Social work globally acknowledges its need to decolonise its education to produce social workers who can work responsively alongside marginalised Indigenous peoples. Yet the problem is that universities have struggled to operationalise the integration of Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing into social work education. Uniquely, this study…

What should newly graduating school counselors do? The research is clear that six key behaviors will develop and maintain who they are. The professional identity of school counselors is important because of the impact school counselors have on students and the school environment. When school counselors understand their roles, engage in continuous…

Purpose: The purpose of this Delphi study was to identify the competencies that early care and education systems leaders should possess as perceived by a panel of early childhood systems leadership experts. This study also identified which leadership competencies experts perceive will have the most impact on transformation of the field into an…

The purpose of this explanatory case study will be to understand the decision-making process used to select formative assessment strategies and the influences on subsequent instructional design. This study will be conducted through the lens of the Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) where activity is directed towards a physical or…

Distributed leadership is being implemented in many international schools. However, it is unclear how teacher leaders are experiencing interactions with their colleagues within this model of leadership. The purpose of this descriptive case study was to understand how teacher leaders describe their experiences interacting with their colleagues…

Maternal mortality remains a major challenge to health system worldwide. This problem requires the attention of health practitioners and health professional educators including midwives. Effective clinical decision making is among the most important skills required by healthcare practitioners in the intra-profession and interprofessional context.…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the key role of WhatsApp as WhatsApp-customer relationship management (w-CRM) for strengthening the relationship in the education sector. The paper is exploratory in nature. Design/methodology/approach: A self-administered questionnaire was developed with 20 items for four latent constructs. The…

Realizing their coaching program was not having desired effects for teachers or for students' achievement, leaders in the Manor School District in Texas revamped the district's coaching program. They created two "communities" encompassing all coaches in the district (since district schools were each doing their own thing with regard to…

Purpose: Dialect-shifting has shown promise as an effective way to improve academic outcomes of students who speak nonmainstream dialects such as African American English (AAE); however, limited studies have examined the impacts of an interprofessional approach with multiple instructional methods. In this study, we developed a dialect-shifting…

The College of Health, Psychology, and Social Care at the University of Derby has transformed its Interprofessional Education (IPE) offer from a top-down standalone event into a five-year strategy designed and delivered in genuine collaboration with students. Across the higher education sector, IPE has been a struggle, tokenistic at best, with…

This qualitative study uses in-depth interviewing to illuminate the experiences of nineteen faculty and build on my own experiences "teaching up" -- teaching as faculty from a traditionally marginalized group(s) about privilege -- to understand how faculty experience these situations and make meaning of them. Findings revealed racialized…

In this article, the authors describe how they "accidentally" developed an informal yet powerful way for them to connect with each other, debrief, deconstruct, detox, and demystify their respective new jobs as a department chair and college dean. They found a very natural way to connect with each other as women leaders. As two women…

To meet the grand challenge of ending homelessness, social work education programs must prepare students to effectively collaborate with other health-related disciplines. This article presents social work and nursing student perceptions of an innovative interprofessional education activity conducted at a day shelter serving people experiencing…

This study utilized scholarly personal narratives to explore the experiences and perceptions of four Black women who served as full-time contingent faculty members in higher education and student affairs graduate preparation programs. Authors drew upon Black feminist thought and intersectionality to frame this study. Specifically, authors extended…

The school counselor and principal have vital roles within a school which have a significant impact upon the way a school functions. One area of pressing conflict within principal-counselor relationships is disagreement over the appropriate role and function of the counselor. In order to investigate perceptions of the counselor role, as well as…