Career Impact
Tonight, at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Los Angeles, it was my great privilege to present Dr. Jeffrey P. Carpenter with a Career Impact Award from the Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group (AERA SIG-TACTL).
How do you measure the impact of a career?
The TACTL board honored Jeff with this award because of his tremendous impact in terms of time (his many years of contributions to the field), reach (he has collaborated with colleagues around the world and is cited everywhere), imagination (he has changed the way the world thinks about teachers and social media), and care (he has done all this while being a mentor to countless students and early career colleagues, and he consistently uplifts everyone around him). Sixteen of his colleagues, each of them remarkable scholars themselves, contributed stories of Jeff’s career impact, captured in the following video.
Jeff, thank you for all you’ve done to advance our field, and congratulations on this well-deserved award!