Malcolm X stated that “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” This panel session will showcase how Black women researchers, educators, and practitioners advance innovative, future focused educational research and policy that supports Black children’s futures. With a focus on Black children’s education from preschool through the college years, we will discuss designing new research axioms, conducting data collection and analysis, disseminating research, and implementing policies that provide a passport to a brilliant future for Black youth. More specifically, we will discuss creative research such as the design and piloting of a novel mother-daughter shared book reading activity, and the piloting of novel research protocols that explore mental health knowledge, as well as how Black parents engage in activities that foster Black children’s enjoyment and engagement in science, technology, engineering and math. We will also discuss how the needle was moved for Black children through pioneering educational leadership, as well as how contemporary, culturally grounded understandings of working memory and executive function support Black children’s cognitive development. Implications will share how researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across the world can enact transformative change for Black children through research, policy and applied work.

Authors:
Lauren Mims, New York University, United States
Christina Grant, Harvard University, United States
Dana Miller-Cotto, University of California Berkeley, United States
Marketa Burnett, University of Connecticut, United States
Heather Bishop, Wayne State University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Lauren Christine Mims, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

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