Meagan S. Richard
@meaganrichard.bsky.social
Scholar at the intersection of justice-centered school leadership and hostile policy; Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University; toddler mom; green thumb
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Come work with me! Tenure track position in Ed. Leadership with a focus on university-assisted community schools and principal preparation. We are a MSI rooted in social justice and urban education. Located on the beautiful seaside of Columbia Point. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
Leadership for social justice folks! Please check this posting out. And feel free to DM me. I just started with UMass this fall but I have a good feel for the vibes and the expectations, esp. in contrast to previous experiences.
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
I was so happy to hear from some grad students who said they really enjoyed my JCEL case. It is LOOSELY based on very real and common situations, and the students said they appreciated considering the instructor's perspective. Sharing after their kind comments!
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November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I was so happy to hear from some grad students who said they really enjoyed my JCEL case. It is LOOSELY based on very real and common situations, and the students said they appreciated considering the instructor's perspective. Sharing after their kind comments!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Really looking forward to this panel at #UCEA25.
We will highlight four programs' approaches to equity-centered redesign of their academic core (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, other learning experiences), and have an interactive workshopping portion following presentations.
Please stop by!
We will highlight four programs' approaches to equity-centered redesign of their academic core (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, other learning experiences), and have an interactive workshopping portion following presentations.
Please stop by!
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Really looking forward to this panel at #UCEA25.
We will highlight four programs' approaches to equity-centered redesign of their academic core (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, other learning experiences), and have an interactive workshopping portion following presentations.
Please stop by!
We will highlight four programs' approaches to equity-centered redesign of their academic core (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, other learning experiences), and have an interactive workshopping portion following presentations.
Please stop by!
My piece on principal speech rights is finally out in Journal of Educational Change. I use federal case law to (1) delineate the 1st A rights of principals, (2) examine how these rights impact SJ leadership, and (3) how SJ leaders overcome their lack of rights. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The limits of free speech: the intersection of first amendment rights and justice-centered school leadership - Journal of Educational Change
Justice-centered school leaders advocate for educational change within their schools and communities, often facing significant risks such as reassignment and termination in doing so. In the U.S., many...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My piece on principal speech rights is finally out in Journal of Educational Change. I use federal case law to (1) delineate the 1st A rights of principals, (2) examine how these rights impact SJ leadership, and (3) how SJ leaders overcome their lack of rights. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
News from UMass Boston today... Feels great to be here in light of all the "enrollment cliff" hand wringing.
UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants.
www.umb.edu/news/recent-...
UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants.
www.umb.edu/news/recent-...
Record Number of In-State First-Year Students Welcomed at UMass Boston Following Historic Beacon Pledge Commitment
Over 1,900 New Enrollees Build on Recent Growth of Boston’s Public Research University
www.umb.edu
September 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
News from UMass Boston today... Feels great to be here in light of all the "enrollment cliff" hand wringing.
UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants.
www.umb.edu/news/recent-...
UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants.
www.umb.edu/news/recent-...
On September 30 at 12pm EST, the Learning & Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG is hosting a special panel discussion on AI in educational leadership programs. Please consider attending. Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8764448197...
September 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On September 30 at 12pm EST, the Learning & Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG is hosting a special panel discussion on AI in educational leadership programs. Please consider attending. Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8764448197...
Leadership for social justice folks! Please check this posting out. And feel free to DM me. I just started with UMass this fall but I have a good feel for the vibes and the expectations, esp. in contrast to previous experiences.
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
Come work with me! Tenure track position in Ed. Leadership with a focus on university-assisted community schools and principal preparation. We are a MSI rooted in social justice and urban education. Located on the beautiful seaside of Columbia Point. employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
September 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Leadership for social justice folks! Please check this posting out. And feel free to DM me. I just started with UMass this fall but I have a good feel for the vibes and the expectations, esp. in contrast to previous experiences.
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
Calling all leadership for social justice scholars... Take a look at this posting. We are SERIOUS about social justice here and this would be a great landing point if you are too!!!
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Calling all leadership for social justice scholars... Take a look at this posting. We are SERIOUS about social justice here and this would be a great landing point if you are too!!!
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
This is so interesting!!! Bluesky to me has felt like a very different experience vs Twitter. Honestly, it feels a bit like a waste of time. My posts feel less visible. I've been thinking about quitting and honestly that feels very freeing, to exit academic social media.
1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is so interesting!!! Bluesky to me has felt like a very different experience vs Twitter. Honestly, it feels a bit like a waste of time. My posts feel less visible. I've been thinking about quitting and honestly that feels very freeing, to exit academic social media.
New publication! And I realized today that I currently have **four** in review. Hoping more to follow soon!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Leading Beyond the School Walls: Understanding Principal Community Activism - The Urban Review
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways school leaders perceive and engage in community-focused, activist leadership in response to community needs. We rely on a critical qualitative rese...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New publication! And I realized today that I currently have **four** in review. Hoping more to follow soon!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.
May 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.
I am excited to officially announce that this fall I am beginning a new role as an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Education department at @umassboston.bsky.social I am joining some fabulous colleagues doing important social justice work. And I can't wait to be back in my home state! 🎉🎉
May 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I am excited to officially announce that this fall I am beginning a new role as an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Education department at @umassboston.bsky.social I am joining some fabulous colleagues doing important social justice work. And I can't wait to be back in my home state! 🎉🎉
Positive news this AM. Got an R&R, yay, and I am at the final stage of writing another MS where I just have to input all my references from Zotero (I do that at the end so the fields don't slow down my doc). Plugging away at it all as the world burns around me.
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Positive news this AM. Got an R&R, yay, and I am at the final stage of writing another MS where I just have to input all my references from Zotero (I do that at the end so the fields don't slow down my doc). Plugging away at it all as the world burns around me.
Today I was looking at schools for my daughter, was curious about charter options. One I looked at stated it is is only open for a half day every Wednesday. I wondered to myself, is this one of the subtle ways charters shape their student body? Getting into school age is going to be a journey!
March 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today I was looking at schools for my daughter, was curious about charter options. One I looked at stated it is is only open for a half day every Wednesday. I wondered to myself, is this one of the subtle ways charters shape their student body? Getting into school age is going to be a journey!
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The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April
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#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Deadline for submissions 28th April
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra...
Deadline for submissions 28th April
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Deadline for submissions 28th April
#AcademicSky 🌈🎓
#Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity
#Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Do I know anyone on here who has some expertise in Interrupted Time Series designs? I have a few quick questions on it.
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Do I know anyone on here who has some expertise in Interrupted Time Series designs? I have a few quick questions on it.
I feel as an academic that we need leadership. In our institutions and more broadly. I don't have the safety to make a stand alone (at the end of the day I need to feed my kid) so I need someone in leadership to lead. I feel rudderless and helpless. And everyone around me is business as usual. 🙁
My friend ultimately said “I don’t know how to protest.” People feel powerless. I get no one can save us, the constitution wasn’t made for a situation where the President ignored the law and Congress refused to act. But people want leaders who are willing to at least be real and fight.
March 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I feel as an academic that we need leadership. In our institutions and more broadly. I don't have the safety to make a stand alone (at the end of the day I need to feed my kid) so I need someone in leadership to lead. I feel rudderless and helpless. And everyone around me is business as usual. 🙁
How are we just continuing to operate as normal in this environment?
Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
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March 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
How are we just continuing to operate as normal in this environment?
Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
Excellent host and guest. Worth a watch. @marclamonthill.bsky.social @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social
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The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront
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March 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Excellent host and guest. Worth a watch. @marclamonthill.bsky.social @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ih7...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ih7...
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It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers
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March 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Is it ethical to use AI to grade student papers? IMO not at all, but I know some have gone that route. What do you think?
March 5, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Is it ethical to use AI to grade student papers? IMO not at all, but I know some have gone that route. What do you think?
February 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Colleagues--Please consider filling out this one-question Google Form on self-care during this time. This is to inform a feature Div A (not yet on Bluesky) is going to do for their next newsletter. Responses are anonymous. Please share widely.
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AERA Division A Newsletter
We are collecting responses for our spring newsletter. Please fill out (anonymously) and consider sharing with colleagues.
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February 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Colleagues--Please consider filling out this one-question Google Form on self-care during this time. This is to inform a feature Div A (not yet on Bluesky) is going to do for their next newsletter. Responses are anonymous. Please share widely.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Snowday #3 here in Norfolk. While I haven't been able to get much work done with my now four-year-old at home, I did make this quasi-igloo today! And now I'm super sore and think I might have a sunburn in my eyes from the snow 😂. But this still feels like an accomplishment!
February 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Snowday #3 here in Norfolk. While I haven't been able to get much work done with my now four-year-old at home, I did make this quasi-igloo today! And now I'm super sore and think I might have a sunburn in my eyes from the snow 😂. But this still feels like an accomplishment!
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Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.
www.chronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
New piece! JCEL case exploring an instance of white fragility within one preparation program classroom. Would be great as a jumping-off point in a beginning session of a course that discusses issues of race and injustice more broadly.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New piece! JCEL case exploring an instance of white fragility within one preparation program classroom. Would be great as a jumping-off point in a beginning session of a course that discusses issues of race and injustice more broadly.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...