The AERA Educational Change SIG adopts an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding many aspects of educational change, including large-scale reform, school-initiated change, school improvement, and classroom-level change.

Email Newsletter - Jan 2024

Dear Educational Change SIG Members,

Happy new year! We are gearing up for AERA with some great programming coming your way! Also, please do not forget to vote for your new leadership team. Seeing the ballot - we are so lucky to have so many wonderful people and scholars in our community. Thank you for your willingness to serve! 

This newsletter includes: 

• A new,  SPECIAL ISSUE OF  Lead the Change - Guest Editor Thomas Hatch!
• Student travel award
• A plea to re-register!

Lead The Change - special issue! 

This month we have a special issue of  Lead the Change with interviews of 4 participants from a virtual convening on Education System (Re)Building for Equity and Social Justice in Teaching and Learning organized by Amanda Datnow, Vicki Park, Don Peurach, and Jim Spillane, with the support of the Spencer Foundation. The participants are: Phýõng Minh Lýõng, Amelia Petersen, Tine Prøitz, and Maria Teresa Tatto. We are grateful for the opportunity to share their insights and important work!

Enjoy and if you have suggestions for people to feature or would like to write for us - let us know! 

SIG AWARDS: Student Travel

Educational Change SIG Student Travel Award

Due February 9th to jennie.weiner@uconn.edu

Award: The awardee, a doctoral student who is a member of the Ed Change SIG, will receive $500 to assist with expenses related to attending the AERA Annual Meeting.

Application must include:

• Personal information: name, phone number, e-mail address, degree program, institution, and paper title.
• An electronic copy of your proposal.
• A screenshot or PDF copy of the acceptance notification from the AERA program portal.
• A blinded personal statement form containing 250 words on the significance of the scholarship to education change, your professional development, and/or participation in the Annual Meeting.

Applicant criteria for eligibility:

Applicant Background:

• Graduate student member of AERA
• Current Member of the Education Change SIG at the time of the Annual Meeting.
• Enrolled full-time in a doctoral program. 

Authorship:

• Applicant is an author on a paper, roundtable, or poster submission accepted for presentation for any Ed Change session.
• Single or multiple author papers are acceptable.

Attendance:

• Applicant will attend the Ed Change SIG Business Meeting.

Renew!

I make the request that you please renew your membership and encourage others to join!  To do so, click “Login,” entering your user name and password, and clicking on “Purchase Additional SIG Memberships” in your My AERA page. 

Please send us your achievements and news - we would love to feature you and your work! 

As always we are here for your comments, concerns, and suggestions - we appreciate you! 

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Int’l Ed News 

Every month, Int’l Ed News (@intl_ed_news) publishes our Lead the Change Interviews.  

Thank you to our Partners:

Educational Research for Policy and Practice

International Education News

International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement

Journal of Educational Change

Journal of Professional Capital and Community

National Principals Leadership Institute

School Leadership & Management

Become a SIG Sponsor/Partner:

We encourage you to share why you enjoy the Educational Change SIG with your colleagues and extend the opportunity for joining to graduate students. If your organization/institution/journal/association/publisher is interested in hosting our Twitter Chats or any events, please reach out to a member of the leadership team.

To join the SIG: Non-members, please click here to become a member of AERA and one or more SIGs or to renew your AERA and SIG memberships. Current AERA members can add individual SIGs to their membership by clicking “Login,” entering your user name and password, and clicking on “Purchase Additional SIG Memberships” in your My AERA page. 

Share your News with us:

Please visit our membership page for all the Lead the Change articles, information on SIG awards and more.

Do you have a new publication? A new initiative? Presenting at a conference? Let us know, and we will post it on our Web Membership Corner, Facebook and Twitter pages.  Please send your pictures and video clips from your presentations and conferences for our web pages!  

Warmest Regards,

Jennie Weiner, Chair
Olga Fellus, Program Chair
Corinne Brion, Secretary/Treasurer
Alex Lamb, Lead the Change Editor
Taylor Strickland, Social Media Coordinator
Emy Decker, Event Coordinator