OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory Into Practice is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	28
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	24
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
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	21
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced-based practices with Black and Latinx youth in the legal system	19
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	18
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	17
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	16
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	15
Realizing the possibilities of the large language models: Strategies for prompt engineering in educational inquiries	14
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	12
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	12
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	11
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	10
Creating conditions for social-emotional learning: An ecological framework	10
Navigating the AI-enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators	9
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	9
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	9
Using AI to boost evidence-based teaching and learning: A collaborative approach across a network of schools	8
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	7
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	7
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	7
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	7
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	6

Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	6
The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	6
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	6
The role of artificial intelligence in modernizing Multi-tiered systems of support	5
Education and the political: The possibilities and constraints of political education in an (un)democratic world	5
Social studies curriculum in an era of state-restricted civic participation: Responding to Texas Senate Bill 3 with the Rights of the Learner	5
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	5
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	5
The Racialized Control of Latinx Immigrant Students	5
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	5
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	5
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	5
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	5
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	5
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5