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At #AERA2026 last week, we hosted a meet and greet with Candice Bocala, who is a co-author of DATA WISE, THIRD EDITION! Find out more about this book, which presents field-tested strategies to foster equity, inclusion, and continuous improvement in educational practice: https://bit.ly/42MHtg7
Grateful @aeraedresearch.bsky.social to reflect on mentors who help shape our scholarly lives.
Thankful for @galesinatra.bsky.social, who guided me through my dissertation on motivated conceptual change at UNLV. Proud to be part of her academic family tree.
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What is funnier is that people in raves sometimes do not get it—maybe out of residual university PTSD—while people at #AERA2026 with whom I discussed #RaveAsMethod actually got it quite well.
A highlight of #AERA2026 was when Sam Wineburg introduced me to Barbara Rogoff. Barbara has a great series of videos on how children learn through collaboration and observation. Here's a one on Learning by Observing and Pitching In featuring Indigenous communities. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
Venice Beach at sunset.
Venice Beach at sunset.
Waves crashing on Venice Beach with a gull.
Venice Beach at sunset.
Last night in LA after SPE and #AERA2026.
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Across dozens of presentations in many different formats, #AERA2026 gave us the chance to interrogate important new research in literacy education.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in LA!
#AERA2026 has come to an end, but we'll be sharing photos from the event over the next couple of days! On Friday, we hosted our Race and Education series connection, during which, series editor H. Richard Milner IV and several authors from the series met up. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4cm6Utv
#AERA2026 might be over, but our AERA Latina/o/x SIG highlights aren’t.
We continue to spotlight our graduate student, Stephanie Luna-Lopez, who serves as our Co-Communications Chair. Gracias, Stephanie, for all the time, care, and labor you pour into the SIG.
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Dean Bryan Brayboy @bryanbrayboy.bsky.social championed abundance over scarcity during the @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Distinguished Lecture.
Read more: 🔗 spr.ly/63320B62O2M
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What a productive few days at #AERA2026!
Our #jhusoe team appreciated the chance to share research across education, AI, multilingualism, equity & more.
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Proud moment right here. Three generations of scholars. From left to right: Spencer (my academic father), Rich (my academic grandfather), me (grateful academic son and grandson). 🙏
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Last day of #AERA2026.
By now the panels, corridor conversations, hotel rooms, overstimulation, and long walks have all merged into one thing again: a temporary system for thinking under different conditions.
#TravelAsNonMethod
I really appreciated @dankrutka.bsky.social's discussant remarks at our #AERA2026 symposium.
Dan argued, "that one reason we are haunted by our histories is because this country is drenched in marketing—the marketing of white supremacy, the marketing of patriarchy, the marketing of technology".
That's a wrap on another AERA Annual Meeting in the books! Thanks for an incredible #AERA2026!
Honored to receive the Paul R. Pintrich Memorial Award from @aera-motsig.bsky.social at #AERA2026 for my dissertation study examining how peer socialization shapes math motivation. Grateful to my mentors, research assistants, and all the participants who made this study possible.
Inaugural year for SOME Lab at #AERA2026! Shout out to Amber for presenting an awesome poster and e-Lightening talk 🤩
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It's the final day of #AERA2026 with MCL:
✨A symposium on critical media literacy to imagine, empower, and transform research and practice 📍 Marriott
Headed to #AERA2026? Create a profile, connect with other attendees, share links, create meetups, and much more. Check it out on the new #EduMatch Connect app: connect.edumatch.org/conferences/ebe70db5-3d7...
cheers to the last day of #AERA2026!
Today our #jhusoe researchers present at #AERA2026 on inclusive literacy, multilingual learners’ home & school experiences, equitable AI-driven STEM diagnostics, and self-regulated learning in homeschoolers.
Me, standing at a lectern, pointing at a slide that says "It's getting hard and harder to find time for the Deep Work."
Nope, I'm not dancing to a Bangles song, I'm discussing the great presentations at #AERA2026 on whether and/or how #GenAI can be used in education research. The take-away? Be careful out there, folks. I'm ok with the old-school "AI" methods, but skeptical of the "generative" tools.
Our SIG will conclude this year's conference with two final sessions, discussing motivation and student experiences in online learning. If you're still around, come out to support our presenters! #OTLSIG #AERA2026
Picture of Noah Glaser, me, Miriam Mulders, Josef Buchner, Amedee Marchand Martella, Joshua Weidlich, and Alyssa Lawson all standing in front of a projected slide that reads: "Media Comparisons: To Do or Not To DO: That is the Question."
Kudos to Amédee Marchand Martella and Alyssa Lawson for organizing the session and to Noah Glaser, Joshua Weidlich, Miriam Mulders and Josef Buchner for the provocative papers in this symposium on why media comparison studies (e.g., Is GenAI better than traditional teaching?) are flawed. #AERA2026
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Interested in understanding the role that emotion and justice plays in social studies education? Join us for this exciting research session tomorrow at #AERA2026. "Emotion, Justice, and Curriculum" Sun, April 12, 9:45 to 11:15 am, JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, 3rd Floor, Plaza II.
Not my original talk topic today, but folks seemed interested in learning more about #AI bots posing as humans in survey research. Here's the paper #AERA2026
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Absolutely amazing session this morning on bridging equity gaps in STEM that I chaired w/ @hyerinlee.bsky.social.
Still nerding out over getting the opportunity to present with these stellar motivation scholars 🤩
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Still more exciting @aera-motsig.bsky.social programming to come today and tomorrow! Check it out at the link below #AERA2026
Thanks for joining us at the joint SIG business meeting with @writinglit.bsky.social ! #AERA2026
📲 A few snippets from the evening—CONGRATS to our award winners! 🥳
