This dissertation examined the acculturation experience of community college international students in the hopes of providing practitioners with a guide on best support practices. Considering the important contributions international students at community colleges make to the economy and the diverse environment at community colleges, it is…

Knowledge exchange interventions are an important driver of research impact. This study examines 5 years of intensive knowledge-exchange 'reform labs' in the field of education policy. Using qualitative analysis and a regression analysis approach applied to rich case data and quantitative results, we find that the reform labs have a significant…

Through the lens of the Community of Inquiry education experience (Vaughan & Garrison, 2006), this practice report provides guidance and examples for online instructors to engage students within discussion boards in the digital realm. Five elements will be discussed: embedding multi-media, affiliative humour and storytelling, Socratic…

The challenge of integrating best practice for teaching and learning is perennial. Within an Australian context, despite increases in student satisfaction over the decades, challenges remain concerning student classroom engagement, peer collaboration and the value and use of technology. Within my own religious and theological university…

Response-to-intervention (RtI) is a multi-tiered framework designed to prevent academic difficulties by facilitating robust, research-based instruction and providing targeted or individualized short-term interventions for students at-risk per periodic screening and progress monitoring data. The cornerstone of RtI is data-based decision-making to…

When the COVID-19 occurred and classes went virtual, art education was particularly at risk because students did not have any art supplies at home. However, art teachers transformed their curriculum, adjusted expectations, and tried their best to teach art despite the isolation. Jane Brumfield Montero struggled to communicate with students and…

We investigate student listening compliance, preference for audio versus print content, and exam performance when professionally produced podcasts are assigned as "readings" and provided in both audio and print formats. Listening/reading compliance for the assigned podcasts was high compared with figures reported in previous research.…

The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) clearly outlined recommended practices for the provision of Part C services. However, there may be challenges in rural areas associated with services aligning with these recommended practices. Therefore, this study focuses on how families experience Part C services and the extent to which services align with…

Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are long-term collaborations between researchers and practitioners aimed at educational improvement and transformation through engagement with research. Yet RPPs can be challenging to implement, and even long running RPPs experience bumps in their work together. Caitlin Farrell, Laura Wentworth, and Michelle…

Navigating the tenure process can lead to psychological stress, mental health disorders, and physiological symptoms. The authors review literature addressing the challenges faced by junior counselor education faculty seeking tenure along with literature addressing best practices for academic mentoring. They propose a peer-supported group mentoring…

The proliferation of online graduate programs, and more recently, higher education institutions' moves to online interactions due to the COVID-19 crisis, have led to graduate student mentoring increasingly occurring online. Challenges, strategies, and outcomes associated with online mentoring of graduate students are of primary importance for the…

In higher education, the underachievement of minority males is consistently reflected in research, where data have shown a persistence gap separating minority males from other student groups in measures of academic progress and college completion. Campuses typically did little, if anything, to build the capacity of faculty and staff to educate and…

Background: School districts participating in the US Child Nutrition program are required to have a wellness policy. Many state agencies provide model policies to aid districts in policy creation. However, use of model wellness policies has not been associated with higher quality policies. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to assess…

The Charter School Programs (CSP) State Entities (SE) grant's primary goal is "to award grants to state entities to enable them to award subgrants to eligible applicants to enable such eligible applicants to open and prepare for the operation of new charter schools and to replicate and expand high-quality charter schools." Another…

Academics agree that indigenous peoples from throughout the world have experienced negative outcomes from research conducted by university, governmental, and private agencies (Chung-Do et al., 2019; Keaulana et al., 2019; Mataira, 2019; Smith, 2012). If not for community-based organizations' interventions, similar negative outcomes would otherwise…