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Present	Assistant Professor, Utah State University ‐ Teacher Education and Leadership
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Education, Educational Leadership, and Teacher Education and Professional Development

Articles (14)

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Using Dyadic Observation to Explore Equitable Learning Opportunities in Classroom ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives (2021)

Alyson L. Lavigne and Thomas L. Good

Because of poverty, many children do not receive adequate prenatal care, nutrition, or early childhood education. These inequities combine to ...

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Improving Instructional Practice through Peer Observation and Feedback

Education Policy Analysis Archives (2020)

Brady L. Ridge and Alyson Leah Lavigne

The Every Student Succeeds Act provides an opportunity for policymakers and researchers to revisit what is known about effective teacher ...

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Culturally Responsive Teaching through the Lens of Dual Language Education ...

Universal Journal of Educational Research (2020)

Tammy Oberg De La Garza, Alyson Leah Lavigne and Shouqing Si

Students benefit from culturally responsive teaching (CRT). CRT is central to dual language (DL) education - an additive approach that ...

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Teacher evaluation in Illinois: School leaders’ perceptions and practices

Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability (2017)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Roger Wade Chamberlain

The aim of the current study is to assess school leaders’ perceptions and practices in the context of a new ...

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Communicating care across culture and language: The student-teacher relationship as ...

Humanity and Society (2016)

Amy L. Dexter, Alyson Leah Lavigne and Tammy Oberg De La Garza

Formal schooling is a site of cultural socialization where children are taught how to see their world and themselves. As ...

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Article

Rating Teachers Cheaper, Faster, and Better

Journal of Teacher Education (2015)

Thomas L. Good and Alyson Leah Lavigne

Gargani and Strong claim to have developed and validated an observation system that requires only 4 hr of training, but ...

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Dual Language Instruction and Achievement: A Need and a Void ...

Mid-western Educational Researcher (2015)

Tammy Oberg De La Garza, Erin Mackinney and Alyson Leah Lavigne

In recent years, the benefits of bilingualism through dual language (DL) education models have been well documented. Despite evidence of ...

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Successes and struggles of teaching: Perspectives of beginning, mid-career, and ...

Journal of Teaching Effectiveness and Student Achievement (2015)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Amanda Rabidue Bozack

Wages that are not commensurate with level of education (National Association of Colleges and Employers [NACE], 2013), demanding responsibilities, and ...

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Beginning teachers who stay: Beliefs about student learning

Teaching and Teacher Education (2014)

Alyson Leah Lavigne

Beliefs serve as an adaptation that helps teachers organize their teaching world. Little is known, however, about how beliefs change ...

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Exploring the implications of high-stakes teacher evaluation on schools, teachers ...

Teachers College Record (2014)

Alyson Leah Lavigne

Background/Context: The stakes are getting higher for teachers daily as more and more states adopt hiring, firing, and tenure-granting policies ...

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Introduction to high-stakes teacher evaluation: High cost—big losses

Teachers College Record (2014)

Alyson Leah Lavigne, Thomas L. Good and Ronald W. Marx

This special issue informs policymakers, educational researchers, administrators, teacher educators, and teachers on recent development in high-stakes teacher evaluation. New ...

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Strengthening grade 3-5 students’ foundational knowledge of rational numbers

Teachers College Record (2013)

Thomas L. Good, Marcy B. Wood, Darrell Sabers, Amy M. Olson, et al.

Background: American students have done poorly in algebra and that has generated policy concerns about preparing students for STEM careers. ...

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Issues of teacher performance stability are not new: Limitations and ...

Education Policy Analysis Archives (2010)

Thomas L. Good and Alyson Leah Lavigne

Morgan, Hodge, Trepinski, and Anderson (2014) have written an article that continues to confirm what we have known for some ...

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Student perceptions of teacher support

Teachers College Record (2008)

Alyson Leah Dolan and Mary McCaslin

Background/Context: Working theories about student goal orientation, understanding of intelligence, and affective mediation of task engagement inform current beliefs about ...

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Book

Looking in classrooms

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications (2017)

Thomas L. Good and Alyson Leah Lavigne

Looking in Classrooms uses educational, psychological, and social science theories and classroom-based research to teach future classroom teachers about the ...

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Improving teaching through observation and feedback: Going beyond state and ...

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications (2015)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Thomas L. Good

In response to Race to the Top, schools nationwide are rapidly overhauling their teacher evaluation processes. Often forced to develop ...

Book

Salsa dancing in gym shoes: Exploring cross-cultural missteps with Latinos ...

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications (2015)

Tammy Oberg De La Garza and Alyson Leah Lavigne

Consider how you would typically greet a friend or a relative. Perhaps you would shake hands or even hug. But ...

Book

Teacher and student evaluation: Moving beyond the failure of school ...

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications (2013)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Thomas L. Good

Following the recent major school reform of Race to the Top, schools, teachers, and students are increasingly evaluated through high-stakes ...

Contribution to Book

Citing, being cited, not citing, and not being cited: Citations ...

Toward a more perfect psychology: Improving trust, accuracy, and transparency in research (2017)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Thomas L. Good

Contribution to Book

The practice and evaluation of culturally responsive literacy for English ...

Evaluating Literacy Instruction: Principles and Promising Practices (2015)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Tammy Oberg De La Garza

The racial, cultural, ethnic, and linguistic demographics in the United States have dramatically shifted in the past 20 years, becoming ...

Contribution to Book

Teacher knowledge, beliefs, attitudes

Classroom management: An A-to-Z guide (2015)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Yasmin Dalal

The knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes teachers hold about themselves, the students they teach, and the world around them are important ...

Contribution to Book

Social policy, educational opportunity, and classroompractice: A co-regulation approach to ...

Advances in motivation and achievement (2010)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and M. McCaslin

Contribution to Book

Teacher recruitment, retention, supply, and demand

21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook (2009)

Alyson Leah Dolan

Presentation

(Re) engaging Policy Process: Valuing and Learning From Youth Voices

University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) 2017 annual meeting (2017)

Liliana Estella Castrellon, Alyson Leah Lavigne and Julian Mendez

Educational researchers must engage authentically with youth voices in order to allow those who are most impacted by educational policy, ...

Presentation

Part I - Walking a mile in the wrong shoes: The ...

Illinois State Board of Education’s Bilingual Program Directors’ 2016 Annual Meeting (2016)

Alyson Leah Lavigne and Tammy Oberg De La Garza

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