OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory Into Practice is 5. 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
The intersection of hip hop and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) in school counseling to create and sustain homeplace	12
When to grit and when to quit: (How) should grit be taught in K-12 classrooms?	12
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
“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
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
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