July 10, 2020

Greetings! 

We hope that you and yours are well! 

We have a few exciting announcements to share with you!

First, check out the new leadership team by accessing the "Who We Are" page. We want to acknowledge and thank outgoing members, Chad Green, Noelle Paufler, Bill Watson, and Sunnie Watson. 

We're also excited to announce that the SIG awards have been approved by the AERA executive committee and 2021 will be the inaugural year. We welcome nominations for Outstanding Article in Systems Thinking in Education and Systems Thinking Outstanding Dissertation Award. The formal call for nominations will be sent by email on August 1st. Stay tuned -- meanwhile here's the eligibility criteria. 

Eligibility criteria for Outstanding Article: The article must have been published in a peer-reviewed or editor-reviewed journal within the prior three years and represent a contribution to systems thinking research and/or theory.

 Eligibility criteria for Outstanding Dissertation Award: Dissertations must be completed and defended successful during the two-year time period prior to the deadline for nominations of the award (time period from December 2018 to December 2020).

Meanwhile, we look forward to receiving your conference proposals by the July 22nd deadline.

Warmest wishes,

Miriam Ezzani on behalf of the Systems Thinking in Education SIG Leadership Team