... has special needs, particularly mobility impairments. Governmental and private schools provide services for children with special needs, focusing on inclusive educational programs. However, there is a desire to promote blended education with peers with special needs. This chapter aims to investigate...

... teacher attrition classroom experiences mentee student performance schools Teachers leave the profession or change schools for various reasons ranging from poor working conditions to inadequate salaries. Attrition among novice teachers, however, is exceptionally high. For example, Papay et al. (2017...

... and utilized the platform. Teaching methods education technology customized learning schools primary instructional texts One fall, the principal visited a classroom to see how students were doing. The students were watching videos with headsets on. Everyone was watching the same kind of material...

...Writing development emergent bilinguals translanguaging corriente education schools educators Introduction Too often, discussions about teaching writing gloss over the process of learning to write. Elementary writing curricula, if available at all, might highlight steps for independent...

..., as well as familial and community knowledge are centered. In a bilingual classroom, the corriente is how bilingual learners’ use all their linguistic resources and alternative ways of meaning making to engage with content in schools in a synchronized and purposeful dynamic flow ( García et al., 2017...

... during writing. Writing development emergent bilinguals translanguaging Corriente education schools educators Setting the Scene This chapter is my opportunity to puzzle through the dynamic corriente of language I saw on publication day, looking backwards through Maya’s bilingual writing process...

... education schools educators Introduction Figure 4.1 Drawing bunnies. In Figure 4.1 , Zoey and Hilda (all names are pseudonyms) were sitting next to each other as they usually did in every session of the afterschool writing program. They were working on coloring their drawings of the spaces...

... can experiment with moving freely between languages and modes during the composition process. Writing development emergent bilinguals translanguaging Corriente education schools educators Introduction The data analyzed in this chapter were part of a larger qualitative case study of Family...

... schools educators Introduction After our discussion, Monet, a 6th-grade escritora, notebook in hand, read the poem at the beginning of this chapter. In Monet’s poem, “My Languages,” she describes the linguistic terrorism ( Anzaldúa, 1987 ) she experienced as a young self-identified Mexican American girl...

... Andar At the time of the study, Ana, Marisol, and Ashley were bilingual coaches in a suburban district close to a large metropolitan area in the Midwest. The DLBE program in their district was available in four elementary and two middle schools. Alumni from the DLBE program had access to Spanish...

...Abstract This chapter is a retrospective analysis of the implementation of translanguaging theory to writing pedagogy during an after-school writing club with multilingual elementary students (Grades 1–6). The chapter explores two defining moments that led to an autoethnographic examination...

... student who had turned in a visual sketch-notes style one-pager as their final assignment—had made her reflect on her drive to “get the highest grade and perform well in school.” She said: I coded the data using qualitative methods ( Saldaña, 2021 ), first utilizing codes related to my previous research...

...Abstract Chapter 3, Reuniting Parents and Children, explains how the people of the Paradise Unified School District (PUSD), assisted by volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, kept the students safe, warm, and fed at the evacuation sites. It also describes...

...Abstract Chapter 7, Embracing Radical Empathy, is coauthor Jess Mercer’s first-person account of her trauma-informed art education practice with the Paradise Unified School District schools. Jess describes her personal experience of the Fire, focusing on how her personal history prepared...

...This chapter explores the learning experience of a teacher who returned to his previous school to conduct research. The research aim was to investigate the efficacy of a recently introduced mental health school strategy from the students’ viewpoint. Initial research concepts were to collect student...

... a quantitative survey among educators and qualitative interviews of school proprietors, principals and management staff of privately owned elementary and high schools, as well as education inspectors, the researchers ascertain the levels of government engagement with players in this sector on the topic...

... traces the earliest origins of the Pathfinder to the care and support roles of his early career before he began his social work training. These jobs – first in residential care homes and then, later, in special schools and one mainstream school – had certain features in common: they involved taking a key...

...Abstract Pupils identified with SEND represent a significant proportion of the school community, comprising four children (on average) in every classroom. Yet, evidence suggests a wide variation in provision and common instances of pupils’ learning and mental health needs being missed or not being...

... student across different types of schools and educational settings. This chapter examines the distribution of Traveller students across mainstream and alternative education settings in Ireland, and how this distribution varies across different types of schools and centres. Using data from the Growing Up...

...Abstract The issue of dropout looms large in the context of school education in India despite various flagship programs that have been initiated in school education. According to U-DISE report (2019–2020), girls drop out more than boys at the upper primary level. An analysis of the dropout problem...