7/16/2016
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Message from Emma Bullock, Division A Senior Representative
The purpose of the AERA Division A Graduate Student Representatives and Committee Members is to work collaboratively with one another in order to provide opportunities for other graduate students in the division. The goal is to strengthen and broaden the graduate school experience for Division A students. This is accomplished by disseminating information about annual AERA and UCEA conference sessions, inviting participation in the Connect Series webinars, and informing graduate students of various scholarships and awards through the AERA Graduate Student listserv and social media outlets. AERA Division A conference sessions and the Connect Series are planned to help fellow graduate students navigate academic life; provide opportunities for networking with fellow graduate students, faculty, and practitioners in the field; and offer guidance in transitioning from graduate student life to careers as professional scholars and researchers. There are lots of ways to get involved with Division A graduate student activities with varying levels of commitment. Graduate students are encouraged to contact the Senior or Junior Representative for more information about opportunities to get involved with Division A graduate student activities. The contact information for the Senior and Junior Representatives is: Emma Bullock at emma.bullock@aggiemail.usu.edu and Wei-Ling Sun at sunwl27@utexas.edu.
As the 2016-17 Division A Graduate Student Representative, my goals for this year include: increasing graduate student enrollment and engagement in the Division A Graduate Student Committee (GSC), fine tuning and strengthening existing initiatives with the help of our amazing GSC, exploring more publishing opportunities for Division A graduate students, and helping to update the general AERA website, which is currently grossly out of date.
Here is a list of initiatives we are working on this year:
Conference Sessions and Opportunities:
AERA Division A Fireside Chat: At AERA, each graduate student division plans a Fireside Chat with a focus on the current conference theme from the perspectives of the division. Scholars and practitioners with known expertise on the topic are invited to facilitate the discussion. Questions and comments from graduate students are encouraged. The 2017 Division A Fireside Chat’s current working title is: STEM Education and School Leadership: Equitably Accessing the Playing Field and is being developed to work in concert with the AERA’s 2017 Annual Meeting Theme: Knowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity.
AERA Division A Dialogic Forum: This AERA pre-session event allows students who are not presenting in the AERA 2017 Annual Meeting to share research-in-progress in a roundtable format and receive in-depth feedback from faculty.
UCEA Publishing Session: This session is co-administered alongside the Division L GSC and takes place at the Annual Convention of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). It offers doctoral students an opportunity to dialogue with a panel of students and faculty who have a rich record in publishing and learn how to navigate the publish or perish realities of the academy.
Foster-Polite Scholarship: This scholarship offers a $500 stipend to four graduate students who are members of Division A (excluding committee members) and who are accepted for the AERA Annual meeting. (See below.)
Connect Series: The Connect Series is a collection of live, interactive webinars that explore pressing educational leadership issues of the day. These webinars are archived for future viewing if live viewing is not an option. A combination of professors, practitioners, and/or policymakers cover themes related to administration, policy, organization, and leadership. Please stay tuned for our exciting lineup to be published soon! (See below.)
Division A Graduate Student Committee Opportunities: There are interesting and rewarding ways in which to become involved with Division A as a graduate student. Keep your eyes out for the opportunity to become a member of the Division A GSC. Positions include two-year Junior Representative/Senior Representative, and one-year opportunities like Connect Series Co-Chair, UCEA Publishing Session Chair, Communications Co-Chair, Foster-Polite Scholarship Chair, Dialogic Forum Chair, and Lead Reviewers. All of these positions allow for fantastic networking with graduate students, faculty, and practitioners interested in administration, policy, organization, and leadership. Application will be solicited starting in February 2017!
Message from Jason Ribeiro and Alison Wilson, Communications Co-Chairs
Hi, everyone! We are so looking forward to serving on the Division A Graduate Student Committee for 2016-17. As your Communications Co-Chairs we are tasked with advertising all Division A graduate student events and opportunities. We also help keep you informed by contributing to the Division A Newsletter. Keep checking your email and our social media channels for important information throughout the upcoming academic year. You can also use our communication channels to engage in key discussions, content sharing, and professional networking. We look forward to connecting with as many members as we can, both in-person and virtually. Please do not hesitate to reach out with questions and ideas!
Upcoming News and Events
Three Reasons You Need the Foster-Polite Scholarship
It gets you to the AERA Annual Meeting with less money out of your pocket!
It would look awesome on your curriculum vitae!
You get to brag to your advisor, family, and friends that you earned a scholarship!
The purpose of the Foster-Polite Scholarship is to recognize and promote scholarly excellence in doctoral students who are enrolled in an educational administration/school leadership program. The Scholarship awards $500 travel stipends to four graduate students, who have single or first authorship on a paper accepted to a Division A session or a related SIG session during the AERA Annual meeting. Look for full application announcements beginning in late November. In the meantime, do not forget to submit a proposal to a Division A session and/or a SIG relevant to educational leadership.
The Connect Series
The Connect Series will include several 60-minute, virtual sessions that will take place on Mondays between September 2016 and June 2017. The main goal of this event is to utilize virtual meeting technology to increase real-time engagement among graduate students, professors, practitioners, and policymakers. Sessions will focus on current policy and practice issues related to the Division A themes: leadership, school organization and effects, school improvement, school contexts and communities, and leadership development.
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7/16/2016
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Who We Are – Get to Know the Committee
Emma Bullock
Senior Representative
Utah State University
Emma Bullock is a Ph.D. doctoral candidate at Utah State University in Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis in Mathematics Education and Leadership. She is also concurrently enrolled in a second Master’s Program in Mathematics with an expected graduation date from both programs of April 2017. Emma holds an M.Ed in Educational Leadership from Argosy University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Music from Brigham Young University. With 5 years’ experience as a principal of a K-9 public charter school in Utah, 8 years’ experience providing in-service teacher professional development, and over 14 years teaching secondary and higher education mathematics in both Utah and South Carolina, Emma has broad practical experience in the issues of traditional public and charter public education. In addition, Emma currently serves on the boards of two charter schools in Utah and as the AERA Division A Senior Representative. Her research interests include content-specific school leadership, in-service teacher professional development, and mathematics education virtual manipulatives. Her doctoral dissertation is titled: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study of the School Leaders’ Role in Students’ Mathematics Achievement Through the Lens of Complexity Theory. During the Spring 2016, Emma was the recipient of five major doctoral awards. These awards included: TEAL Graduate Student Researcher of the Year, Graduate Research and Creative Opportunities Grant, Lawson Fellowship Award, Graduate Student Senate Enhancement Award, and a CEHS Dissertation Fellowship Award.
Wei-Ling Sun
Junior Representative
University of Texas at Austin
Wei-Ling Sun is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy and Planning Program at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds dual master’s degrees in Curriculum Studies and Cooperative Superintendency Program from UT Austin. Her research interests include the influence of K-12 social justice education leadership in the neighborhoods of vulnerable populations, school discipline policy reforms (the school-to-prison pipeline), and Asian Americans and Pacific Islander identity politics in public schools. After nine years of teaching and leadership experience in different school districts, Wei-Ling decided to focus her passion in education to analyze and evaluate education policies and to contribute her civic service for more positive social impact in historically marginalized populations.
Naomi Lawrence-Lee
Connect Series Co-Chair
Texas Southern University
Naomi Lawrence-Lee is an Ed.D student studying Education Administration with a concentration in Higher Education at Texas Southern University. Prior to attending Texas Southern University, she received a Bachelor’s of Arts in Business Administration from Dillard University. Her research area is understanding access to success and the impact of a selected federally funded program on first generation, urban college students. She currently serves as a graduate assistant in the capacity of Academic Technology Trainer.
Jessica Schwartzer
Connect Series Co-Chair
George Mason University
Jessica Schwartzer is a Ph.D. student and graduate research assistant at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her specialization is educational leadership focusing on the achievement gap, socially just leadership, culturally relevant pedagogy, racial identities in schools, as well as qualitative research methods in educational leadership. Prior to attending George Mason University, she was an elementary school teacher in New Jersey for 11 years after earning her B.A. in English from Rutgers University and M.A. in School Administration from Rowan University.
7/15/2016
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2015-2016 marked a successful year for the Division A graduate students. Our membership increased to approximately 1,000 students, representing approximately 33% of Division A’s total membership. Not only did enrollment increase, students were more engaged in our various initiatives, including our webinars, UCEA events, and our scholarship program. Most recently, Division A graduate students gathered at the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting for two annual events—the Dialogic Forum and the Fireside Chat. Below is a recap of our AERA events and annual Foster-Polite Scholarship.
Dialogic Forum
Chair: Lolita Tabron
Since 2012, the Division A Dialogic Forum has provided a platform for graduate students to share their research, receive constructive feedback from faculty and students, and get the pulse of current and future directions of research in the field. The 2016 Division A Dialogic Forum grew bigger and better. The 2016 application pool more than tripled, making the selection process very competitive. After a rigorous peer-review process, we selected 25 doctoral students to participate. More than half of the graduate student participants were first-time AERA participants and presenters whose work covered a broad spectrum of topics critical to educational leadership. We thank the Division A faculty mentors who shared their time and expertise: Judy Alston, Noelle Arnold, Scott Bauer, Jennifer Clayton, Shelby Cosner, Morgaen Donaldson, Chris Dunbar, Kristina Hesbol, Leslie Locke, Michael O’Malley, Margaret Terry Orr, Craig Peck, John Petrovic, Virginia Rangel, Mariela Rodriguez, and Dawn Williams.
Fireside Chat – Politics and Power in Community Policing and Schooling
Chair: Priya La Londe & Emma Bullock
On a snowy and cold early Saturday morning, several graduate students and educators came to the D.C. Convention Center to engage in a profound discussion about how politics and power shape policing and community schooling. The panel included Joel Bratton, Dean of Students, Baltimore City Public Schools; Hassan Charles, Executive Director of Engagement, Baltimore County Public Schools; Elke Chen, Assistant Principal, Washington D.C. El Haynes Public Charter School; Sonya Douglass Horsford, Associate Professor, George Mason University; and Tarryn McGhie, University of Nevada Las Vegas. The outstanding panel shared their perspectives on the fundamental issues and possible future directions to improve community schools and face community policing head on. Focusing on the context of D.C. and Baltimore and more broadly on implications for school leaders, the panel offered four key areas of insight around the goal of sharing power and improving partnerships between schools and communities. Panelists articulated a need for an explicit focus on building trust, partnership, and a symbiotic relationship with community members. At present, many communities feel disconnected from schools and institutions, often because of longstanding mistrust, misunderstanding, and policing. Another key theme that emerged in our dialogue is a need for school leaders to train and engage consistently with law enforcement to better understand adolescent development and community needs. Third, panelists suggested students need opportunities to have open dialogue with school leaders and law enforcement about their perspectives on discipline and policing practices. Several panelists highlighted how social media and new technologies should be utilized to empower student voice. Finally, in terms of policy, panelists suggested incentives and specific evaluation criteria around community engagement would help improve the pace of and create a culture of commitment toward community improvement. This year’s Fireside Chat was timely. It took place in a period in which law enforcement and our most vulnerable students are interfacing with one another in hostile, and sometimes deadly, ways. Each panelist offered invaluable perspectives on the ways in which community policing directly shapes educational outcomes and thus must be a central focus of school improvement and school leadership. We are deeply grateful to the panelists for their time and perspectives. Panelist contact information is as follows:
Joel Bratton: projecthope@yahoo.com
Hassan Charles: ahcharles@bcps.k12.md.us
Elke Chen: echen@elhaynes.org
Sonya Horsford: shorsfor@gmu.edu
Tarryn McGhie: mcghiet@unlv.nevada.edu
Foster-Polite Scholarship
Chair: LaTanya Dixson
Division A annually awards $500 travel stipends to attend the AERA Annual Meeting to a few deserving graduate students. Applicants were accepted for paper and poster presentations in Division A sessions. The Division A graduate student committee and former Foster-Polite Scholarship awardees conducted blind reviews of the applications. Once again, our applicant pool reflected the high quality of Division A graduate students. This year’s recipients were Osly Flores, University of Pittsburgh; Frank Perrone, University of Virginia; and Sherry Gannon-Shilon, Bar Ilan University in Israel. Osly Flores’s paper examined school leaders’ interpretation of achievement and opportunity gaps; Frank Perrone’s paper examined 21st century trends in educational administration degree production, and Sherry Gannon-Shilon’s research looked at principals’ sense-making as creative-bridging for balancing internal and external demands. This group of diverse papers reflects the Division A graduate student committee’s commitment toward supporting student scholarly development.
We look forward another administration of the Foster-Polite Scholarship in 2017. The Call for Applications will go out in late fall 2016. We encourage all graduate students with a proposal accepted to an AERA 2017 Division A session or SIG session related to educational administration to apply for this prestigious scholarship.
3/28/2016
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The Division A Graduate Student Committee has a number of exciting events happening in spring of 2016. The 100th anniversary of the American Education Research Association marks a particularly exciting time for us. Our Graduate Student Research Dialogic Forum will host 30 students and offer one-on-one mentorship to Division A’s outstanding graduate students. We also look forward to our Fireside Chat on community policing and community schooling, which will feature faculty and practitioners from D.C. and Baltimore. We invite all graduate students to join us at the Division A Business Meeting and reception so that we can get to know one another! Our Connect Series will continue to feature faculty, practitioners, and policymakers from around the globe.
This spring our webinars will focus on issues related to queer leadership, transnational and transcultural leadership, and leadership in rural communities. Can’t make it to the webinar, want to watch an old webinar, or want to use a webinar in your classes? Go to our YouTube channel and watch all of our videos today!
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group, and chat with us on Twitter @divisionagsc. We look forward to meeting all of you! Questions? Please contact Senior Representative pgoel4@illinois.edu or Junior Representative Emma Bullock at emma.bullock@aggiemail.usu.edu.
AERA 2016 Annual Meeting: April 8-12 Washington D.C.
Division A Graduate Student Research Dialogic Forum (invited session only). Friday, April 8. 8:00-10:00am. Marriott Marquis Level Four Independence Salon B
Graduate Student Orientation: Navigating AERA’s Multiple Offerings. Friday, April 8. 2:15-3:45pm. Convention Center Level One Room 140AB
Division A Fireside Chat: Power and Politics in Community Policing and Schooling. Saturday, April 9. 8:15-9:45am. Convention Center Level Two Room 206
Division A Business Meeting. Sunday, April 10. 6:30-8:00pm. Marriott Marquis. Level Four Independence Salon E
UCEA, Division A, Division L Joint Reception. Sunday, April 10. 8:00-10:00pm. Marriott Marquis, Level Two, Marquis Salon 5
Connect Series Webinar: Link and flyer advertised prior to events
Racial Opportunity Costs of Katrina Reforms. Monday, September 28, 2015 7:00 CST
Building School Culture in Large Districts. Monday, November 30, 2015 7:00 CST
Transnational and Transcultural Leadership in the Wild West. Monday, February 29, 2016 7:00 CST
Queer Leadership. Monday, March 21, 2016 7:00 CST
Politics and Power in Community Policing and Community Schooling. Broadcast of AERA Division A Fireside Chat (see above)
Remembering Rural Schools. Monday, May 9, 2016 7:00 CST
1/19/2016
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A very happy 2016 to all Division A members! Our entire committee writes with great enthusiasm about our accomplishments and what lies ahead of us. Our goal this academic year is to increase opportunities for graduate students funding and engage Division A graduate students with one another in contemporary ways. We have made great strides in these goals. Communications Co-Chairs Darrius Stanley and Sarah Marten increased our social media presence through more Facebook posts, expanded email outreach, and they started our first Twitter account! These collaborative efforts paid off. We had a huge pool of applicants for the Dialogic Forum and Foster-Polite Scholarship, more participants in the Division A Connect Series, and more attendees at the UCEA publishing session. We begin 2016 thrilled that our Division A Graduate Student community is more united and look forward to building on our work!
Looking Back: Division A GSC 2015 Events
Connect Series Co-Chair Ramon Griffin moderated our first AERA Division A Connect in September of 2015, “The Racial Opportunity Costs of New Orleans Education Reforms.” We faced several technical difficulties and thus were unable to hold our session on YouTube. Still, our esteemed panel offered key, essential lessons for education leadership policy, practice, and leadership. The panel included Dr. Terah Venzant-Chambers, Dr. Raynard Sanders, Dr. Jane Lincove, and Karran Herper Royal.
After we held more mock sessions and thoroughly investigated how to broadcast our Connect Series, we held our second session in November 2015. Connect Series Co-Chair Carrie Gentner moderated this session, “Reframing School Culture in Large Districts.” It featured Dr. Darryl Williams from Houston, Texas Independent Schools and Superintendent Jeff Eakins of Hillsborough County in Tampa, Florida. This event was widely attended and generated a lively Twitter conversation among students via the Twitter hashtag #DivisionAConnect! This dialogue addressed serious educational concerns, including how culture is intentionally created in a district and whose culture matters in a diverse district. These are exactly the kinds of scholarly conversations we hoped to provide for Division A graduate students!
Many Committee members flew in for the 2015 UCEA Convention in San Diego, California. Our own committee met informally over meals and at receptions, and we attended sessions together. Linsay DiMartino worked with Division L to host the “Taking the Fear Out of Publishing” breakfast session. This event was filled with invigorating discussions on the topic of publishing, which is often a scary concept for young graduate students. The panel of early and advanced scholars “doused the flames”, so to speak, for attendees and created a safe environment for students to reveal their deepest insecurities about writing for publication. Dr. Michael Dumas reminded students that passion and anger is the start of a great publication. From these emotions flow great work and work that you will commit to conveying to larger audiences. Reassuringly the panel reminded students that rejections, with constructive feedback, are a gift that should be cherished as we commit to this publication journey.
AERA 2016
Thanks to Dialogic Forum Chair Lolita Tabron, the Division A Dialogic Forum received over 50 applicants, far more than the just 12 applicants in academic year 2014-2015. The Dialogic Forum is a pre-session event at the AERA Annual Meeting for students to share their research and receive feedback from scholars and peers. Lolita created an eye-catching flyer inviting graduate students to submit research proposals around the theme of “Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies.” Proposals are currently under review and decisions will be emailed out on January 16, 2016. We are looking forward to an enlightening forum this year!
Thanks to Foster-Polite chair LaTanya Dixon, four outstanding Division A graduate students will receive $500 in travel support to present their original research at AERA 2016. This funding opportunity is important for many ramen-eating grad students, and LaTanya got the word out well in advance in order to reach as many as possible. Her efforts resulted in tripling the pool of applicants from last year. The applications are currently under review, and decisions will be sent out on February 9, 2016. We are so honored to support our peer researchers in their scholarly journeys!
A special thanks to the GSC’s review team, who coordinates the reviews for proposals and applications: Craig De Voto, Lee Flood, and Maryann Krikorian. Their work is especially vital this year with such increase in the number of applicants for our research and funding opportunities!
The 2016 AERA Annual Meeting is just around the corner. Opportunities abound for our Division A graduate students at this at this year’s meeting! We will also host the AERA 2016 Fireside Chat, the Dialogic Forum, the Division A Graduate Student Business Meeting and the Division A/L Joint Reception. We want to see every one of you in Washington, D.C.! The theme of this year’s meeting is “Public Scholarship to Promote Diverse Democracies.”
The 2016 conference pays well deserved homage to one of our great forefathers of education, John Dewey. Marking the 100-year anniversary of Democracy and Education, we are reminded of the importance of democratic institutions, as well as, social and educational progress. The trends of public scholarship have shifted drastically over the years from the public lectures of highly regarded researchers to the more accessible blogosphere and collaborative action research. Public scholarship no longer has a singular definition; it encompasses a wide-range of approaches and styles. Our commitment to school leadership causes us to inquire about what public scholarship and diverse democracies mean for those who identify as “Commander and Chief.” When asked to comment on the importance of this year’s AERA meeting theme, our Division A Junior Representative Emma Bullock reflected, “I think that school leadership will continue to become more distributed (among teacher leaders and parental demands) as the complexities of reaching the needs of diverse populations becomes more understood. Also, as schools become more digitized and more options become available, school leadership will need to respond to more individualized student learning plans. I think brick and mortar schools will need to adapt to an ever moving, ever more connected population. I also think our schools will become increasingly integrated globally, so that a student living in California could possibly attend a high school in Japan, for example. As such, public scholarship will become ever more global and open access.”
The future of diverse democracies hinges on the ability of leadership to adapt and innovate their practice. As researchers and scholars, the Division A Graduate Student Committee is committed to engaging in the various modes of public scholarship to aid in this transition. We can do this together! Please join us at AERA 2016 in Washington, so we can build a strong, networked community with the strength to innovate.
Division A Graduate Student Committee 2016-2017
We want you! If you are a Division A graduate student seeking to get involved and make a difference, consider applying for the 2016-2017 Division A Graduate Student Committee! An official call for members will be circulated in February. Please apply! In the meantime, please contact representatives Priya La Londe (pgoel4@illinois.edu) or Emma Bullock (emma.bullock@aggiemail.usu.edu) with questions.
7/15/2015
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4/5/2015
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Congratulations to the 2015 Foster Polite Scholarship Awardees!
Rui Yan
University of Utah
Title of Paper: “What Factors Affect Principal Mobility and Departure? An Analysis of 2007-08 Schools and Staffing Survey and 2008-09 Principal Follow-Up Survey”
Rui Yan is a third year PhD student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department (ELP), at the University of Utah. Currently, she is a research assistant in ELP as well as a graduate assistant at the Utah Education Policy Center.
Tim Drake
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
Title of Paper: “Exploring Principals’ Use of Teacher Effectiveness Data for Human Capital Decision Making”
Tim is a fourth year Ph.D. Candidate in K-12 Education Leadership and Policy at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include school leadership, data-driven decision making, and teacher evaluation policy. Starting in January, 2016 he will begin working as a tenure-track professor of education leadership at North Carolina State University.
Sarah McKibben
Victoria University of Wellington
Title of Paper: “The Role of Distributed Leadership in Networked School Improvement: Evidence from New Zealand”
Sarah is an outgoing Fulbright Fellow to New Zealand and an incoming 6th grade teacher with Teach for America in the Arkansas Delta. In New Zealand, Sarah studied the role of school leaders in building school networks to improve outcomes for academically struggling students. Sarah holds a B.A. in Public Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University and a M.P.A. with a specialization in education policy analysis from American University.
Stephanie Tuters
University of Toronto
Title of Paper: “Constructing policy problems and solutions: A critical policy analysis of bullying policies in Ontario, Canada”
Stephanie is a PhD candidate at OISE/UT. Her thesis explores what motivates elementary school teachers to do equity work, how they understand, recognize and act on in/equities, and what helps and hinders them in doing this work. She also researches educational leadership and policy.
4/5/2015
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There are three conference sessions that we especially recommend for Division A Graduate Students:
Division A Fireside Chat: Strengthening School Leaders’ Understandings of the Intersections of Identity, Culture, Language, Heritage, and Justice Conceptualization.
Fri, April 17, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Swissotel, Lucerne Level, Lucerne III
This session will examine intersections of identity, culture, language, and heritage and how school leaders can realize justice for students and families who are educationally marginalized, dispossessed, and excluded. School leaders’ identities are shaped by personal funds of knowledge, beliefs, and longstanding assumptions; and identity shapes leaders’ responsiveness to student language, culture, and heritage. It is at this intersection of identity, culture, language, and heritage at which justice can begin to be conceptualized and enacted. In this session, critical scholars of education leadership, education policy, language, and culture will dialogue on research, preparation, and frameworks for strengthening school leaders’ pursuit for education justice.
Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Dr. Jean Patterson, Wichita State University
Dr. Robert Teranhishi, University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Anjalé Welton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University Council for Educational Administration, Division A, Division L, and SAGE Publications Joint Reception
Sat, April 18, 8:00 to 10:00pm, Swissotel, Event Centre First Level, Zurich D
Division A Graduate Student Research Dialogic Forum
Thu, April 16, 8:00 to 10:00am, Hyatt, West Tower – Bronze Level, Water Tower
Session Type: Graduate Student Seminar
More general event details are listed in the online program for AERA.
2/10/2015
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by Ramon Griffin, Division A Web & GSC Newsletter Chair
In this post, we highlight two important programs for graduate students that will be offered at the 2015 AERA Conference. In March’s pre-conference edition of the newsletter, we will highlight “can’t miss” sessions for graduate students.
2015 AERA Division A Graduate Student Research Dialogic Forum
At the 2015 AERA Annual Conference in Chicago, Division A will be sponsoring a special roundtable for emerging research by graduate students. Division A supports an examination of educational administration, organization, and leadership and the effects of leaders and leadership on educational institutions. Division A invited submissions related to the 2015 Annual Meeting theme “Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis.”
The purpose of this graduate student research dialogic forum is twofold. First is to provide graduate students with the opportunity to present new research perspectives on current educational issues addressing this year’s theme. Second is the opportunity to receive constructive feedback from scholars and peers about current and future directions of the research and its contribution to the field around this theme. These presentations from graduate students will also act as a platform to encourage discussion, which helps shape the direction of research agendas within the field.
We strongly encouraged submissions that featured interdisciplinary constructs and theories; represented intellectual, disciplinary, and methodological diversity within the context of current education policy; and highlighted the implications of such policies for schools, school systems, school communities, and leaders of educational institutions.
More details to follow on this!
Currently, the Dialogic Forum chair and volunteers are in the process of generating a list of potential faculty mentors to participate in the forum. Once they have done this, we will provide more details on the time, place, submissions that were accepted along with faculty mentors that have been selected as matches for the research proposal.
Division A Fireside Chat: “Research, Preparation, and Frameworks for Strengthening School Leaders’ Understandings of the Intersections of Identity, Culture, Language, Heritage and Justice Conceptualization”
Aligned with the AERA theme of Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis, this session will examine intersections of identity, culture, language, heritage and how these understandings can best serve those who have been and are educationally marginalized, dispossessed, and excluded. Encompassing personal funds of knowledge, personal beliefs, and longstanding assumptions, identity shapes leaders’ responsiveness to student language, culture, and heritage. It is at this intersection of identity, culture, language, and heritage at which justice can begin to be conceptualized and enacted. As such, in order to support leaders in their pursuit of educational justice, a closer examination of identity in leadership research and preparation is needed. In this session, critical scholars of education leadership, education policy, language, and culture will dialogue on research, preparation, and frameworks for strengthening school leaders’ pursuit for education justice.
6/25/2014
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Greetings Fellow Graduate Students!
I am humbled and honored to serve as this year’s Division A Senior Representative for the AERA Graduate Student Council (GSC). Our mission is to empower graduate students and promote the transition of graduate student to professional researcher and/or practitioner by providing opportunities within the AERA Division A community for growth. This year, we have much in store for Division A Graduate Students and are excited to offer competitive scholarships, professional mentorships, publishing opportunities, and special conference sessions tailored specifically toward graduate student interests. We have recently appointed five exceptional graduate students to serve on the Division A GSC, and I am delighted to introduce them here:
Priya Goel La Londe
Junior Representative
Priya is a joint PhD-MBA student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Priya’s current research interests include teacher data use, culturally responsive evaluation, research use among policymakers and intermediary organizations, and Youth Participatory Action Research.
Jared Boyce
Foster-Polite Scholarship Chair
Jared is a third-year doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University. His current research interests include instructional leadership, leadership preparation programs, and conflict resolution in schools. In addition to research Jared has enjoyed working closely with practitioner programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, including the Summer Principals Academy, the Urban Education Leadership Program, and the Klingenstein Center. Prior to being a doctoral student Jared was the Technology and Student Systems Officer at the Education Program for Gifted Youth Online High School at Stanford University, a non-traditional online high school serving gifted students in grades 7-12 both from the US and from around the world. Jared taught high school mathematics prior to moving into administration.
Anna Drake
Dialogic Forum Chair
Anna earned her Bachelor’s in Religion from Davidson College and her Master’s in Organization Development from Queens University of Charlotte, where she worked in University Advancement as Executive Director of Donor Relations and Scholarship Support prior to beginning her PhD in fall 2013. She holds a Graduate Research Assistantship with Dr. Manuel Justiz, Dean of UT-Austin’s College of Education. Her primary research areas include policy, organizational behavior, and innovation in higher education. She is particularly interested in the intersection of organizational design, technology, and residential higher education.
Ramon Griffin
Division A Web & GSC Newsletter Chair
Ramon’s passion for K-12 Educational Administration emanates from being schooled in districts that lacked human and financial resources, quality curricula, and functional learning environments. Throughout his experiences as an educator in Houston, New Orleans, and Detroit, he witnessed similar disparities threaten the academic achievement and social mobility of African American males with disabilities. These students suffer academically and behaviorally in public and charter school spaces, and the alternative is almost always a referral to special education. Ramon’s research investigates whether a culturally responsive approach to response to intervention (RTI) will increase academic achievement, and reduce the overrepresentation of African American males in special education programs.
Ashley McKinney
Social Media Chair
Ashley McKinney is a PhD candidate in the Educational Leadership and Policy Department at the University of Utah. Her current research interests include social justice leadership for school climate change with a focus on urban, K-12 education. Ashley has served as an educator, instructional coach, and professional development lead for Title 1 schools. She is currently employed as a Research Associate for the Utah Education Policy Center. Ashley is excited to get the opportunity to continue her work with the Division A community as a Graduate Student Council Committee member.
Brandolyn Jones
UCEA Steward
Brandolyn is a doctoral fellow in the Department of Educational Research and Doctoral Studies at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and a 2013-2015 UCEA Barbara Jackson Scholar. Brandolyn has dedicated her professional career to bridging the leadership capacities of school administrators and teacher leaders. Her research interests include culturally relevant K-12 leadership, culturally responsive teaching in literacy, school turnaround initiatives, and illuminating the experiences of African American female doctoral students in predominately White institutions in the United States.
Also, I am honored to announce the 2014 recipients of the Foster Polite Graduate Student Scholarship. The purpose of this graduate student scholarship is to recognize and promote scholarly excellence in Division A doctoral students. Every year the selection committee, comprised of Division A GSC committee members, selects four awardees who receive $500 to assist with expenses related to attending the AERA Annual Meeting. Eligibility requirements include membership in AERA Division A, current status as a graduate student enrolled in an educational administration/school leadership program, and single- or first-authorship on a paper or poster accepted for presentation at a Division A session. In a blind review process, several graduate student reviewers assess each applicant’s contribution to the field, theoretical framework, research design, quality of literature review, and originality of the topic of investigation. The 2014 AERA Division A Foster Polite Graduate Student Scholarship Awardees are:
Justin Barbaro
Columbia University
Justin researches headship transitions in international schools.
Joelle Rodway Macri
University of Toronto
Joelle uses social network theory and analysis to investigate the ways in which social interactions within a professional learning community mediate research knowledge mobilization in support of evidence-based policy-making.
Phillip Smith
Columbia University
Phillip explores the nature of color-conscious paradigms of educational leadership to better understand how tthe racial and cultural backgrounds of Black male secondary school principals inform their approach to exercising leadership.
Kari Carr
Indiana University
Through the lens of organizational narratives, Kari studies the negotiation of legitimacy concerning the closure of two center-city Catholic schools and subsequent opening of two charter schools.
On behalf of the GSC, we look forward to serving you for the 2014 – 2015 academic year. Please feel free to reach out and connect with us!
Sincerely,
Kate Michelle Rollert
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