👏🏾 congratulations yall!

Description: This webinar highlights the importance of and avenues for advocating for policy change using your research. Our panelists will discuss the process of planning and conducting research to support policy work, as well as the dissemination of findings through policy briefs.

Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, April 21st
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Please register at lnkd.in/gSbJpXAF

Special thanks to @joeyeisman.bsky.social for organizing this webinar!

Webinar [on April 21st]: Advancing Research Through Policy: Tools for Emerging and Early Career Scholars

I am looking forward to moderating a timely conversation and learning from our panelists:
Drs. Michael Nussbaum, Dalal Katsiaficas, Ross Whiting & Lupe Díaz Lara

Registration link below:

Shout out to @destinywd.bsky.social! congratulations on your dissertation award! so well deserved! Your heart shines through! ♥️🎉

I have been lifted and filled with joy listening to the mission the last couple of days! ♥️!!

I'm in L.A.!! Can't wait to go to the Division C Early Career Mentoring Program tomorrow with @lauren-cabrera.bsky.social! 🌴☀️

Thursday AERA 2026 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Saturday, April 11th. Starts at 8 a.m. PST in the virtual poster hall: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts Virtual Poster Session. 9:45 - 11:15 am PDT, Learning Together: Collaboration, Teaching Strategies, and Identity in Classroom and Community Contexts - Poster. Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

11:45 am - 1:15 pm PDT, **Cosponsor: Family, School, Community Partnerships SIG** Critical Narratives From Carceral, Educational, and Community Contexts - Paper. Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, La Brea 1:45 - 3:15 pm PDT, Situating Growth Mindset across Contexts and Cultures: Experiential, Environmental, and Developmental Influences - Symposium. Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Beaudry A 3:45 - 5:15 pm "**Cosponsoring with Motivation in Education SIG** Motivating and Motivated: Experiences, Contexts, and Socializers - Poster. Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall - Exhibit Hall A

@allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I are thrilled to share the events set for Saturday, April 11th at #AERA2026 Div C Sec 2B! Y’all were on with these submissions! More coming, see the full program here! tinyurl.com/AERA26DC2B! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky

AERA 2026 Division C Section 2b: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Thursday, April 9th. 4:15 - 5:45 pm PDT: **Cosponsor: Motivation in Education SIG** Bridges and Barriers: Factors Shaping Students' Resilience and Persistence - Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, San Gabriel C. Papers include: Who changes university majors and when? Patterns for first-generation college-going students From Connection to Commitment: How Belonging and Engagement Shape Student Persistence Fostering STEM Persistence: Student Responses to an Agentic Orientation Intervention in Biomedical Science Digital Divides and Educational Resilience: Global Evidence from COVID-19 School Disruptions

Ready for round 2? Here are the presentations set for #AERA2026 Div C Sec 2B to be held on Thurs (4/9)! @allisonzengilowski.bsky.social & I loved reading all these submissions.
More coming tomorrow! @aera-motsig.bsky.social @aeradivcgrad.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

AERA 2026 Division C Section 2b Flyer: Learning & motivation in social & cultural contexts program for Wednesday, April 8th. Starts at 8 a.m. PST in the virtual poster hall: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts Virtual Poster Session. Papers include: 1. Is Translanguaging Universal? A Systematic Review Across Global Language Contexts 2. Growth Mindset, Stress, and Test Anxiety in Middle School Students 3. Post-COVID-19 Era: Improving Learning and Reducing Violence through Successful Educational Actions at a Brazilian School 4. Bridging Theory and Practice: How AI Feedback Can Enhance Learning Assistants’ Pedagogical Flexibility in STEM Classrooms 1:45 - 3:15 p.m. PDT: Family Matters: Parental Roles in Shaping Learning, Motivation, and Educational Pathways (Table 5) - Roundtable at the JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Room: Gold 3. Papers include: 1. Relations Between Parent Expectations and Youths’ Math Expectations Through STEM Extracurriculars: Gender by College Generation Status 2. Parental Multimodal Revoicing: Guiding Children in Computational Thinking Learning 3. More Than Advocacy: A Qualitative Study of How Parents Regulate Belonging for Students with ASD. 4. Mothers, Fathers, and the Road to College in Latinx Families 3:45 - 5:15 p.m. PDT: The Lab: Building Belonging and Motivation for Black Women in Higher Education - Workshop at the Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Level 2, Room: Echo Park.

Can you believe AERA is next week?! @drbrookeedu.bsky.social and I are excited to share the program for #AERA2026 Div C Sec 2B: Motivation & Learning in Social & Cultural Contexts! Today we're highlighting the Wed (4/8) presentations ✨. More to come, full program at tinyurl.com/AERA26DC2B!

Translating Research into Practice: Tools for Emerging & Early Career Scholars YouTube video by APA Division 15

🚨Check this🚨
An amazing conversation facilitated by @destinywd.bsky.social about translating research into practice!
@appliededpsych.bsky.social
#ECEPWebinar

You can view the recording and additional resources here: youtu.be/Vd_OITeKWU8

Amber Rosamond presented on International Baccalaureate HS students’ mental health and coping strategies. She has been doing really cool with our school partners to identify ways to promote both achievement and well-being!

Determining Whether I Want to Belong: Seventh-Grade Black Girls’ Conceptualization and Identification of Sources of Belonging Within the Math Classroom - Brooke Harris-Thomas, Cary J. Roseth, 2025 Belonging supportive environments have been positively associated with increased academic achievement, engagement, and persistence. Yet there may be differences...

Here’s the link to the article - available for anyone to read: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZPQJR...

My first, first author publication is out! It was a joy to be with and write about Black girls in math! ✨

Blue and white flyer featuring 7 Black women scholars in Educational Psychology

✨ Black Women in Educational Psychology Panel at #APA2025 ✨

A Space of Belonging: Connecting Black Women Scholars in Educational Psychology featuring @drbrookeedu.bsky.social @christymbyrd.bsky.social @martiniquesealy.bsky.social @drd-g.bsky.social @heytpayne.bsky.social and Dionne Cross Francis 💫

This is so helpful! Thank you, Joseph! I’m going to check these out.🙏🏾

Teaching a course entitled the Psychology of Child Development in the fall. Any textbook recommendations?

SCIPIE educational psychology, educational research, educational psychology programs, graduate school, education conference, innovative, learning sciences, critical psychology, motivation, learning, cognitio...

Join us at the 2025 conference for the Scholarly Consortium for Innovative Psychology In Education (SCIPIE) at the University of Oklahoma campus on October 10th and 11th.

Submissions are due on June 27th.

To submit a proposal, click on the link below:
scipie.org
2025 Submissions — SCIPIE

Just finished hosting the final for my class on belonging at Purdue this semester. It was my first time teaching the course, School Belonging: An Ecological Perspective. The students made me tear up as we were saying our goodbyes. I'm so grateful to have had this opportunity! XOXO

Great idea! Thank you!

If you and a collaborator are having trouble utilizing your qualitative code book for a thematic analysis well, and there continues to be lots of misalignment, how would you go about correcting this issue? Just need some new ideas. Or some time-tested ideas. Thanks!

A gift!!!

I'm teaching a special topics course at Purdue called School Belonging: An Ecological Perspective. The course is fully remote, but I got a chance to meet some of my students in person! Their future is so bright! 🥰

In the midst of everything, I’m not taking for granted the laughter I’m getting to share with some of the dearest colleges while at #aera2025. ♥️

such wonderful news!!!!

I am hoping the same for you both too. 🤎

Just got word that my dissertation manuscript is accepted and will be published soon! I'm so excited and greatly appreciate the reviewers' comments. They definitely helped sharpen my message. Stay Tuned!

Go Black Girls! 🥰

It’s true! Go Blue!

Headed to @srcdorg.bsky.social for the first time in May! YAY!

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