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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Project-based learning: A review of the literature	Improving Schools	2016	484
2	Learning from the COVID-19 home-schooling experience: Listening to pupils, parents/carers and teachers	Improving Schools	2020	159
3	Theorizing student voice: values and perspectives	Improving Schools	2007	150
4	Students’ perceptions of school climate as determinants of wellbeing, resilience and identity	Improving Schools	2016	93
5	Primary–secondary transition: Differences between teachers’ and children’s perceptions	Improving Schools	2011	86
6	Addressing math anxiety in the classroom	Improving Schools	2014	76
7	Collaboration as a strategy for improving schools in challenging circumstances	Improving Schools	2006	70
8	Implementing children’s human rights education in schools	Improving Schools	2010	67
9	Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice?	Improving Schools	2012	62
10	Student voice as a contested practice: Power and participation in two student voice projects	Improving Schools	2013	61
11	A qualitative study using project-based learning in a mainstream middle school	Improving Schools	2007	59
12	Relationships: The key to successful transition from primary to secondary school?	Improving Schools	2013	56
13	Getting together to improve the school environment: user consultation, participatory design and student voice	Improving Schools	2007	54
14	A holistic approach to primary—secondary transitions	Improving Schools	2008	54
15	‘We can’t change much unless the exams change’: Teachers’ dilemmas in the curriculum reform in China	Improving Schools	2015	54
16	Critical friends: supporting leadership, improving learning	Improving Schools	2004	47
17	Light touch critical friendship	Improving Schools	2007	42
18	Caged birds and cloning machines: how student imagery ‘speaks’ to us about cultures of schooling and student participation	Improving Schools	2007	42
19	Turn-around pedagogies: improving the education of at-risk students	Improving Schools	2005	41
20	The impact of creative learning environments on learners: A systematic literature review	Improving Schools	2013	41
21	The Nature and Value of Formative Assessment for Learning	Improving Schools	2003	39
22	Understanding school responses to students’ challenging behaviour: A review of literature	Improving Schools	2011	39
23	Assessing students’ views of school climate: Developing and validating the What’s Happening In This School? (WHITS) questionnaire	Improving Schools	2013	38
24	Depressive adolescents at risk of social exclusion: The potentials of social-emotional learning in schools	Improving Schools	2019	37
25	The progress of inclusive education in South Africa: Teachers’ experiences in a selected district, KwaZulu-Natal	Improving Schools	2011	36
26	Enhanced academic performance using a novel classroom physical activity intervention to increase awareness, attention and self-control: Putting embodied cognition into practice	Improving Schools	2015	36
27	Case studies on the transition from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments: Emerging strategies for success	Improving Schools	2020	35
28	A Lesson Is Like a Swiftly Flowing River: How Research Lessons Improve Japanese Education	Improving Schools	1999	34
29	Opening doors for bilingual students: Recommendations for building linguistically responsive schools	Improving Schools	2012	34
30	Living improvement: a case study of a secondary school in England®	Improving Schools	2006	33
31	The language of collaboration: Dialogue and identity in teacher professional development	Improving Schools	2011	33
32	Student perceptions: Improving the educational experiences of high school students on the autism spectrum	Improving Schools	2015	32
33	School effectiveness and students’ perceptions of teacher caring: A multilevel study	Improving Schools	2019	32
34	Building sustainable futures: emerging understandings of the significant contribution of the professional learning community	Improving Schools	2004	31
35	‘Listen to me when I have something to say’: students’ participation in research for sustainable school improvement	Improving Schools	2009	30
36	Issues of teacher professional learning within ‘non-traditional’ classroom environments	Improving Schools	2013	30
37	Moroccan mothers’ involvement in dialogic literary gatherings in a Catalan urban primary school: Increasing educative interactions and improving learning	Improving Schools	2014	30
38	The idea and reality of an innovative school: From inventive design to established practice in a new school building	Improving Schools	2016	30
39	Addressing reciprocity between families and schools: Why these bridges are instrumental for students’ academic success	Improving Schools	2014	29
40	Loris Malaguzzi and the schools of Reggio Emilia: Provocation and hope for a renewed public education	Improving Schools	2016	29
41	Re-engaging disaffected pupils in learning: insights for policy and practice®	Improving Schools	2006	28
42	Collective teacher efficacy, pupil attainment and socio-economic status in primary school®	Improving Schools	2006	28
43	Widening opportunities? A case study of school-to-school collaboration in a rural district	Improving Schools	2008	28
44	Teacher’s computer self-efficacy and its relationship with cognitive style and TPACK	Improving Schools	2017	28
45	Interprofessional collaboration in school: Effects on teaching and learning	Improving Schools	2019	28
46	A school tries to change: How leaders and teachers understand changes to space and practices in a UK secondary school	Improving Schools	2014	26
47	Democratic leadership in an age of managerial accountability	Improving Schools	2002	25
48	Strangely familiar: cross-curricular and creative thinking in teacher education	Improving Schools	2007	25
49	School improvement plans and student achievement: Preliminary evidence from the Quality and Merit Project in Italy	Improving Schools	2014	25
50	The datafication of early years education and its impact upon pedagogy	Improving Schools	2016	25

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