Call for Submissions
2024 VERA Annual Conference
Special Co-Hosts: VPEL
(Virtual and In-person at VT Richmond Center)
Conference Theme:
Connecting Research to Practice
The Virginia Educational Research Association (VERA) and The Virginia Professors of Educational Leadership (VPEL) is pleased to announce its Annual Conference: Connecting Research to Practice.
Online and In-Person at Virginia Tech, Richmond
Thursday, Sept. 26 and Friday, Sept. 27
9am – 3pm EST.
- Registration is $75, includes one year VERA membership.
- Registration for Graduate and Undergraduate Students is $50, includes one year VERA membership.
Who Should Attend:
- Conference is open to anyone interested in promoting educational research in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- All conference registrations include conference materials.
- There will be a special Dissertation Round Table Brainstorming and Discussion Session for graduate students. Please join us!
How to Participate:
Research and paper presentations, symposia, and interactive presentations related to the theme are invited from scholars, practitioners, and graduate students. Given the broad theme, research and topical issues from any area of education are welcome.
The Associations will consider all manners of current and worthy research, papers, symposia, and novel approaches to presenting research and highlighting issues on any topic in education. We welcome paper, poster and interactive presentations related to the theme. All proposals to present are peer reviewed on their merit.
Call for Submissions
VERA – VPEL attract a diverse audience with attendees representing a broad range of experiences and job roles. This ensures that the conference focuses on the wide range of research and field work throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and nation.
To that end, VERA – VPEL invite proposals for research and paper presentations, symposia, and interactive presentation from scholars, practitioners, and graduate students.
Specifically, VERA – VPEL invite research and topical presentations that actively explore the interests of those who are served by the educational community in Virginia and beyond.
In addition to longstanding topics of interest to the profession, we welcome submissions that promote critical discussions of the relationships among class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other structures of inequality. We also welcome interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and disciplinary explorations.
Conference participants will address, through scholarship and conversation, issues in education as perceived and conceived by those working and thinking about the experiences of teachers and learners in all fields of education (PK through graduate school, and everything in between).
Proposals may focus on methods of identifying how students may be affected by the changing environments of educational practice, and ideas for assisting educators and students be more successful, creative and impactful in those environments.
Topics:
There will be panel discussions about trending topics in educational research. In addition, there will be special topics for graduate students on sharing your research, publications, and presenting your work.
Keynote Speaker:
Stay Tuned!
Submissions and Awards
All submissions, whether reviewed for paper presentations or posters, should be submitted no later than Monday, August 26, 2024 at 11:59PM EST.
The four highest scoring submissions in each category of paper, dissertation, and poster, will be noted in the program.
If you have questions, please email Dr. Ayana Conway, VERA President. In the subject line type VERA Inquiry.
Important Dates
- Call for Presentation Proposals Release –
June 5, 2024 - Proposal Abstract Submission Deadline –
Mon., August 26, 2024 - Accepted Proposal Notification –
On an ongoing basis - Conference Registration Deadline – Mon., August 26, 2024
Registration Fees
Registration includes a one-year VERA membership.
- Conference Registration – $75
- Graduate / Undergraduate Student Registration – $50
Registration fees can be paid online using a major credit card.