Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology & Higher Education) recently co-authored "Complex Systems Research in Educational Psychology: Aligning Theory and Method" published in the Educational Psychologist journal. This piece provides an overview of complex systems research for educational psychologists by outlining a philosophically and theoretically sourced definition of complex systems research organized around complex, dynamic, and emergent ontological characteristics that is useful and appropriate for educational psychology. A complex systems approach is positioned as a means to align underexplored elements of existing theory with appropriate interaction dominant theoretical models, research methods, and equation-based analytic techniques.