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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Lessons from a co-design team on supporting student motivation in middle school science classrooms	57
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	25
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	22
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	22
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	21
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	20
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced based practices with black and latinx youth in the legal system	19
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	19
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	17
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	15
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	14
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	13
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	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	11
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	11
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	11
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	10
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	10
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	9
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	9
Strategies for alleviating students’ math anxiety: Control-value theory in practice	8
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	8
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	8
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	8

The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	8
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	7
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	7
Creating spaces for emotional justice in culturally sustaining literacy education: Implications for policy & practice	6
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	6
Linguistic policies for African American language speakers: Moving from anti-Blackness to pro-Blackness	5
The Racialized Control of Latinx Immigrant Students	5
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	5
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	5
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	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
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	5
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	4
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	4
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	4
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	4
Developing collective teacher efficacy in mathematics through professional learning	4
Healing-centered alternative schools: Addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black and Latino/x young men	4
Civic reasoning through paranoid and reparative reading: Addressing conspiracy theories within racialized and queer publics	4
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	4
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	4
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
Beyond left and right: Learning is a whole-brain process	4
Recentering and claiming joy and radical love in education	4
This issue	4
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	4
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	4
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	4
Education and the political: The possibilities and constraints of political education in an (un)democratic world	4
When enactive learning went missing, vicarious learning became a must	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	4
Considerations for improving racial equity in schools: Applying a cultural historical framework	3
Characteristics of effective models for classroom demonstrations	3
“Don’t smile until December”: Bad advice based on the either-or fallacy	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
Enhancing motivation by developing cyclical self-regulated learning skills	3
Affirming Black Joy & homeplace: A call to action for practitioner preparation programs	3
Using homeplace to guide STEM identity development in Black males	2
The (good) trouble with Black boys: Organizing with Black boys and young men in George Floyd’s America	2
How learning gardens foster well-being and development through the promotion of purposeful play in early childhood and beyond	2
“Storying” from special education classroom: Centering voices from accessible-interdependence-intimacy as interdisciplinary justice in pedagogical practices	2
Improving Black student outcomes: The multifaceted role of psychology professors in higher education	2
Educators of gifted and talented students must be formally trained for homeplace to become a reality: Recommendedtheories and paradigms	2
Addressing student motivation and learning experiences when taking teaching online	2
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators	2
Classroom strategies for navigating emotions during controversial discussions	2
Who speaks for whom? The right to the word and why it matters	2
Can dialogic eventness be created?	2

Linking arms across districts: Accountability and support in cross-district teacher collaboration	2
Interest development, self-related information processing, and practice	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
Where’s the data to support educators’ data use for instructional practice?	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
Replace or repair: Exploring possible methods for improving school governance	2
Is standards-based grading effective?	2
Boosting children’s math self-efficacy by enriching their growth mindsets and gender-fair beliefs	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
Technology in the classroom: Banking education or opportunities to learn?	2
Family and school partnership to build homeplace and protect Black autistic joy	2
The learning styles hypothesis is false, but there are patterns of student characteristics that are useful	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
A revolutionary love story in teacher education and early childhood education	2
Leveraging motivation theory for research and practice with students with learning disabilities	2
Facilitating student argumentation around socioscientific issues through productive discourse and negotiation toward consensus	2