Outstanding Dissertation Award Nominations

The Districts in Research and Reform SIG will be honoring a recent doctoral candidate whose dissertation reflects the SIG goals of promoting research that features central office administrators/school board members as main actors in reform or that considers educational reforms and practices that are districtwide in nature. In keeping with this year's conference theme, "Education and Poverty," we particularly encourage dissertations that consider issues of educational inequality.

The award —to be presented at our 2013 AERA Business Meeting in San Francisco— will be given for an outstanding dissertation defended in the past two years (July 2010-August 2012). The individual submitting the nomination will need to forward an electronic copy of his/her dissertation (or three hard copies, if electronic version is unavailable) to the Awards Committee along with the nomination form (attached). Nominators or nominees do not need to be SIG members, but we encourage all to join. We also accept self-nominations.

SIG Executive Board member Tina Trujillo is serving as this year's Awards Chair. Please direct all questions, nominations, and materials to:

Tina M. Trujillo
Graduate School of Education
3649 Tolman Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
trujillo@berkeley.edu

AERA 2012 Photos

Presentation of one of the 2012 SIG Publication Awards to Jeff Henig by Jacob Mishook

Panel Presentation During SIG Business Session at AERA 2012

2012 SIG Business Meeting and Speaking Panel

Please join the Districts in Research and Reform SIG for a speaking panel at our business meeting at AERA focused on: District-Research Partnerships: Making Research Actionable. The Districts in Research and Reform SIG will address annual business matters (awards) and will host invited speakers for a discussion about informing district policy and practice through district-related partnerships. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments will be served. Speakers include:

Penny Bender Sebring
Founding Co-Director, Consortium on Chicago School Research

Jennifer O'Day
American Institutes for Research
Chair, California Collaborative on District Reform

Kyo Yamashiro
Executive Director, Los Angeles Education Research Institute

Date/Time/Location:
Friday, April 13, 2012
6:15 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Marriott Pinnacle, Vancouver, BC
Third Level - Shaughnessy II

District Related Research Update

Thank you to members who sent in updates on their latest research, whether it be dissertations, new studies, reports, books, or articles. It's another reminder of the dynamic and varied work that the SIG membership is engaged in. Make sure to take a look at the current SIG research update, where you'll find submissions from members on work done and/or published in 2011. (from Jacob Mishook)