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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From surviving to thriving: Increasing equitable discipline outcomes in preschool settings	24
Culturally responsive techniques for practitioners using evidenced-based practices with Black and Latinx youth in the legal system	24
Disentangling SEL: Advocating for Black sociality, questioning white teachers’ emotionality	23
Should we “just stick to the facts”? The benefit of controversial conversations in classrooms	22
Youth-led participatory action research in school counseling as a vehicle for antiracist SEL	21
Opening, deepening, and widening dialogic space in argument classrooms	19
Elevating mathematics achievement outcomes for Black boys: Guidance for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers	18
Beyond single-identity spaces of Black mattering: Homeplaces for Black LGBTQ+ identities in K-12 schools	17
Courageous school board: Critical consciousness and excellence	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?	13
Centering community and care: Enacting the Torres’ rights of the learner to support middle grades students in building collective responsibility in learning mathematics	12
Creating conditions for social-emotional learning: An ecological framework	11
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	11
A social cognitive perspective of educators’ moral agency	10
Deepening dialogue: White preservice teachers’ use of mode-switching to revise prior assumptions in an online synchronous class about linguistic racism	10
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	8
Resisting silence: Using developmental science to guide conversations around race(ism) and justice in K-12 classrooms	8
Navigating the AI-enabled education landscape: A multifaceted approach to providing effective professional learning and support for educators	8
Should parents be involved in their children’s schooling?	7
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	7
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	7
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	7
Using AI to boost evidence-based teaching and learning: A collaborative approach across a network of schools	7
The rights of undergraduate queer and trans* students of color as STEM majors	6

The Racialized Control of Latinx Immigrant Students	6
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	6
Disproportionality monitoring for special education and stakeholder practices in a post-affirmative action landscape	6
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	6
The role of artificial intelligence in modernizing multi-tiered systems of support	6
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	6
Young magicians in kindergarten: Skill development through performing magic tricks	6
A Golden Braid:* Weaving Terry Wood’s unique threads of humanity in theory and practice	6
Confronting book banning and assumed curricular neutrality: A critical inquiry framework	5
All eyez on me: Disproportionality, disciplined, and disregarded while Black	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
Relational trust and the politics of evidence use: School boards navigate policymaking and equity during and after the pandemic	5
Reducing racialized opportunity gaps through teachers’ anti-racism social-emotional competency training and education	5
Deconstructing racist structures in K-12 education through SEL starts with the principal	5
The politics of the 2021 school board recall attempts	5
Strategies to accelerate the closure of opportunity gaps for Black youth	4
The Rights of Trans and Queer Learners in K-12 classrooms	4
Healing-centered alternative schools: Addressing the academic and social-emotional needs of Black and Latino/x young men	4
How children can use drawing to regulate their emotions	4
Influential role of self-regulated learning in preventing moral disengagement	4
A Juneteenth moment for mathematics education: The role of rights of the learner and Afrofuturism	4
From freedom dreams to realities: Adopting Transformative Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning (TASEL) in schools	4
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction	4
Dismantling racism through collaborative consultation: Promoting culturally affirming educator SEL	4
Confronting contemporary controversies in education	4
This issue	4
Moving towards justice and equity: Interdisciplinary dismantling of ableism and racism in special education	4