School counselors are the first personnel called on in a school to provide daily student mental health support. However, complications such as additional non-counseling duties and high student to counselor ratios exist which limit the time school counselors have available to support student mental health needs. While the number of youths needing…

In my post-qualitative inquiry, I investigated four middle school mathematics teachers' curriculum work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Curriculum has been undergoing a transformation as teachers have greater access to online resources and digital tools (Pepin et al., 2017; Webel et al., 2015). The transformation was further exacerbated by the…

Environmental Education (EE) has an overall goal of fostering eco-literate citizens who are capable of building a more sustainable planet (North American Association for Environmental Education, 2019). While EE is associated with a plethora of benefits, it is still not widely implemented in the field of education due to the many types of barriers…

The body of research on the importance of non-cognitive skills in middle school shows that emphasizing these skills diminish after elementary grades. Further, there is a lack of standard policy and framework for directly integrating these skills in middle schools. The purpose of this quantitative exploratory study was to gain a better…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the collaboration between ESL and English composition instructors at the community college level using the Kolb and Gray (2005) collaboration leadership model in the areas of common mission, collective responsibility, necessary resources, respective and supportive climate, awareness of group…

The problem addressed by this study was the commonly held belief that lack of confidence, preparedness, educational neuromyths, and little or no professional development are factors that impede early childhood teachers' implementation of brain-based learning strategies in the daily curriculum design structure. This qualitative narrative inquiry…

Artificial intelligence (AI) aims to build intelligent systems that can interact with and assist humans. During the interaction, a system learns the requirements from the human user and adapts to the needs to complete tasks. A popular type of interactive system is retrieval-based, where the system uses a retrieval function to retrieve relevant…

Conversations about workforce development in the construction industry are centered around improving the construction trade skills of displaced workers or other unskilled or untrained individuals. Rarely will that conversation focus on the administrative skills necessary for contractor success, particularly in public works construction where…

Decades of research have elucidated the practices associated with effective professional development (PD) for educators, yet evidence suggests that school practices in the United States do not regularly meet these criteria, and even when they do, they may not have the desired effect on student outcomes (Darling-Hammond et al., 2017; Didion et al.,…

All-women's leadership programs support the advancement of women's leadership abilities and increase the possibilities for promotion. Military leadership programs are comprehensive, and students depart with lifelong appreciation for high morals, respect for ethical standards, and well-defined leadership practices. This generic qualitative inquiry…

Teaching is a specific type of profession with a specific mission. In this study, the motivation level of primary school teachers in Slovakia in the period from 2015 to 2020 was analyzed. A total of 1189 Slovak teachers with a stratified selection were addressed. Cronbach's Alpha, Tukey's HSD (honest significant difference), and ANOVA were used to…

Transparent assignment design is shown to increase students' potential to succeed while reducing inequities in the learning process (Winkelmes et al., 2016). Higher education institutions have used transparent assignment design techniques to enhance learning and student engagement in the classroom. Building on the work of Winkelmes, faculty…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study, examine and apply lean management principles to the curriculum revision and internship placement process in an academic program at an institution of higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This paper consists of two sections. The first section reviews the literature on lean principles, lean…

Whether it is 1968 or 2020, there appears to be a consistency within public education that may be impacting America: poverty levels can have a dramatic impact on academic performance. However, there are some school districts that have been able to achieve success despite the various challenges that come with a high-poverty community. This bounded…

Calls for accountability continue for higher education institutions by internal and external stakeholders. College and university budgets continue to flatline or shrink, and often co-curricular programs can bear the weight of the budget cuts. There is a need for a reporting metric that shows more than the financial value of these programs as well…