Phi Delta Kappan

Papers
(The median citation count of Phi Delta Kappan is 0. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Purposeful moments and planned journeys spark student curiosity60
Students Speak Up: What people should know about schools20
Poll Points: Public opinion on AI in schools19
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International19
POLICY SOLUTIONS: Should school board elections be partisan?18
Building a bridge to the future: A conversation with 2024 National Teacher of the Year Missy Testerman15
The Emotional Side of Learning a New Language12
BOOKSHELF: Kappan authors on their favorite reads12
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to motivate an apathetic student11
Conflict-competent leadership10
Backtalk: Teaching historical reasoning helps democracy thrive10
Policy Solutions: Reimagining assessment to be accountable to the student9
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme9
EDITOR’S NOTE: The future of education is bright9
Key lessons from research about project-based teaching and learning8
How do we teach honesty in a dishonest world?8
On Leadership: A solid transition process helps new leaders chart a clear course forward8
Career Confidential: Veteran educator wonders, ‘Is it too late to start over?’8
Career Confidential: Staff members are rude to principal when they dislike his decisions8
Motivating adolescents to read7
Policy Solutions: Should superintendents be elected?7
Under The Law: Oklahoma!7
Authentic student voice at the board table: A conversation with Jennifer Tran of the National Student Board Member Association6
Accountability for long-term English learners6
POLL POINTS: Broad support for workforce preparation6
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads6
Public opinion and the teaching profession5
Measuring the Quality of the Teacher Workforce5
Leadership communities for teacher retention5
BOOSTing new teacher success5
Leading for mindfulness5
The magic of seeing yourself in books5
Career Confidential: Principal lets students get away with too much5
The importance of early literacy screening5
Learning with Leaders: Education is the way: Tony Thurmond5
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: How to encourage students to reflect and self-assess5
PDK POLL POINTS: Is there eroding confidence in America’s public schools?5
STUDENT VOICE: Will future teachers use AI in the classroom?5
THE EDITOR’S NOTE: Math, mindset, and identity4
Leading through crisis4
Under the Law: School accountability: Lessons from the courts4
Policy Solutions: What should we make of book bans?4
Stressed, tired, and yearning for support4
What middle schoolers need: Respect, accountability, and grace4
The Editor’s Note: Stepping outside the little boxes4
Empowering educators through team-based staffing models4
Artistic License: Celebrating the talents of students and educators4
The Editor’s Note: The work of leaders4
Career Confidential: Teacher distracted by ‘loud’ classroom next door3
PDK CONNECTION: Thanks to our Educators Rising Champions3
Backtalk: The harm in assessment-backward practices3
BACKTALK: Examining the concept of balance with instructional technology3
The rural teacher shortage3
Letting go of what doesn’t work in education: A conversation with Rick Ginsberg and Yong Zhao3
The Editor’s Note: No easy answers on safety3
Building a bilingual teacher pathway3
Taking a LEAP toward community-engaged leadership3
The State Playbook for Teacher Recruitment, Development, and Retention3
The Editor’s Note: Chasing what matters3
The translanguaging school3
Resisting racism in school3
Poll Points: Digging deeper into 2023 PDK Poll results3
The Expectations and Aspirations of the Gen Z Education Student3
The rise and stall of standards-based reform3
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to support students with test anxiety3
Learning with Leaders: Partnering for innovation and growth: Shaun Nelms2
Under The Law: The Israel-Hamas war and U.S. classrooms2
First Person: The Happy Farm: Igniting the flame of knowledge in children2
Clearing up misconceptions about project-based learning2
Career Confidential: Parents blaming teacher for child’s misbehavior2
Structures for continuous improvement in principal preparation2
Reframing trauma-informed practices2
Career Confidential: Teacher wants to motivate an apathetic student2
Career Confidential: Teacher frustrated district ‘undervalues’ the arts2
Helping Next-Gen Educators Cross the Teaching Tightrope2
A Habits of Mind Culture Promotes Teacher Growth and Change2
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International2
PDK Connection: Heritage News2
PDK CONNECTION: From the CEO: Dreaming of Summer2
Helping students be ‘happier and less worried’: A conversation with Elizabeth Englander2
The Editor’s Note: There’s opportunity in the middle2
Under the Law: Is there a sports advantage in suburbia?2
Designing teacher leadership for school improvement2
Putting evidence on CTE to work2
An AI wishlist from school leaders2
What do adults know about public education?2
Using diagnostic assessments to improve data use2
Five key questions educators ask about SEL2
First Person: Lamenting Earl — and other chronically absent students2
Industry-recognized certifications for college- and career-readiness2
Career Confidential: Teaching assistant won’t address unwanted behaviors2
Creating a space for regulation and reflection2
Employing School Librarians: What Decision-Makers Tell Us2
Local success in the standards era2
Career Confidential: Teacher overheard students complain about his breath2
BACKTALK: Finding the sweet spot between curriculum fidelity and teacher agency2
Reimagining the teaching profession — with teachers and students together2
Fostering student agency to transform education2
PDK Poll of Public’s Attitudes Toward Public Schools: Local public school ratings rise, even as the teaching profession loses ground1
Engaging, motivating, and supporting students through feedback1
Helping students to learn and grow1
Under The Law: Recent developments in the quest for racial diversity in K-12 schools1
Connecting the dots between rigor and learning1
Students Speak Up: How can schools help prepare students for careers?1
A reading board for literacy justice1
Poll Points: Who should influence what’s taught?1
Students Speak Up: How students are learning to lead1
First Person: How I gamified my classroom1
Students Speak Up: The changes students want1
Students Speak Up: How teachers can help middle schoolers1
Under the Law: Virtually an education1
Professional development for the science of reading1
Sustaining the Special Education Workforce: Gen Z Edition1
How a university and a school district made change together1
‘It does happen here’1
Career Confidential: Teacher is losing patience with misbehaving students1
What does effective high-quality preschool curriculum look like?1
BOOKSHELF: Kappan authors on their favorite reads Mindset: The New Psychology of SuccessBy DweckCarol S. (Ballantine Books, 2006)1
Thinking through research and the science of reading1
Why teachers stay: Lessons from high-retention districts1
Gifted education advances school integration and equity1
Collaborative deliberation in the classroom1
Special feature: Inside the Educators Rising Curriculum: Flexibility, purpose, and a pathway to teaching1
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads1
On Leadership: What should students learn?1
On Leadership: Expectations and exceptions1
PDK Connection - Heritage News1
TEACHERS AS LEADERS: A conversation with Oregon Teacher of the Year1
Four years, no fluency1
Evolving demands on teachers1
On Leadership: Getting the community on the path toward equity1
Poll Points: Public priorities for education1
Students Speak Up: Supporting students who are learning English1
Collaborate with generative AI to improve classroom assessments1
School safety for all students1
Keeping the Vietnamese language alive1
Students Speak Up: Identifying good teachers1
Time well spent? Teacher perspectives on time-saving reforms1
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: Helping new teachers succeed1
Lessons from the early literacy tutoring landscape1
Addressing inconsistencies in grading practices1
Policy Solutions: Was the LeBron James school a false promise?1
Equity-centered school leaders1
BACKTALK: The caring teacher paradox1
BROWSING: Further thoughts on this month’s theme1
Students Speak Up: What future educators want1
Poll Points: Education and the election1
First Person: Lessons in obedience — and resistance1
How Coaches Get In1
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads1
Policy Solutions: The case for sensory civics education1
Policy Solutions: It’s more than money: Supporting the Black school1
Educator resistance to curricular control1
Under The Law: The legal fight to preserve public education — and democracy1
Learning with Leaders: Bringing the village together: John B. Gordon III1
Students Speak Up: Why come to school?1
Under The Law: The incredibly shrinking zone of teacher free speech1
A new North Star1
Can artificial intelligence spark an education Renaissance?1
On dead classrooms0
New Teachers in Rural America0
Mini-observations 2.00
The 57th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools0
What a study of educator evaluation taught us about professional learning0
Loudest voices and unequal opportunities in the suburbs: A conversation with John B. Diamond0
Students Speak Up: How can schools support student mental health?0
BROWSING: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
A design course for every student0
Re-engaging students in the post-pandemic era0
Good conflict0
Career Confidential: Teacher is lonely at work0
Policy Solutions: Policy questions for ChatGPT and artificial intelligence0
Possibilities of student voice0
Changing the school system improvement narrative0
Talking the technology talk0
Caring coaching: Centering teachers in practice0
The Editor’s Note: It’s time to listen to educators0
Editor’s Note: Always room to grow0
Developing deep learning in students at risk: Enhancing understanding0
What the ‘lost generation’ found: Film-based literacy0
The path of a principal: A conversation with Sham Bevel0
Boys and the humanities: Making the twain meet0
Under the Law: CTE: A checkered legal history0
The Editor’s Note: There’s opportunity in the middle0
Under The Law: Affirmative retraction0
The future of student teaching0
No more nice mentors0
BACKTALK: Balancing new technologies with proven instructional strategies0
Play-based learning for elementary classrooms0
BROWSING: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Busting myths about professional judgment and subjectivity in assessment0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Academic Resilience and Education Governance in a Post-Pandemic World0
Backtalk: Educate, don’t erase0
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: An instructional coach wants to help teachers with learning targets0
Students Speak Up: What helps students feel safe?0
PDK Connection: Organizational news about PDK International0
FIRST PERSON: Never-too-late basketball0
CAREER CONFIDENTIAL: How do we help students overcome the 'I can'ts'?0
Under the Law: Title IX and the SCOTUS power grab0
The network path to mastery learning0
Parents’ rights, yes. But parent responsibilities, too0
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads0
Under the Law: Public schools, religion, and equality after Carson v. Makin0
Backtalk: Academic jargon and the illusion of objectivity0
Under The Law: Boys, men, and Title IX0
INSIDE INSTRUCTION: Language is leadership: How teacher talk shapes team thinking and instructional action0
Classroom communities for everyone0
PDK CONNECTION: Strategic planning and the future of PDK membership0
Free books to close the reading achievement gap0
Professional development tune-up0
The Editor’s Note: Change for the change-averse0
Policy Solutions: Policy, not politics0
Career Confidential: Math teacher wants to help risk-averse male students0
Backtalk: What principals need to know to respond to a crisis0
School accountability: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow0
Students Speak Up: What helped you learn last year?0
Rethinking school time0
Cheating: The AI elephant in the classroom0
Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads0
FIRST PERSON: What being a gifted kid didn’t teach me about leading schools0
Teach all Standards0
THE EDITOR’S NOTE: How we measure student progress0
The Editor’s Note: A culture of healing0
EDITOR’S NOTE: AI in education: Revolution or bubble?0
Policy Solutions: Defying the gravitational pull of education politics0
THE EDITOR’S NOTE: What does resistance mean?0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
A crisis of mattering: A conversation with Angela Maiers0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Policy Solutions: Education policy reform for the hip-hop era0
Growth mindset & intellectual risk-taking: Disentangling conflated concepts0
How change-making teachers create bottom-up reforms0
Reaching for consensus about preschool curricula0
Students Speak Up: What keeps students motivated?0
Backtalk: Corrupting our youth?0
Kappan call for manuscripts, 2024-250
Talking back to the failing-schools narrative0
Why teachers leave: It isn’t what you think0
Where is motivation in the science of reading?0
Backtalk: Removing artificial barriers to licensure could ease the teacher shortage0
Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme0
Needed: More school psychologists0
How research-practice partnerships meet high-performing teachers’ needs0
‘You just have to get through it’: Letting go of enduring stereotypes about middle school0
Train new principals like THEY work0
TEACHERS AS LEADERS: A conversation with National Teacher of the Year0
Under the Law: School safety: A legal labyrinth0
Tackling negative thinking in the classroom0
We need to know more about CTE teachers0
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