Cultural Proficiency (open access)

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.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Enlightenment Meets Twitter: Using Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom (open access)

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.
Date: 2013
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Milton, Michael K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library