This study examined educators' attitudes, values, and beliefs about families and the development of family-school partnerships in demographically changing school and community contexts. Survey data were collected from 188 educators in nine school districts. In-depth interviews were conducted with four teachers, four leaders, and one parent…

This study investigates how 19 third-grade students developed their understandings of enslavement during a six-week social studies inquiry. Using Teaching Tolerance's key concepts as my analytic framework, I analyzed the students' pre- and post-concept maps and classwork to understand their learning. The findings show that students conceptualized…

Popular preventative discipline programs often provide guidelines for ideal disciplinary interactions, emphasizing teachers' use of a "neutral," "soft," "warm," and/or "loving" tone of voice during student discipline. Yet the scholarly literature has suggested that there are alternative pedagogical ways of…