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 2021-09-01 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
“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
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
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	7
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	7
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	7
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	7
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
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	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
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
This issue	4
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	4
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	4
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	4
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	4
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	4
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	4
Civic reasoning through paranoid and reparative reading: Addressing conspiracy theories within racialized and queer publics	4
Healing-centered alternative schools: Addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black and Latino/x young men	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	4
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	4
Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education	3
When enactive learning went missing, vicarious learning became a must	3
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	3
Considerations for improving racial equity in schools: Applying a cultural historical framework	3
Beyond left and right: Learning is a whole-brain process	3
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations	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
Developing collective teacher efficacy in mathematics through professional learning	3
“Don’t smile until December”: Bad advice based on the either-or fallacy	3
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	3
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2
Linking arms across districts: Accountability and support in cross-district teacher collaboration	2
Is standards-based grading effective?	2
Sustaining motivation and academic delay of gratification: Analysis and applications	2
Introduction to the special issue: Homeplace and Black Joy in K-12 education	2
Centering students’ thinking with the rights of the learner to counter deficit narratives in mathematics	2
Anti-racism is not an initiative: How professional learning communities may advance equity and social-emotional learning in schools	2
Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy	2
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	2
“Storying” from special education classroom: Centering voices from accessible-interdependence-intimacy as interdisciplinary justice in pedagogical practices	2
Affinity groups to build homeplace and cultural humility practices of white school counselors	2

Who speaks for whom? The right to the word and why it matters	2
Replace or repair: Exploring possible methods for improving school governance	2
Facilitating student argumentation around socioscientific issues through productive discourse and negotiation toward consensus	2
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions	2
The new normal: How virtual learning can benefit K-12 students	2
“You can’t cram for this kind of education”: Centering Indigenous Elder pedagogy to reclaim respectful and socially just education	2
Dialogic space as liminal space for love: How one elementary teacher opened doors for widening community and perspective through letter writing	2
Improving Black student outcomes: The multifaceted role of psychology professors in higher education	2
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	2
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom conditions that support dialogic space	2
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd’s America	2
Large language model AI-guided creative writing co-creation in secondary schools	2
Beyond fake news: Culturally relevant media literacies for a fractured civic landscape	2
How role models can diversify college students in STEM: A social-cognitive perspective	2
“Ain’t no white people have to be cultural ambassadors, right?” How a Latinx teacher in the US South resists ephemeral multiculturalism for political praxis	2
Where’s the data to support educators’ data use for instructional practice?	2
Playing the system: Advocacy for play equity in early childhood education	2
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2