Dr. Des

As of yesterday, i successfully defended my dissertation & am now DR. BRAXTON 🙌🏽🎊 Excited to also mention that I will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland ☺️ #firstgendoc #phdchat #drmommy #shedidit #AcademicTwitter @Momademia

🚀Ready to make an impact in education? Join our program where psychology meets learning! Explore applications of motivation and social, cognitive, & developmental psychology to learning and education. 📚🧠✨ Learn more at our info session: 12/9 5-6p EST forms.gle/hqUUc2PTy65Lqs…

Thank you to everyone who submitted to #AERA2025! Notifications were sent out on Friday, November 8. We’re looking forward to #AERA2025 in Denver!

Division 15 Research Grant Opportunity: Education Research in Response to Anti-DEI Movements apadiv15.org/2024/11/12/div…

I’m thrilled to share my first, first author publication (😆): “Reading and writing feedback perceptions among multilingual and monolingual learners across K-20 contexts: A systematic review”: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jqyy_LqE5-L… (1/4)

Attention @AERA_MotSIG members ⚠️‼️ We're excited to receive your proposals due July 26th! Check out these resources curated by @AKoenka for great tips on how to boost your chances of getting positive reviews! drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Happy writing! 🤓📝💻

Resharing the call for proposals for Black Doctoral students. Abstracts are due 7/25. Share with your networks and pull up <3 drive.google.com/file/d/1P-GNGQ…

@LeighMcLeanPhD Excited to add this to my reading list 🙂

@KoriDNicolai CONGRATS DR. NICOLAI 🎉 im so proud of you and even more excited that you can enjoy being on the “other side” ☺️ Micah , Eli, Judah, and I are beyond amazed at all the hardwork you put in 🧡

Thank you, Alison! Thank you to my other committee members @SharonZumbrunn (special thanks for chairing!), @tomiferg, and @DrTRMorton! There’s too many people to thank but a special thank you to the students who shared their experiences with me!

Honored to share I received the @AERA_MotSIG 2024 Pintrich Award for graduate student research! Big shout out to my coauthors and thought partners @AKoenka @DestiniBraxton @Margaretkwall!

@RachelWBowman @ELindstromPhD It looks like your students really enjoyed this assignment & got really creative with it. Im really interested to see how you adapted the assignment (if you have time to share) bc the final product is very cool & interesting😊

@ELindstromPhD I’d be happy to! I adapted it from an assignment @DestiniBraxton graciously shared with me!

My students had the option to complete a work of art for their presentations on intersectionality and identity in Disability Visibility. I’m blow away by what one of my students created! (Shared with permission)

Popping out of dissertation land to share that my new paper, coauthored by @DrTRMorton, @XCDLT, Dr. DeCuir-Gunby, and @AKoenka is out! This paper explores the growing pains that scholars may experience when incorporating CRT and psychology. doi.org/10.1111/josi.1…

@eauxni @_AllEyezOnZee No foreal😂i’ll be a little off beat but oh well💀

@_AllEyezOnZee @DestiniBraxton This is right up Des’ alley as far as era of music so it’s lit!

@eauxni and @DestiniBraxton start rehearsing for our first night out🤭🤭🤭🤭

Today I am celebrating our open access publication on the importance of community resources for breastfeeding is officially out! …reastfeedingjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… So thankful for this great team of authors and for Dr. LoCasale-Crouch’s leadership on this!

Happy Teaching Tuesday! We all know giving effective feedback is critical to successful teaching, BUT so is giving feedback that supports greater equity in classrooms! Building upon December's T3 on feedback, today’s T3 offers quick tips on how to provide more equitable feedback.

Calling all students who identify as #firstgen and as having a #disability -- please help us tweak our interview protocol! 🙏 ~30min $20Amazon 🎁 Msg for details. Please R/T @CaelStump @MiCLabVCU

‼️high school teachers‼️ one of my colleagues is collecting data for her dissertation. If you meet the criteria, please consider completing & sharing her survey 🙂 #teachersoftwitter #AcademicTwitter #education #research smcm.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cA…

I’m excited to share my first publication in my postdoc focused on Chronic Absenteeism in Missouri with Courtney Vahle. This work comes at the end of my first rotation in my postdoc as a visiting researcher at the PRiME Center at Saint Louis University. sluprime.org/education-repo…

📣 Looking forward to the next #MotSIG #MotivationMonday 😄😄, Feb 26th 7 pm ET to hear @KoriDNicolai @alanakennedy808 Dr. Temi Adeoye and @DrJMatth talk about research beyond boundaries!

& i remember sending an email like this to @AKoenka after having my son during my 1st semester of my Phd program. To know im showing up for my students, esp “parenting students” the way my professors to showed up for me , is just…🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️

One of my students went into labor today & she sent me an email telling me this AND that i have made a lasting impact on her bc of how hard i’ve been advocating for & supporting her this semester. This means so much bc of my journey (1/2)