The SRC is this Friday!

Brief Conference Schedule:

MARCH 13, 2008

• 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm, Askwith Lecture Hall: SRC/ Askwith Forum
  Shaping the Field of Educational Research: Insights from the National (Back)Stage

MARCH 14, 2008

• 8:15 am – 4:00 pm, Gutman Library Lobby: Registration
• 9:00 am – 12:20 pm, Gutman Library, Larsen Hall and Longfellow Hall: Roundtable and panel presentations
• 12:30 – 1:50 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium: Poster presentations and lunch
• 2:00 – 4:50 pm: Gutman Library, Larsen Hall and Longfellow Hall: Roundtable and panel presentations
• 5:00 – 6:30 pm, Radcliffe Gymnasium: Reception

See map and full conference schedule for details.

Welcome Student Researchers!

The HGSE Student Research Conference (SRC) is a student-run conference designed to provide professional development for both presenters and conference organizers. Student researchers from Harvard and all over the country participating in the conference will gain valuable insights from Harvard faculty and colleagues into how to enhance their own research. HGSE students involved in the organization of the conference will gain academic leadership skills (with administrative guidance and support), work closely with HGSE faculty, and experience first-hand how an academic conference operates.

We are pleased to announce that this year's Harvard Graduate School of Education Student Research Conference will be taking place on March 14, 2008. This year's theme is: "The Power of Educational Research: Translating Knowledge into Action."

• How can we focus our research so it impacts the lives of students, teacher, schools and communities?
• How can we, as the next generation of educational researchers, create work that brings together research, policy and practice?
• Finally, and perhaps most importantly, how do we use our work to generate meaningful and positive social change?

Are you working to create a new curriculum or technological intervention in order to make a difference for kids? Are you focusing on how children learn? Are you studying international or domestic issues on systemic school reform? Are you hoping to mobilize families and communities to reform education? All of these represent ways in which educational research can be translated into action and all (and more) are topics on which you can present at this year's SRC!

Please continue to check the website for updates on proposal submission, training sessions and other conference-related announcements. We look forward to seeing all of you on Appian Way in March!

Sincerely,
Analia Jaimovich, Jennie Weiner, and Meredith Mira (Conference Tri-Chairs)