Helenrose Fives is Professor of Educational Foundations in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, USA.Nicole Barnes is Associate Professor of Educational Foundations in the College of Education and Human Services at Montclair State University, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Educational Psychology’s Response to Transformational Experiences in the Classroom 2. The Year of Isaiah: Classrooms as Transformational Places of Learning 3. What Happened To Isaiah? 4. Social Influences on the Year of Isaiah 5. Using Situated and Inquiry-Based Frameworks to Contextualize "the Year of Isaiah" 6. Response to the Analyses 7. Sounding Out: From "a-u says /aw/" to Critical Conversations 8. Using Constructivism and Racial Identity Development to Explore Dear Martin 9. Ms. Pollitt: A Novice Teacher’s Varying and Interacting Experiences and Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs 10. Creating a Climate for Critical Consciousness Sounding Out: Contextual Analysis 11. Case Author Response 12. The Annex: A Place In-Between 13. The Impact of Communal Learning on Students’ Sense of Belonging in The Annex 14. Developing Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness at The Annex 15. The Power of Context 16. Response