OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory Into Practice is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced-based practices with Black and Latinx youth in the legal system	35
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	26
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	23
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	23
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	23
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	22
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	21
Preservice elementary teacher feedback for dialogic communities of joy in differentiated small group literacy instruction	17
Building critical allies through critical race English education in Mississippi	16
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	13
Realizing the possibilities of the large language models: Strategies for prompt engineering in educational inquiries	12
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	12
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	11
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	10
Navigating the AI-enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators	10
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	10
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	10
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	10
Teacher evaluation feedback as a lever to support teacher autonomy and retention	10
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	10
Using AI to boost evidence-based teaching and learning: A collaborative approach across a network of schools	9
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	9
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	9
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	8
The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	8

Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	8
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	7
From prompt to context: Multi-theoretical ChatGPT design for teacher feedback in K-12 engineering terminology instruction	7
The Racialized Control of Latinx Immigrant Students	7
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	7
The role of artificial intelligence in modernizing multi-tiered systems of support	7
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	6
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	6
Moving critical conversations from talk to action: Engaging a campus community in what it means to be anti-racist	6
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	6
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	6
Social studies curriculum in an era of state-restricted civic participation: Responding to Texas Senate Bill 3 with the Rights of the Learner	6
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	6
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	5
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	5
This issue	5
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	5
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	5
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	5
Healing-centered alternative schools: Addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black and Latino/x young men	5
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	5
Communities of practice as a pathway to enhance discipline-specific feedback	5
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	5
Beyond left and right: Learning is a whole-brain process	4
When enactive learning went missing, vicarious learning became a must	4
Considerations for improving racial equity in schools: Applying a cultural historical framework	4
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	4
Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education	4
“Don’t smile until December”: Bad advice based on the either-or fallacy	4
Towards transnational solidarity: Transnational funds of knowledge as counterstory to epistemic injustice	4
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	4
Developing collective teacher efficacy in mathematics through professional learning	4
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations	4
Looking, listening, leaning into the insights of youth: Building solidarity in the classroom	4
The new normal: How virtual learning can benefit K-12 students	3
Dialogic space as liminal space for love: How one elementary teacher opened doors for widening community and perspective through letter writing	3
Improving Black student outcomes: The multifaceted role of psychology professors in higher education	3
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	3
The power of reflective feedback	3
“Storying” from special education classroom: Centering voices from accessible-interdependence-intimacy as interdisciplinary justice in pedagogical practices	3
The collective radical curation of solidarity in arts-based research with Girls and Femmes of Color	3
Where’s the data to support educators’ data use for instructional practice?	3
Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy	3
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	3
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	3
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	3
Centering students’ thinking with the rights of the learner to counter deficit narratives in mathematics	3
Towards an Afro-Asian Futurist solidarity: Taking off my shoes in the home of Black Language as a Chinese American scholar	3

“You can’t cram for this kind of education”: Centering Indigenous Elder pedagogy to reclaim respectful and socially just education	3
Is standards-based grading effective?	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions	2
Coaching wellness, health, and success: Leveraging the potential of Black male coaches to promote positive outcomes for Black K-12 students	2
La Sabiduría de mamá: Puerto Rican mothers’ voices for more equitable education	2
The contribution of social cognitive theory to school bullying research and practice	2
Fibrous solidarity: Narratives in digital spaces as pathways to solidarity among immigrant communities	2
Replace or repair: Exploring possible methods for improving school governance	2
Who speaks for whom? The right to the word and why it matters	2
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	2
Large language model AI-guided creative writing co-creation in secondary schools	2
Introduction to the special issue: Homeplace and Black Joy in K-12 education	2
More than homework help: The critical role of afterschool programs for youth learning and development	2
Dialogic space: An introduction	2
Mending the intersectional gap: Supporting emergent multilinguals labeled as disabled through translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning	2
Affinity groups to build homeplace and cultural humility practices of white school counselors	2
Facilitating student argumentation around socioscientific issues through productive discourse and negotiation toward consensus	2
Playing the system: Advocacy for play equity in early childhood education	2
How role models can diversify college students in STEM: A social-cognitive perspective	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Centering dignitary safety in curriculum challenges: A heuristic for school administrators	2
Transforming dialogic teaching-and-learning practices in education	2
Blurring the boundaries: Opening and sustaining dialogic spaces	2