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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

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Winn has been elected to a leadership post at the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She has served on the Social Justice Action, Review of Research Award, and Minority Fellowship Selection Committees, and is a member of AERA Divisions K and G.

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Study Reveals Teacher Perceptions of Chronically Absent Students

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Early elementary school teachers view chronically absent students less positively, even when they cause no trouble in the classroom, according to a new study published in AERA Open , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Michael Gottfried The study by Drs. Gottfried and Phil H. Casey Foundation. “We

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” “We’re talking about youth all the time at these conferences; why wouldn’t they be there?”

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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These are the necessary skills that students need to successfully make the transition from high school to postsecondary education. Schools can provide this necessary preparation to students by offering accelerated courses/programs, rigorous career and technical education (CTE) programs (e.g., Warren, N., & doi:10.5328/cter43.1.77.

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A Culturally Responsive Counselor

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Mayes has excelled as a scholar and researcher to the extent that she has published over 44 peer-reviewed articles and 18 book chapters. She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association.

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Bridging Research and Practice

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An encounter with Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, the renowned education researcher at Stanford University, led to Vasquez Heilig being hired as her researcher while completing his Ph.D. “There were a lot of things happening in Houston that didn’t add up to me,” says Vasquez Heilig. “I at Stanford.

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Pride in the Halls

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In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee. Leyva’s research examines how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarcy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM education.