Study illustrates how critical youth studies and young adult literature help preservice teachers design ELA curricula that center authentic adolescent voice and agency.
Kelli Rushek • Katherine Batchelor
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Educators’ Perceptions of Human Trafficking and Implications for Professional Development
Most teachers lack human trafficking training. ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University research shows that educators wish for targeted human trafficking professional development despite feeling overworked already.
Kelli Rushek
Teaching about Birthright Citizenship and Ex/Inclusion within the United States
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú researchers show how teaching birthright citizenship helps students explore democracy, justice, and civic belonging.
Tom Misco
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University faculty explore how communities of practice and care can diversify and sustain the educator workforce.
Tammy Schwartz
A Path Forward: A Critical Race Mixed-Methods Study of Social Justice Teacher Education
Study shows how preservice teachers learn social justice teaching and address equity issues in the classroom through redesigned coursework.
Ganiva Reyes
Restoring racial diversity in the teaching profession
A regional Dayton initiative shows why diverse teachers matter and how collaborative pathways support teacher recruitment, mentoring, and retention.
Ganiva Reyes
English Language Arts Teaching as Guided Meaning-Making
This study reimagines English Language Arts as a space for critical literacy, student agency, and democratic learning through reframing ELA teaching toward guided meaning-making pedagogical approac...
Kelli Rushek
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University researchers show how teaching critical literacy helps future teachers analyze pop culture and gender representation.
Katherine Batchelor • Kelli Rushek
Arming teachers won’t make schools safer
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University researchers explain why arming teachers doesn’t improve school safety and outline better ways to prevent school violence.
Brian Schultz
Spilling Tea: A Critical Feminist Reclamation of Gossip in Literature and Media
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú researchers show how gossip can empower women and promote gender equality through critical feminist teaching.
Kelli Rushek • Katherine Batchelor
Teaching in the cracks: Rethinking curriculum for equity-centered education
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University professor Brian Schultz shows how equity-centered teaching transforms curriculum and teacher preparation.
Brian Schultz
The Gradual Release of the Canonical Grasp: An Exercise in Excavation
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University researchers show how, through sociocultural theoretical principles of teaching and learning, English educators can guide preservice ELA teachers to disrupt canonical texts like To ...
Kelli Rushek
This study explores how an early-career Asian American ELA teacher uses narrative inquiry to build anti-racist, love-centered teaching practice.
Kelli Rushek
How Memes Help Students Make Sense of COVID-19
A digital literacy project shows how analyzing memes builds critical multiliteracies and helps students reflect on COVID-19 online learning.
Katherine Batchelor
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú professor Brian D. Schultz explores how educators use creative insubordination to teach for equity amid political attacks on divisive concepts and controversial issues.
Brian Schultz
Digital writing as multiple paths: 7th graders compose ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ stories
A digital unit shows how online “Choose Your Own Adventure” writing boosts choice, creativity, and engagement for middle school writers.
Katherine Batchelor
Using the "CARD" Response Technique to Assist Middle School Students in the Revision Process
Middle school writers used the CARD technique to improve revision through student-led self-response and peer-response strategies.
Katherine Batchelor
Collaborative curriculum design excavative frameworks help teachers reflect on identity and create culturally sustaining literacy pedagogy.
Kelli Rushek
When students lead learning: A classroom pivot toward inquiry and justice
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú researchers explore how inquiry-based, emergent curriculum empowers young learners as knowledge producers and change agents.
Brian Schultz
This study reveals how early U.S. courts used race to determine who could become a citizen, shaping modern ideas of belonging and exclusion.
Tom Misco
Choose Wisely! Interactive Fiction Video Games in the English Classroom
Study shows how interactive fiction video games strengthen digital literacies, narrative learning, and student engagement in ELA classrooms.
Katherine Batchelor
Practice requires rationale: Lessons from global contexts to ensure controversial issue education
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s Thomas Misco shows why teachers need a clear rationale before addressing controversial issues in the classroom.
Tom Misco
Citizenship Not Wanted, but Received
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University scholars explore how U.S. citizenship was used to assimilate Native peoples and challenge Indigenous sovereignty.
Tom Misco
Networks of care supporting Latina teen mothers
Study shows how teachers along the U.S./Mexico border create integrated networks of care to support Latina teen mothers in school.
Ganiva Reyes
Caring relationships that support Latina teen mothers
Study shows how caring teacher–student relationships help Latina teen mothers thrive in school through a borderland approach to teaching.
Ganiva Reyes
Pre-service Teachers’ Implicit Bias: Impacts of Confrontation, Reflection, and Discussion
Study shows how preservice teachers use reflection, discussion, and critical literacy to examine implicit bias and deepen understanding of race and identity.
Katherine Batchelor
The Lost Art of the Book Talk: What Students Want
Student feedback shows how preservice teachers can use book talks to boost engagement through energy, clear summaries, and meaningful connections.
Katherine Batchelor
Contextual gatekeeping: Teacher decision making in multiple and overlapping milieus
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University research explores how teachers make decisions about teaching controversial issues and why this matters for citizenship education.
Tom Misco
A drama-based writing unit shows how theater and transmediation spark richer revision and deeper engagement with characters and stories.
Katherine Batchelor
Using Linked Text Sets to Promote Advocacy and Agency Through a Critical Lens
Study shows how linked text sets help preservice teachers use critical literacy to explore diverse young adult texts and social justice themes.
Katherine Batchelor
Social Studies in a Flash: Teaching Flash Nonfiction in a High School Social Studies Classroom
Study illustrates how flash nonfiction and mentor texts build historical thinking and inquiry-based literacy in high school history class.
Katherine Batchelor
My Story Came to Life! How Multimodality Can Inspire Revision in Writing
A multimodal revision unit shows how transmediation deepens writing, expands choice, and supports learners’ creative thinking.
Katherine Batchelor
Study shows how multimodal transmediation reshapes middle school writers’ revision attitudes and meaning-making strategies.
Katherine Batchelor
Opening Doors: Teaching LGBTQ-themed Young Adult Literature for an Inclusive Curriculum
Preservice teachers explore LGBTQ young adult literature to better support adolescents and design inclusive, student-centered curricula.
Katherine Batchelor
Down the Rabbit Hole: Using The Matrix to Reflect on Teacher Education
A self-study uses The Matrix to rethink teacher education, democratic aims, and social justice through fresh curriculum studies insights.
Katherine Batchelor
Picture Books Bring Ancient Civilizations to Life
Picture book text sets help middle schoolers explore ancient civilizations through multicultural and critical literacy and visual reading strategies.
Katherine Batchelor
The Urban Teaching Cohort: Pre-service Training to Support Mental Health in Urban Schools
Study shows how an urban teaching program strengthens teacher and student mental health through community-engaged preparation and relational learning.
Tammy Schwartz
Operationalizing Social Justice in Social Studies Education
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University researchers show how teaching controversial issues builds reflective thinking and promotes social justice in schools.
Tom Misco
Digital Transmediation and Revision
A study shows how digital transmediation helps middle school writers revise more deeply by using multimodal, technology-based composition.
Katherine Batchelor
Powerful Social Studies Unit Design: A Companion to Powerful Social Studies Teaching and Learning
This study shows how thoughtful curriculum design can make social studies more meaningful, active, and connected to real-world citizenship.
Tom Misco
Administrators value student teaching abroad when candidates show how global experience benefits diverse classrooms and teaching.
Tom Misco
Teaching the Holocaust through Case Study
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s Thomas Misco explores how case studies like the Riga Ghetto deepen Holocaust education and civic understanding.
Tom Misco
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University researchers show how cultivating civic dispositions strengthens social studies and democratic citizenship education.
Tom Misco