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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons from a co-design team on supporting student motivation in middle school science classrooms	54
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	31
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	22
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	22
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	22
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	20
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	19
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	18
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	18
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	15
You matter here: The impact of asset-based pedagogies on learning	14
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	14
Creating conditions for social-emotional learning: An ecological framework	13
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	13
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	12
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	11
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	11
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	11
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	10
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	10
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	10
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	10
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	10
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	9
Strategies for alleviating students’ math anxiety: Control-value theory in practice	8

Interrogating the “gold standard”: Play-based early childhood education and perpetuating white supremacy	8
The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	8
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	8
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	8
Creating spaces for emotional justice in culturally sustaining literacy education: Implications for policy & practice	7
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	6
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	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
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	5
Education and the political: The possibilities and constraints of political education in an (un)democratic world	5
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	5
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	5
Linguistic policies for African American language speakers: Moving from anti-Blackness to pro-Blackness	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	5
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	4
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	4
Civic reasoning through paranoid and reparative reading: Addressing conspiracy theories within racialized and queer publics	4
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	4
Developing collective teacher efficacy in mathematics through professional learning	4
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	4
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	4
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	4
This issue	4
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	4
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4
Beyond left and right: Learning is a whole-brain process	4
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations	3
When enactive learning went missing, vicarious learning became a must	3
“Don’t smile until December”: Bad advice based on the either-or fallacy	3
Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy	3
Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education	3
Considerations for improving racial equity in schools: Applying a cultural historical framework	3
“Authority must be on the side of freedom”: The relationship between teachers’ authority and Black and Latinx students’ political agency in challenging racism	3
Improving Black student outcomes: The multifaceted role of psychology professors in higher education	3
Enhancing motivation by developing cyclical self-regulated learning skills	3
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	3
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	3
“Why didn’t I know this?”: Land education as an antidote to settler colonialism in early childhood teacher education	3
Leveraging motivation theory for research and practice with students with learning disabilities	2
Dialogic space as liminal space for love: How one elementary teacher opened doors for widening community and perspective through letter writing	2
Where’s the data to support educators’ data use for instructional practice?	2
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	2
Playing the system: Advocacy for play equity in early childhood education	2
Introduction to the special issue: Homeplace and Black Joy in K-12 education	2
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd’s America	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2

“You can’t cram for this kind of education”: Centering Indigenous Elder pedagogy to reclaim respectful and socially just education	2
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	2
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
Addressing student motivation and learning experiences when taking teaching online	2
Anti-racism is not an initiative: How professional learning communities may advance equity and social-emotional learning in schools	2
Affinity groups to build homeplace and cultural humility practices of white school counselors	2
Boosting children’s math self-efficacy by enriching their growth mindsets and gender-fair beliefs	2
Linking arms across districts: Accountability and support in cross-district teacher collaboration	2
Facilitating student argumentation around socioscientific issues through productive discourse and negotiation toward consensus	2
Interest development, self-related information processing, and practice	2
Centering students’ thinking with the rights of the learner to counter deficit narratives in mathematics	2
The new normal: How virtual learning can benefit K-12 students	2
“Storying” from special education classroom: Centering voices from accessible-interdependence-intimacy as interdisciplinary justice in pedagogical practices	2
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	2
How role models can diversify college students in STEM: A social-cognitive perspective	2
Is standards-based grading effective?	2