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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced-based practices with Black and Latinx youth in the legal system	28
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	27
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	25
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	23
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	22
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	21
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	19
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	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	17
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	15
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	14
Realizing the possibilities of the large language models: Strategies for prompt engineering in educational inquiries	13
Creating conditions for social-emotional learning: An ecological framework	12
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	12
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	11
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	9
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	9
Navigating the AI-enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators	9
Using AI to boost evidence-based teaching and learning: A collaborative approach across a network of schools	8
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	8
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	8
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	7
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	7
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	7

Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	7
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	7
The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	7
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	7
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	6
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	6
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	6
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	6
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	6
The Racialized Control of Latinx Immigrant Students	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
The role of artificial intelligence in modernizing multi-tiered systems of support	6
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	5
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	5
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	5
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	5
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	5
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	5
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	5
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	4
Developing collective teacher efficacy in mathematics through professional learning	4
“Don’t smile until December”: Bad advice based on the either-or fallacy	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4
This issue	4
When enactive learning went missing, vicarious learning became a must	4
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations	4
Healing-centered alternative schools: Addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black and Latino/x young men	4
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	4
Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education	4
Beyond left and right: Learning is a whole-brain process	4
“You can’t cram for this kind of education”: Centering Indigenous Elder pedagogy to reclaim respectful and socially just education	3
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	3
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	3
Towards an Afro-Asian Futurist solidarity: Taking off my shoes in the home of Black Language as a Chinese American scholar	3
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	3
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	3
Towards transnational solidarity: Transnational funds of knowledge as counterstory to epistemic injustice	3
Improving Black student outcomes: The multifaceted role of psychology professors in higher education	3
“Storying” from special education classroom: Centering voices from accessible-interdependence-intimacy as interdisciplinary justice in pedagogical practices	3
Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy	3
Considerations for improving racial equity in schools: Applying a cultural historical framework	3
Looking, listening, leaning into the insights of youth: Building solidarity in the classroom	3
Where’s the data to support educators’ data use for instructional practice?	3
Replace or repair: Exploring possible methods for improving school governance	2
Tracing the threads of research to establish equitable and culturally appropriate pedagogical practices within mathematical interactions and discourse for all learners	2
The contribution of social cognitive theory to school bullying research and practice	2
More than homework help: The critical role of afterschool programs for youth learning and development	2

Centering dignitary safety in curriculum challenges: A heuristic for school administrators	2
Large language model AI-guided creative writing co-creation in secondary schools	2
Transforming dialogic teaching-and-learning practices in education	2
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	2
Dialogic space as liminal space for love: How one elementary teacher opened doors for widening community and perspective through letter writing	2
The new normal: How virtual learning can benefit K-12 students	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2
Blurring the boundaries: Opening and sustaining dialogic spaces	2
Introduction to the special issue: Homeplace and Black Joy in K-12 education	2
Fibrous solidarity: Narratives in digital spaces as pathways to solidarity among immigrant communities	2
Who speaks for whom? The right to the word and why it matters	2
Affinity groups to build homeplace and cultural humility practices of white school counselors	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Anti-racism is not an initiative: How professional learning communities may advance equity and social-emotional learning in schools	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
Is standards-based grading effective?	2
The collective radical curation of solidarity in arts-based research with Girls and Femmes of Color	2
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions	2
Dialogic space: An introduction	2
Mending the intersectional gap: Supporting emergent multilinguals labeled as disabled through translanguaging and Universal Design for Learning	2
Coaching wellness, health, and success: Leveraging the potential of Black male coaches to promote positive outcomes for Black K-12 students	2
Facilitating student argumentation around socioscientific issues through productive discourse and negotiation toward consensus	2
How role models can diversify college students in STEM: A social-cognitive perspective	2
Playing the system: Advocacy for play equity in early childhood education	2
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	2
Centering students’ thinking with the rights of the learner to counter deficit narratives in mathematics	2