Studies in Teaching: 2021 Research Digest. Action Research Projects Presented at Annual Research Forum (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 30, 2021)

This document presents the proceedings of the 25th Annual Research Forum held June 30, 2021, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following eighteen action research papers: (1) Using Modern Events to Teach United States History (Charles Ahern); (2) "We Are All ESL Teachers": Culturally and Linguistically Relevant Vocabulary Instruction for Spanish Speaking Elementary School Students (Elizabeth McKenzie Bell); (3) The Effects of Ability-Based Peer Partners on Student Achievement in Elementary Mathematics (Mary Hallet Culbreth); (4) The Effect of Online Presentations on Reading Comprehension and Attitudes (Anna-Dixon Harkey); (5) The Impact of Mindfulness Education on Students' Mental Wellbeing and Engagement (Benjamin Hill); (6) Science Outdoors! (Rebecca Hill); (7) Dialogic Reading Practices (Jane Isherwood); (8) The Influence of Kinesthetic Revision Strategies on Students' Metacognitive Awareness of the Revision Process (Elizabeth Kennard); (9) Second Grade Students' Perspective on Influences over Wellbeing and Attitude Toward School (Caroline Kenney); (10) Visual Arts Integration, Student Engagement, and Reader Response Journals (Natalie Lett ); (11) Whispering and Thundering Witness: Studying the Effects of Textual Primary Sources on Affective Historical Empathy (Matt McCoy); (12) Do Cultural Children's Literary Materials Affect Attitudes in Elementary School Students? (Tilah McDowell); (13) Media Use in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom and its Impact on Student Engagement and Achievement (Kyle Nanney); (14) Turning Practice into Theory: Identifying a Theoretical Framework Through Which to Understand and Replicate the Success of the University of Southern California's Neighborhood Academic Initiative Program (Logan Philon); (15) Influence of Reading and Writing Activist Poetry on Students' Attitude Toward Poetry (Sydney Schaedel); (16) The Effect of Analytical Writing through a Study of Sports Analysis (Abby Scoresby); (17) Visual Arts Pedagogy and Student Engagement with Poetry (Elijah Shalaway); and (18) Identifying Bias and Perspective in News Related Tweets (Dustin Smith). Individual papers contain references, tables, and figures.