Several CUEL staff members and faculty affiliates will discuss their recent research work at the upcoming 2023 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), to be held in downtown Chicago from April 13 through 16. CUEL’s nine participating associates include Center Director Shelby Cosner, Lionel Allen, Cynthia Barron, Craig De Voto, Paul Riskus, Meagan Richard, Jason Salisbury, and Steven Tozer. CUEL presentations will cover a diverse range of topics in school leader preparation, educational equity, school improvement, leadership through crisis and Covid-19, research-practice partnerships, and the history of Chicago school reform. In addition, our colleague Paul Zavitkovsky will present new findings on the educational challenges posed by district reliance on increasingly popular interim assessment systems, at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME), running parallel to the AERA meeting in Chicago. A listing of CUEL presentations at AERA 2023 is provided below.
AERA Sessions Featuring the Work of CUEL Staff and Affiliates (Ordered by Day and Time Slots)
| Day & Time | Session and CUEL Participants |
| Thu, April 13, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT | FULL Sheraton Roundtable 1 Thursday (Contemplating Requisite Standards and Skills for Leaders; Disability Identity and Literacy: Representation and Exploration) Title: Enacting the Principal Preparation Clinical Experience for Equity-Oriented Aims: Examining the Literature for Key Insights Thu, April 13, 8:00 to 9:30am, Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V Presenters: Shelby A. Cosner, Meagan Richard, Lionel Allen (with Marie Tejero Hughes, Carmille Talley) |
| Thu, April 13, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT | Starting With Support: Promising Practices and Pitfalls in Leadership Induction Thu, April 13, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Erie Session Type: Symposium Discussants: Cynthia K. Barron; Steven Tozer |
| Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT | Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG Business Meeting Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm, Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Chicago Ballroom IX Session Type: Business Meeting Shelby A. Cosner (Chair), Meagan Richard |
| Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT | How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools: Chicago’s Story Thu, April 13, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Ballroom Level, Grand Hall I Session Type: Symposium Presenters: Steven Tozer (with Albert Bertani, University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| Thu, April 13, 4:40 to 6:10pm CDT | The Politics of Student Voice: How Students Interrogate Policy Discourses, Processes, and Practices Thu, April 13, 4:40 to 6:10pm CDT (4:40 to 6:10pm CDT), Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, Floor: 2nd Floor, Aegean Session Type: Symposium Presenter: “School’s a Lie”: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism in Policy Partnerships Presenters: Jason Salisbury (Session Chair & Presenter) |
| Fri, April 14, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT | K–12 Leader Responses and Organizational Preparedness During COVID-19 In event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 6 In Roundtable Session: Change and Turnover During the Pandemic: The Leader’s Perspective (Table 2) Fri, April 14, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V Presenter: Craig De Voto (with Benjamin Superfine) |
| Fri, April 14, 11:40am to 1:10pm CDT | Results From Research-Practice Partnerships Focused on Organizational and Individual Capacity-Building to Improve Mathematics Instruction (Poster 1) In Event: Results from Research-Practice Partnerships Focused on Organizational and Individual Capacity-Building to Improve Mathematics Instruction Fri, April 14, 11:40am to 1:10pm CDT (11:40am to 1:10pm CDT), InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, Floor: 3rd Floor, King Arthur Court Presenter: Craig De Voto (with Allison Superfine, Benjamin Superfine, Marc Dewit, Ahreum Han, Enisa S. Akgul & Yue Yin) |
| Sat, April 15, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT | Crisis Leadership’s Influence on Leadership Identity and School Vision In Event: Sheraton Roundtables Session 10 In Roundtable Session: Leading Through Crisis (Table 3) Sat, April 15, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V Presenters: Paul Riskus (with David S. Woo, University of Utah). |
| Sat, April 15, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT | Extending Social Justice Leadership Beyond the School Walls: Understanding Principal Community Activism In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 11 In Roundtable Session: Community Work in Social Justice Leadership (Table 4) Sat, April 15, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V Presenters: Jason Salisbury & Meagan Richard |
| Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT | Equity-Oriented Leadership as an Enrollment Promotion Strategy in Marketized Districts In Event: Sheraton Roundtables Session 13 In Roundtable Session: Enrollment, Policy & Equity: The Impact of Policy and School-Level Decisions on School Choice (Table 12) Sat, April 15, 2:50 to 4:20pm CDT (2:50 to 4:20pm CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V Presenter: Meagan Richard |