The AERA Teacher as Researcher SIG is dedicated to supporting research done in schools by PreK-12 practitioners on their own practice.  While this work can be conducted in collaboration with other researchers, it should reflect equity of initiation, data collection, analysis and presentation, with teachers sharing primary credit and responsibility.  We are the only special interest group whose core purpose is the articulation and representation of classroom teachers' perspectives by the classroom teachers themselves.

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We invite you to submit a proposal to share your research at the 2025 Annual Meeting through the Teacher as Researcher SIG. It is our hope that a broad range of work will be represented, showing the diversity of perspectives, geography, and methods existing in teacher research today. We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope to see you in Denver! We have tried to tailor our Call for Proposals (and the evaluation criteria) to reflect the perspectives and questions that are most important to classroom teachers. Please consider that unique perspective when constructing your proposal.

Read the full Teacher As Researcher SIG Call for Proposals here.

Watch this helpful webinar on submitting your proposal.