Dear Educational Change SIG Members,
Happy February! Please see the newsletter for information on our incredible Award Winners!!, a new Lead the Change with Dr. Ethan Chang, and a request for a chair for one of our AERA virtual roundtables.
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Award Winners!
I hope you will join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our wonderful SIG members including:
- Dr. Lauren Bailes, Emerging Scholar Award
- Dr. Cynthia Wise, Doctoral Student Pracademic Award
- Reut Liraz, Doctoral Student Scholar Award
- Kate Kennedy, Doctoral Student Travel Award
- Sarah Beach, Doctoral Student Travel Award (Runner Up)
- Jackie Pedota, Doctoral Student Travel Award (Runner Up)
Lead the Change
Linked here and online is our January 2022 Lead the Change featuring Dr. Ethan Chang. And, many thanks to Int’l Ed News for publishing all our LTC Issues on their site. Visit our website to catch up on all our LTC Issues.
Request for (Virtual) Roundtable Chair
We need a chair for the following roundtable - please email Jennie.Weiner@uconn.edu directly if you can fulfill this role - thank you!
Professional Networks for Educational ChangeMon, April 25, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (11:00am to 12:30pm EDT), SIG Virtual Rooms, SIG-Educational Statisticians Virtual Roundtable Session Room
Plea to Renew
Finally, I make the request that you please renew your membership and encourage others to join! To do so, click “Login,” entering your user name and password, and clicking on “Purchase Additional SIG Memberships” in your My AERA page. Your renewal will help us plan for next year’s programming – including our AERA 2022 conference events.
If you do choose to renew by the end of February we are excited to enter you in a raffle for some of our illustrious member’s recent books including:
- In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School by Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine (Our keynote speaker in April)
- Transformational Professional Learning: Making a Difference in Schools by Deborah M. Netolicky
- Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success by Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves
- The Strategy Playbook for Educational Leaders: Principles and Processes by Isobel Stevenson and Jennie M. Weiner
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Teacher Evaluation: Understanding the Research and Theory by Morgaen L. Donaldson
Int’l Ed News
Every month, Int’l Ed News (@intl_ed_news) publishes our Lead the Change Interviews. This month, their site feature an article on the fate of education for girls in Afghanistan.
Thank you to our Partners
Educational Research for Policy and Practice
International Education News
International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
Journal of Educational Change
Journal of Professional Capital and Community
National Principals Leadership Institute
School Leadership & Management
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Share your News with Us
Please visit our membership page for all the Lead the Change articles, information on SIG awards and more.
Do you have a new publication? A new initiative? Presenting at a conference? Let us know, and we will post it on our Web Membership Corner, Facebook and Twitter pages. Please send your pictures and video clips from your presentations and conferences for our web pages!
Warmest Regards,
Jennie Weiner, Chair
Olga Fellus, Program Chair
Corinne Brion, Secretary/Treasurer
Alex Lamb, Lead the Change Editor
Cynthia Wise, Social Media Coordinator
Taylor Strickland, Social Media Coordinator