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Rethinking Pre-Service Teachers’ Agency In Ai-Supported Lesson Design Through A Posthuman Synthesis Of Three Empirical Studies In Teacher Education, Wen Wen, Huijing Wen
Rethinking Pre-Service Teachers’ Agency In Ai-Supported Lesson Design Through A Posthuman Synthesis Of Three Empirical Studies In Teacher Education, Wen Wen, Huijing Wen
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used in lesson planning in teacher education. There has been a growing interest in exploring the different practices of teachers using GenAI to support lesson planning. This conceptual paper, using posthumanism as a framework, synthesizes three empirical studies to conceptualize pre-service teachers’ agency in AI-supported lesson design on literacy instruction. Pre-service teachers’ agency emerges from the interaction with GenAI, as well as with other human and non-human resources. Although their agency is shared and distributed during the design process, it remains essential for pre-service teachers to actively exercise their agency and make informed judgments …
Examining Lyman’S Ideas: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions On The Integration Of Pedagogical Strategies That Transform Literacy Instruction, Elizabeth Falzone, Charles Gonzalez, Paul J. Vermette
Examining Lyman’S Ideas: Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions On The Integration Of Pedagogical Strategies That Transform Literacy Instruction, Elizabeth Falzone, Charles Gonzalez, Paul J. Vermette
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
This project, grounded in Lyman's (2022) culmination of experiential and scholarly endeavors, seeks to prepare excellent educators in a post-COVID environment that is marked with heightened anxiety. With this in mind, we sought to investigate the efficacy and value of implementing specific strategies outlined in 100 Teaching Ideas that Transfer and Transform Learning (Lyman, 2022) within an introductory literacy course. Our goal was to explore how these strategies could empower pre-service teachers to construct their own perceptions of effective teaching of literacy in primary through secondary classrooms, thereby fostering self-driven, confident, and innovative educators capable of creating student-centered learning environments. …
Early Childhood Educators’ Perceptions Of Changes In Student Executive Function Skills And Challenging Behaviors Post-Covid-19, Sofia Cicero, Raquel Plotka
Early Childhood Educators’ Perceptions Of Changes In Student Executive Function Skills And Challenging Behaviors Post-Covid-19, Sofia Cicero, Raquel Plotka
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted children’s lives in a multitude of ways, including their educational and social lives. Many children had to switch to online learning platforms or follow social distancing rules. There is a lack of research exploring the lasting impact that the isolation period has left on young children, specifically those in early childhood (3-7 years old). The purpose of this study was to explore whether teachers witnessed changes in student executive function skills and challenging behaviors after the pandemic. In addition, play-based learning has been shown to improve executive function and behavioral outcomes. This study also attempted …
Breaking Silos In Educator Learning: A Public-Private Partnership Model, Jesslyn R. Hollar, Chelsea Feusner, Carrie Kracl, Megan Adkins, Shannon C. Mulhearn
Breaking Silos In Educator Learning: A Public-Private Partnership Model, Jesslyn R. Hollar, Chelsea Feusner, Carrie Kracl, Megan Adkins, Shannon C. Mulhearn
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Early childhood literacy development is a key predictor of long-term academic success, yet many early childhood educators and particularly those in rural education settings lack access to high-quality, evidence-based professional learning. Increasing policy mandates related to the science of reading have intensified the need for coordinated systems between policy, research, and instructional practice. This qualitative program evaluation examines Project RISE (Reading Instructional Strategies for Educators), a statewide professional learning initiative developed through a public–private partnership among a regional university, a state department of education, and an educational industry partner. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Wenger’s Communities of Practice, and …
Scaling For Success: Expanding The Empire State Teacher Residency Program, Sharon Sullivan-Rubin, Charity Dacey, Nicole Aveni
Scaling For Success: Expanding The Empire State Teacher Residency Program, Sharon Sullivan-Rubin, Charity Dacey, Nicole Aveni
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
This paper explores the challenges and opportunities involved in scaling the Empire State Teacher Residency Program (ESTRP), a partnership between Touro University and New York City Public Schools, operating within the US PREP coalition. As ESTRP expands from an inaugural cohort of 12 to potentially over 600 residents, the study examines how program quality, fidelity, and equity can be maintained during rapid growth. Drawing on Senge’s organizational learning theory and Fullan’s framework for educational change, the research highlights the importance of systems thinking, shared vision, and feedback loops in supporting sustainable expansion. The study details how collaborative professional learning communities, …
Letter From The Editors, Quinn Austermann, Joelle Fingerhut, Stephanie Purington
Letter From The Editors, Quinn Austermann, Joelle Fingerhut, Stephanie Purington
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Message From The President, Rene S. Parmar
Message From The President, Rene S. Parmar
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents - Volume 18, Issue 2
Table Of Contents - Volume 18, Issue 2
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Full Issue - Excelsior 18.1, Excelsior
Full Issue - Excelsior 18.1, Excelsior
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Creating A Decision-Making Curriculum For Students With And Without Disabilities In Grades P-12, Gina Riley, Elizabeth Klein, Alfonso Perez, Imani Irving Perez, Adriana D. Nathan
Creating A Decision-Making Curriculum For Students With And Without Disabilities In Grades P-12, Gina Riley, Elizabeth Klein, Alfonso Perez, Imani Irving Perez, Adriana D. Nathan
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Inquiring Into Preservice Teachers’ Identity Awareness And Development: A Collaborative Multi-Case Study, Nance S. Wilson, Kimberly Rombach
Inquiring Into Preservice Teachers’ Identity Awareness And Development: A Collaborative Multi-Case Study, Nance S. Wilson, Kimberly Rombach
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Empowering Future Teacher Leaders Through Peer Mentoring, Stephanie M. Banks
Empowering Future Teacher Leaders Through Peer Mentoring, Stephanie M. Banks
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Preservice Teachers And Creativity: Beliefs, Experiences, And Intentions For Future Practice, Joanna M. Weld
Preservice Teachers And Creativity: Beliefs, Experiences, And Intentions For Future Practice, Joanna M. Weld
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Professional Learning About And Through Schoolwide Co-Teaching: A Path To Develop Adaptive Expertise, Jennifer Sharples Reichenberg
Professional Learning About And Through Schoolwide Co-Teaching: A Path To Develop Adaptive Expertise, Jennifer Sharples Reichenberg
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Teachers’ Thoughts About Using Ai Technologies In Classroom Lessons, Francine Falk-Ross, Peter Mcdermott
Teachers’ Thoughts About Using Ai Technologies In Classroom Lessons, Francine Falk-Ross, Peter Mcdermott
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Learning To Love Science: Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptualizations Of Science Teaching And Self-Efficacy To Teach Science, Christine Mcgrail, Stephanie B. Purington, Alicia Gonzales
Learning To Love Science: Preservice Elementary Teachers Conceptualizations Of Science Teaching And Self-Efficacy To Teach Science, Christine Mcgrail, Stephanie B. Purington, Alicia Gonzales
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions Of Online Tutoring As Early Field Experience, Kathryn Alton, Alison Puliatte, Megan Lawless, Yong Yu
Teacher Candidates’ Perceptions Of Online Tutoring As Early Field Experience, Kathryn Alton, Alison Puliatte, Megan Lawless, Yong Yu
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents - Excelsior 18.1, Excelsior
Table Of Contents - Excelsior 18.1, Excelsior
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Augusto Boal’S Forum Theater In Language And Culture Courses A Reflective Documentation, Mona Eikel-Pohen, Mona Eikel-Pohen
Augusto Boal’S Forum Theater In Language And Culture Courses A Reflective Documentation, Mona Eikel-Pohen, Mona Eikel-Pohen
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship
This documentation is the revised and translated version of the 2024 article Augusto Boals Forumtheater im Deutschunterricht (Eikel-Pohen 2024). It features new observations from the second iteration of a Forum Theater project in a GER 202 language and culture class from 2025 and is again based on autoethnographic notes (Rodriguez-Mejia 2023: 71). It documents the revised application of Augusto Boal’s Forum Theater applied to language and cultural teaching in a socially critical, holistic, cooperative, intercultural, and practical way. Boal’s method aims at exposing structural oppression and allows individuals to explore options for action through play. The instructor followed Boal’s model …
Full Issue - Excelsior 17/2, Excelsior Journal
Full Issue - Excelsior 17/2, Excelsior Journal
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Integrating Digital Escape Room Design Into Teacher Education: Cultivating Instructional Creativity In Preservice Teachers, Gina L. Solano, Wen Wen
Integrating Digital Escape Room Design Into Teacher Education: Cultivating Instructional Creativity In Preservice Teachers, Gina L. Solano, Wen Wen
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
This action research documents how a teacher education program incorporates game-based learning to engage pre-service teachers (PSTs) in developing their instructional creativity. In this project, game-based learning goes beyond playing games; Instead, it allows PSTs to design their own game-a digital escape room created using a website with embedded clues, digital locks, and online challenges. This paper showcases an impressive level of creativity through the variety and complexity of PSTs’ clues, the creative graphics and layout of their websites, and their cleverly written scenarios and context for the game. Moreover, PSTs reflect on their design processes, considering the affordances and …
Tips For Inclusive Postsecondary Education Programs On College Campuses: Peer Mentors’ Perspectives On Access And Inclusion, Laura N. Sarchet, Kristen Love, Martha Mock
Tips For Inclusive Postsecondary Education Programs On College Campuses: Peer Mentors’ Perspectives On Access And Inclusion, Laura N. Sarchet, Kristen Love, Martha Mock
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
As inclusive postsecondary education programs have grown and improved towards more campus access for college students labeled with an intellectual disability, peer mentoring is a common model for such programs. Peer mentors from one private institution were asked to describe their experiences and perspectives of campus inclusion after participating in a training program designed to increase their understanding of disability within a social justice lens. Mentors shared the personal and professional benefits of mentoring, for both themselves and for students labeled with an intellectual disability, and noted recommendations for how programs can increase access to college in order to improve …
The Impact Of Mental Health Support On Academic Achievement, David Ersig, Tyrone Bynoe
The Impact Of Mental Health Support On Academic Achievement, David Ersig, Tyrone Bynoe
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Mental health concerns are becoming more pressing in American culture. There is an increasing call for mental health issues to be prioritized in policy discussions involving need, strategy, and funding. Addressing the cultural stigma and various barriers surrounding treatment and support for mental health issues are concerns that have infiltrated our school system; these concerns have exerted increased pressure on educators to provide effective and efficient mental health support mechanisms. There is growing recognition and observation that improving students’ mental health will help to remove barriers or hinderances to learning and achievement. With the increased pressure schools already face regarding …
Critical Literacy Approaches To Teaching Canonical Texts: Analyzing Race In To Kill A Mockingbird In Rural, Predominately White Classrooms, Ashley Graegin, Margery Gardner
Critical Literacy Approaches To Teaching Canonical Texts: Analyzing Race In To Kill A Mockingbird In Rural, Predominately White Classrooms, Ashley Graegin, Margery Gardner
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
In the 21st century, U.S. legislation continues to push for teacher censorship and seemingly depoliticized curriculums that ignore systemic issues regarding race, gender, sexuality, and other social justice topics. With the understanding that texts can never be politically neutral, English language arts (ELA) teachers must adopt critical approaches to teach required, and often hegemonic texts, and help students cultivate criticality and critical race consciousness. In this study, we aim to explore strategies that can be used to promote critical readings of canonical texts and how the topic of racial oppression can be broached in rural, predominantly White secondary English classrooms. …
Letter From The Editors - Excelsior 17/2, Quinn Austermann, Joelle Fingerhut, Stephanie Purington
Letter From The Editors - Excelsior 17/2, Quinn Austermann, Joelle Fingerhut, Stephanie Purington
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents - Excelsior 17/2, Execlsior Journal
Table Of Contents - Excelsior 17/2, Execlsior Journal
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Message From The President - Excelsior 17/2, Rene S. Parmar
Message From The President - Excelsior 17/2, Rene S. Parmar
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Full Issue - Excelsior, V17-1
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
No abstract provided.
Playful Learning In Higher Education To Inspire Playful Learning In P-12 Classrooms, Norline Wild
Playful Learning In Higher Education To Inspire Playful Learning In P-12 Classrooms, Norline Wild
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
Playful learning has immense potential and relevance across all educational levels, from early childhood to university settings. However, play is often dismissed as an activity reserved only for young children and is ignored in higher education The purpose of this practitioner article is to share instructional strategies and insights in order to demonstrate the immense potential of play at the university level. The goal is not only to inspire teacher educators to be critical thinkers and to creatively interweave playful learning into their pedagogy but to provide concrete examples through modeling of how this can be done. Initially, a dedicated …
Invent A Kid Project: Fostering Creative Reflective Practice In Teacher Candidates, Karen Poland, Mary Ellen Bardsley, Paul Vermette
Invent A Kid Project: Fostering Creative Reflective Practice In Teacher Candidates, Karen Poland, Mary Ellen Bardsley, Paul Vermette
Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning
A primary goal of teacher education programs is to equip teacher candidates with the necessary skills to navigate the social and cultural realities and complexities of the classroom while seamlessly integrating theory and practice. As our classrooms become more socially, economically, and culturally diverse it is important for teachers to evolve into developmentally and culturally responsive individuals who can incorporate a variety of teaching strategies to meet the unique needs of each student. However, novice teachers often face challenges in meeting the individual needs of students due to their lack of experience, classroom management challenges, time constraints, the complexity of …