ICSEI, the ARC Education Project, International Education News and AERA Ed Change SIG have collaborated to support early career members. Recognizing the challenge of networking at virtual conferences and the interest in publishing educational research internationally, we encourage all CSI and/or AERA Ed Change members to join us. For more information and registration, please click on the photo on the right.

Lessons from COVID-19: Perspectives from UNICEF, the OECD, and ARC Education Project.

This symposium presents the perspectives of three transnational organizations- UNICEF, the OECD and the ARC Education Project- as they share what they have learned about how different educational systems have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, each paper responds to one of the guiding questions outlined by the Crisis Response in Education Network (CREN) and outlines what was learned about education systems, learning, health and wellbeing of practitioners, children, young people and their families.

Whereas the terms “international” and “transnational” are often used interchangeably, the term transnational is used in this symposium to incorporate a broad concept of the complex processes and arrangements spanning boundaries of two or more nations. Scholars have observed that transnational organizations are uniquely positioned to facilitate a process of policy transfer, such that knowledge gained in one setting informs policymaking in a different setting (Dolowitz & Marsh, 2000). The aim of this symposium is to exchange ideas and key lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, which we hope will provide participants with deeper insights into the particularities of their own systems.

The Offer

Connect with a world-renowned thought leader who has offered 30 minutes of their time to mentor an early career researcher, practitioner and/or policy maker in the overall fields of educational change and/or teacher professionalism. The mentors will answer any questions about developing a career, how to become a public intellectual, and the fields of educational change and teacher professionalism, in relation to their own work and the early career member’s work.

Requirements

• You must be engaged in graduate studies in education and/or within 3 yrs of your degree.
• You self-identify as an early career researcher, practitioner and/or policy maker. 
• You must be prepared to be familiar with the work and/or publications of your mentor.
• You must be a member of AERA or ICSEI 

*We will operate an honor system regarding these criteria.

The Process

The list of mentors will be announced in early April.

Statements of interest will be accepted after April 15, 2021.

Please send your statement of interest to Trista Hollweck, Project Director of ARC  arc@uottawa.ca

Mentoring matches will be made on a first come, first served basis. 

In your statement, please state your name, position, organization and/or university and area of research.

Clearly state why you want to be involved in this mentoring opportunity,

You must have attended the Early Career Session at either ICSEI (March) and/or AERA Educational Change SIG 155 (April)

Dr. Hollweck, on behalf of the ARC Education Project, will match mentors and mentees.

Successful applicants will be notified and given instructions on how to connect with their mentor

Please follow @arceducation1 @tristateach @hargreavesbc @ICSEIglobal @EdChangeSIG and @intl_ed_news

on Twitter for updates.

As educators around the world respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Journal of Professional Capital and Community (JPCC), in collaboration with the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement ( ICSEI), and the ARC Education Project, is launching a special issue: Professionalism in the Pandemic. We invite manuscript submissions from board members of JPCC and ICSEI, thought leaders associated with ARC, and select individuals from other institutions.

The purpose of this special issue is to create a scholarly forum for sharing perspectives from around the world about how educators in classrooms, schools, school systems, and broader communities are innovatively, creatively, and productively responding to this unfolding crisis. Toward this end, we are inviting thought leaders from around the world to speak in the voice of public intellectuals, providing perspectives for practitioners and policymakers who are seeking to not simply adapt to meet the crisis at hand but also to step back and consider the medium to longer-term implications.

Manuscripts should be in the form of reflective and forward-thinking essays (2,000 – 4,000 words). They will be editorially reviewed in one week and expedited through the production process to publish online. All articles will be free to access for a minimum of 3 months upon publication. We anticipate launching Professionalism in the Pandemic May 15 with an initial corpus of essays, and then publish subsequent essays on a rolling basis throughout the summer. This Link shows the process for submission.

Given the unfortunate but unavoidable cancellation of a face-to-face AERA, the ARC Education Project at the University of Ottawa is organizing an exciting opportunity for 40 early career researchers to benefit from 30 minutes of individual and complimentary mentoring. It’s not an official AERA offering, but we hope it will help compensate for the loss of face-to-face time for many early career researchers and be complementary to other AERA offerings.

The Offer

12 world-renowned thought leaders have each offered 30 minutes of their time to connect with 4 early career researchers (48 in total) in the overall fields of educational change and/or teacher professionalism during what would have been face-to-face AERA congress dates. They are particularly interested in applicants who aspire to become public intellectuals – i.e. to become highly accomplished scholars who regularly communicate their scholarly work on the public stage in national, international and local public and professional media, online and offline. The mentors will answer any questions about developing a career, how to become a public intellectual, and the fields of educational change and teacher professionalism, in relation to their own work and the applicant’s work.

The Mentors (alphabetically)

Michael Fullan

Lin Goodwin

Andy Hargreaves

Alma Harris

Pak Tee Ng

Pedro Noguera

Diane Ravitch

Sir Ken Robinson

Pasi Sahlberg

Corrie Stone Johnson

Joel Westheimer

Yong Zhao

The Criteria

• You must be studying for a doctoral degree in education or within 3 yrs of receiving your degree.
• It must be in the broad fields of educational change and/or teacher professionalism.
• You must be prepared to demonstrate knowledge of an entire book written by the thought leader.
• You must be a member of AERA and have planned to attend AERA this year.
• We will operate an honor system regarding these criteria.

The Process

Applications will be 1^st come, 1^st served.

Please send your statement of interest to Trista Hollweck, the Exec Director of ARC  arc@uottawa.ca

In your statement, please state your name, position and organization/university and area of research.

Clearly list your top two choices only of preferred mentors in your statement.

You must be available for the whole of what would have been the AERA Conference (April 17-21)

Dr Hollweck will allocate the 4 applicants per mentor. You will be notified if you’ve been successful.

Successful applicants will be given instructions on how to connect with their mentor

Please follow @arceducation1 & @hargreavesbc on twitter for updates.

Engage, Play & Discuss

December 4, 2019

10:00-11:30

LMX 477, University of Ottawa

Innovation, Design & System Thinking in Education