Excited to present at #SPSP2026 alongside such wonderful researchers and to share our latest work on belonging with collaborators @pedram-zarei.bsky.social, @chrisrozek.bsky.social, and our research teams! Thanks to Joel Le Forestier for organizing this session at @spspnews.bsky.social!

Please share with people who might have research that would be a good fit for this new special issue and call for empirical papers on school belonging!

‼️❗️❣️ The supplement of this paper is amazing and well worth a read if you are interested in K-12 STEM belonging!!!!

What an incredible resource and comprehensive paper by this team on the development of STEM belonging, including of gender differences in STEM belonging, across K-12! A critical resource and review on this topic!

🚨 @drkellyallen.bsky.social's new paper features interviews with 10 belonging scholars on the Integrative Framework of Belonging, offering novel insights that clarify, deepen, and reshape the model! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Surprised that psychologists are still having the same arguments about whether what happens inside people’s heads matters for choices & success? I am! But fortunately @drmuenks.bsky.social and @carltonfong.bsky.social are here to reiterate the overwhelmingly convincing case that motivation matters!

Co-authored with @drmuenks.bsky.social, our @insidehighered.com piece "Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters" is out! We reject behaviorist principles and argue that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Excellent thread summarizing this new paper in our special issue on School Belonging in Ed Psych Review doi.org/10.1007/s106...

🛑🛑🛑 and read this free open access paper introducing the Brilliance-Belonging Model, which shows how cultural beliefs about ability lead to inequitable outcomes in education through perceptions of belonging and other downstream psychological mechanisms!

As @maeganarney.bsky.social advisor, I’m biased, but I completely agree and encourage a vote for Maegan Arney for MotSIG junior co-chair!

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

🚨 One issue in school belonging research is we don't have a good definition for it yet! It is MUCH MORE than just positive relationships. This MUST READ paper puts forth a much needed framework for defining school belonging with important implications for research & practice bsky.app/profile/alex...

‼️ If you care about how institutions can support STUDENT BELONGING, make sure to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...! They surveyed 15k+ students to uncover 4 important factors that promote belonging and found variation in how different groups of students felt belonging across context ‼️

Excited to be featured by the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring chatting about a recent paper with Katherine Emerson, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Greg Walton. We looked at actionable ways institutions can create belonging opportunities for students.

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

Interesting in SCHOOL BELONGING?? We hope you can join us tonight at AERA for a mega-session on cutting edge new belonging perspectives and research!

🚨 Important new paper from the Ed Psych Review special issue on belonging. This paper considers how racial/ethnic identity relates to school belonging and how that might depend on whether asset-based pedagogy is being used in classrooms

Excited for this paper on college belonging and academic outcomes to be out now! Free view only link (rdcu.be/d2fv2). ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net/publication/...)

New publication alert! 🚨 My former graduate student (Dr. Naomi Isenberg) and I have a new paper in Scientific Reports about how Americans underestimate diversity support and that correcting this boosts inclusion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hi! I'm a social psychologist in a Department of Education, and I'm interested in student belonging, emotions, motivation, and interventions. I mostly work with adolescents. See below for an example of my belonging theory work done with awesome collaborators :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....