Valerie Hill-Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 948134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Hill-Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Hill-Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | HILL-JACKSON V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University, College Station, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6850-9928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dual enrollment as a mentoring-informed pathway to teaching: High school students’ perceptions and career aspirations
This study examines how mentoring-like structures embedded within dual enrollment partnerships relate to high school students’ perceptions of teaching as a career. Drawing on Social Cognitive Career Theory and the FIT-Choice framework, the study explores how dual enrollment participation, demographic characteristics, and social contexts are associated with students’ motivational perceptions of teaching. Using a causal-comparative design, survey d…
The Quiet Architects: Celebrating the Scholarly Stewards of Peer Review
Wisdom Worth Watching: A Structured Approach for Novice-Expert Observations Through ‘Teacher Residency Rotations’
It's Time for a Hard Reset: Reimagining Teacher Preparation in the United States by Elevating Residencies
Balancing Act: Implementing Professional Learning during a Teacher Residency with Implications for Program and P12 School Leaders
Professional learning (PL) is universally lauded as essential to enhancing teaching quality and retention for aspiring teachers, yet it is a difficult balancing act for program and P12 school leaders trying to administer the many intricate components of a teacher residency program while implementing meaningful PL for residents. Grounded in complexity theory, this mixed methods case study examines PL experiences among residents ( N = 36 ) across f…
What Matters For Mentors As Knowledge Mobilizers: Are They Easy Riders
Dead Spaces in Teaching and Teacher Education: What Are They? How Can They Be Overcome
Teacher Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Introducing the Special Issue
The Insider's Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research
The extent to which any social scientist is authentically an insider continues to be a spirited debate within qualitative circles. Amid this weighty dispute, "insider" researchers, or me-searchers, maintain that we have certain advantages in conducting qualitative inquiry in marginalized communities that mimic our personal histories and life experiences. This article reports my first professional study as a publicly engaged scholar who directed a…
Exploring a Teacher Residency as a Recruitment and Retention Strategy for High-Need Districts
Effective recruitment and retention strategies of teachers remain elusive for school districts. This study examines the pilot implementation of a year-long teacher residency program throughout four high-needs districts. This program embeds eight residents in these schools and provides various teacher preparation supports to support these beginning professionals to sustain within the classroom. We interview district administrators about their recr…
Where the Good Ideas Are: 75 Years of the Journal of Teacher Education
Taking our lead from Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge theory, and utilizing qualitative content analyses of data extracted from editorials, articles, and public-facing documents, this current editorial details the story of how the myriad of editors for the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) safeguarded a space to highlight ideas essential to research of preservice and inservice teacher education within an ever-changing global context for ne…
Engagement Matters: Reimagining Family, School, and Community Relations in Teacher Education to Improve Student Outcomes
The 5Ps of Holistic Policy Development: A Way Forward for Engaging Teacher Educators
(Re)Constructing Teacher Knowledge: Old Quests for New Reform
Years of Transforming Teacher Education
Toward Inquiry and Problem Posing in Teacher Education
Teacher Shortages: What Are We Short Of
"Placing Equity Front and Center" for Teacher Education in a Time of Crisis
Funké Aladejebi, Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers
Agents, Agency, and Teacher Education
Teacher Education's Moment: From Solution to Challenge
Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Local Strategies, Global Inspiration
"Teacher Education and "Climate Change: In Navigating Multiple Pandemics, Is the Field Forever Altered
This Issue: Black Women’s Work: Exploring Pipelines, Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices
This issue of Theory into Practice is devoted to the urgent and powerful work of Black women educators. More specifically, the authors in this issue focus on the pipelines, pedagogies, policies, an
Bridging Two Worlds: Experiences of Chinese and Taiwanese Americans Attending Chinese Heritage Schools in Houston
This qualitative case study presents the reflections of ten Chinese and Taiwanese Americans on their experiences in community-based Chinese Heritage Schools (CHS) in Houston, Texas. Five themes emerged from the in-depth interviews with the participants: (1) self-perceptions of being Chinese/Taiwanese Americans, (2) motivations for learning Chinese, (3) key learning experiences at CHS, (4) perspectives on CHS, and (5) suggestions proposed by the p…
Framing African American Students' Success and Failure in Urban Settings: A Typology for Change
Grounded in critical race theory, this article seeks to frame the ideological positions of success and failure for African American students in urban school settings. First, we revisit national data and research literature that illustrate the ongoing urban Black—White achievement gap. Second, the Matrix of Achievement Paradigms is shared in an attempt to advance the conversation on African American students' achievement. It provides a serviceable…
Teacher Shortages: What Are We Short Of
"Teacher Education and "Climate Change: In Navigating Multiple Pandemics, Is the Field Forever Altered
"Placing Equity Front and Center" for Teacher Education in a Time of Crisis
Teacher Education's Moment: From Solution to Challenge
Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Local Strategies, Global Inspiration
Where the Good Ideas Are: 75 Years of the Journal of Teacher Education
Taking our lead from Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge theory, and utilizing qualitative content analyses of data extracted from editorials, articles, and public-facing documents, this current editorial details the story of how the myriad of editors for the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) safeguarded a space to highlight ideas essential to research of preservice and inservice teacher education within an ever-changing global context for ne…
Agents, Agency, and Teacher Education
Years of Transforming Teacher Education
Wrestling Whiteness: Three Stages of Shifting Multicultural Perspectives among White Pre-service Teachers
Pedagogical progress in the field of multicultural education moves at a snail's pace due to pre-service teachers' level of acceptance of multiculturalism and its tenets. Teacher candidates and seasoned teachers are simply unconscious and apathetic about matters of diversity. Pre-service teachers, primarily White and middle class, are mandated to take multicultural courses and grapple with recognizing their own cultural beings and the cultural rea…
What Matters For Mentors As Knowledge Mobilizers: Are They Easy Riders
(Re)Constructing Teacher Knowledge: Old Quests for New Reform
This Issue: Black Women’s Work: Exploring Pipelines, Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices
This issue of Theory into Practice is devoted to the urgent and powerful work of Black women educators. More specifically, the authors in this issue focus on the pipelines, pedagogies, policies, an
Culture Matters in High Risk, Lead Poisoned Communities
Lead poisoning in Camden City, New Jersey is different from lead poisoning in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This statement raised a lot of eyebrows and upset quite a few people at a lead poisoning consortium meeting. My peers failed to see that culture is the by-product of lived experience and serves as an indicator for health care beliefs and practices. Little is known about the health care practices of urban African Americans because they experience…
Wrestling Whiteness: Three Stages of Shifting Multicultural Perspectives among White Pre-service Teachers
Pedagogical progress in the field of multicultural education moves at a snail's pace due to pre-service teachers' level of acceptance of multiculturalism and its tenets. Teacher candidates and seasoned teachers are simply unconscious and apathetic about matters of diversity. Pre-service teachers, primarily White and middle class, are mandated to take multicultural courses and grapple with recognizing their own cultural beings and the cultural rea…
Framing African American Students' Success and Failure in Urban Settings: A Typology for Change
Grounded in critical race theory, this article seeks to frame the ideological positions of success and failure for African American students in urban school settings. First, we revisit national data and research literature that illustrate the ongoing urban Black—White achievement gap. Second, the Matrix of Achievement Paradigms is shared in an attempt to advance the conversation on African American students' achievement. It provides a serviceable…
Bridging Two Worlds: Experiences of Chinese and Taiwanese Americans Attending Chinese Heritage Schools in Houston
This qualitative case study presents the reflections of ten Chinese and Taiwanese Americans on their experiences in community-based Chinese Heritage Schools (CHS) in Houston, Texas. Five themes emerged from the in-depth interviews with the participants: (1) self-perceptions of being Chinese/Taiwanese Americans, (2) motivations for learning Chinese, (3) key learning experiences at CHS, (4) perspectives on CHS, and (5) suggestions proposed by the p…
This Issue: Black Women’s Work: Exploring Pipelines, Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices
This issue of Theory into Practice is devoted to the urgent and powerful work of Black women educators. More specifically, the authors in this issue focus on the pipelines, pedagogies, policies, an
Funké Aladejebi, Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers
Agents, Agency, and Teacher Education
Teacher Education's Moment: From Solution to Challenge
Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Local Strategies, Global Inspiration
"Teacher Education and "Climate Change: In Navigating Multiple Pandemics, Is the Field Forever Altered
(Re)Constructing Teacher Knowledge: Old Quests for New Reform
Years of Transforming Teacher Education
Toward Inquiry and Problem Posing in Teacher Education
Teacher Shortages: What Are We Short Of
"Placing Equity Front and Center" for Teacher Education in a Time of Crisis
Exploring a Teacher Residency as a Recruitment and Retention Strategy for High-Need Districts
Effective recruitment and retention strategies of teachers remain elusive for school districts. This study examines the pilot implementation of a year-long teacher residency program throughout four high-needs districts. This program embeds eight residents in these schools and provides various teacher preparation supports to support these beginning professionals to sustain within the classroom. We interview district administrators about their recr…
Where the Good Ideas Are: 75 Years of the Journal of Teacher Education
Taking our lead from Karl Mannheim's sociology of knowledge theory, and utilizing qualitative content analyses of data extracted from editorials, articles, and public-facing documents, this current editorial details the story of how the myriad of editors for the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) safeguarded a space to highlight ideas essential to research of preservice and inservice teacher education within an ever-changing global context for ne…
Engagement Matters: Reimagining Family, School, and Community Relations in Teacher Education to Improve Student Outcomes
The 5Ps of Holistic Policy Development: A Way Forward for Engaging Teacher Educators
It's Time for a Hard Reset: Reimagining Teacher Preparation in the United States by Elevating Residencies
Balancing Act: Implementing Professional Learning during a Teacher Residency with Implications for Program and P12 School Leaders
Professional learning (PL) is universally lauded as essential to enhancing teaching quality and retention for aspiring teachers, yet it is a difficult balancing act for program and P12 school leaders trying to administer the many intricate components of a teacher residency program while implementing meaningful PL for residents. Grounded in complexity theory, this mixed methods case study examines PL experiences among residents ( N = 36 ) across f…
What Matters For Mentors As Knowledge Mobilizers: Are They Easy Riders
Dead Spaces in Teaching and Teacher Education: What Are They? How Can They Be Overcome
Teacher Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Introducing the Special Issue
The Insider's Journey: Two Investments for Epistemic Justice in Educational Research
The extent to which any social scientist is authentically an insider continues to be a spirited debate within qualitative circles. Amid this weighty dispute, "insider" researchers, or me-searchers, maintain that we have certain advantages in conducting qualitative inquiry in marginalized communities that mimic our personal histories and life experiences. This article reports my first professional study as a publicly engaged scholar who directed a…
Psychology (20 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Mathematics education (16 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (14 works) · Teacher education (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (6 works) · Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion (5 works)