Inclusive Education
Boosting Metacognition and Executive Functions in the Classroom
Heather Branigan and Margarita Kanevski discuss the relationship between metacognition and executive functions. They share five strategies with a focus on being explicit, modeling, and consolidating learning regardless the strategy.
TACL
Shayla Yellowhair: Understand Our History
In this video from 2017, Shayla Yellowhair, systems leader and Teach For America alumna explains why teachers who are coming to work in Native communities need to first understand the history and be willing to learn from the community.
TACL
Stories on Vision: "Why Is This Family So Satisfied, and Why Is This Teacher So Angry?"
In this article from 2019, Steven Farr shares two experiences: a dinner with a Navajo family describing their love for a school he found wanting and a classroom visit with a Navajo teacher who challenges his suggesting that her students be prepared f...
TACL
Upper Primary Student Perceptions Survey
The Student Perception Survey (SPS) instrument consists of a battery of items in the form of observer-reported statements that the respondents affirm using a rating scale. These statements were formulated to map with the observable attributes of thei...
TACL
A Literature Review on the TACL Outcomes Framework: Wellbeing, Connectedness, Awareness, Agency, and Mastery
In this research paper, Madhu Narayanan, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at Portland State University, explores the evidence supporting the TACL outcomes framework and offers additional avenues for future inquiry.