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Meagan S. Richard

@meaganrichard.bsky.social
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Scholar at the intersection of justice-centered school leadership and hostile policy; Assistant Professor of Urban Educational Leadership and Policy at UMass Boston

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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My department is hiring for *two* Assistant Professors in our Higher Education program! We are a critically-oriented department seeking similarly-centered scholars. After a year here, I can absolutely recommend UMB. DM if you have questions! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Excited to share this flyer on behalf of the Division A EIA committee. This Literature in Action series features Dr. Patricia Virella's work and looks to be excellent. Please join us!
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As the academic job market gets underway, I want to share some this page of resources I put together for anyone who finds it useful. If you have any questions or would like help with your job search, I am happy to chat--please reach out! www.meagansrichard.com/resource-sha...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Working through the THIRTY-TWO AERA proposal reviews I somehow signed myself up to complete. I do this to myself every year... One thing I am noticing--many proposals submitted to SIGs that have nothing to do with SIG topic. And many incomplete proposals lacking information.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New decoration up in my office. There is a special joy in kid art. ❤️❤️❤️
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Posting on behalf of a colleague... Seeking faculty participants for a research study on the inward turn of culturally relevant and culturally sustaining pedagogies in higher education! This study explores the emotional dimensions of the higher education faculty member’s inward turn and ...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I was so happy to hear from some grad students who said they really enjoyed my JCEL case. It is LOOSELY based on very real and common situations, and the students said they appreciated considering the instructor's perspective. Sharing after their kind comments! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Really looking forward to this panel at #UCEA25. We will highlight four programs' approaches to equity-centered redesign of their academic core (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, other learning experiences), and have an interactive workshopping portion following presentations. Please stop by!
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My piece on principal speech rights is finally out in Journal of Educational Change. I use federal case law to (1) delineate the 1st A rights of principals, (2) examine how these rights impact SJ leadership, and (3) how SJ leaders overcome their lack of rights. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The limits of free speech: the intersection of first amendment rights and justice-centered school leadership - Journal of Educational Change
Justice-centered school leaders advocate for educational change within their schools and communities, often facing significant risks such as reassignment and termination in doing so. In the U.S., many...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
News from UMass Boston today... Feels great to be here in light of all the "enrollment cliff" hand wringing. UMass Boston has welcomed its largest in-state first-year class ever, with 1,994 admitted students drawn from a record pool of more than 22,000 applicants. www.umb.edu/news/recent-...
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Record Number of In-State First-Year Students Welcomed at UMass Boston Following Historic Beacon Pledge Commitment
Over 1,900 New Enrollees Build on Recent Growth of Boston’s Public Research University
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
On September 30 at 12pm EST, the Learning & Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG is hosting a special panel discussion on AI in educational leadership programs. Please consider attending. Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8764448197...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Leadership for social justice folks! Please check this posting out. And feel free to DM me. I just started with UMass this fall but I have a good feel for the vibes and the expectations, esp. in contrast to previous experiences. My short take: I am so so happy and lucky to be here!
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Calling all leadership for social justice scholars... Take a look at this posting. We are SERIOUS about social justice here and this would be a great landing point if you are too!!! employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This is so interesting!!! Bluesky to me has felt like a very different experience vs Twitter. Honestly, it feels a bit like a waste of time. My posts feel less visible. I've been thinking about quitting and honestly that feels very freeing, to exit academic social media.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New publication! And I realized today that I currently have **four** in review. Hoping more to follow soon! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Leading Beyond the School Walls: Understanding Principal Community Activism - The Urban Review
The purpose of this study is to investigate the ways school leaders perceive and engage in community-focused, activist leadership in response to community needs. We rely on a critical qualitative rese...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/05/2025
When professors experience racism (sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) at work, that’s part of their service load. It takes work to deal with that and still come back and do your job. That’s service to the department. It’s deeply unfair service. But it is service.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am excited to officially announce that this fall I am beginning a new role as an Assistant Professor in the Leadership in Education department at @umassboston.bsky.social I am joining some fabulous colleagues doing important social justice work. And I can't wait to be back in my home state! 🎉🎉
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Positive news this AM. Got an R&R, yay, and I am at the final stage of writing another MS where I just have to input all my references from Zotero (I do that at the end so the fields don't slow down my doc). Plugging away at it all as the world burns around me.
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence @tvce.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra... Deadline for submissions 28th April #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
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Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence (TVCE) 1st Annual Symposium
Guildhall School of Music and Drama is delighted to announced that on the 8th July, in collaboration with the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence [TVCE], the De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice an...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Do I know anyone on here who has some expertise in Interrupted Time Series designs? I have a few quick questions on it.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I feel as an academic that we need leadership. In our institutions and more broadly. I don't have the safety to make a stand alone (at the end of the day I need to feed my kid) so I need someone in leadership to lead. I feel rudderless and helpless. And everyone around me is business as usual. 🙁
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
How are we just continuing to operate as normal in this environment? Projects cut include efforts to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water and advance countless other critical, lifesaving efforts around the world.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...
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Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excellent host and guest. Worth a watch. @marclamonthill.bsky.social @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ih7...
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The American empire is over: Richard Wolff on Trump, tariffs and the rising power of BRICS | UpFront
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Beth Schueler @bethschueler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It's that time of year to circulate this list of orgs for those seeking ed policy jobs/internships. Please let me know if there are opportunities/orgs I should add. Good luck out there! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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The Unofficial List of Ed Policy Orgs for Job/Internship Seekers
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Is it ethical to use AI to grade student papers? IMO not at all, but I know some have gone that route. What do you think?
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Upcoming special event via the LTEL SIG re: AI. Link: fau-edu.zoom.us/j/8162895231...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Colleagues--Please consider filling out this one-question Google Form on self-care during this time. This is to inform a feature Div A (not yet on Bluesky) is going to do for their next newsletter. Responses are anonymous. Please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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AERA Division A Newsletter
We are collecting responses for our spring newsletter. Please fill out (anonymously) and consider sharing with colleagues.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Snowday #3 here in Norfolk. While I haven't been able to get much work done with my now four-year-old at home, I did make this quasi-igloo today! And now I'm super sore and think I might have a sunburn in my eyes from the snow 😂. But this still feels like an accomplishment!
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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview. www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
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Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New piece! JCEL case exploring an instance of white fragility within one preparation program classroom. Would be great as a jumping-off point in a beginning session of a course that discusses issues of race and injustice more broadly. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I guess I am a masochist for service because I somehow agreed to do *three* dissertation award committees this year........ The good thing is that these excellent dissertations are giving me lots of hope for the future of our field!!
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I have talked with several folks today and late last week who missed this EO. I want to elevate this. Yes, it is an EO and we are unsure of the teeth behind it. But this is a glimpse of what is to come, and this begins to delve into higher ed.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Also see here www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
States & local districts, not the fed, set curriculum & other policy. That is core to our federal system. See federal code here. EO fiat cannot change that.
Screen shot of Fed education code that reads “No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, or to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance.”
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
How would you feel if you heard someone who leads accessibility work in schools say "we want to make sure people aren't working the system?" Bc I felt shocked....
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"The growing body of rigorous research demonstrates that well-designed education-freedom programs improve student achievement and cause nearby public schools to improve their performance." Citations would be helpful. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the education, well-being, and
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
well in good life news, we have a hermit crab who went down in his/her sand to molt in late November and has been down since then... it's this crab's first molt, which is usually the most precarious. well, crab came up yesterday and is totally okay with fresh exoskeleton!
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Posted on r/law today.
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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · 30/01/2025
Now extrapolate that to a time when: You don’t know if you should evacuate for that hurricane because NOAA is underfunded. You’re missing an important piece of mail because you didn’t upgrade to the premium subscription of the private letter company. Everyone’s sick because what’s a CDC?
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Yes. We need to wait and see and look to legal guidance.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Huge executive order relevant to all of us in educator preparation. This will effectively ban the discussion of teaching justice topics in educator preparation classrooms. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"You frighten people"--Sen Whitehouse to Kennedy Yep.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Okay re: this "resignation" buyout--Fed employees who agree to resign are exempted from RTW and will WFH until September. So they are still working. The lack of clarity on this has been frustrating. Also "Fork in the Road" subject line is exactly what Elon did at Twitter. www.opm.gov/fork
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Here is the list of grants being analyzed. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Okay so Karoline Leavitt just said that THIS EO was the advanced notice on last night's memo...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Please call your elected officials to advocate against this "pause" on grants. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@bobbyscott.house.gov Please follow suit in working against this... Our local universities, non-profits, and other important projects are all at risk.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Yes and add to this that the people reviewing our grants are all political appointees, not career folks. This is textbook authoritarianism.
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Meagan S. Richard @meaganrichard.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Need this in VA. My students have said they've gotten zero guidance from their districts on what to do.
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