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featuring Dr. Michele Gregoire Gill

Dr. Gill is a professor of educational psychology in the Learning Sciences and Educational Research Department in the University of Central Florida’s (UCF) College of Community Innovation and Education and Program Coordinator of the EdD in Curriculum and Instruction. Her research focuses on teacher beliefs and knowledge, conceptual change, and school transformation. She is the author of the Millenials’ Guide to K-12 Education: What No One Ever Told You About How to Help Your Child THRIVE in School and co-editor of the International Handbook of Research on Teachers’ Beliefs.  Dr. Gill has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, Educational Psychology Review, and Contemporary Educational Psychologist. She is a pioneer in education reform via her work as founder of the Galileo School for Gifted Learning, an award-winning K-8 charter school with two campuses in Seminole County. In 2022, she received the Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award by the American Psychological Association. In that same year, she received a UCF Luminary award for making a significant national impact with her research, scholarship, and creative activity. In 2021, she was elected to Fellow status for APA’s Division 15 (educational psychology). In 2018, she received national recognition from the APA as a Citizen-Psychologist. She is the recipient of three UCF Teaching Incentive Program awards, recognizing her teaching effectiveness and was elected to APA’s Board of Educational Affairs in 2025.

Suggested List of Topics for this AMA

Translating research to practice: Outlets and Outcomes

Identifying the issues that break your hear and carving a niche

Do I really need an advanced degree to contribute to educational change?

Career ideas for those interested in knowledge brokering

University career options - you don’t need to be a professor

Networking at conferences: Hint:  Join a SIG

Work-life juggling

Using AI as a research assistant

Substack, LinkedIn, Organizational blogs and news outlets, and other dissemination outlets

Or anything else you want to know!

Wednesday, June 4

1:00 pm ET

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Accentuating the negative –

what ISN’T knowledge mobilisation?

In this short provocation, Dr. Lucy Rycroft-Smith invites you to consider with her the idea that knowledge brokering is complex, nuanced,, expert, and situated work; that knowledge brokering could be informing, misinforming, and/or disinforming; and therefore, the questions for us as a community: how would we know, and what could we do about it?

If you would like to see some of Dr. Rycroft-Smith’s work on knowledge brokering, you may be interested in looking at this 2022 article in Review of Education, “Knowledge Brokering to bridge the research-practice gap in education: Where are we now?”

Monday, June 9

1:00 pm ET

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