Networking Hour

Join Katie Philp for the Network’s May networking event! Make new connections, find thought partners for your professional challenges, and grow your own knowledge brokering network.  

Wednesday, May 14

1:00 pm ET

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Knowledge, Evidence, and Research:
What are we really talking about?

In this webinar, we problematize the language we often take for granted - language such as knowledge, evidence, and research. This webinar features the perspectives and experiences of practicing knowledge brokers from across the educational ecosystem, creating space for discussion of what these terms mean to different communities, the challenges of defining and using this language to promote change and equity. this is the first in a series based on the Network blog post, Language Matters: Four Ways our Words Shape Knowledge Brokering.

Thursday, May 22

12:00 pm ET

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Ask Me Anything

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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