Kudos: Congratulations to 2025 AERA awardees; Torrance Center leads professional development workshop
Congratulations to 2025 American Educational Research Association awardees
The Mary Frances Early College of Education would like to recognize the College’s 2025 American Educational Research Association’s faculty awardees. Congratulations to all!
AERA Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education SIG 2025 Dissertation Award
- Mariana Becker, assistant professor, Department of Educational Theory and Practice
AERA Qualitative Research SIG Outstanding Book award for 2025
- Giovanni Dazzo, assistant professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, and his co-authors for the book “Critical participatory inquiry: An interdisciplinary guide”
AERA 2025 Scholars of Color in Education Mid-Career Contribution Award
- Tisha Lewis Ellison, associate professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education
AERA Division D Early Career Award (Qualitative section)
- Maureen Flint, associate professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
AERA Qualitative Research SIG Egon G. Guba 2025 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research
- Kathy Roulston, professor, Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
Torrance Center leads professional development workshop for LAUSD: Unleashing Your Creative Brain
On May 3, Anna Abraham led a half-day online professional development workshop for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Over 75 gifted education professionals serving grades 2-6 were in attendance. LAUSD is the second largest public school district in the U.S., with 540,000+ preK-12 students and more than 27,000 teachers. The Torrance Center looks forward to partnering with this fantastic group of teachers again in the future.
For more information about the Torrance Center’s professional learning program, please visit the Torrance Center Professional Development Sessions webpage.