Your CU Boulder Guide to AERA 2025
Each year, the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting represents the world's largest gathering of education researchers and is a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative research. The 2025 AERA Annual Meeting will take place in Denver from April 23 to 27. The theme for this year’s meeting is “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.”
Our faculty, students and alumni will be busy presenting, learning and exchanging ideas. Use this guide to follow and support CU Boulder researchers and their work. This year, we have current CU Boulder faculty and students featured in over 80 sessions!
Attending AERA or in the local area?Join Colorado colleges and schools of education for the AERA Colorado Reception in Denver
April 26 at 7 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
Enjoy food, drink and good company. Please register to join, non-AERA attendees and guests are welcome.
In addition, Professor William Penuel will present the 2025 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture on Saturday, April 26. His lecture, titled “Education for Flourishing: Building Initiatives and Partnerships for More Just and Sustainable Futures,” looks into how education systems, traditionally shaped by scarcity and exclusion, can instead be rooted in abundance, compassion, and dignity. He highlights work at the Renee Crown Wellness Institute at CU Boulder aimed at creating just and sustainable futures by engaging youth in culturally relevant learning, strengthening family-school connections, and nurturing compassionate educators.
CU Boulder School of Education faculty and students participation at this year’s AERA in Denver include:
- 41 faculty, 31 graduate students, 1 undergraduate student
- 21 roundtable sessions
- 24 paper sessions
- 18 symposia
- 9 poster sessions
- 6 research projects being presented were funded by Women Investing in the School of Education grants
- 4 invited speaker sessions
- 2 mentoring sessions
- 1 offsite visit and 1 business meeting for the Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice SIG