SOE Presentations and Award at 2023 National AERA Meeting SOE Faculty and Alumni win awards and presented at annual meeting.
American University's School of Education had significant representation at the American Educational Research Association's (AERA) 2023 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Educational research is the cornerstone of making informed change in education, and AU's SOE was well represetnted with many faculty and alumni presenters throughout the four-day conference. The theme this year was "Consequential Educational Research."
Awards and presentations involving SOE-related staff and alumni included:
Recent Alumni Wins Prestigious Award
Outstanding Dissertation Award Bestowed on EdD Graduate
Dr. Cheyenne Batista EdD '22 was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Dissertation award by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) at their 2023 Annual Meeting. She is the first person to win the award from American University, and only the third award winner completing her Doctorate of Education as opposed to a Doctorate of Philosophy.
Presentations Included:
- Dr. Emily Grossnickle Peterson presented Revisiting Teacher Candidates' Beliefs in the Learning Styles Neuromyth
- Dr. Asia S. Thomas Uzomba presented Daughters of Cooper: The Ancestral Legacy of Black Women Teachers
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Dr. Andrea Guiden Pittman presented Racialized Experiences of Black Applicants in the Virginia Teacher Labor Market
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Dr. William Thomas presented a session titled: Black and Male: Intersectionality in Teaching and Learning and on a roundtable presentation Perceptions of Black Male Teachers in Boundary-Heightening Environments: Challenging the Black Boy Savior Stereotype
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Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson, Danielle Gervais Sodani, Rida Hameed (PhD in Economics student at AU), Katharine Pace Miles, Dr. Alida Anderson, Madelyn Smith (MEd student), Dr. Traci Dennis, Dr. Ocheze Joseph, and Dr. Carolyn Parker presented Consequential High Intensity Tutoring: Developing Literary Identities Within Foundational Reading Intervention Through Culturally Responsive Practice
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Anna Kushner, Dr. Brett G. Grant, Cassandra Edwards, Beatrice Moyers, Ann LoBue, and Dr. Sonya Douglass presented Division L- Educational Policies and Politics/Division L-Section 1: Governance, Politics, and Intergovernmental Relations with the paper: Organizing For Racial Equity: Defining and Operationalizing Racial Equity in K-12
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Dr. Samantha Cohen was the discussant at Integrating Improvement Science into Leadership Programs: Opportunities, Challenges, and Adaptations
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Dr. Amaarah N. DeCuir presented Black Muslim Student Voices of Intersectionality in the event Don't Clip My Wings Before I Learn to Fly: The Stories and Experiences of Black Youth in K–12 Settings
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Dr. Jisun Jeong presented Trajectory of Social and Emotional Learning Policy Making in Lebanon Since the Syrian Refugee Influx
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Dr. Emily Grossnickle Peterson presented Sparking Middle School Students' Curiosity to Explain Scientific Phenomena: A Proposed Investigation of Visual Processes (in the poster session: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work)
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Dr. Toks S. Fashola presented Quantitative Research Shapes Educational Policy and Practice: Are You In?
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Dr. Golnar Abedin and Dr. Deepa Srikantaiah presented Addressing Minoritized Populations in Holistic Education
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Dr. Andrea Guiden Pittman presented In Search of “the RIGHT type”: The Convergence of Race and Teacher Quality in D.C. Public Schools, 1952-1964
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Dr. David J. Weerts held a roundtable paper presentation for the paper, Tolerance, Humility, and Educational Attainment: Does College Attendance Build Capacity for Confident Pluralism? The paper was written by Weerts, Dr. Alberto F. Cabrera, and Kristin Van Dorn.
About AERA:
The AERA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of scholars in the field of education research, with typically 13,000 of its 24,000 members in attendance. It is an event to showcase groundbreaking, innovative studies in a diverse array of areas: from early education through higher education, from digital learning to second language literacy. Ideas and data are presented and discussed that will shape tomorrow’s education practices and policies, and where to connect with leading thinkers from the U.S. and around the world.
AERA's Virtual Annual Meeting takes place May 4-5
- Dr. Amaarah N. DeCuir chairs the virtual symposium Toward Fuller Expressions of Knowledge, Being, and Truth in Rethinking Islamic Education on Friday, May 5 at 9:45—11:15 a.m. CT in the SIG Virtual Rooms, Religion and Education SIG Virtual Session Room
Dr. Mariana León and Dr. Nadia De Leon Porter joined Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy and other faculty for dinner to discuss the education system in Panama, and AU's Panama Teach initiative.
SOE faculty and alumni met at a networking reception at The Hampton Social in Chicago.
Dr. Amaarah DeCuir presented Black Muslim Student Voices of Intersectionality in the event Don't Clip My Wings Before I Learn to Fly: The Stories and Experiences of Black Youth in K–12 Settings
Dr. Toks S. Fashola presented Quantitative Research Shapes Educational Policy and Practice: Are You In?
Dr. William Thomas presented a session titled: Black and Male: Intersectionality in Teaching and Learning and on a roundtable presentation Perceptions of Black Male Teachers in Boundary-Heightening Environments: Challenging the Black Boy Savior Stereotype