Dear SUPR SIG members,

We are honored to continue — and to deepen — the scope and mission of the School-University Partnership Research (SUPR) SIG. Back in 1995, this community took shape as the Professional Development School Research SIG, and today's SUPR SIG is the inheritance of over three decades of careful, generative scholarship. The new vision statement we now carry forward was built on that long foundation, and it belongs as much to the chairs and members who came before us as it does to those of us stewarding it next. To every past member and chair who broadened, sharpened, and sustained this community — thank you.

Building on that legacy, our 2026–2027 agenda will rest on three tentpoles: Research, Relationships, and Resilience. Research, because rigorous, justice-oriented inquiry into school-university partnerships has never mattered more. Relationships, because partnerships are first and finally about people — and our SIG is strongest when our members know one another across institutions, regions, and roles. Resilience, because the political and structural pressures on this work demand a community that can hold steady, support one another, and lead with courage.

As the SUPR SIG Chair for 2026–27, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development at Texas A&M University, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Teacher Education. My research agenda centers on educator recruitment, preparation, and retention for teachers and principals with sustained focus on school-university partnerships as vehicles for equity-centric workforce development — work I have led through more than $40+ million in statewide and federal partnership grants as PI and executive director. My scholarship has appeared in the Journal of Teacher Education, School-University Partnerships, Urban Education, Theory Into Practice, and Qualitative Inquiry, including recent work examining how HBCUs can lead the way toward an equity-centric model of school-university collaboration. I am proud of my long-standing partnerships with school districts — where collaborative residency work has been at the heart of my practice.

I look forward to seeing you at a SUPR SIG event soon.

Warmly,

Valerie Hill-Jackson 

SUPR SIG Chair, 2026–27 | Texas A&M University | vhjackson@tamu.edu

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