Classroom Management SIG Purpose
To promote research on classroom management and organization, alternative discipline models, group and learner social interactions, and approaches to teacher education towards these ends.
SIG Officers
John A. Williams, III is the current Classroom Management SIG Chair. His welcome message can be found here. Additional information about our group can be obtained from our SIG Program Chair, Kent Divol at divoll@uhcl.edu. Our SIG Vice Chair-Chair Elect is Megan Svajda-Hardy at mhardy@tamu.edu. Karla Adelina Garza serves as our SIG Treasurer and can be reached at mhardy2@tamu.edu. Kay Brocato is a long-time SIG member and volunteer to the leaders in preparing and delivering digital content for our group. Click here for any help with digital content or to volunteer to asisst with our SIG digital outreach. We invited you to click the orange text to make email connection with any of the members of our Classroom Managment SIG leadership and volunteer team mentioned herein.
Who We Are
A visit to the AERA paper repository provides a historical record of who we are as a Special Interest Group. Click the link behind the orange "visit" text in the previous sentence or cut and paste this web address https://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository into your web browser to review Classroom Management SIG manuscripts presented at Annual Conference from 2010 to the most recent meeting. Use the search feature and the SIG name of “classroom management” as the most logical, comprehensive listing of our SIG scholarship. This array of scholarship provides the most complete identity of who we are as a SIG.
Membership
To join the Classroom Management SIG, AERA members pay an additional $15.00 for regular members and $5 for student members per year. The joining task can me completed by visiting our "Join/Renew" page at https://www.aera.net/Membership.
Visit the AERA membership categories page to learn about each membership type and about all the ways to join.
Currently our sig has members in Switzerland, Taiwan, Germany, Netherlands, Canada and twenty-two different states in the U.S. dditionally, volunteering for the service of SIG leadership provides the benefit of access to full membership lists with data including current, past, and lapsed membership information, as well as listings of current SIG officers and SIG financial statements. Come to the annual business meeting to consider becoming a member and taking a leadership role.
News and Announcements
Watch your e-mail inbox for mail from our chair, John A. Williams, (jwilliams3@tamu.edu) for the latest Classroom Managment SIG News and Announcements.
Meetings and Other Events
Our SIG holds a standard business meeting each year at annual convention. Additionally, paper, roundtable, poster, keynote, short course, and special research sessions at annual convention are scheduled based on a formula which involves use of metrics like number of SIG members, number of papers submitted to the SIG for review, number of papers presented in the previous years’ convention(s) etc. SIG members are invited to use the national and international professional relationships garnered from these standard annual meetings to spin out additional programming throughout the academic year and summer or holiday months. Digital meetings and offerings which can be created and offered globally to further the scholarship of our SIG are encouraged and conversations about such may be best brought forward at our annual business meeting. Other opportunities to roll out additional SIG program may be crafted by any SIG member after use of best practices to gather SIG engagement and input. Contact the SIG leadership for mor information.
Awards
The AERA Classroom Management SIG offers an Outstanding Paper award named the Carol Weinstein Outstanding Paper Award, after one of our SIG pioneers, our mentor, and our friend, Dr. Carol Weinstein. Other Organization-wide awards are the Outstanding Book Award, Early Career Award, Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, E. F. Lindquist Award, Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, and the Review of Research Award. All are described here. Classroom Management SIG members who wish to apply for our SIG spcialized award or any of the AERA organization-wide AERA awards are encouraged to work with SIG leadership for support, advice, and guidance through the application process.
Professional Development Opportunities
Seeking advice from the pioneers of our SIG is a great way to engage self and others in organic professional development. Student groups could benefit greatly from digital real time conversations from some of the log time leaders who have remained active SIG members. Carol Weinstein, Ed Emmer, Theo Wubbels, Jerome Freiberg, to name a few, are current members and have been loyal the AERA Classroom Management SIG for many years. Each of these gracious classroom management pioneering scholars would certainly entertain electronic mail connection with budding classroom management scholars. Reach out to SIG contact to otbtain these and other SIG member e-mail addresses.
Key Initiatives
Managing our Annual Meeting content is our primary work. Each year, our Auunual Meeting SIG content will become available here on our official webspace by way of links to the papers and awards selected for recognition at the annual meeting. By mid-May each year members may access our "key initiatives" via the content from our program papers and the descriptions of awards recipients.
Maintaining a periodic new issue of the Handbook of Classroom Management is a key initiative of our SIG. Use of the AERA Online Paper repository with a search by SIG provides titles, authors, and many full manuscripts from our Annuanl Conference Program. The repository shows the work of our SIG from 2010 thru 2025. Click here to see the most recent work available from the 2025 Annual Meeting. Stay tuned for the the 2026 line-up of our most current Classroom Managment SIG manucripts.