• Professorial Lecturer Dr. Rebecca Lubin was selected as an Emerging Special Educators of Color awardee at the 2024 Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Special Education Convention and Expo. In May, she will give a presentation, "Brilliant State of Mind: The Methods for Unveiling Archetypes and Aspirations," at the University of Connecticut's 2024 Wallace Research Symposium on Talent Development. [March 20, 2024]

• SOE faculty members Drs. Michael Gibbons, Jisun Jeong, Terence Ngwa, and Elizabeth Worden each gave presentations at the 68th annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society, CIES 2024 - The Power of Protest. Drs. Golnar Abedin and Deepa Srikantaiah served as panelists at the event. [March 20, 2024]

• Antiracist Pedagogy Scholar Dr. Annice Fisher launched a pilot class of her Exercising Conscious Leadership course at the Cook County Department of Corrections women’s division, where students who completed the sessions received a certificate of completion through her company, Developing Capacity Coaching. [March 20, 2024]

• Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Dr. Tomiko Ball and Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Samantha Cohen co-authored a chapter, "Keeping One Another Charged for an Evolving Antiracist Journey," in the book The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change. [March 20, 2024]

• Assistant Professor Dr. Emily Peterson co-wrote a study, "Revising Teacher Candidates’ Beliefs and Knowledge of the Learning Styles Neuromyth," about how to address the myth that students learn best when instruction matches their preferred modality of learning - auditory, visual, kinesthetic, etc. Non-paywall content until April 18. [March 20, 2024]

• Professor Dr. Bridget Trogden published a paper with the American Society for Engineering Education Conference Proceedings titled, "The Educational Benefits of Operating a Service-Learning Course as a Corporate Structure." It describes how multidisciplinary project-based learning brings about improved student educational outcomes and career competencies. [March 20, 2024]

• Acting Co-Dean Dr. Rodney Hopson will give the opening remarks at the Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network’s 2024 All In National Summit, themed "Promoting the Value of Adult Literacy," at AU on February 27. [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Phelton Moss was a panelist for the Washington Mardi Gras education-themed event, "Voices of Louisiana," which brought together superintendents and policy actors from across Louisiana to discuss education policy. [February 27, 2024]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Eugene Pringle moderated a panel on the role of culturally relevant messaging and political socialization of HBCU students, “Empowering Voices: Unveiling Insights from 'The Other Black Voter,'" at Rutgers University's Elevate event, a professional development program for early-career faculty members. [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Jennifer Steele was named Associate Editor of the Journal for Research on Educational Effectiveness, which publishes multidisciplinary scientific inquiries on educational success and problems, including intervention, evaluation, policies, theory, and methodology. [February 27, 2024]

• SOE Librarian Hannah Park evaluated illustrated children's books submitted for the 2024 Randolph Caldecott Medal. "The Caldecott" is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished picture book for children published in the US. The 2024 award went to Vashti Harrison, who wrote and illustrated Big, a book about a child's journey to self-acceptance, which also highlights the impact of words. [February 27, 2024]

• Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Altheria Caldera co-edited the book Ourselves in Our Work: Black Women Scholar of Black Girlhood, which highlights how research on and activism focused on Black girls and Black girlhood are engendering the evolving field of Black girlhood studies. [February 27, 2024]

• SOE Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Dr. Tomiko D. Ball, EdD '22, wrote the chapter, “Proactively Equipping Self and Community with Navigational Tools to Disrupt Othering Within Higher Education,” in the book, Healing While Studying: Reflections and Strategies for Healing, Coping, and Liberation of Graduate Students of Minoritized Identities. [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Annice E. Fisher, SOE Antiracism Pedagogy Scholar, penned an Inside Higher Ed op-ed offering advice for Black women in higher education on successfully navigating the challenges of leading social change, "Hold Steady or Issue an Exit Ticket." [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Tyrone Howard, SOE Advisory Board Member and President of AERA, is the subject of a cover story, "A Race Scholar," about his efforts to dismantle racial inequities in education in the Black History Month edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. [February 27, 2024]

• Acting Education Policy and Leadership MEd Program Director and Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Cortez Moss wrote a Diverse: Issues in Higher Education op-ed, "From Classrooms to Ballots: Unpacking the Significance of School Boards in the 2024 Elections," about the high number of uncontested school boards seats in the 2024 elections. [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Lauren Shea, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor-in-Residence, was a co-principal investigator for the research project, "STEM Tales: Investigating the Effect of Media Read-Alouds on Young Children's STEM and Literacy Learning and Interest in STEM Careers," profiled on the Stelar (Stem Learning and Research) Center website. [February 27, 2024]

• Professor Dr. Jennifer Steele was the interviewee for an American Magazine Q&A, "AI in the Classroom," where she discussed the importance of teaching students the evolving strengths and weaknesses of ChatGPT technology. [February 27, 2024]

• Director of SOE's Institute for Innovation in Education Danielle G. Sodani co-authored a chapter, "Figuring out my End Game: Supporting Novice ESOL Teachers' Emerging Identities as Humanizing Practitioners and Advocates through Peer Interaction," in the newly published book, A Sociopolitical Agenda for TESOL Teacher Education. [February 27, 2024]

• Dr. Andre Perry, Scholar-in-Residence, wrote an op-ed for MSNBC, "Navy Federal Credit Union is Getting Heat That the Whole Lending Industry Deserves," about the class action lawsuit accusing the nation's largest credit union of violating the Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. [January 22, 2024]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Eugene Pringle was selected to be the series reviewer for the William H. Sadlier, Inc. publication series Building Reading Success with Wiley Blevins, a module-based intervention program that develops K–5 students’ proficiency in foundational literacy skills. [January 22, 2024]

• Dr. Carolyn Parker, Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, conducted a session, "Problem-Based Learning and the Development of Elementary Education Teacher Candidates,” at the Association of Science Teacher Education's (ASTE) 2024 International Conference. She was elected faculty chair of the ASTE's Women in Science Education (WISE) forum, and SOE EdD student Joytrese George '25, was elected co-chair. WISE is dedicated to sharing and examining issues faced by women in science education. [January 22, 2024]

• Joytrese George was also awarded a Centering Black Women STEM Educators in Teaching and Learning fellowship, funded by the National Science Foundation. [January 22, 2024]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Amaarah DeCuir gave a talk, "Empowering Leaders to Advance Antiracism in Classrooms and Schools," at the Islamic Society of North America’s 12th West Coast Education Forum. She also participated in the Virtual Dialog to Counter Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Bigotry session at the Communities United Against Hate event. [January 22, 2024]

• Dr. Antonio Ellis, Senior Professorial Lecturer and Director of the Summer Institute on Education, Equity, and Justice (SIEEJ), was a co-presenter for the session "Just Because You Left Home Doesn't Mean You Left Church: Alumni Perspectives on Spirituality, Identity, and Academic Persistence at HBCUs." The Hawaii International Conference on Education session examined the spiritual journeys of HBCU alumni and the impact on their academic and identity development. [January 22, 2024]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss is serving as the Acting Director of our Education Policy and Leadership MEd program while Director Dr. Reuben Jacobson is on a semester-long sabbatical. [January 22, 2024]

• Adjunct Instructor Dr. Jasmine Rogers was a recent guest on the Apple podcast Science of Reading. In the episode "Celebrating Many Meanings: Language Comprehension and Bidialectal Students," she discussed Black language, her research on dialects, and best practices for structured literacy instruction. [January 22, 2024]

• Dr. Terence Stewart, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, will present "The Impact of Caseload Policies on Special Education Teacher Attrition" at the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2024 Special Education Convention and Expo.  [January 22, 2024]

• Watch this 60-second video where SOE Provost Associate Professor Dr. Brian McGowan weighs in on his research about how minorities experience education. [December 18, 2023]

• Professor Dr. Bridget Trogden co-authored the chapter, "Beyond the Blocks: Promoting Chemistry Agency with Infusion of Global Challenges Throughout the General Education Curriculum," for the ACS (American Chemical Society) Publications book, Chemistry in General Education, discussing how an improved approach to general education through incorporating multi-disciplinary global challenges allows for the infusion of chemistry education. [December 18, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Antonio Ellis had a scholarship named in his honor by the Alpha Charitable and Scholarship Foundation of Montgomery County, MD, established by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American men. The Dr. Antonio L. Ellis Diverse Abilities Scholarship will award $1,000 annually to a high school senior with a disability to attend a 2-year trade school or a 4-year university. [December 18, 2023]
• Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy was a featured panelist for a discussion on concerns about educational equity at the Suburban Schools, Urban Realities: Policy and Possibility on the Urban Fringe Conference, a two-day event at the John Hopkins University Bloomberg Center which convened twenty-five of the nation’s most highly regarded thinkers examining the urban realities of suburban life. [December 18, 2023]
• Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Moya Malcolm gave the talk, "Our Migration Narrative: How Immigrant Capital Paves a Path to Higher Education for 1.5 Generation Students," at the forty-ninth Annual ASHE (Association for the Study of Higher Education) Conference, which highlighted research from her 2022 dissertation. [December 18, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss spoke at the Bowie State University screening event for the documentary, The Right to Read, which follows Oakland NAACP activist Kareem Weaver, who believes that literacy is one of the greatest civil rights issues of our time. Moss also hosted eighth graders from Georgetown Day Middle School at SOE for a policy workshop on affirmative action in higher education. [December 18, 2023]
• Dr. Deepa Srikantaiah, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, spoke at AERA's Invited Speaker Series for the Holistic Education SIG 135 event. Her presentation, “Exploring the ‘Holistic’ in Math Education,” discussed the historical development of mathematical concepts, with a specific focus on fractions, within the context of holistic education and contemplative studies. [December 18, 2023]
• Professor Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Carolyn Parker gave a talk to an AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) special education affinity group about SOE's Making Special Education Affordable through the RETL (new Residency for Excellence in Teaching and Learning) project. [December 18, 2023]
• Dr. Amaarah DeCuir, senior professorial lecturer, published this guide to responding to religious harassement in schools in Muslim Matters, and this piece in Education Week about how they must support their Arab and Muslim students. [Oct 22, 2023]
• Dr. Jennifer Steele, professor, spoke with USA Today about the increasing partisanship in the U.S. on education issues in the segment "‘Quantum-Leap Change’: How School Choice, Book Bans and Student Loans Are Taking Center Stage in 2024." [Oct 22, 2023]
• Dr. Antonio Ellis, scholar-in-residence and director of the Institute for Education Equity and Justice in the School of Education, co-authored an article in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education about how accessibility and belonging are cornerstones of diversity, equity and inclusion in education. [Oct 22, 2023]
• Professor Dr. Jennifer L. Steele wrote “Which College Types Increase Earnings? Estimates from Geographic Proximity,” in Education Economics. [Oct 13, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Antonio L. Ellis published "Black Scholarship in a White Academy: Perseverance in the Face of Injustice" about the experience of Black scholarship and faculty in a predominantly White academic spaces. [Oct 7, 2023]
• Professor Dr. Jennifer L. Steele wrote an article in Fast Company about how AI may impact economic inequality. [Oct 6, 2023]
• Director of the EdD Program and Professorial Lecturer Dr. William N. Thomas IV, Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Samantha Cohen, and Adjunct Professorial Lecturer Dr. Cheyenne Batista '23 co-presented "Co-Teaching as an opportunity to enact social justice and create humanizing communities" at the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate's 2023 Convening in Florida. [Oct 5, 2023] 
• Dr. Eugene Pringle, Jr., Senior Professorial Lecturer, wrote this opinion piece in The Hechinger Report on why educators must be on the front line of social activism, emphasized during teacher training. [Sep 25, 2023]
• Acting Co-Dean Corbin M. Campbell's research was cited in this The Chronicle of Higher Education article on the value of "good teaching." [Sep 20, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Antonio L. Ellis published an op-ed in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education about the role of the Black church in response to the recent Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. [Sep 14, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss was featured in this (paid access only) piece in Financial Times about how students and college are reacting to the affirmative action ruling. [Sep 7, 2023]
• Dr. Eugene Pringle, Jr., Senior Professorial Lecturer, delivered the keynote address at the Community Action Organization of Western New York's school year kickoff.  The address titled "The Race" provided inspiration and practical strategies for a successful year in efforts to build with intentionality, engage community and families, and engage in purposeful self-care. [Aug 25, 2023]
• There is hope from the Biden-Harris administration to continue to build a diverse student body, says Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss in this Inside Higher Ed opinion. [Aug 21, 2023]
• Professor Dr. Jennifer L. Steele was interviewed on CGTN America about how inflation is affecting families during back-to-school shopping season. [Aug 17, 2023]
• Read or listen to this EdSurge podcast where Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy offered her opinion on why the time has come to reset college legacy admissions practices. [Aug 1, 2023] 
• Nearly 15% of children are special education students—a 46-year high. SOE Adjunct Professor Brandi Smith was highlighted in an Education Week article about the impact of a good individualized education program (IEP). [July 27, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Cortez Moss weighed in on solving the Black male teacher shortage in this piece by ABC News. [July 24, 2003]
• Professor Dr. Jennifer L. Steele published an op-ed on teaching students to do what ChatGTP cannot in The Hill. [July 20, 2023]
• Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy took part in this panel you can watch on what the Affirmative Action decision by SCOTUS may mean in higher education. [July 13, 2023]
• Adjunct Professor Dr. Cheyenne Batista ’22 was highlighted for her award-winning dissertation in the AU Alumni news. [July 6, 2023]
• SOE’s Associate Dean Corbin Campbell was highlighted in this Chronicle of Higher Education article about her participation as lead researcher in a new advisory panel to define, support, and elevate college teaching. [July 6, 2023]

• Dr. Amaarah DeCuir has been selected as an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Leadership for Social Justice Action Committee member. [May 17, 2023]
• SOE Sr. Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss became a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Education Innovation Education Fellow. [May 17, 2023]
• Assistant Professor Dr. Emily Peterson was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award and $1.3M grant to examine the role of curiosity in students' learning about scientific phenomena. [April 15, 2023]
• Dr. Cheyenne Batista (EdD ’22) was awarded the prestigious American Education Research Association (AERA) Division A 2023 Award for Outstanding Dissertation for her dissertation, “‘I Am Not Scary. I Am Strong. There’s a Difference.’ Disrupting Misogynoir and Transforming Interpersonal Conflict for Black Women Education Leaders: A Multiple Case Study.” [Mar 17, 2023]
• Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson, Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Education, was awarded $127,000 from the Benedict Silverman Foundation for the initial implementation of a tutoring program utilizing Reading Rescue and Reading Ready. Dr. Belson and her team have secured funding from the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE), which covers a large portion of the research budget. [November 17, 2022]
• More than $1.3M was awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to AU’s Dr. Shari Earnest Watkins and Dr. Brian L. McGowan, Associate Professor, as part of the Collaborative Research-Racial Equity project (CRRE) to examine undergraduate Black students’ postsecondary STEM experiences. [October 14, 2022]
• Dr. Ocheze Joseph, Director of Undergraduate Teacher Education and Senior Professorial Lecturer, was named a 2022-23 Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) Fellow. [June 27, 2022]

Publications & Presentations

• Dr. Ocheze Joseph, Director of Undergraduate Teacher Education, was quoted in this Ed Surge article on how teachers who take part in tutoring enter the field with greater experience. [May 30, 2023]
• Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy and SOE Child Development Associate (CDA) program Assistant Director Gabrielle Harris are featured in the five-part DCTV documentary series, Stronger Start: Building Better Child Care. Watch all five episodes here. [May 17, 2023]
• SOE Sr. Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss delivered the keynote address, "Building Racially Just Schools: Addressing Salient Issues Facing Students Who Have Been Racially Minoritized,” at the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN) Institute. [May 17, 2023]
• Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Gregory. C. Hutchings, Jr., joined the Black Agenda Radio's podcast episode, "School Safety for Black Students," to discuss a recent study reflecting that law enforcement has a more significant presence in Black and Latino schools than in white schools. [May 17, 2023]
• This summer, SOE Sr. Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss will launch a new podcast, All Means All, discussing education policy issues with a focus on underserved groups. Stay tuned to our social media platforms for more details. [May 17, 2023]
• Urban Teachers program faculty member Dr. Deepa Srikantaiah co-wrote a Holistic Education Review article, "Plurality, Equity and Meaning Making with Indigenous Knowledges," about how indigenous knowledges differ from Western scientific concepts, and their importance in education. [May 17, 2023]
• SOE Sr. Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss penned an op-ed, "Book Bans: An Act of Policy Violence Promoting Anti-Blackness," for The Crisis. [May 17, 2023]
• Associate Dean Dr. Corbin Campbell penned a USA Today op-ed, "Should You Use College Rankings to Pick a Good School?" Campbell's new book, Great College Teaching: Where It Happens and How to Foster It Everywhere, will be released next week. View the video of her recent book talk here. [April 15, 2023]
• Associate Professor Dr. Elizabeth A. Worden released a book, Citizen Education in a Divided Society: Lessons from Curricula and Practice in Northern Ireland, about teaching citizenship after the Northern Ireland conflict. [Apr 15, 2023]
• Professorial Lecturer Dr. William Thomas wrote an article on motivational awareness, "Discovering Motivational Awareness with African Epistemology," for Medium. [Apr 15, 2023]
• Sr. Professorial Lecturer Dr. Antonio Ellis, Professor Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson, and SOE students contributed chapters to the book, Critical Literacy and Its Impact on Black Boys’ Reading Readiness. [Apr 15, 2023]
• Professorial Lecturer Dr. Tracy Spesia co-authored a chapter, "Embracing edTPA: Our Journey With Data-Informed Practices," in Effectively Using Data for Educator Preparation Program. [Apr 15, 2023]
• Professorial Lecturer Dr. Terence Ngwa wrote a review of the book, Re-Envisioning Education: Affirming Diversity and Advancing Social Justice. [Apr 15, 2023] 
• SOE Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy and Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, President Emerita of Spelman and Bennett Colleges, co-authored a call to action for higher education faculty and staff in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. [Mar 17, 2023]
• Instructional Coach for Urban Teachers in Dallas and SOE Adjunct Instructor Calago Hipps shares his reflections on Black History Month and his inspiration to become an educator. [Mar 17, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Amaarah DeCuir co-authored the newly released book, Islamic-Based Educational Leadership, Administration and Management. [Feb 15, 2023]
• School counseling professionals, led by Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, penned a letter in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the recent Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies course debate. Read the letter here. [Feb 15, 2023]
• Assistant Professor Dr. Robert Shand wrote a National Education Policy Center (NEPC) review, The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy: Technical Report. He was also was quoted in two articles highlighting timely topics: policies allowing school choice and community schools. [Feb 15, 2023]
• In this 60-second video, Associate Dean Dr. Corbin M. Campbell describes her research on student-centered teaching and equitable student outcomes. [Jan 18, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Eugene Pringle published two book chapters: "Leveraging the Mentorship Experiences of Black Males with Doctoral Degrees" in Best Practices and Programmatic Approaches for Mentoring Educational Leaders and "Foundations of a Resilience Model Pipeline for Black Male Well-Being and Leadership Principles" in The Future of Black Leadership in Higher Education: Firsthand Experiences and Global Impact. [Jan 18, 2023]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Phelton Moss wrote for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) about how Black boys express their personality and character through their sneakers. Read his article here. [Jan 18, 2023]
• Check out the Noodle podcast "The Most Interesting People in Higher Ed" (Episode 19) featuring SOE Dean Dr. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy here. [Jan 18, 2023]
• Virginia Public Media, the Richmond National Public Radio affiliate, interviewed and quoted Assistant Professor Dr. Robert D. Shand about the proposed Education Savings Account policy in Virginia. Read the story here. [January 18, 2023]
• SOE is the first AU school to have a land acknowledgment statement, which made news in this District article about the university's Indigenous inclusion, where Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy was quoted. [Jan 18, 2023]

• SOE is the first AU school to have a land acknowledgement statement, which made news in this District article about AU’s Indigenous inclusion, where Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy was quoted. [Dec 15, 2022] 

• Associate Dean Dr. Corbin Campbell was an invited panelist at the Boyer 2030 Commission National Conference, sponsored by the Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities. The convening brings together higher education scholars and leaders from across the US to discuss issues related to the support of college teaching, learning, and equity. In this presentation, she talked about her forthcoming book (Harvard Education Press, 2023), Great College Teaching: Where it Happens and How to Foster it Everywhere. [Dec 15, 2022] 

• Dr. Phelton Cortez Moss, Education Policy Advisor in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senior Professorial Lecturer of Education Policy and Leadership, convened an education brain trust to make recommendations for Congress’s Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys. The commission recommends policies to improve upon, or augment, current government programs, and is chaired by Congress member Frederica Wilson. [Dec 15, 2022]

• Director of the Education Policy and Leadership Program and Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Reuben Jacobson was a panelist for the talk, "Community Schools: A Model Locally, a Model Nationally," at the Jefferson Educational Society Global Summit in Erie, PA. He also served as moderator for the panel discussion, “How District Leaders Start and Sustain Community Schools,” hosted by Brookings. [Dec 15, 2022]

• Faculty member Lynne Brenner Ganek was highlighted in this story about actor LeVar Burton’s lifetime achievement Emmy award. She was a creator of Reading Rainbow, which first aired on PBS in 1983 with Burton as host. [Dec 15, 2022]

• City Teaching Alliance (formerly Urban Teachers), a national teacher residency program and partner with the SOE, was highlighted in media across the county this month. In the Philadelphia Citizen, and on Baltimore-based WBAL television, Urban Teachers was featured as a robust, qualified teacher pipeline in cities with an urgent need for more teachers. [Dec 15, 2022]

• Dr. Samantha Cohen, Executive Director of EdD Program and Senior Professorial Lecturer, was quoted on how successful teachers engage their students regardless of the modality - online or in person, in this eLearningindustry.com article. [Dec 15, 2022]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Amaarah DeCuir published the article "Public Memory Generates Disinformation on 9/11 in Public Schools," in the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Journal of Academic Freedom. [Dec 15, 2022]

• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Sherita Flake was a lead conference speaker at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Baltimore, MD. Title: “The Black STEM Teacher Pipeline: Critical Reflection and Liberatory Action.” [Dec 1, 2022]
• Associate Professor Dr. Jennifer Steele began serving as an Associate Editor of the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ). With a 5-year Impact Factor of 6.246, AERJ is a flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association, publishing articles that advance the empirical, theoretical, and methodological understanding of education and learning. [Nov 20, 2022]
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Sherita Flake was a lead conference presenter at the Annual Conference of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, where she presented, “The Black STEM Teacher Pipeline: Investigating the Problems, Policies, and Practices that Disrupt the Pipeline.” [Nov 17, 2022]
• Assistant Professor Dr. Emily Grossnickle Peterson was identified by Educational Psychology Review as one of the most productive early career scholars in an analysis of publishing trends in educational psychology journals. The study, "Individual and Institutional Productivity in Educational Psychology Journals from 2015-2021,” ranked the articles scholars published in the top five educational psychology journals. [Nov 17, 2022]
• Drs. Samantha Cohen and William N. Thomas IV presented "Supporting Educational Leaders in Creating an Equity-centered Culture of Continuous Improvement" at the University Council for Educational Administration's (UCEA) UCEA22 conference. [Nov 17-20, 2022] 
• Senior Professorial Lecturer Dr. Altheria Caldera published an editorial in Education Week about how LA City Council Member Nury Martinez's words on the leaked recording reflects the ways Black boys are pathologized by institutions. [Nov 17, 2022]
• Dr. Amaarah DeCuir - Senior Professorial Lecturer, CTRL Senior Inclusive Pedagogy Fellow, and AUx Faculty Fellow - was invited by the Australian Curriculum Studies Association to be on a panel of international scholars to discuss the policies and practices common in American public schools to advance equity for religious-marginalized students. Watch a video recording of the talk, "Religious Responsivity." [Nov 17, 2022]
• Professorial Lecturer Dr. Rebecca Lubin presented research at the International Conference on Urban Education's 2022 Conference, "Speaking Truth to Power: Sustaining Excellence in Urban Realities," a solutions-based biennial global event. [Nov 17, 2022]
• Professor Dr. Vivian Vasquez co-authored her latest book, "Critical Comprehension: Guiding Students to Deeper Meaning," which is in pre-release (available Feb. 2023). It focuses on working with K-6 students to help them think through multiple perspectives, explore diverse texts, and use the power of story to develop life skills to discuss vast topics with critical curiosity. [Nov 17, 2022]
• Drs. Tomiko Ball and Samantha Cohen presented at the CPED Conference on the topic: Creating Learning Environments within EdD Programs that Foster Antiracist Scholar Practitioner Communities. [Oct 13, 2022]
• Professor Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss presented at the United We Stand summit to combat hate-fueled violence at the White House. Read a Q&A with her, and watch the recording. [Sep 21, 2022]
• Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Andre Perry, a Senior Fellow at Brookings, published the Valuing Black Assets Initiative (VBAI), which seeks to mobilize a new generation of leaders to invest in the assets critical to wealth creation and economic growth in Black communities. The work indexes assets and opportunities Black people have in critical quality of life areas – health, housing, business, employment, and education. [Sep 19, 2022]
• In March, the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference included SOE ITEP faculty Dr. Elizabeth A. Worden, Dr. Michael Gibbons, Dr. Jisun Jeong, and program alum Adam Medadi (MA '22) as members of its planning committee and as presenters and participants. [Mar 17, 2023]
• Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success Advisory Board member Eric Waldo was named new President/CEO of the DC College Access Program (DC-CAP). Read more here. [Feb 15, 2023]

• Instructor Annie Murphy Karabell, Director Danielle Gervais Sodani, and Professor Dr. Sarah Irvine Belson, members of the Institute for Innovation in Education, are doing a year-long course for the District of Columbia Public School principals called the Science of Reading for School Leaders. It is part of a larger project where SOE has worked with 27 DCPS schools over the last three years. [December 15, 2022]

• Scholar-in-Residence and Director of the Summer Institute for Education Equity and Justice (SIEEJ), Dr. Antonio Ellis was elected chair-designate of the Exemplary Contributions to Practice-Engaged Research Award Committee within the American Educational Research Association (AERA). [Nov 17, 2022]

• President Biden appointed Elizabeth Ryan, Adjunct Instructor in SOE, to be the new Administrator of OJP’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Ryan is president of Youth First, leading the shift from incarceration to community-based services and resulting in the closing of youth prisons in 6 states. [May 4, 2022]