This study investigates the impact of Communities of Practice (CoPs) on the professional development of Chinese teachers, focusing on collaborative learning, skill development, and job satisfaction within the unique cultural context of Chinese education. Using a mixed-methods longitudinal design, the research spanned 18 months and involved 135…

Research indicates that student leadership and peer-to-peer mentoring enhance the highimpact practice of student service-learning. This article explores the successful implementation of a community-based learning teaching assistant program by a community-engaged office at a four-year liberal arts institution. It discusses the program's…

This innovation in practice paper describes an approach to adult leadership learning that combines video conference technology and leadership coaching to advance meaningful work-based civic and organizational leadership development. This paper is organized into three sections. First, we operationalize Leadership-As-Practice (LAP),…

Going to college has consistently conferred a large wage premium. We show that the relative premium received by lower-income Americans has halved since 1960. We decompose this steady rise in 'collegiate regressivity' using dozens of survey and administrative datasets documenting 1900-2020 wage premiums and the composition and value-added of…

The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program aims to reduce youth substance use by fostering multi-sector collaboration and implementing locally tailored strategies within the community. This study is among the first to evaluate the program's impact on youth development outcomes in the United States. Using the Callaway and Sant'Anna (2021)…

Faculty often play a key role in vertical transfer (student transfer from community college associate- degree programs to bachelor's-degree programs), including preparing students academically, advising them, and evaluating their transfer credits. However, faculty's knowledge and views about transfer have received little formal study. The current…

Policymakers, campus leaders, and faculty have increasingly turned to inquiry-based racial equity professional development (IB-REPD) to foster race-related learning and change to address racially unequal student outcomes. This study examines how white community college math faculty participating in a two-year IB-REPD navigated challenges in fully…

"Raising a Nation" offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child care program, family member, or have a parent as the primary child care provider. Thanks to a history of neglect, child care in America…

ResilienceMT is a NOAA-funded education effort to cultivate Montana communities' resilience to drought, wildfire and smoke, extreme heat, and flooding. Led by the University of Montana, the project partners include several Montana rural and tribal communities as well as Montana State University. With current and predicted impacts of the changing…

Iowa State University (ISU) is a public, four-year university in Eastern Iowa. About one-third of full-time faculty at ISU are in VITAL roles, positions they refer to as term faculty. Term faculty have promotion line opportunities that mirror tenure-line faculty; across five specialized roles (teaching, practice, clinical, research, and adjunct),…

NC Reconnect, an effort of the John M. Belk Endowment (JMBE), aims to engage or reengage adult learners over the age of 25 in North Carolina's community colleges to bridge the postsecondary education attainment gap and improve economic mobility within the state. This paper applies the Five P Framework to examine processes at 15 community colleges…

Teachers' professional identity is shaped by a range of factors. Active participation in professional learning opportunities is one such factor. The purpose of this case study is to bring teachers' voice to the forefront and present the considered reflections of a small group of Zambian teachers, following their engagement with the Zambian…

Dialogic gatherings have proven to be effective educational interventions for fostering proactive learning attitudes, deepening understanding, and promoting prosocial behaviour. This study examines the impact of artistic dialogic gatherings (ADG) on pre-service teachers, focusing on their self-perceived improvements in visual literacy and critical…

This paper explores how a small but growing number of schools in England are gradually extending their roles to act as, what I term, agents of "slow renewal": supporting long-term change in children's complex family and community environments, through a series of strategically-aligned, small-scale, locally-bespoke actions, intentionally…

Background: Chronic care management (CCM) and community health worker (CHW) interventions hold promise for managing complex chronic conditions such as diabetes and related comorbidities. This qualitative study examines facilitators and barriers to the implementation of an expanded CCM intervention that explicitly incorporated program staff, clinic…