Chair: TBD

The William H. Schubert Award for Curricular Speculation of The Society of Professors of Education (SPE) is presented annually to recognize and honor an outstanding scholar who focuses on and has made significant contributions to both the field curriculum studies and as a professor of education. The annual recipient is selected by the SPE’s Schubert Award Committee, based on nominations from the teacher education community and/or self-nominations. The Award is named to honor Professor William H. Schubert, a past president of SPE, and Distinguished University Scholar and Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois at Chicago whose scholarship and service epitomizes outstanding contributions to both the field of curriculum studies and that of the professors of education, particularly SPE.

Application Requirements:

Nominations due date: February 1, 2024

Willliam H. Schubert Award Recipients

William H. Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2023

Complex Social Justice Problems in Education: Remembering SPE’s Roots and Founders

The 2022 Society of Professors of Education Conference Call for Proposals

Daylong Live Synchronous Virtual Conference on Zoom

Saturday, April 23, 2022 (8am-5pm EDT)

Proposals Due February 16, 2022: etboyles@vt.edu

 ~ Ball State University, Conference Host ~

From all educational disciplines, we invite proposals for presentation at SPE’s annual conference to be held virtually via Zoom on April 23, 2022 focused on the theme “Complex Social Justice Problems in Education: Remembering SPE’s Roots and Founders.” Proposals addressing SPE’s goal (below) are also welcome. Abstracts accepted for presentation will appear in SPE’s conference proceedings; select papers may be published in Professing Education, SPE’s journal.

Founded in 1902, the SPE (also “Society”)is a professional and academic association open to all persons engaged in teacher preparation, curriculum studies, educational foundations, and related activities. The Society’s primary goal is to provide a forum for consideration of major issues, tasks, problems, and challenges confronting professional educators. SPE is an interdisciplinary organization whose members include both scholars and practitioners in education.

Presenters are limited to ONE proposal submission. To be included in the program, presenters of accepted proposals must be(come) paying members of the Society. Membership fees are managed by SPE Secretary-Treasurer Robert C. Morris: rmorris@westga.edu. Membership fees are very reasonable—join at your earliest convenience. Fill out the membership form (2021-2022 and 2022-2023) HERE

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Submission: By February 16, 2022, email your Word-formatted proposal to the SPE Program Committee Coordinator  Emily Boyles: etboyles@vt.edu. The subject line of your email message must read: “SPE 2022 Proposal.”

Length: Proposals should be 350 to 500 words (excluding the cover page). Your proposal should (a) state the title of the presentation, (b) describe its contents, (c) discuss its significance, and (d) address the conference theme or Society’s goals.

Cover Sheet: Proposals should have a separate cover page: (a) state “SPE 2022 proposal”; (b) give the title of your paper; (c) list names, affiliations, work or home addresses, emails, and phone numbers; include short bios of ALL proposal submitters; (d) identify the corresponding presenter. (The cover page will not be sent to proposal reviewers.) Except for the cover page, the proposal must NOTidentify the submitters of the proposal.

Notification: The proposal review outcome will be emailed to the proposal submitter, along with conference details.

Reviewers: Proposal submitters may be tapped as reviewers. Volunteer reviewers, please email: etboyles@vt.edu.

Join us—we hope you’ll submit a proposal and join us online for another exciting event!

~ Carol A. Mullen, Professor, Virginia Tech; SPE President 2021 and 2022

Society of Professors of Education

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Web Conference Moderator: Kate Shively – klshively@bsu.edu

Web Conference Co-Moderator: Emily Boyles – etboyles@vt.edu

~ ONLINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ~

Please follow the directions below to gain access to the online conference. Once participants have completed registration, they can enter the site at any time during the day starting at 7:30am. 

Participants/presenters may register in advance for this conference by clicking on this LINK

The link:

https://bsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsf–gpzkvGdAIploPsOP5YcuFspZFD71e

After registering, a confirmation email will be sent to the email provided during registration prompting your first and last name and email address. Then you’ll see the launch window for Zoom. Click on it to enter the conference meeting. This confirmation email has a unique web address that is linked to your name/email address. Participants will use the link to enter conference sessions.

Kate Shively, Ball State University, SPE Webmaster & Web Conference Moderator, will send out a reminder about how to gain access a day before the conference.

Presenters

You will share your PPT slides or handouts for your session via Zoom, with Kate’s assistance.

The chat box will be monitored by Kate. She’ll bring forward any comments once presenters or facilitators are finished speaking and before the next scheduled session begins.

If you’re a presenter and/or facilitator, please arrive to your session as indicated in the program via the link sent to your email after registering for the online conference. All presentations will be recorded and transcribed. LIVE transcription will also be provided.

Any questions or issues during the conference, please contact Kate Shively at klshively@bsu.edu and/or cell phone: 812-361-1057 (texting is available, if preferred).

~ PREPARATION FOR THE CONFERENCE ~

Attention presenters: Please upload your PPT (PDF saved) file, Google slides, or handout for your presentation to this folder by Monday, April 16, 2022. Name your file by your last name and session # (e.g., Rieborn Session 1).

You’ll share your screen and advance your slides/handout at your own pace. But, if you’d like SPE to handle this, just ask Kate Shively—who will already have access to your materials. At your request, she’ll share your slides/pages and advance them as you speak.

Presenters and attendees, pre-register for the conference via this LINK. An email will be sent with access to the conference after you register. The registration information needed: (a) presenter’s first and last name and (b) email address. 

~ PRIOR TO PRESENTING ~

1. Recommend not having multiple screens open during your presentation so that it is easy for you to determine which screen to share;
2. We recommend preparing your desktop (i.e. have your document open) before it is your turn;
3. Be sure to wait for notification from the moderator to share your screen.

~ HOW TO SHARE YOUR SCREEN ~

Via Zoom, click the GREEN BUTTON at the center of the screen; then follow steps 1-4 (click on each for directions)

Outstanding Scholarship in Multilingual and Transnational Education

Martha Allexsaht-Snider, in whose tribute the award is named, is an Emerita Professor of Elementary Education at the University of Georgia. She has led efforts to support international and multilingual emerging scholars throughout her lengthy career. As a longstanding member of the Society of Professors of Education, she has received The Wisniewski Award for Teacher Education along with her colleagues at the University of Georgia in 2016. Dr. Allexsaht-Snider is an internationally recognized scholar, who spearheaded several scholarly and community projects to study and support emergent bilingual K-12 students and international graduate students through family and community engagement. She has contributed to educational research in Colombia, Mexico, Turkey, and the US as well as through collaborations with the European Research Network About Parents in Education.

Deadline:

February 1, 2024

Eligibility to Apply:

This award is given to doctoral students for outstanding achievements in promoting multilingual and transnational education.

Application Requirements:

This award is given to doctoral students for outstanding achievements in promoting multilingual and transnational education. Applications should be organized with the following components: CV, a 1-page cover letter addressing the qualifications of the applicant, and a letter of support from a doctoral committee member.

Submission Instructions:

Submit your application materials as a single PDF file to committee chair Tricia Kress (tkress@molloy.edu) no later than February 1, 2023.

MARTHA ALLEXSAHT-SNIDER AWARD 

Chair: Rouhollah Aghasaleh

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Recipients

Gyewon Jang, Georgia State University, 2023

Emma Chen, University of Saskatchewan, 2022

The 2021 Society of Professors of Education Conference

Reimagining Democracy in the Biden–Harris Administration and Beyond:

A Tribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos and his Legacy 

Call for Proposals

PDF Document | Webpage

Daylong Live Synchronous Virtual Conference

Saturday, April 10, 2021 (8am-5pm EDT)

Proposals Due February 16, 2021 | Submit to: etboyles@vt.edu

Reimagining Democracy in the Biden–Harris Administration and Beyond:

A Tribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos and his Legacy

The 2021 Society of Professors of Education Conference Call for Proposals

Daylong Live Synchronous Virtual Conference

Saturday, April 10, 2021 (8am-5pm EDT)

Proposals Due February 16, 2021: etboyles@vt.edu

Professors of education, students, and practitioners—you are invited to reimagine democracy in the Biden–Harris Administration and beyond. We are keen to think, write, teach, and lead educationally in social movements, civil organizations, and educational institutions. For the 2021 conference, we will gather online as a force for justice against the national swell of anti-Blackness, insurrection, and conspiracy theory. Advocating for a critical, socially, and racially just democracy, we will pay tribute, in memoriam, to our good friend, mentor, and esteemed colleague Professor Bernardo Gallegos and his legacy. A president of the Society of Professors of Education (SPE), he was a scholar of Indigenous narratives and identities, history, and colonial legacies. As engaged scholars, we will honor his larger-than-life presence.

The Society invites proposals for live synchronous presentation at its annual meeting to be held virtually on April 10, 2021 focused on the conference theme “Reimagining Democracy in the Biden–Harris Administration and Beyond:    A Tribute to Bernardo P. Gallegos and his Legacy.” We also welcome proposals that address the Society’s primary goal (below). Select papers presented at the conference may be published in SPE’s Professing Education journal.

Founded in 1902, the SPE is a professional and academic association open to all persons engaged in teacher preparation, curriculum studies, educational foundations, and related activities. The Society’s primary goal is to provide a forum for consideration of major issues, tasks, problems, and challenges confronting professional educators. SPE is an interdisciplinary organization. Its members include both scholars and practitioners in education.

Presenters are limited to ONE proposal submission.

To be included in the program, presenters of accepted proposals must be(come) paying members of the Society. Membership and fees are managed by SPE Secretary-Treasurer Robert C. Morris: rmorris@westga.edu. The membership fee is very reasonable—join at your earliest convenience. Fill out the 2021-2022 membership form here.

Call for Reviewers: Besides submitting your work, you can volunteer as a proposal reviewer; email: etboyles@vt.edu.

PROPOSALS

Submission: By February 16, 2021, email your Word-formatted proposal to the SPE Program Committee Coordinator:

Emily Boyles: etboyles@vt.edu. The subject line of your email message must read: “SPE 2021 Proposal.”

Cover Sheet: Each proposal should have a separate cover sheet that lists: 1) title of the paper and SPE 2021 proposal;   2) names, affiliations, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and relevant backgrounds of ALL proposal submitters; 3) identify the corresponding presenter handling communications. The cover sheet will not be sent to proposal reviewers. Except for the cover sheet, the proposal must NOT contain information identifying submitters of the proposal.

Length: Proposals should be 350 to 500 words (excluding the cover sheet). The proposal should restate the title of the presentation, describe its contents, and discuss its significance. Keep in mind the conference theme or Society’s goals.

Notification: The proposal review outcome will be emailed to the proposal submitter, along with conference details.

Join us—we look forward to seeing you online!

Carol A. Mullen, Professor, Virginia Tech, and SPE President

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Artist Statement: SPE Logo

Dr. Dusty Crocker is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Design at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Throughout the course of his career, he has won over 100 awards for graphic design, the most recent of which was a Gold for Book Jacket Design in the 2019 Graphis International Design Annual. Dusty is dedicated to forward-thinking, interdisciplinary forms of education and is proud to contribute this logo to the Society of Professors of Education. He believes that his contribution will help to promote the organization’s mission to support professional educators and inspire critical perspectives about the future of educational research and practice. Taking his inspiration from these goals, Dusty designed the logo to visually symbolize an unbroken, ongoing passing of the torch from one generation to the next. The base of each torch represents stability and a capacity to grasp what has been created in the past. The flames represent the mutable nature of education as new knowledges are added and combined in the crucible of the present. He believes that education is characterized by an incomplete and continuous advancement and wanted to represent this reality in a logo that the Society of Professors of Education could be proud of and stand behind as a generative source of inspiration and imagination.

We wish to pay tribute, in memoriam, to our good friend and esteemed colleague Bernardo P. Gallegos, founder of the Brill Publishing Book Series: Education, Culture, and Society.

Bernardo, who was much-loved, is someone we’ll always miss. We remember him as a kind, thoughtful, and wise person with a great sense of humor.

This world is better because of him. Knowing him was to feel intellectually and spiritually enriched.

Bernardo was Professor of Educational Foundations, Teacher Education, and Indigenous Educational History at National University, Los Angeles Campus, in the Teacher Education Department within the Sanford College of Education. He held a distinguished professorship at Washington State University, and his PhD was awarded from the University of New Mexico in 1988.

His vision for the Brill series is to publish books that “engage the complex and dynamic relationship between education, culture, and society in historical, contemporary, and futural contexts.”

He would openly share his cultural identity. Born and raised in the South and North Valleys of Albuquerque, New Mexico, he was of mixed Native American, Spanish, and African ancestry. Besides Albuquerque, he lived in Durango, Colorado, Cuba, New Mexico, LaCrosse, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, Washington, and Chicago. He acknowledged feeling blessed with a great family, friends, and colleagues. Bernardo, deeply appreciative, also gave thanks for being able to live in a place where he could watch the sunset over the Pacific.

A brilliant and important writer, Bernardo has published widely in the history of education, cultural studies in education, Indigenous and Latino educational/cultural history, and performance studies in education. His books, edited volumes, and guest editorships, often with others, include the Postcolonial Indigenous Performances; Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education; Performance Theories and Education; Indigenous Education in the Americas; and Literacy, and Education, and Society in Colonial New Mexico, 1693 to 1821.

Bernardo served as President of the Society of Professors of Education (SPE), the American Educational Studies Association, and the Organization of Educational Historians. Within his extensive and deep networks, he mentored and befriended many of us.

President (2022 – 2023)

• Brian Schultz, Miami University-Ohio | brian.schultz@miamioh.edu

President-Elect (2023-2024)

• Keffrelyn Brown, University of Texas, Austin

Immediate Past-President

• Carol Mullen, Virginia Tech | camullen@vt.edu

Secretary-Treasurer

• Robert Morris, University of West Georgia | rmorris@westga.edu

Member-At-Large

• Leonard Waks, ljwaks@yahoo.com, Temple Univ

Board of Directors

2023-2025

• Rouhollah Aghasaleh, ra292@humboldt.edu, Humboldt State Univ.
• Asilia Franklin-Phipps, franklia@newpaltz.edu, SUNY New Paltz
• Robert J Helfenbein, helfenbein_rj@mercer.edu, Mercer Univ.

2022-2024

• Nicholas Hartlep nicholashartlep@gmail.com  | Berea College
• Seungho Moon smoon3@luc.edu | Loyola University Chicago
• Therese Quinn thereseq@uic.edu | University of Illinois at Chicago

2021-2023

• Keffrelyn Brown keffrelyn@gmail.com | University of Texas-Austin
• Mary Kay DeLaney MaryKay.Delaney@du.edu | Meredith College
• Paula Groves Price  pgroves@wsu.edu  | Washington State University

2020-2022

• Sherick Hughes, University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill
• Hannah Spector, Penn State University-Harrisburg
• Victoria Trinder, University of Illinois @ Chicago

2019-2021

• Liz Chase, St. John’s University
• Jeanne Marie Iorio, Victoria University
• Aaron Zimmerman, Texas Tech University

Webmaster

2013-Current

• Kate Shively, Ball State University

Committee Positions

Professing Education Editors

• Mary Kay Delaney, Meredith College |  MaryKay.Delaney@du.edu
• Gretchen Givens Generett, Duquense University |  generettg@duq.edu
• Paula Groves Price, Washington State University |  pgroves@wsu.edu
• Joseph Rayle, Cortland State University | joseph.rayle@cortland.edu

Sophist Bane Editor

• Isabel Nunez, Purdue University Fort Wayne |  nunezi@pfw.edu
• Pam Konkol, Concordia University Chicago |  pamela.konkol@cuchicago.edu

Nominations Committee

• Chair: William Schubert, University of Illinois at Chicago | schubert@uic.edu

Raywid Award

• Chair:  Nicholas Hartlep |  nicholashartlep@gmail.com

DeGarmo Lecture and Award

• Chair:  Brian Schultz, Miami University-Ohio |  brian.schultz@miamioh.edu

Wisniewski Award

• Chair: Brad Conrad, Capital University |  bconrad2@capital.edu

William H. Watkins Award

• Chair: Brian Schultz, Miami University-Ohio | brian.schultz@miamioh.edu

Martha Allexsaht-Snider Award

• Chair: Tricia Kress, Molly College | tkress@molloy.edu

Book Awards

• Chair: Pamela Konkol, Concordia University Chicago | pamela.konkol@cuchicago.edu