During the COVID- 19 pandemic, when her school shifted to distance learning, and anti- Asian hate crimes reached alarming heights of racially targeted attacks, Susie Sujin Min found herself suffering in silence. The distressing news and video footage of horrendous hate crimes were having their intended impact, leaving her as an Asian American…

There is widespread acceptance of the positive impact of constructive feedback on students' learning progress. However, few studies investigate the role of feedforward in high-stakes learning environments. This research explores feedback and feedforward practices in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme classrooms in Hong Kong and…

Moving beyond both a neoliberal as well as a 'heroic' conception of how the International Baccalaureate (IB) might 'make a better world', this paper focuses on the transformative potentiality of IBDP classroom pedagogy from the perspective of an experienced and critically minded educator, whose praxis has evolved across more than three decades of…

This multi-case study investigated how teaching in an International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) Individuals and Societies (I & S) classroom influenced teachers' global citizenship (GC) perceptions and pedagogy. Results demonstrate teachers were informed by their personal experiences and district expectations, utilizing a…

Dive into the possibilities of moving toward a personalized approach to education. With contributions from educators around the world, "PLCs at Work® and the IB Primary Years Programme" examines practices from envelope-pushing schools within the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) and shows how the tenets of…

The problem that guided this study was the low proportion of students scoring 3 or more on the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition (APELC) exam at one Department of Defense (DoD) school. Moreover, the qualifying ratios were lower than students attending all DoD and U.S. schools. The need for teachers to examine the performance of…

This article describes findings from a case study that aimed to understand adolescents' perceptions of how teachers encourage creativity across the curriculum. Four broad categories of creativity-fostering teaching practices emerged. These were disciplinary understanding (D), empowerment (E), relevance (R), and creative metacognition (M). This…

The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in the United States is rapidly increasing, particularly in high schools. Although the number of ELLs is growing at a fast pace in the United States, the number of ELLs enrolled in advanced educational programming has not increased. After an in-depth review of the extant literature, it is evident that…

The present case centers on a socioscientific issues-based lesson taught by a preservice teacher (PST) in an AP Biology class. The PST designed and delivered a lesson on disease transmission and ways to avoid infection with connections to the COVID-19 pandemic mask mandates and vaccine reticence. The Principal received several emails from parents…

International Mindedness (IM) is recognised as being a key component of an international education (Hill, 2015). However, IM is also acknowledged as an 'under-reported and under-researched aspect of elite [international] education' (Bunnell et al, 2020). This has led to the concept being described as 'enigmatic and under-defined' by researchers…

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to explore to get an understanding of a social studies teacher's approach to media literacy including factors that inform her teaching and the students' understanding of her instructional practices. The participants of the study were one social studies' teacher and six students from her U.S. History…

As a veteran pedagogue of AP World History courses who integrates the aesthetics within my instruction, I have witnessed how this integration has helped my students advance their emotional intelligence, develop historical literacy skills, and obtain a three or better in the AP World History exam. (Five is the highest score that students can…

This dissertation uses practitioner inquiry (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999, 2009), narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 1990; Rolling & Bey, 2016; Schaafsma & Vinz, 2011; Toliver, 2020a), composite character counter storytelling (Baker-Bell, 2020), and critical discourse analysis (Bloome et al., 2008; Bloome & Power-Carter,…

The current political trends to ban the teaching of race and racism in public schools, to eliminate Advanced Placement African American Studies classes, and to whitewash U.S. history standards, maintain hegemonic discourses, while simultaneously devaluing the teaching of Black histories and sanitizing the legacy of race and racism in U.S. society.…

In US-based postsecondary education, first-year students commonly have their compositional ability consequentially assessed on the basis of standardized tests. As a result, students who score above certain thresholds on ACT, SAT, or AP exams often are placed into honors or remedial courses; receive credit remissions; and/or test out of general…