Message from SIG Chair
Message from SIG Chair
 
SIG Chair
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Our PDS Research SIG community is excited and appreciative that you have chosen to invest in professional development school (PDS), research practice partnership (RPP), and/or other forms of school-university partnership (SUP) research. I know I speak for the community when I share that we look forward to convening face-to-face or virtually, learning from our peers, networking with like-minded scholars from across the nation, and creating partnerships that will help you and your school-university partnerships continue to grow. It is our sincere hope that this conference and our SIG business meeting provides you with a renewed passion and spirit to continue to make a difference within and across school-university partnerships. 

This year, we are committed to the 2023 AERA Annual Meeting's theme, "Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth" and unpacking how professional development school (PDS) partnerships are best positioned to perform this research.

As members of this SIG, we have three goals to accomplish. First, we must share our PDS, RPP, and SUP research with others on a global stage. Second, we must continue to increase membership in the PDS Research SIG by welcoming in other exemplars of school-university partnerships. The third is for our members to continue to collaborate and encourage each other to write grants that are centered on partnerships. We have seen an increase in this over the last five years and must communicate with each other so we can continue to advance PDS research and receive funding to do this research.

I consider my role within the PDS Research SIG to be that of a facilitator to help our SIG become more inclusive of kinds school-university partnerships with the goal, voted on at the 2022 business meeting, to formally shift to the school-university partnerships research SIG (SUPR SIG - pronounced SUPER SIG). 

I encourage you to join us at the Annual Meeting in Chicago this April 13 through April 16, 2023, where we will unite to become a more inclusive group and honor our findings and successes.


Melissa A. Baker, University of South Carolina