Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions of Unintentional Bias: Toward their Latino/a/é Spanish-Speaking English Learners

Thematic analysis was used for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns in qualitative data through description of the themes. The raw data were organized into columns, where the first column was used to highlight any terms or phrases that could be used to answer the research questions. The second column was used to assign preliminary codes to these phrases and the final column was used to identify predetermined and emergent patterns. Predetermined and emergent patterns were organized based on word frequency, for example, the term unintentional bias represented a predetermined pattern, as it was present in the interview protocol and the raw data, whereas the terms empathy and trauma emerged from the raw data but were not used in the interview protocol.