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 2021-06-01 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
Law enforcement in schools: Resource or barrier?	10
Environmental civic science: Civic and scientific literacy on socio-environmental issues for the common good	10
Principles of antiracist social emotional justice learning	9
“Keep calm and earn more points”: What research says about token economy systems	9
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

Strategies for alleviating students’ math anxiety: Control-value theory in practice	8
Social-emotional and behavioral strategies to improve school outcomes for Black males	7
Producing confident learners using specific tasks, competent models, and credible messages	7
Reimagining SEL as a tool to deconstruct racist educational systems	6
Creating spaces for emotional justice in culturally sustaining literacy education: Implications for policy & practice	6
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
Linguistic policies for African American language speakers: Moving from anti-Blackness to pro-Blackness	5
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
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