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(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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus (open access)

“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.
Date: March 12, 2015
Creator: Rossatto, Cesar A.; Rivas, Cecilia E.; Heiman, Daniel & Esparza, Juanita
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts (open access)

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.
Date: March 13, 2015
Creator: Ezzani, Miriam
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter (open access)

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.
Date: April 2015
Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P. & Krutka, Daniel G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities (open access)

Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities

This article examines relationships among consumer demographic variables, services, and employment outcomes for 15-18 year old youth with learning disabilities using the 2012 Rehabilitation Services Administration database.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Ji, Eun; Schaller, James; Pazey, Barbara L. & Glynn, Kate
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders (open access)

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.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L. & Cole, Heather A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter (open access)

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.
Date: 2016
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
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.
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: February 25, 2016
Creator: Hernandez, Frank & Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers (open access)

"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.
Date: July 2, 2016
Creator: Trust, Torrey; Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow (open access)

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.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Trust, Torrey & Krutka, Daniel G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators (open access)

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.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carano, Kenneth T.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism (open access)

“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.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brooks, Melanie C. & Ezzani, Miriam
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Book Review: Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space Where the Market Meets Grassroots Resistance By Kristen L. Buras (open access)

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.
Date: 2017
Creator: Viamontes, Ciro Jesus & Ezzani, Miriam
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.
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.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child Care Experiences Among Dual Language Learners in the United States: Analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort (open access)

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.
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: Espinosa, Linda M.; LaForett, Doré R.; Burchinal, Margaret; Burchinal, Margaret; Winsler, Adam; Tien, Hsiao-Chuan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use (open access)

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.
Date: January 2, 2018
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predictors of Portable Technology Adoption to Support Elementary Children Reading in the Home (open access)

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.
Date: March 15, 2018
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren & Antonenko, Pavlo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latina/o School Administrators and the Intersectionality of Professional Identity and Race (open access)

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.
Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth; Hernandez, Frank; Valle, Fernando & Almager, Irma
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom (open access)

Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom

This article compares the leisure and school-related computer use of students in inclusive classrooms.
Date: May 29, 2018
Creator: Bagon, Špela; Gačnik, Mateja & Starcic, Andreja Istenic
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
System: The UNT Digital Library