February 2024

AERA President Tyrone Howard and the 2024 Presidential Program co-chairs have developed 47 compelling presidential sessions that contribute to the 2024 Annual Meeting theme, “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.”

The sessions focus on important topics and relevant issues that will interest attendees, such as considering perspectives through nuanced engagements with Black fatherhood, addressing racialized history and extremism across P–12 systems, and disrupting racial injustices in education through large-scale efforts.

A selection of highlighted sessions is below. Complete descriptions for all presidential sessions are available on the AERA website and in the program.  These sessions provide a sample of the rich content available for attendees at the 2024 Annual Meeting. More sessions will be featured in future AERA Highlights as the meeting approaches.

• Genius Joy and Love: Reawakening the African Teaching Tradition
• It’s Time to Teach the Truth: On Developing a Black Studies Curriculum for New York City Public Schools
• Towards a Black Education Clearing: On AntiBlackness in Education and the Political Act of Black Dreaming
• Complicating Black Fatherhood as a Site of Educational Theorizing and Practice
• Learning From New Research on Large Scale Efforts to Disrupt Racial Injustices in Education
• Elevating Youth Scholar Voice Through Anti-Racist Educational Practices
• Understanding and Addressing Racialized History and Violent Extremism Across P–12 Systems and Settings
• Scholarship that Befits a Democracy: Disrupting Educational Inequality through the Scholarship of Mike Rose
• Intersectional Organizing, Solidarity-Building, and Educational Justice: A Town Hall Conversation with Scholars and Community Organizers
• How Youth-Led Belonging Initiatives Are Transforming Urban Public-School Environments Through Fashion, Media, and Architecture
• A People's Victory: Defeating Racist Anti-CRT
• Elevating Black epiSTEMologies: Theories, Methodologies, and Praxis for Dismantling Racial Injustice in Postsecondary STEM Education

In addition to these sessions, the 2024 Presidential Address, titled “Examining Our Past to Imagine a Better Future: Recognition and Redress of Racial Injustice in Education,” will take place on Saturday, April 13, from 4:55 to 6:25 p.m. Learn more about the Annual Meeting theme on the AERA website.