Fall is a time for learning and we have some don’t miss opportunities coming your way!!

CERA 2023 Annual Conference- Educational Research: Guiding the Way Forward

Keynote speakers are booked, breakout sessions are selected, and the conference schedule is published!  We are so excited for all the learning that awaits!! 

Be sure to register before October 31st to save $50. Regular registration is $475 and includes your annual membership fees. On November 1, registration increases to $525.  You can access registration through the registration system or through our website.

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September Webinar

Join us for our September CERA professional learning opportunity: Got questions? Best Practices in Survey Design, Valerye Salazar and Dr. Sherrie Reed and will share their expertise in survey design to help you create valid and reliable instruments for your next project.

When: September 12th at 1:30pm

Where: This is an online webinar

How to Register: Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-yprjIjHt16HLsqwXYaz19MR0qEVnJP 

Last Call for Award Nominees

Nominations for the Education Leadership Award and the Research-Practice Partnership Award close August 18, 2023!!

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Education Leadership Award honors a dedicated leader from K-12 or higher education for their efforts in improving California students’ equitable access to high quality educational opportunities and their outcomes. To find out more information about this award and to submit your nomination, please click here.

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Research-Practice Partnership Award honors a California research-practice partnership that exemplifies the collaboration and cooperation between researchers and practitioners that result in improved educational outcomes. To find out more information about this award and to submit your nomination, please click here.

Stay Tuned for our 2nd Annual Data Viz Competition

Are you a visualization and storytelling expert? Enter the Data Viz Competition to showcase your data-driven artistic skills!  CERA will host a data visualization competition where participants will present key findings from their research or key practices from their daily work in a visually interesting way. During the conference, participants will select a People's Choice Award and CERA Board Members will select one recipient for the 2023 Data Viz Award. Watch for more details coming in September!!

Spotlight on Research

In honor of our call for Research-Practice Partnership Award nominees, we wanted to highlight some of our nominees from last year.

The Pomona Regional Learning Collaborative (RLC) was founded in 2015 by Claremont Graduate University (CGU) Professor Nazanin Zargarpour in partnership with Pomona Unified School District (PUSD), to address the structural challenges which low-income, underrepresented students face in the transitions from high school through higher education. The RLC includes over 90 partners from PUSD, two community colleges, four baccalaureate university partners, and a graduate university, and civic organizations and college. The RLC is supported by regional and national partners and funders. The RLC engages in systematic, evidence-based, and equity-focused collaboration which has resulted in several noteworthy outcomes:

1.) reversal of the attrition rate for PUSD students who enrolled in the local community college - from 86% of enrolled students dropping out without earning a single college credit, to over 85% of students persisting in credit-bearing, transfer-level courses;

2.) increasing dual enrollment offerings from 2 to 20 courses and from one largely affluent high school to all seven traditional and alternative high schools in the district;

3.) doubling low-income student participation rates and tripling Latinx student participation rates in dual enrollment within just two years of implementation.

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The Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum -English Language Development (ERWC-ELD) consortium, managed by Dr. Pamela Spycher, Senior Research Associate for WestEd, Debra Boggs, Language and Literacy Coordinator with the Merced County Office of Education, Dr. Adele Arellano, Professor in the College of Education, CSU Sacramento, Dr. Roberta Ching, Professor Emerita in the Department of English, CSU Sacramento, came together to craft an ELD focus for California's linguistically diverse classrooms within the larger ERWC organization (https://writing.csusuccess.org/). These leaders have independently advocated for multilingual learners through practice, policy, and research and their collaboration has aimed to improve the practice of culturally responsive teaching and learning for multilingual learners through the development of accessible, educative secondary curriculum and aligned professional learning. For over six years, the ERWC-ELD has addressed multiple critical needs including:

1.) developing stakeholder knowledge of high-quality and culturally responsive integrated and designated instruction and assessments for English language and literacy development;

 2.) creating accessible and rigorous curriculum which centers students' community assets and funds of knowledge;

3)providing an exemplar of integrative research-practice partnership.

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AERA Job Board

We also want to remind you to keep an eye on the AERA job board if you, or anyone you know, are interested in research jobs!