Issues in Teacher Education
Fall 2025
Introduction
Diversity as a Cornerstone in Teacher Training
Gabriela Walker
Commentary
Deliberately Digging Deep in DEI Discourse:
The 4D Exercise
Terrelle B. Sales
Effective Teacher Preparation Education Matters:
A Call for Forward Thinking,
Authentic Collaboration,
and Collective Efficacy
Nancy P. Gallavan
Teacher Professional Development
in a Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era:
Does Practice Reflect Adult Learning Theory?
Melissa Miller Sykes & Maryann Mraz
Teacher Shortage and the Impact of Anti-DEI Mandates:
A Conceptual Analysis
R.D. Nordgren
Administrators’ and Teachers’ Perspectives
on Professional Development
Carrie May & Alexandra Patzak
Cultivating Critical Consciousness
Within Communities of Practice
for the Recruitment and Retention
of Black and Latinx Male Teacher Candidates
Shartriya Collier, Joshua Einhorn Castillo,
& Jazzteen Rae G. Arizala