OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory Into Practice is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	27
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	24
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	21
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	21
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	20
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	19
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	18
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced-based practices with Black and Latinx youth in the legal system	17
Realizing the possibilities of the large language models: Strategies for prompt engineering in educational inquiries	16
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	14
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	13
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	11
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	11
Creating conditions for social-emotional learning: An ecological framework	10
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	10
Navigating the AI-Enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators	9
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	9
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	9
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	7
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	7
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	6
Using AI to boost evidence-based teaching and learning: A collaborative approach across a network of schools	6
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	6
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	6

The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	5
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	5
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	5
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	5
Education and the political: The possibilities and constraints of political education in an (un)democratic world	5
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	5
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	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
The role of artificial intelligence in modernizing Multi-tiered systems of support	5
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	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
Civic reasoning through paranoid and reparative reading: Addressing conspiracy theories within racialized and queer publics	4
This issue	4
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	4
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	4
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	4
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	4
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	4
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	4