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Access, Detracking, and Tracking Special Interest Group
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Special Interest Group of @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
Research and conversations examining access to high-level work, detracking, and tracking
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Join us today (Monday, Oct 27) at 1pm ET for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB! A conversation on expanding IB opportunities and challenging assumptions about who can succeed. Register by 12pm ET to join us live: bit.ly/3VSpdPm
Virtual panel flyer for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB, hosted by AERA’s Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG on Oct. 27, 2025, at 1 PM ET. Panelists include Mira Weber, John Moore, Kyle Westbrook, Thomas Kelley-Kemple, and David Weiss. Register at https://bit.ly/3VSpdPm.
October 27, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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What happens when rigorous opportunities reach all students? Join us for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB on Mon, Oct 27 at 1pm ET. A panel on IB access, detracking, and equity in advanced coursework. Resister: bit.ly/3VSpdPm
Virtual panel flyer for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB, hosted by AERA’s Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG on Oct. 27, 2025, at 1 PM ET. Panelists include Mira Weber, John Moore, Kyle Westbrook, Thomas Kelley-Kemple, and David Weiss. Register at https://bit.ly/3VSpdPm.
October 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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IB programs are known for rigor, but access has been uneven. What changes when all students have the chance to take part? Join @accessdetracktrack.bsky.social for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB, a virtual panel on Mon, Oct 27 at 1pm Eastern. Register: bit.ly/3VSpdPm
Virtual panel flyer for The Power of High Expectations: Exploring Access to IB, hosted by AERA’s Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG on Oct. 27, 2025, at 1 PM ET. Panelists include Mira Weber, John Moore, Kyle Westbrook, Thomas Kelley-Kemple, and David Weiss. Register at https://bit.ly/3VSpdPm.
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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📣 The ADT SIG is excited to announce the Call for the 2026 Jeannie Oakes Research into Practice Award:
1. Award Committee Members (open to SIG members): Deadline: Oct 15
2. Award Nominations (open to all): Deadline: Dec 15
Interested? Please send us a chat for more information!
Flyer titled “Jeannie Oakes Research into Practice Award: 2026 Call for Nominations” with the AERA SIG: Access, Detracking, and Tracking logo. Text explains that the award is presented annually to a scholar whose rigorous research on tracking or detracking has been put into practice to expand student access. Established in 2024 to honor SIG founder Dr. Jeannie Oakes, the award recognizes her legacy of ensuring research leads to meaningful change and equitable coursework for all students. The flyer notes that nominees should embody Dr. Oakes’s legacy by producing research and translating it into action. Examples include collaborating with districts, contributing to policymaking, or supporting equitable curricular reforms. Award recipients will present their work at the SIG’s business meeting during AERA. Highlighted box: “Call for Nominations NOW OPEN; Deadline December 15.” Anyone may submit a nomination, but self-nominations are not permitted. Application requirements: (1) letter to the committee outlining the nominee’s work, (2) nominee’s CV, and (3) representative example of work in practice. Link provided for submissions: https://bit.ly/3K3G7HZ. Closing line encourages members to recognize and celebrate outstanding scholarship by nominating colleagues. Contact: Constance Clark, SIG Chair, at constance.m.clark@rutgers.edu.
September 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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We had a great day yesterday visiting Northfield High School, an IB-for-All school, here in Denver. Thanks to everyone who came and especially to Ms. Rodriguez-Bracey and her team for hosting us!
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April 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Finalizing your @aeraedresearch.bsky.social plans? Make sure to join us at one (or more!) of these events celebrating our 20th anniversary, the 40th anniversary of Keeping Track, and the life of Dr. Jeannie Oakes!
Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG AERA Schedule of events: Friday, April 25: School Site Visit to Northfield High School (SOLD OUT!) and Roundtable at 1:30pm in the Four Seasons Ballroom 4; Saturday April 26: Symposium honoring the legacy of Jeannie Oakes at 9:50am in the Mile High Ballroom; Paper Session at 11:40 in Room 303; Birthday Celebration Honoring Dr. Jeannie Oakes with her husband as our special guest at 7pm in Room 601
April 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Our spring newsletter is here! Check it out for info about our new name, annual meeting programming, and what we're doing to continue to fight for our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Acces, Detracking, and Tracking SIG AERA Schedule of events: Friday, April 25: School Site Visit to Northfield High School (SOLD OUT!) and Roundtable at 1:30pm in the Four Seasons Ballroom 4; Saturday April 26: Symposium honoring the legacy of Jeannie Oakes at 9:50am in the Mile High Ballroom; Paper Session at 11:40 in Room 303; Birthday Celebration Honoring Dr. Jeannie Oakes with her husband as our special guest at 7pm in Room 601
April 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Thanks so much to everyone who came out to yesterday's panel! If you're an AERA member, make sure to sign up to be a member of our SIG to keep enjoying this program at a time when it matters so much.
Red text on a white background: Promises and Perils of Magnet Schools as Sites of Integration. This panel will explore to what extent magnet schools can function as sites of integration, particularly in larger urban districts. With practitioners and scholars, we will discuss recent research and experiences within magnet schools as we think through their possibilities–particularly in light of current events. Please come with your questions for our experts! Shannon Holder, PhD Assistant Professor Central Connecticut State University Secretary/Treasurer Access, Detracking, & Tracking SIG; Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Educational Leadership Virginia Commonwealth University; Jennifer L. Jennings, Ph.D., Director of the Education Research Section and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University, Tom Puryear, Our Children, Our Schools, Chair, Education Committee, New Jersey State NAACP Conference, Sonja Dtarr Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology University of Chicago, Moderated by Constance Clark, Ph.D. Qualitative Research Director Cornwall Center Rutgers University – Newark Chair-elect Access, Detracking, & Tracking SIG
March 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Join Dr. Shannon Holder, Dr. @jenjennings.bsky.social, Dr. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Mr. Tom Puryear, & Ms. Sonja Starr for a panel about magnet schools' role in integration & segregation Tuesday, March 4. Dr. @constanceclarkphd.bsky.social will moderate.

Register here: forms.gle/Y3XA8QhdhSNw...
Red text on a white background: Promises and Perils of Magnet Schools as Sites of Integration. This panel will explore to what extent magnet schools can function as sites of integration, particularly in larger urban districts. With practitioners and scholars, we will discuss recent research and experiences within magnet schools as we think through their possibilities–particularly in light of current events. Please come with your questions for our experts! Shannon Holder, PhD Assistant Professor Central Connecticut State University Secretary/Treasurer Access, Detracking, & Tracking SIG; Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Educational Leadership Virginia Commonwealth University; Jennifer L. Jennings, Ph.D., Director of the Education Research Section and Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University, Tom Puryear, Our Children, Our Schools, Chair, Education Committee, New Jersey State NAACP Conference, Sonja Dtarr Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology University of Chicago, Moderated by Constance Clark, Ph.D. Qualitative Research Director Cornwall Center Rutgers University – Newark Chair-elect Access, Detracking, & Tracking SIG
February 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Join us for a panel that will explore to what extent magnet schools can function as sites of integration, particularly in larger urban districts–particularly in light of recent events Please come with your questions for our experts and register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AERA'S Access, Detracking, and Tracking SIG presents Promises and Perils of Magnet Schools as Sites of Integration featuring Shannon Holder, Assistant Professor at Central Connecticut State University, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, Jennifer Jennings, director of the education research section and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University, Tom Puryear with Our Children, Our Schools and chair of the New Jersey NAACP education committee, Sonja Starr the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology at the University of Chicago and moderated by Constance Clark, qualitative research director at the Cornwall Center at Rutgers University-Newark
February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM