K–12 Education Decision Making in the Context of COVID-19

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This presidential session explores education-related decision-making processes and outcomes that emerged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the immediate and anticipated long-term consequences. Panelists will analyze the values, priorities, principles, information, and/or processes that guided Covid-19 pandemic related decision-making approaches and to what effect. By focusing on education stakeholders’ Covid-19 decision-making and consequences, this session invites AERA attendees to imagine the societal conditions that must be established post-Covid-19 to ensure that educators can indeed go about the work of cultivating equitable educational systems for the 21st century.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• John B. Diamond, Brown University

Panelists

• Catharine Biddle, University of Maine

• Charles Dupre, Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)

• Elizabeth Todd-Breland, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Adriana Villavicencio, University of California - Irvine

• Christopher Thomas, Independent