Devon Hedrick-Shaw, assistant professor Curriculum & Instruction, was awarded third place for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Bilingual Education Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Hedrick-Shaw won the award for his dissertation, "Learning to Become Language Policy Actors: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study of Bilingual Special Educators in Synchronous-Service Teacher Preparation".
He was previously honored by the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) for the same dissertation.
Hedrick-Shaw will be recognized at the AERA Annual Meeting, April 8-12, in Los Angeles, CA.
