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Shelby Leigh Smith

@shelbyleighsm.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Candidate in Urban Education Policy @ USC Rossier

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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New paper out (and my first solo authored piece)! This paper examines how charter school authorizers can prioritize community interests to advance equity in their authorization, oversight, and renewal processes.
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From gatekeepers to gateways: possibilities for equitable charter authorizing
Charter school authorizers serve as the gatekeepers of the sector – deciding which charter schools open and close. Despite their critical role in quality control, authorizers have been criticized f...
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Check out my team’s new working paper - we have some interesting findings on pandemic and post-pandemic academic achievement
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
AERA’s @divisionagsc.bsky.social & Div L GSC are hosting this great webinar for grad students prepping AERA proposals— check it out!
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
How did charter school students perform during and after the pandemic? My team’s new research brief and technical paper answer this question for Tennessee. Check out the findings here 👇🏼 martin.uky.edu/research/cha...
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Charter School Performance and Operation During and After Covid-19 | Martin School of Public Policy and AdministrationUniversity of Kentucky Homepage
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Excited to present this joint work tomorrow that sheds light on how to support peer mediation programming in schools. This was one of the first projects I contributed to at USC, so it’s very exciting to finally share what we found 🤗
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just changed my bio from PhD Student to PhD Candidate 🥳 Very excited to have passed my Qualifying Exam on Monday
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨 The Qualitative Scholars and First-Gen Scholars Community Groups @aefpweb.bsky.social are hosting a panel discussion with journal editors focused on publishing qualitative and mixed-methods research related to education policy. 12/9 from 3-4 p.m. ET Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AEFP Qual & Mixed Methods Publishing Panel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: AEFP Qual & Mixed Methods Publishing Panel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
So what do people actually do with their conference posters after the fact? Do I just put it in a closet for my future self to one day stumble upon it and be reminded of the presentation … and then just leave it in the closet for all of eternity?
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Hey #2024APPAM come chat with me at 12:00 about how choice school missions have shifted in the US. I’ll be at Poster 84! And then we have a great panel at 1:45 on charter school finance and performance in National Harbor 8 :)
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
If you’re at #2024APPAM and you saw me come into your session for all of 2 seconds and then leave — I promise I’m not weird, I’m just a student ambassador doing session counts. So if you see me and my green lanyard walking around, feel free to ask me questions!
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Submissions are open for the Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Roundtable Series at #AERA2025. The December 3 deadline is approaching! Learn more about the opportunity here: www.aera.net/Education-Re...
A collage image of students sitting at roundtables with text overlay "AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Roundtable Series"
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Formerly Richard Mayhew @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
This is a starter pack for #APPAM2024 @appam.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social @davidslusky.bsky.social If you want on it, please leave a comment and I will add you over the course of the day go.bsky.app/9o7Jiar
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USC Pullias Center for Higher Education @uscpullias.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Mark your calendars — the 46th #PulliasLecture is set for Monday, April 7! This year's honored speaker is SUNY Chancellor John B. King, former education secretary under President Obama. Learn more about Dr. King and the Lecture here: pullias.usc.edu/pullias-lect...
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Super exciting findings given the $10 billion bond that passed in California to fix school facilities and the similar $9 billion bond that passed for LAUSD 🤞🏼to see this play out in CA
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AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Applications for AEFP awards and pre-doctoral diversity fellows program are due on December 1st, 2024 by 11:59 pm PST ! Learn more and apply here: aefpweb.org/awards-g...
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Christina Weiland @weilanch.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hadn’t seen a women in education policy research starter pack yet. Please let me know if I missed you… still getting my bearings in the new place. go.bsky.app/PixwBrM
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Been here for all of an hour and I can already say this is better than the bird app
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Be in community with other doctoral students journeying through academia. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #DocStudents go.bsky.app/QTfevfQ
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Shelby Leigh Smith @shelbyleighsm.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hi 🤗 I’m new here. My name is Shelby and I’m a 3rd year PhD student at USC Rossier. I’m a (mostly) quant researcher who (mostly) studies the priorities and impacts of school choice systems.
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