Call for Proposals

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The Educational Leadership Department hosts an Annual Symposium on Educational Leadership. The purpose of the symposium is to bring scholars, practitioners, and emerging scholar practitioners to engage participants in sharing research and discussing the practice and policy of educational leadership in a P-16 context.

This year's theme is: Ignite: Allyship, Accountability, and Action for Educational Change, held on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the University Student Union. 

There is no cost for your participation or attendance at the conference.

Participants are invited to submit research proposals for poster and paper sessions that address areas of research, practice, and policy in educational leadership in P-16 educational contexts. 

  • PAPER PRESENTATIONS
    • Research papers present the results of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods studies; or report the findings of studies that use historical, ethnographic, or other analytical methods
    • Research papers present the results of quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods studies; or report the findings of studies that use historical, ethnographic, or other analytical methods
  • POSTER PRESENTATIONS
    • Poster presentations provide a forum for scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practioners to engage in active discussion with symposium participants about a completed research project in developing stages
  • WORKSHOPS
    • Workshops are intended to provide an in-depth review or introduce a topic of interest, and should provide participants with materials and ideas that are immediately useful to public K-12, community college, or higher education practitioners.
  • SPARK
    • There will be 4-5 presenters per SPARK session. These individuals will give a 3-5-minute presentation covering
    1. What is the problem?
    2. Why is it a problem? and
    3. What actions need to be taken to resolve it?

All graduate students (master’s, credential, certificate, and doctoral), faculty and alumni are invited to participate. The conference is based on the assumption that research projects are at different stages of development; in progress and ongoing projects are also encouraged.

All proposals for posters, paper presentations, workshops or SPARK sessions require submission of a research summary (250 words maximum) to be uploaded at the link below:

2023 Leadership Symposium Proposal Submission

PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, December 16, 2022