Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide a forum within AERA for the involvement of individuals drawn together by a common interest in a field of study, teaching, or research when the existing divisional structure may not directly facilitate such activity. The Association provides SIGs program time at the Annual Meeting, publicity, scheduling, staff support, viability, and the prestige of AERA affiliation.
We are pleased to offer five webinars intended to familiarize you with the concept of a Networked Improvement Community, and each of the four important components and elements of a successful NIC. An introductory 30-minute webinar will feature one or two experts from out team providing key background information about the focal challenges of building a NIC. A facilitated discussion forum will continue for two weeks after the video is posted to this site. At the end of the two weeks, another live webinar with the same expert will be featured. This follow-up webinar will focus on the topics that have arisen through the online forum, as well as questions that are asked live during the webinar.
Gomez Zaccarelli, F. S. (2015). Developing Supports for Conversations About Teaching: Negotiating Problems of Practice in Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations [Ph.D., University of Michigan]. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1791473053
Brown, M. A. (2022). When Improvement Science Meets Campus Improvement Planning: Principals’ Reflections on a North Texas School District’s Campus Improvement Design [D.Ed., Tarleton State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2674389476/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/2
Al-Khatib Eloubeidi, R. M. (2018). A Study of Networked Improvement Communities [Ed.D., Samford University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2478601748/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/9
Blochowiak, C. M. (2021). The Positive Deviance Improvement Approach in Education: A Case Study of School and District Application [Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2546615590/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/11
Bechtol, R. A. (2022). Using the Evaluation Sciences to Understand “How” and “Why” the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Leadership Program Works [Ph.D., University of Minnesota]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2645870992/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/12
Rohanna, K. (2018). Preparing Schools to Successfully Participate in Networked Improvement Communities: A Case Study of Year 1 of a Math Instructional Network [Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2117208093/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/15
Samuel, C. (2022). Teacher Collaboration: A Qualitative Descriptive Study on the Perception of the Transfer of Knowledge [Ed.D., Trident University International]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2661141195/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/16
Epps, Z. (2022). Leading the Future: Superintendents’ Perceptions of Leadership and Future Public Education Systems [Ph.D., Fielding Graduate University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2642257424/abstract/2085CCFDCBD341CDPQ/27
Seccia, A. (2021). Using a Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Research-Practice Gap Contextualized Within a Research-Practice Partnership [Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2582054795/abstract/734A4F87E4814B8FPQ/1
Clemens, A. J. (2020). Connecting Evidence Use and Practice in K-12 Education: Discovering and Planning for Research Practice Partnerships [Ed.D., Northern Illinois University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2423509431/abstract/734A4F87E4814B8FPQ/5
Fox, A. (2018). Becoming an Instructional Leader for Elementary Mathematics: Transforming Principal Learning through a Research-Practice Partnership [Ph.D., University of Washington]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2084108093/abstract/CF2EC4663B604A25PQ/1
Beato, C. M. (2019). Cultural Responsiveness in the Context of a Large Urban School District: An Analysis of Math & ELA Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Responsive Practices in Teaching Latina/o ELLs [Ed.D., University of Maryland, College Park]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2366964010/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/2
Bergsman, K. C. (2019). Professional Learning through Collaborative Curriculum Design in a Research-Practice Partnership [Ph.D., University of Washington]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2374455034/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/6
Conrad, J. (2020). Grandmother Cedar as Sovereignty Teacher: Transformations in Teacher Learning, Research-Practice Partnerships, and Curriculum [Ph.D., University of Washington]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2444866127/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/7
Ojeda, M. (2022). The Best Way Out Is Through: A Youth Participatory Action Research Study of the Affective Well-Being of High School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Ed.D., New York University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2673576142/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/10
Jennings, J. L. (2022). All in Pix YPAR: A Youth Participatory Action Research Study of Students with Significant Disabilities in High School [Ed.D., University of the Pacific]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2637142551/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/11
Domínguez, A. D. (2022). Arts-Based Youth Participatory Action Research: Latinx Performances of Multidimensional Identity and Transformational Resistance [Ph.D., Arizona State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2669643411/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/14
Renick, J. (2022). Developmentally Appropriate Educational Environments: Exploring the Impact of Student Autonomy and Interpersonal Relationships on Diverse Young Adolescents [Ph.D., University of California, Irvine]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2681456093/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/17
Pinn, J. M. S. (2022). Learning from the Roses That Grew from Concrete: An Afterschool Program Evaluation for Wakanda Afterschool [Ed.D., Barry University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2671568696/abstract/AC78DBB94D2E45B4PQ/18
Freed, A. D. (2021). RPPS Don’t Exist in a Vacuum: A Case Study of the Influence of the Institutional Environment on a Research Alliance [Ed.D., The George Washington University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2471454456/abstract/99F8961E2C95448EPQ/45
Hawkins, L. E. (2021). Big Learning in Small Communities: Exploring with YPAR in International Schools [Ph.D., Columbia University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2545627177/abstract/99F8961E2C95448EPQ/41
Stickney, D. (2022). My Other Me: Cultivating Student Voice in the Classroom [Ph.D., University of Colorado at Denver]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2680234039/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/2
Pietros, J. (2022). Computational Thinking in Elementary Science [Ph.D., University of Rhodes Island]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2672757835/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/4
Amgott, N. (2022). Implementing and Evaluating Multiliteracies in College French: A Nested Case Study [Ph.D., The University of Arizona]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2641391456/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/15
Bowman, S. (2021). Creating Crescent: Using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and Public Media to Promote Epistemic Agency among Black Girls in South Carolina [Ed.D., University of South Carolina]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2672137807/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/17
Thomas, J. R. (2021). Fostering a Research Practice Partnership to Understand the Community Needs for Addressing Suicide Prevention among Youth in Klamath County [Ph.D., University of Oregon]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2628791563/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/18
Schwartz, A. J. (2021). Pulling Back the Curtain: A Student Collaborative Case Study of Equity Issues in Colorado’s School Finance System [Ed.D., University of Denver]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2587976565/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/20
Kaler-Jones, C. J. (2021). “You Can’t See Me by Looking at Me”: Black Girls’ Arts-Based Practices as Mechanisms for Identity Construction and Resistance [Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2583583285/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/21
Kim, W. J. (2021). Making Visible and Amplifying Youth-Initiated Moments for Rightful Presence in Informal STEM Learning Spaces [Ph.D., Michigan State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2572621581/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/25
Basile, A. E. (2021). YPAR: Exploring New Literacies and Critical Literacy Pedagogy in a Virtual Teaching and Learning Environment [Ed.D., University of Rochester]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2572537031/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/26
Garcia, L. W. (2021). Unaccompanied Youth in Our Public Schools and Our Opportunity to Lead for Emancipatory Practices [Ed.D., Loyola Marymount University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2526364502/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/34
Gavin, K. M. (2021). The Literacies of Child-Led Research: Children Investigating and Acting on Their Worlds [Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2541913650/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/33
Nafziger, R. N. (2020). Decolonizing History: Historical Consciousness, Identity and Civic Engagement of Nigerian Youth [Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2570179321/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/38
Hoyo, S. (2021). Don’t Ignore My Voice: A Call to Action by and for Gender-Expansive Youth [Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2545608770/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/32
Hecht, M. (2020). Relational Processes between People and Place: Understanding Environmental Interest and Identity through a Learning Ecosystem Lens [Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2467802930/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/42
Lopez, A. N. (2020). Here Now: Latinx Youth Language Brokers and the Politics and Possibilities of Ultratranslation [Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2457693472/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/43
Fenner, D. J. (2020). Youth Participatory Action Research as Classroom Pedagogy [Ed.D., Mills College]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2456453054/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/44
Vogel, S. (2020). Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/Multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies [Ph.D., City University of New York]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2446005590/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/48
Berger, E. S. (2020). Estamos acá: Afrodescendant Youth Activism, Education, and Racialized Citizenship in Argentina [Ph.D., Temple University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2444871675/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/49
Martinez, R. (2020). Mathematics Reborn: Empowerment with Youth Participatory Action Research EntreMundos in Reconstructing Our Relationship with Mathematics [Ph.D., Iowa State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2441579941/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/52
Kallio, J. M. (2020). Solving Problems Together: Findings from the Early Stages of a Networked Improvement Community [Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2437507542/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/53
Weddle, H. (2020). Navigating Collaboration over Time: Teachers’ Collective Work in Schools under Pressure to Improve [Ph.D., University of California, San Diego]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2436389701/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/54
Arredondo, L. M. (2020). Emergent Bilinguals in YPAR: Agency, Engagement, Translanguaging and Relationships [Ed.D., Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, School of Graduate Studies]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2431765613/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/55
Angiello, T. (2020). “Oh Gosh! Am I Going to Be Like This for the Rest of My Life?” Promoting Critical Literacy among Latinx Students through Youth Participatory Action Research [Ed.D., Loyola University Chicago]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2415787783/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/58
Malone, H.-L. S. (2020). I Am Because We Are: The Role of Community Centric Pedagogy in Sustaining Students and a Neighborhood in the South Bronx [Ph.D., New York University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2409258508/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/59
Michael, J. (2020). Black Males’ Perceptions of Their Teachers’ Curricular Expectations in Culturally Sustaining Mathematics Classrooms [Ed.D., Arizona State University]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2409134680/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/60
Saenz Ortiz, R. Y. (2020). Shifting the Educational Narrative for Youth of Color: Moving from Criminalization to Liberation in Alternative Schooling [Ph.D., Boston College]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2407282314/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/61
Rhode, B. (2020). A Comparative Study of Leadership and Management in Rural Schools Achieving above Predicted Graduation Outcomes [Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2404673019/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/62
Carnevale, N. L. (2017). In the Teachers’ Hands: Using Action Research to Improve Student Achievement [Ed.D., Wilmington University (Delaware)]. Retrieved August 17, 2022, from http://www.proquest.com/docview/2026758021/abstract/F24CC346C4584A85PQ/1
Schmidt, R. A. (2013). Unpacking Tracking: The Role of Instruction, Teacher Beliefs and Supplemental Courses in the Relationship Between Tracking and Student Achievement [Ph.D., Vanderbilt University]. https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/10767
