Welcome to the NEERO September 2022 newsletter! In this issue you will find: 

• NEERO 2023: Call for Submissions
• NEERO 2023: Conference Theme
• NEERO 2023: Award Nominations
• NEERO 2023: Preparation and Important Dates
• NEERO 2023: Opportunities to Get Involved

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Prepare and submit your paper, roundtable, poster, and symposium proposals for NEERO 2023!

The conference system is live. More information is available on our website at: https://www.neero.org/conference

Our theme is "Practicing Impactful Education Research Toward Truth, Equity, and Accountability."

Building on the American Educational Research Association 2023 Annual Meeting theme, the New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO) 2023 Annual Conference calls for research proposals that fit under the theme of “Practicing Impactful Education Research Toward Truth, Equity, and Accountability.” 

As a global community, we find ourselves navigating a field that is open to some and closed to others, a field that defines itself by peer-reviewed research, yet where policy makers often make decisions outside of this process. As we reimagine the world post-COVID-19, we find many research questions still waiting for us and ready to be re-envisioned. Institutionalized and systemic racism, climate change, physical and mental health access, and social and economic disparities continue to manifest in and out of education. As researchers and practitioners, activists and policy makers, students and teachers, NEERO calls on each of us to rise up and leverage our expertise to share, collaborate, and learn through educational research. 

To do so, at the NEERO 2023 Annual Meeting, we will ask: How have these multiple and overlapping crises influenced teaching and learning? In what ways does current curriculum, instruction, teaching and learning, research methods, and technology expand and empower equitable systems? How have elected officials and policy makers held us accountable for this work, and how should they? What have been the effects of these shared global realities on our youth, families, communities, administrators and educators? 

A vital aspect to NEERO is providing a forum for novice and expert researchers, students, professors, policy makers, teachers, consultants, and activists to come together to share research and engage in critical dialogue. We invite undergraduate students, graduate students, practitioners, institutional researchers, faculty, policy makers, community organizers, and activists to submit proposals for the NEERO 2023 Annual Meeting. NEERO welcomes all submissions and particularly encourages submissions that are aligned with the theme that demonstrate impactful education research toward truth, equity, and accountability.

Please consider nominating a NEERO 2022 presenter, colleague, or graduate student for a 2023 award.

James J. Rubovits Award: The James J. Rubovits award honors the best paper presented during the NEERO annual conference. Nominations are open to any paper presented at the NEERO 2022 conference. 

Kim Fries Award Established in 2012 in memory of Kim Fries, this award recognizes the work of contributing NEERO members who have demonstrated distinction in the early part of their professional careers. 

John Schmitt Award This award is recognizes outstanding research at the graduate level for a paper submitted to the NEERO conference.

If you have questions about any of the NEERO awards or scholarships, please contact Sarah Enterline Roch, NEERO President, at neero.conference@gmail.com

NEERO welcomes all paper, research-in-progress roundtable, poster, and symposium submissions, and particularly submissions that are aligned with the conference theme. We will announce the 2023 Conference theme later this summer.

• Call for Proposals: Opens September 1, 2022
• Proposal Deadline: November 1, 2022
• Review Period (please consider volunteering to review!): November 1 - 30, 2022
• 2023 Annual Conference: May 3 - 5, 2023

The 2023 Conference will be held at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Are you interested in becoming more involved with NEERO?

• Consider serving on the NEERO Board. Board members graciously volunteer their time and expertise to design and oversee the annual conference. Board members are expected to attend approx. six meetings per year, register for and attend the annual conference, and complete role-specific duties (such as organizing conference sessions, engaging current members and building the membership across New England).
• Consider serving as a reviewer for conference submissions. Reviewers are tasked with reviewing and providing constructive feedback on a handful of proposals during the month of November. All of the work is completed online and is guided by the NEERO Board. This is a great service opportunity for professionals and a valuable experience for graduate students. 
• Consider joining or presenting via the NEERO Circles Committee. This Committee organizes several virtual events over the year with opportunities for members to present their work, discuss problems of practice and research, offer ideas and tips on publishing, and other special topics of interest to NEERO members.
• Consider joining the NEERO Graduate Student Committee. The purpose of the Graduate Committee is to provide a support forum for graduate/doctoral students with topics related to research, academic publishing, personal work-life-school balance, healthy relationships, self-care, etc. 
• Consider joining or offering ideas to the NEERO Social Committee. The Social Committee is dedicated to infusing the annual conference with opportunities to connect and collaborate with colleagues and to building a supportive professional climate of educators and educational researchers. 

For more information visit the NEERO website.

If you are interested in getting involved contact us at neero.conference@gmail.com.