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The Gordon Institute at AERA 2026
Division L Education Politics and Policy Vice Presidential Session
The Politics of Possibility: Advancing Educational Equity for the Social Good
Fri, April 10, from 3:45 to 5:15pm PDT
Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One, Petree Hall C
Hear key themes and insights from The Politics of Possibility webinar series co-hosts Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Sonya Douglass joined by webinar 1 panelists Peggy Carr and Pedro Noguera and webinar 2 panelists Carrie Sampson and Jonathan E. Collins, then engage with panelists in small groups to envision and strategize educational justice and transformation.
Gordon Institute Social at AERA 2026
Wed, April 8 from 6 - 8pm PDT
33 Taps, 1240 S Figueroa St
Come mix and mingle with The Edmund W. Gordon Institute community!
Free and open to all AERA attendees.
For the full roster of Gordon Institute presenters at AERA 2026 click here.
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2024-2025: A Year in Review
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AERA Presentations/Facilitators: Reinforcing our role as a center of excellence
Developing first PreK-12 curriculum on Latinidad in NYC through the Latinidad Curriculum Initiative
Implementing first PreK-12 curriculum on Black studies in NYC
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Latinidad in Schools
The Latinidad Curriculum Initiative for New York City Public Schools aims to enhance the quality of education by providing a dynamic, interdisciplinary curricular framework and lesson plans that celebrate Latinidad and its connection to the histories, accomplishments, and cultures of our City and nation.
12th Annual Gordon Distinguished Lecture
December 9, 2025, from 5 - 7 pm EST
LOCATION
Milbank Chapel, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027
OUR SPEAKER
Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Duke University
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Dr. Edmund W. Gordon (Ed.D. ’57), Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, is being celebrated as one of three recipients of the 2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education!
Year End Report 2024–2025
Check out our latest report outlining our milestones for the 2024-2025 academic year:
Freedom & Insurgence: Recalling Fanon
A talk by Dylan Rodríguez, UC Riverside. Winner of the 2022 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought
WEDNESDAY 09/17/25 5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Dorothy Maynor Hall, Harlem School of the Art
Response by Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Teachers College, Columbia University
An event that explores insurgent educational and archival practices, which challenge us to think about the problem of democratic education and the crisis of the university in our times. Inspired by decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon and held on the occasion of his centennial, this event is the launch of a new faculty working group on the university and crisis, directed by C. Riley Snorton (Columbia University) and Anupama Rao (Barnard College).
Saul Williams on Black Experimentation, Fugitive Pedagogies, and the Art of Resistance
WEDNESDAY 10/22/25 7:00 PM
Presented in partnership with the University in/and Crisis working group at Columbia University