"They came, they saw, they conquered":
Division A Program Planning Committee Meeting
Enjoying each other’s company after a weekend of planning for AERA 2019 Toronto. See you there! Front row, left to right: Soribel Genao, Sarah Diem, Mónica Byrne-Jiménez, Detra Johnson, Decoteau Irby, Cristóbal Rodríguez. Back row from left to right, Poppie the dog, Catherine O’Brien, Dana Thompson-Dorsey, Erica Fernandez, Donna Druery, Vicent Cho
By Cristóbal Rodríguez, Program Chair
Vice President: Mónica Byrne-Jiménez
Chair: Cristóbal Rodríguez
Co-Chair: Soribel Genao
Section 1 - Leadership: Decoteau Irby & Detra Johnson
Section 2 - School Organization and Effects: Vincent Cho
Section 3 - School Improvement: Erica Fernández
Section 4 - School Contexts and Communities: Sarah Diem
Section 5 - Leadership Development: Catherine O’Brien
Equity, Inclusion, & Action Committee: Dana N. Thompson Dorsey, Chair, & Lolita Tabron, Co-Chair
On the weekend of September 13-15, members of the Division A Planning Committee for AERA 2019 gathered and deliberated at The Mecca, the birth place of the legal advocacy in Brown v. Board of Education, the prestigious Howard University in Washington D.C. Here we processed reviews, rejected and accepted proposals, created sessions for accepted proposals, and discussed additional critical topics for our discipline of educational leadership. As the Planning Chair, I take great responsibility to provide a fair process, a deliberative process, but moreover, a process that also acknowledges the role and scholarly leadership and contributions that each member of the Planning Committee reflects, as their work is the oil that makes our engine run smoothly. We appreciate all the reviewers who took the time to meet the deadline to review and provide feedback to enhance the good work, but also, to each scholar devoting time to trust our system enough to submit their work for peer review, and moreover to share that scholarship with our community. Division A had a total of 354 individual paper proposals, and 38 symposium proposals, which resulted in 207 individual accepted proposals, and 13 accepted symposiums. Additionally, the Planning Committee is developing a lineup of invited sessions that we believe will reflect significant efforts towards equity and social justice, particularly with the idea of what the committee believes will help our discipline of educational leadership to critically advance our work.
As a mind-altering process that is the planning committee meeting, it was equally important to take advantage of the local flavor and voices to influence the deliberative process in powerful and significant ways. It is for that reason that Assistant Chair Soribel Genao and I felt it was important to take the planning committee on a critical engaging experience to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, something that will leave you in a deep state of reflection of our histories, our work, and the future of our children and communities. The deliberative process is also influenced by the degree of dialogical action, which is often best served with the spicy vegetarian cabbage from Ticos to set the mood for our first meal together, or juicy red chile nopales from Dulcineas, and the tribal gathering of desserts of Busboys and Poets (Named after Langston Hughes), and lastly the DC thang, brunch at Farmers and Distillers, which left Vincent Cho cursing the food of Boston. I want to express my deepest gratitude to all members of the committee who convened at The Mecca: starting with our fearless and loving Vice-President, Mónica Byrne-Jiménez, the creativity and energy of the Assistant Chair, Soribel Genao, the collaborative leadership of Section 1, Decoteau Irby and Detra Johnson, the efficiency of Section 2 Vincent Cho, the profound voice of Section 3, Erica Fernandez, the deep reflection of Section 4, Sarah Diem, the fight of Section 5, Catherine O’Brien, the insight of graduate student Donna Druery, the fierceness of equity, Dana Thompson-Dorsey, and lastly, our eyes and ears of Division A, Poppie, the dog. We look forward to seeing everyone in Toronto and to our dialogical action.
Vice President: Mónica Byrne-Jiménez
Chair: Cristóbal Rodríguez
Co-Chair: Soribel Genao
Section 1 - Leadership: Decoteau Irby & Detra Johnson
Section 2 - School Organization and Effects: Vincent Cho
Section 3 - School Improvement: Erica Fernández
Section 4 - School Contexts and Communities: Sarah Diem
Section 5 - Leadership Development: Catherine O’Brien
Equity, Inclusion, & Action Committee: Dana N. Thompson Dorsey, Chair, & Lolita Tabron, Co-Chair
On the weekend of September 13-15, members of the Division A Planning Committee for AERA 2019 gathered and deliberated at The Mecca, the birth place of the legal advocacy in Brown v. Board of Education, the prestigious Howard University in Washington D.C. Here we processed reviews, rejected and accepted proposals, created sessions for accepted proposals, and discussed additional critical topics for our discipline of educational leadership. As the Planning Chair, I take great responsibility to provide a fair process, a deliberative process, but moreover, a process that also acknowledges the role and scholarly leadership and contributions that each member of the Planning Committee reflects, as their work is the oil that makes our engine run smoothly. We appreciate all the reviewers who took the time to meet the deadline to review and provide feedback to enhance the good work, but also, to each scholar devoting time to trust our system enough to submit their work for peer review, and moreover to share that scholarship with our community. Division A had a total of 354 individual paper proposals, and 38 symposium proposals, which resulted in 207 individual accepted proposals, and 13 accepted symposiums. Additionally, the Planning Committee is developing a lineup of invited sessions that we believe will reflect significant efforts towards equity and social justice, particularly with the idea of what the committee believes will help our discipline of educational leadership to critically advance our work.
As a mind-altering process that is the planning committee meeting, it was equally important to take advantage of the local flavor and voices to influence the deliberative process in powerful and significant ways. It is for that reason that Assistant Chair Soribel Genao and I felt it was important to take the planning committee on a critical engaging experience to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, something that will leave you in a deep state of reflection of our histories, our work, and the future of our children and communities. The deliberative process is also influenced by the degree of dialogical action, which is often best served with the spicy vegetarian cabbage from Ticos to set the mood for our first meal together, or juicy red chile nopales from Dulcineas, and the tribal gathering of desserts of Busboys and Poets (Named after Langston Hughes), and lastly the DC thang, brunch at Farmers and Distillers, which left Vincent Cho cursing the food of Boston. I want to express my deepest gratitude to all members of the committee who convened at The Mecca: starting with our fearless and loving Vice-President, Mónica Byrne-Jiménez, the creativity and energy of the Assistant Chair, Soribel Genao, the collaborative leadership of Section 1, Decoteau Irby and Detra Johnson, the efficiency of Section 2 Vincent Cho, the profound voice of Section 3, Erica Fernandez, the deep reflection of Section 4, Sarah Diem, the fight of Section 5, Catherine O’Brien, the insight of graduate student Donna Druery, the fierceness of equity, Dana Thompson-Dorsey, and lastly, our eyes and ears of Division A, Poppie, the dog. We look forward to seeing everyone in Toronto and to our dialogical action.
