March 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 discussions with activist-scholars in urban schools, the implementation of Ethnic Studies in school districts, and race and racism in artificial intelligence-enabled social and virtual spaces.
A selection of highlighted sessions is below. They complement a selection of Presidential sessions announced in the February 2024 issue of Highlights. 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.
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- Bilingual Special Education for the 21st Century: Reimagining the Future
- Space, Place, and Race: Addressing Settler Colonialism at the Roots of Education
- As Black America Goes, So Goes the Nation: Re-Embracing Our HBCU Educational Programs in the Pursuit for Racial Educational Justice
- Moving the Needle: Promising Practices and Innovative Approaches for Educators, Administrators, and Practitioners to Imagine Spaces Free of Racial Injustice and Dismantling the Preparation “Pipeline”
- Black Girls and Women Recalling, Resisting, And Reclaiming Self Through Multimodal Composing
- W. E. B. Du Bois in Our Times: Toward Racial Justice in Education in the 21st Century
- Re/Reading and Re/Writing the Wor(l)d: Engaging in Racialized Conversations to Reimagine Literacy Engagement for Justice
- Conducting Race-Focused Survey Research in the P-20 System during the Anti-Woke Political Revolt
- Civic Education and Racial Justice: What Political Economy Can Offer
- Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership: Disrupting Traditional Paradigms by Centering Race to Construct New Futures in P–20 Education
- Enacting and Sustaining Equity-centered Work in Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Organizational, Federal, and Systemic Levers of Change
- Navigating Race, Immigration, and National Identity in Transnational Educational Contexts
- Counternarrative as Transformative Praxis in Education
- Dismantling Racial Injustice: Contributions of the Science of Learning and Development
- The Experiences of Foster Youth of Color: Interrogating Carceral Systems Toward (Re)Imagining Educational Opportunity
- Healing Racialized Trauma: Grief and Love as a Praxis for Racial Justice
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In addition to these sessions, there will be a special event on Wednesday, April 10, at a local Philadelphia school. This session will provide an opportunity for stakeholders (parents, students, social service agency representatives, and city and community leaders) to engage in meaningful conversation with individuals who are on the front lines of educating children in the School District of Philadelphia and provide an opportunity for educators to articulate their vision, goals, objectives, and leadership strategies as they relate to the overall mission of the district.
A Community Conversation: The Education of Students in the School District of Philadelphia
Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School 3301 Old York Road, Philadelphia, PA 19140
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.