AERA DIVISION A NEWSLETTER
Winter 2022
What's New in the Winter Newsletter?
The 2022 Winter Newsletter includes: A message from our current Vice President, Dr. Mariela Rodríguez; Updates from the Equity, Inclusion, and Action Committee; News from the AERA 2023 Program Committee; Graduate Student Representative Update; New Scholar Share; The Conversation; Editors' Reflections from UCEA.
We hope you enjoy all the features of the Winter Newsletter!!!
The 2022 Winter Newsletter includes: A message from our current Vice President, Dr. Mariela Rodríguez; Updates from the Equity, Inclusion, and Action Committee; News from the AERA 2023 Program Committee; Graduate Student Representative Update; New Scholar Share; The Conversation; Editors' Reflections from UCEA.
We hope you enjoy all the features of the Winter Newsletter!!!
Vice President's Message
Division A's 2021-2023 Vice President is Dr. Mariela Rodríguez. Dr. Rodríguez is a Professor and Interim Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
See Dr. Rodríguez's message to Division A members below.
You can also read the massages here: Vice President Messages
winter 2022 Newsletter Features
equity, inclusion & action committee update
The Equity, Inclusion, Action Committee has dedicated a tremendous amount of time this year on three primary priorities:
1. the 3rd Literature in Action professional learning series
2. the Equity Audit of last year’s Division A program
3. two featured sessions for AERA 2023
Brief information is provided below in relation to these priorities, and further information can be found on the Equity, Inclusion and Action Blog: Equity, Inclusion & Action Blog (aeradivisiona.org)
Click here to read more about the work of the the Equity, Inclusion & Action Committee through their blog.
1. the 3rd Literature in Action professional learning series
2. the Equity Audit of last year’s Division A program
3. two featured sessions for AERA 2023
Brief information is provided below in relation to these priorities, and further information can be found on the Equity, Inclusion and Action Blog: Equity, Inclusion & Action Blog (aeradivisiona.org)
- We are delighted to announce that the 3rd Literature in Action will prominently feature the book, Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership, by Dr. Decoteau Irby. This book focuses on developing and enacting leadership praxis for critical racial justice-oriented work and introduces the concept of organizational capacity for racial equity improvement.
- Vice Presidential Session: Cultivating Critical Consciousness to Decolonize Educational Leadership, Research, and Praxis
- Mentorship Session: Self-Care, Healing, & Social Justice Advocacy in a (Post)COVID Context
Click here to read more about the work of the the Equity, Inclusion & Action Committee through their blog.
graduate student council update
Find out more about what GSC is planning for AERA 2023 in Chicago, Illinois in the upcoming Spring 2023
Edition of the AERA Division A Newsletter!
Edition of the AERA Division A Newsletter!
Looking Ahead: 2023 aera ANNUAL MEETING
Division A members and colleagues are looking forward to presenting their scholarly work at the 2023 AERA Annual Meeting: Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth in Chicago, Illinois from April 13-16.
Decoteau Irby (Chair) and Kimberly Hewitt (Co-chair) of the Program Planning Committee reported that the total number of Division A symposia / paper submissions was 353 with 252 being accepted as follows:
Section 1. Leadership: 94 papers to be presented across 24 sessions*
Section 2. School Organization and Effects: 34 papers to be presented across 9 sessions
Section 3. School and District Improvement: 28 papers to be presented across 10 sessions
Section 4. School Contexts and Communities: 27 papers to be presented across 8 Sessions
Section 5. Leadership Preparation Development: 39 papers to be presented across 11 sessions
Virtual presentations: 30 papers to presented across 10 sessions
*Sessions include symposia, paper sessions, roundtables, and poster sessions. A more detailed report will be available at the Division A Business Meeting.
Drs. Irby and Hewitt encourage Division A members to attend two special sessions.
Division A’s Equity, Inclusion, Action Committee developed and will facilitate two important AERA sessions that center equity, justice and antiracism in education leadership and administration that highlight topic areas that are underrepresented in the program.
Decoteau Irby (Chair) and Kimberly Hewitt (Co-chair) of the Program Planning Committee reported that the total number of Division A symposia / paper submissions was 353 with 252 being accepted as follows:
Section 1. Leadership: 94 papers to be presented across 24 sessions*
Section 2. School Organization and Effects: 34 papers to be presented across 9 sessions
Section 3. School and District Improvement: 28 papers to be presented across 10 sessions
Section 4. School Contexts and Communities: 27 papers to be presented across 8 Sessions
Section 5. Leadership Preparation Development: 39 papers to be presented across 11 sessions
Virtual presentations: 30 papers to presented across 10 sessions
*Sessions include symposia, paper sessions, roundtables, and poster sessions. A more detailed report will be available at the Division A Business Meeting.
Drs. Irby and Hewitt encourage Division A members to attend two special sessions.
Division A’s Equity, Inclusion, Action Committee developed and will facilitate two important AERA sessions that center equity, justice and antiracism in education leadership and administration that highlight topic areas that are underrepresented in the program.
- Vice Presidential Session: Cultivating Critical Consciousness to Decolonize Educational Leadership, Research, and Praxis with Drs. Judy Alston, Susan Faircloth, Muhammad Khalifa, Juan Manuel Nino, Angela Valenzuela
- Mentorship Session: Self-Care, Healing, & Social Justice Advocacy in a (Post)COVID Context with Drs. Ain Grooms, Van Lac, Melissa Martinez, Decoteau Irby, Kofi Lomotey, Lolita Tabron
- The Division A Business Meeting will be followed by a joint reception between UCEA, Division A, and SAGE.
- For graduate students, the Division A Graduate Student Council is preparing networking opportunities that will be shared through the Division A listserv prior to the annual meeting.
scholar share
This year, we will highlight different connections between researchers and practitioners as a way to build bridges between research and practice and to strengthen our Division. In this blog post, you can check out Dr. Mollie McQuillan's research that centers on LGBTQ and Educational Leadership.
Winter 2022 Blog
We invite you to share one project, research grant, leadership initiative, publication, and/or other important scholar-practitioner endeavor with Division A members. Please use this link if you would like us to post your work!
Winter 2022 Blog
We invite you to share one project, research grant, leadership initiative, publication, and/or other important scholar-practitioner endeavor with Division A members. Please use this link if you would like us to post your work!
THE CONVERSATIONS
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Please check out our interview with Drs. Kristina Hesbol and Kent Seidel about the UCEA Lopez Island Trip to learn more about rural and remote school leadership.
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Editors' reflectionS from UCEA 2022
Dr. Darrius Stanley (Associate Editor)
The 2022 UCEA Convening was certainly one for the books! The focus on “equity and leadership toward sustainability” shined through all aspects of the program: the outstanding paper presentations, off-site visits, and invited, indigenous speakers. I think what stood out the most for me was the Wing Luke Museum Tour, led by Drs. Ann Ishimaru, Irene Yoon, and the museum staff. On this tour we got a chance to witness the history of Asian-American communities in the Seattle area. We visited old homes, toured business districts, and learned about Asian-American resistance through art, dialogue, and oral histories, from the decedents of Asian-American immigrants. I was most impressed by the rich history of multi-ethnic coalitions in Seattle; this is a legacy that I had not previously read about. We learned that coalition-building took place between Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Black Americans (among other historically disenfranchised communities) in the area, as a result racialized barriers and segregation in parts of Seattle (e.g., housing segregation). Beautiful relationships, thriving businesses, and multi-ethnic social spaces (e.g., jazz clubs) were developed and sustained amidst anti-Black and anti-Asian exclusion in Seattle. This brief tour re-ignited my hope for more, broad-based coalition building across disciplines, fields, and sectors committed to more liberatory education systems. Most importantly, this experience reminded me that before we can envision a liberatory future we must first engage in a detailed examination of our complex past; the possibilities of this future rest in the resistance, solidarity(ies), and refusal(s) of our ancestors. Thank you UCEA for this important reminder. I hope all conference attendees continue to reflect, think, write and strategize in ways that draw on our ancestral solidarities and commitments to freedom and joy.
Dr. Amie Cieminski (Associate Editor)
Listening to Dr. Ann Lopez was one of my UCEA Conference highlights. Dr. Lopez encouraged us to learn, relearn, and unlearn so that our equity policies and practices do not function to protect institutions and their image. She encouraged us to us to resist neoliberal and white supremacist antics that obstruct equity work and find joy as we build solidarity in fighting injustice. In my opinion, inclusivity was an unstated theme of the conference. Dr. Lopez touched on this as she argued to us to be more inclusive in the accepting different ways of knowing, researching, and building community. I also attended the UCEA plenum representative session in which one representative from the over 115 member institutions discussed how to model a commitment to equity as an organization. We discussed what it might mean to act in more inclusive ways. This included being inclusive of individuals’ identities, practitioner’s and their unique knowledge, and different research topics and methodologies. I also attended numerous sessions that were more inclusive of different ideas. I walked away hopeful that each of us, individually and collectively, might consider ways of promoting equity and inclusion in our daily lives, scholarship, and educational leadership preparation programs.
Dr. Se Woong Lee (Co-Editor)
It is always a pleasure to attend UCEA and learn about the research of the AERA Division A members. The event prompted me to cast a critical eye over my own research into educational leadership and practice. I was delighted to meet our associate editors and discuss how to promote the AERA Division A Newsletter. Most of all, I had the privilege to take the Wing Luke Museum tour and learn about Lopez Island School from Drs.Kristina Hesbol and Kent Seidel. All of the sessions and trips encouraged me to reflect on how we can work toward equality, leadership, and sustainability in education, which was the conference’s theme. The event laid a foundation for critical discourse about “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth”, coincidentally the theme of our 2023 AERA meeting. Finally, I would like to give an enthusiastic shout-out to the UCEA leadership team for creating an inclusive and welcoming event and for encouraging an informative conversation about education leadership.
The 2022 UCEA Convening was certainly one for the books! The focus on “equity and leadership toward sustainability” shined through all aspects of the program: the outstanding paper presentations, off-site visits, and invited, indigenous speakers. I think what stood out the most for me was the Wing Luke Museum Tour, led by Drs. Ann Ishimaru, Irene Yoon, and the museum staff. On this tour we got a chance to witness the history of Asian-American communities in the Seattle area. We visited old homes, toured business districts, and learned about Asian-American resistance through art, dialogue, and oral histories, from the decedents of Asian-American immigrants. I was most impressed by the rich history of multi-ethnic coalitions in Seattle; this is a legacy that I had not previously read about. We learned that coalition-building took place between Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and Black Americans (among other historically disenfranchised communities) in the area, as a result racialized barriers and segregation in parts of Seattle (e.g., housing segregation). Beautiful relationships, thriving businesses, and multi-ethnic social spaces (e.g., jazz clubs) were developed and sustained amidst anti-Black and anti-Asian exclusion in Seattle. This brief tour re-ignited my hope for more, broad-based coalition building across disciplines, fields, and sectors committed to more liberatory education systems. Most importantly, this experience reminded me that before we can envision a liberatory future we must first engage in a detailed examination of our complex past; the possibilities of this future rest in the resistance, solidarity(ies), and refusal(s) of our ancestors. Thank you UCEA for this important reminder. I hope all conference attendees continue to reflect, think, write and strategize in ways that draw on our ancestral solidarities and commitments to freedom and joy.
Dr. Amie Cieminski (Associate Editor)
Listening to Dr. Ann Lopez was one of my UCEA Conference highlights. Dr. Lopez encouraged us to learn, relearn, and unlearn so that our equity policies and practices do not function to protect institutions and their image. She encouraged us to us to resist neoliberal and white supremacist antics that obstruct equity work and find joy as we build solidarity in fighting injustice. In my opinion, inclusivity was an unstated theme of the conference. Dr. Lopez touched on this as she argued to us to be more inclusive in the accepting different ways of knowing, researching, and building community. I also attended the UCEA plenum representative session in which one representative from the over 115 member institutions discussed how to model a commitment to equity as an organization. We discussed what it might mean to act in more inclusive ways. This included being inclusive of individuals’ identities, practitioner’s and their unique knowledge, and different research topics and methodologies. I also attended numerous sessions that were more inclusive of different ideas. I walked away hopeful that each of us, individually and collectively, might consider ways of promoting equity and inclusion in our daily lives, scholarship, and educational leadership preparation programs.
Dr. Se Woong Lee (Co-Editor)
It is always a pleasure to attend UCEA and learn about the research of the AERA Division A members. The event prompted me to cast a critical eye over my own research into educational leadership and practice. I was delighted to meet our associate editors and discuss how to promote the AERA Division A Newsletter. Most of all, I had the privilege to take the Wing Luke Museum tour and learn about Lopez Island School from Drs.Kristina Hesbol and Kent Seidel. All of the sessions and trips encouraged me to reflect on how we can work toward equality, leadership, and sustainability in education, which was the conference’s theme. The event laid a foundation for critical discourse about “Interrogating Consequential Education Research in Pursuit of Truth”, coincidentally the theme of our 2023 AERA meeting. Finally, I would like to give an enthusiastic shout-out to the UCEA leadership team for creating an inclusive and welcoming event and for encouraging an informative conversation about education leadership.
Division A officers
Click here for more information about the Division A Officers.
Check our more about the Program Committee Section Chairs and Equity, Inclusion, & Action Committee members
Check our more about the Program Committee Section Chairs and Equity, Inclusion, & Action Committee members
NEWSLETTER EDITOrial team
Greetings, Division A! It's our honor to serve as the 2022-2023 Division A Newsletter editorial team. Drs. Daniella G. Varela and Se Woong Lee are the Co-Editors of the Newsletter, and Drs. Darrius Stanley and Amie Cieminski are the Associate Editors. We welcome your feedback, input, and ideas! We invite all viewers to share our community newsletter widely! If you have announcements or updates, please email them to Se Woong Lee at sewoong.lee@missouri.edu to be featured in our next newsletter.
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