Published: March 20, 2018
AERA 2018

We are looking forward to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting from Friday, April 13 to Tuesday, April 17 in New York City.

Our faculty, students, and alumni will be busy presenting, learning, and exchanging ideas. Please use the following schedule to connect with and support colleagues at AERA. Also, don't forget to join alumni and friends for the AERA Colorado Reception on April 15 at 6pm at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. 

Schedule by day:

Friday, April 13, 2018

Invited Graduate Student Poster Mentoring Session (Division K Pre-Conference Session)
Friday, 8:00 AM – 11:45 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite
Chair: Ashley Scroggins
Participants: Jason Buell, Quinton Freeman, and Molly Hamm-Rodríguez

Climate Change Learning With Youth and Families
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 3
Toward More Meaningful Climate Change Education: Investigating the Role of Climate Change Solutions
Presenting Author: Kelsey Tayne

Critical Explorations of Equity and Identify in Humanities Classrooms
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Eighth Floor, Gallery 8
Tensions Between Envisioned Aims and Enacted Practice in the Teaching of Muslim Young Adult Literature
Presenting Author: Wendy Glenn (CU Boulder) and Ricki Ginsberg (Colorado State University)

Contrasting Rural and Urban Teacher Leadership
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East
Chair: Karla Scornavacco

Current Directions and New Insights in Formative Assessment
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor
Development and Piloting of a Rubric to Evaluate Science Formative Assessments for Emerging Bilinguals
Presenting Authors: Caitlin Fine and Erin Furtak

Parent Activism: The Opt-Out Movement
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; The Parker, Third Floor, Mirus room
Fragile Political Coalitions: Negotiating Race and Class in the Opt-Out Movement
Presenting Authors: Terri S. Wilson, Ana Julia Contreras, and Matthew Hastings

Use of Research Evidence in the Era of the Every Student Succeeds Act
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon
What Counts as Research Evidence? How Educational Leaders’ Reports of the Research They Use Compare to the ESSA Guidelines
Presenting Author: Kristen Davidson
Non-Presenting Authors: Caitlin Farrell and William Penuel

Youth Organizing During Uncertain Times
Friday, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Empire/Hudson Room
Discussant: Ben Kirshner

Applied Methods and Measurement in Education Research
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 3
Chair: Terri Wilson

Developing Multi/Translingual Competencies and Expertise Through Peer Interactions: Affordances, Constraints, and Complexities
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse G Room
Emergent Bilinguals’ Collaboration in Designing and Producing Multimodal Texts: Translanguaging to Support Learning
Presenting Author: Deborah Palmer

Learning to Build Inclusive Classrooms: Promising Preservice Practices
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse D Room
Hope in the Wobbles: Negotiations Into, Between, and out of Critical Dispositions
Presenting Author: Aaron Guggenheim

Latin@ Students Navigating Deficit Discourses in Education
Friday, 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Third Floor, Carnegie East Room
Elevating the Voices of Latina High School Students Considering Careers in Education
Non-Presenting Author: Wagma Mommandi

Learning to Build Inclusive Classrooms: Promising Preservice Practices
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Westin New York at Times Square, Fifth Floor, Melville Room
Discussant: Caitlin Farrell

Nondominant Students Negotiate Histories, Institutions, Figured Worlds, and Identities to “Become Somebody” in STEM
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York HIlton Midtown, Second Floor, Regent Parlor
Fighting for STEM Selves and Futures
Presenting Author: Margaret Eisenhart

The Possibilities of Public Education: Critical Perspectives on Practice-Based Teacher Education for Language-Minoritized Youth
Friday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom West
Discussant: Jamy Stillman

Dual Language Education and Neoliberal Reforms: When a Bilingual School Becomes a School of Choice
Friday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, Midtown Suite
Chair: Deborah Palmer

Emergent Bilinguals’ Meaning-Making Across Languages and Modalities
Friday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Sutton Place Room
Exploring Emergent Bilinguals’ Global and Academic Language-Focused (English) Argument Writing Outcomes
Presenting Author: Mileidis Gort
Emergent Bilingual Children’s Multimodal Practices: Supporting Varying Purposes of Show-and-Tell
Presenting Author: Mileidis Gort

Critical Readings of Whiteness, Race, Space, and Identities
Friday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, Hudson Suite
She’s White but Not Really White: The Utility of Audio Journals in Preservice Teacher Education
Presenting Authors: Mary Kelly and Melia Repko-Erwin

Relationality, Engagement, and Asset-Based Pedagogies
Friday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, East Suite
Chair: Enrique Lopez
Exploring Mexican and Mexican American Youth Empowerment in a Social Justice Summer Enrichment Program: A Case Study Approach
Presenting Author: Enrique Lopez
Non-Presenting Authors: Jose Ortiz and Cecilia Valenzuela


Saturday, April 14, 2018

Telling Fact From Fiction and Other Challenges in Enacting High-Quality Civic Education
Saturday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Chelsea/Gotham Room
Dilemmas in Assessment Development for Youth Civic Learning
Presenting Author: Ben Kirshner
Non Presenting Author: Ginnie Logan

Bilingual Education Research SIG Mentoring Meeting
Saturday, 8:15 AM – 10:15 AM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Gramercy Room
Participants: Susan Hopewell, Mileidis Gort

Division K Proposals: Critical Conversation with Division K Section Chairs Toward Increasing Proposal Success
Saturday, 8:15 AM – 10:15 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse A Room
Division K VP: Katherine Schultz
Division K Co-chairs: Karla Scornavacco, Melissa Braaten, Elizabeth Meyer, Elizabeth Dutro, Jamy Stillman

Implementing Common Core Math and Next Generation Science Standards: Variation, Supports, and Barriers
Saturday, 8:15 AM – 10:15 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
A Phenomenon-Based Assessment System for Three-Dimensional Science Standards: What Can It Look Like in Practice?
Presenting Author: William Penuel
Non-Presenting Author: Katie Van Horne

Revisiting the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 The Necessity and Possibilities of Language and Culture in Public Schools
Saturday, 8:15 AM – 10:15 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton South
Participant: Kathy Escamilla

Community Schools Across Cities: At the Intersections of Inequity, Power, and Radical Possibilities
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Harlem
The Role of Community Partners and Researchers in Supporting Quality Implementation of Community Schools in New York City
Presenting Author: Julia Daniel

Division K Fireside Chat. Teaching, Activism, & Resistance in the Era of Trump: Implications for Prospective Teacher Educators
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse A Room
Chairs: Katherine Schultz and Wagma Mommandi

Exploring the Concept of Justice in Education
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Duffy
Chair: Terri S. Wilson

Growing and Sustaining Black Teachers: Examining the Intersection of Identity, Professional Development, and School Context
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton Center
Public Educators Under Private Management: Black Teachers’ Experiences in Quasi-Markets of School Choice and Competition
Presenting Author: Terrenda White

Novel Approaches to Professional Learning for STEM Teachers
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse D Room
Discussant: Melissa Braaten

Social and Cultural Processes in Motivation Research
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2-Exhibit Hall
Healing and Resistance: (Re)Imaging a Classroom Community Through Critical Care
Presenting Author: Aaron Guggenheim

Supporting and Understanding the Practice of School Leadership
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Park Central Hotel New York, Mezzanine Level, Manhattan B Room
Chair: Caitlin Farrell

The Teacher as Student: Creating Social Justice Allies Through Teacher Education
Saturday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, Midtown Suite
Educator as Youth Ally: Building Identity Resources to Engage Educators as Agents for Change
Presenting Author: Rebecca Kaplan

Division K Section 8 Poster Session 3
Saturday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2 - Exhibit Hall 
One Size Does Not Fit All: Understanding Teacher Preferences for Instructional Coaching
Presenting Authors: Alison Boardman and Ashley Potvin

Measurement and Analysis of Factors Impacting Classroom Culture
Saturday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 4
Chair: Enrique Lopez

Navigating Boundaries at the Nexus of Research and Practice
Saturday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; Westin New York at Times Square, Ninth Floor, Palace Room
Chair: William Penuel
Boundary Crossing in a Research-Practice Partnership in the Context of District Change
Presenting Author: Kristen Davidson, Non-Presenting Author: William Penuel

Presidential Session: Opting Out of State Assessments and the Purposes of Public Education
Saturday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton South
Chair: Michele Moses
Participants: Michele Moses, Terri S. Wilson, Wagma Mommandi, Matt Hastings, Mara Taylor-Heine

Educator-Allies: Offering Advocacy and Hope for Marginalized Students
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse G Room
Chair: Elizabeth Meyer

Assessment Policy and Practice: Examining the (Unintended) Consequences
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
Discussant: Lorrie Shepard

Expanding Modalities for Critical Engagement: Contemporary Research in Multimodal Composing
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Eighth Floor, Gallery 8
Expanding Multimodal Composition: Teens Design 3-D-Printed Picture Books for Children With Visual Impairments
Presenting Authors: Bridget Dalton, Kirsten Musetti, and Benjamin Walsh
Non-Presenting Author: Kristina Stamatis

Identity Exploration Through Critical Moments of Pedagogical Interaction In the Content Area
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East
The Role of Positionality and Noticing in Advancing Equity in Mathematics
Presenting Author: Victoria Hand

Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Hall 1-2-Exhibit Hall
Encountering and Becoming Role Models Underrepresented in STEM
Presenting Author: Leighanna Hinojosa

Learning Time: In Pursuit of Educational Equity
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton Center
Innovative Uses of Learning Time: Perspectives From the Learning Sciences
Presenting Author: Ben Kirshner

Parents’ Perspectives and Concerns With School Choice
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite
Discussant: Terri S. Wilson
Teacher Agency and “Pedagogies of Hope” for Bilingual Learners (in a Brave New World)
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Gramercy Room
Chair: Deborah Palmer

Youth Voice and Learning
Saturday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom Salon 3
Disruptive and Demanding: How Youth Participatory Action Research Can Shift Power Dynamics and Expand Public Discourse
Presenting Author: Julia Daniel

Models of Co-Teaching and Mentor Relationships
Saturday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East
Prepared for What? Preparing New Teachers for Collaborative Learning Through Co-Teaching
Presenting Authors: Ashley Cartun, Kate Henson, and Elizabeth Meyer

Ocean Hill-Brownsville’s Teacher Strike of 1968 (50th Anniversary), Learning From Struggles Past and Present: Teacher Unionism and Black Parent Mobilizations for Equitable Public Schools
Saturday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gramercy Suite B
Chair: Terrenda White

Data-Driven Decision Making: Does It Lack a Theory of Learning to Inform Research and Practice?
Saturday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Regent Parlor
Participants: Lorrie Shepard and William Penuel

Research Confronts Equity and Social Justice: Building the Emerging Field of Collaborative, Community Engaged Education Research
Saturday, 4:05 to 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Nassau Suite B 
Commentator: Kevin Welner


Sunday, April 15, 2018

Centering Our Most Marginalized: Co-Creating Possibilities and Justice
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West Room
Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Students in K-12 Schools: What Has Been Learned and Where Do We Go From Here?
Presenting Author: Mary Quantz

Interests on the Move: Cultivating Interest Across Contexts
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 9:35 AM; The Parker, Second Floor, Lorica Room
Designing for and Studying Cross-Setting Ecosystems of Learning
Presenting Author: William Penuel
Non-Presenting Author: Katie Van Horne

Martinez v. State of New Mexico: Revitalizing the Dream of Our Forefathers
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Third Floor, Riverside Ballroom
The State of Education for English Language Learners in New Mexico
Presenting Author: Kathy Escamilla

The Literate LIves of Youth of Color: Examining Race, Home, and Displacement
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite
“We Know Because We’ve Lived It”: Recognizing the Knowledge, Pedagogies, and Community Cultural Literacies of Im/migrant Youth
Presenting Author: Monica Gonzalez

Un/Structures of Resources and Support for Queer Youth
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 9:45 AM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Columbia Room
Ecosystems of Support: How Local Contexts Impact the Development of Transgender-Affirming School Policies and Practices
Presenting Author: Elizabeth Meyer

Meet Journal Editors: Journal Talks 4
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM; New York Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon
International Multilingual Research Journal
Presenting Author: Mileidis Gort

Toward Justice: Centering Identities, Positionalities, and Community Knowledge In Teacher Educators’ Work and Learning
Sunday, 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse C Room
An Instantiation of White Institutional Space by White Mathematics Teacher Educators
Presenting Authors: Victoria Hand, Ashley Scroggins
Asset-Oriented Teacher Education: Toward Needed Transformations
Presenting Author: Jamy Stillman

Conditions for Advancing Coaching as a Reform Lever for Systemic Instructional Change
Sunday, 10:35 AM - 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
Chair: Caitlin Farrell

Leveraging School-University Partnership Research for School Improvement
Sunday, 10:35 AM - 12:05 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Chelsea/Gotham Room
Assessing Research-Practice Partnerships: Five Dimensions of Effectiveness
Presenting Author: William Penuel

Socializing Civic Debate Through the Disciplinary Literacies: A Hope for Public Education
Sunday, 10:35 AM - 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton North
The Promise of Productive Public Discourse through Mathematics Disciplinary Practices
Presenting Author: Edd Taylor

The Impact of School Choice on Schools and Communities
Sunday, 10:35 AM - 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West Room
The Politics of Data Use by Data Driven Schools
Presenting Author: Brian Lightfoot

Venturing the Terrains of Mathematical Identities: Theoretical Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion in Mathematics Education
Sunday, 10:35 AM - 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
Chair: Caitlin Farrell

Controlling Students and Populations With the Law
Sunday, 2:25 PM - 4:15 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
Chair: Sarah LaCour

Making at the Margins: Engaging Underserved Communities in Maker Technologies, Activities, and Spaces
Sunday, 2:25 PM - 4:15 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Central Park East Room
Making and Designing for Equity With Children and Preservice Teachers
Presenting Author: Kelsey Tayne
Non-Presenting Authors: A. Susan Jurow, Emily Price, and Benjamin Shapiro

Beyond Dreams and Possibilities - Revolucionarias en Acción as Movement Intellectuals Preparing Critical Pedagogues
Sunday, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Central Park West Room
Bilingual Teacher Leadership for Transformation: Proyecto Maestría Teachers’ Activist Pedagogies of Hope
Presenting Author: Deborah Palmer

Rejecting Neutrality and Challenging Inequity: Fostering Critical Youth Civic Engagement Across Informal Learning Contexts
Sunday, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West Room
Black Girl Civics: Engaging Black Girls in Research and Health Equity
Presenting Authors: Ginnie Logan and Ben Kirshner

Strategies for Implementing Equitable Science Education for Linguistically Diverse Learners
Sunday, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM; new York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Columbia Room
Chair: Enrique Lopez

Venturing the Terrains of Mathematical Identities: Theoretical Perspectives on Participation and Inclusion in Mathematics Education
Sunday, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM; The Parker, Third Floor, Tansa 1 Room
Discussant: Victoria Hand

Philosophical Studies in Education Business Meeting
Sunday 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fourth Floor, Ziegfeld
Officer (Chair): Terri S. Wilson

AERA Colorado Reception  ​
Join fellow Coloradans and alumni and friends of Colorado colleges and schools of education for the AERA Colorado Reception.
Sunday, April 15, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sheraton New York Times Square, New York Ballroom West
RSVP

Monday, April 16, 2018

Language of and Within Policies and Practices
Monday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West Room
What is Trauma? A Review of the Literature Toward Critical Compassion in “Trauma-Informed Schools”
Presenting Authors: Elizabeth Dutro and Mary Kelly

Perspectives on Dual Language Programs (Spanish-English Bilingual Session)
Monday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Gramercy Room
Chair: Susan Hopewell
The Possibilities of Bilingualism: Perceptions of Bilingual Learners in Arizona
Presenting Author: Deena Gumina 
Non-presenting Author: Sandra Butvilofsky

Expanding Participation in Science and Technology Learning Through Novel Designs for Family Science Nights
Monday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; Crown Plaza Times Square, Times Square A Room
The Development of Parent Support Roles in a Family Technology Program
Presenting Author: Ricarose Roque

Teacher Learning Toward Equity and Justice to Change Systemic Inequalities
Monday, 8:15 AM – 10:15 AM; New York HIlton MIdtown, Concourse Level, Concourse A Room
Chair: Elizabeth Meyer
From Fiction to Action: Using Young Adult Literature to Access Critical Theories for Change
Presenting Author: Rebecca Kaplan

Access and Voice: Multimodal and Digital Learning
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan East Room
Transforming Schooling for Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices
Chair: Mileidis Gort

Designing for the Next Generation of Teaching Practices With a Networked Improvement Community: A Longitudinal Study
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse D Room
Discussant: William Penuel

Division G Vice Presidential Session: Troubling Hollow Comments to “Diversity”: Denouncing Whiteness as a Design Feature in Teacher Education Programs
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, New York Suite
Design Principles for Transforming Teacher Education in the United States: Toward Needed Transformations
Presenting Author: Jamy Stillman

Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Equity: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Assessment
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Westin New York at Times Square, Ninth Floor, New Amsterdam Room
Supporting Critical-Affective Practices and Pedagogies
Presenting Author: Ashley Cartun

Facilitating Learning Across Diverse Contexts
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; The Parker, Second Floor, Lorica Room
Unpacking the Role of Authenticity in Project-Based Learning in English Language Arts
Presenting Authors: Joseph Polman, Kristina Stamatis and Alison Boardman

Nuanced Analyses of Data to Improve Bilingual Education
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Metropolitan West Room
English Language Learner, Emerging Bilingual, or Something Else: The Need for Nuanced Disaggregation in School Accountability Frameworks
Presenting Authors: Kathy Escamilla and Kim Strong

Socioeconomic Status and Standardized Tests: Achievement Gaps, Alternate Assessments, and Opting Out
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Madison
Exploring the Impact of Opting Out on Measures of School Achievement
Non Presenting Authors: Derek Briggs and Elena Diaz-Bilello
Presenting Author: Rajendra Chattergoon

The Critical Role of Audience in Digital Writing
Monday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fourth Floor, Room 4.02-4.03
“There’s Football Gabriel, and There’s Gabriel, Gabriel”: Negotiating Double-Consciousness During Digital Personal Storytelling for Public Consumption
Presenting Author: Elizabeth Dutro

Navigating Affect and Constructing Identity in the Learning Sciences
Monday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second floor, Empire Ballroom East
Citizen Science Identity: Becoming Citizen Scientists in a Museum-Based Genetics of Taste Program
Presenting Author: Leighanna Hinojosa
Non-Presenting Authors: Joseph Polman, Rebecca Swanson

Promising Scholarship in Education: Dissertation Fellows and Their Research
Monday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom
“Here, I Already Feel Smart”: Exploring Chicano Feminist Literacy Pedagogies With Chicanx/Latinx Youth in an (Im)Migrant Housing Community
Presenting Author: Monica Gonzalez

Supporting Learning of Science and Technology Through Novel Applications of Technology
Monday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Duffy
A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Lens on Climate Change Students’ Perspectives on Climate Change
Non-Presenting Author: Kelsey Tayne

The “No Excuses” Model of Urban School Reform: Wrenching Truths, Critical Perspectives, and Dissent
Monday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse A Room
Law and Order In School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color
Presenting Author: Michele Moses
Race and Discipline in “No Excuses” Charter Schools: Cultural Dimensions of Inequality in Market-Driven Contexts
Presenting Author: Terrenda White

Dynamic Bilingual Literacy Instruction as Social Justice Practice: Educational Equity for Emergent Bilinguals
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Lower Level, Gramercy Room
Chair and Discussant: Susan Hopewell
Enhancing the Quality of Biliteracy Instruction and Writing Outcomes in Spanish/English
Presenting Authors: Kathy Escamilla, Caitlin Fine, and Susan Hopewell

Instruments for Measuring Quality in Teacher Education
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse A Room
Capturing the “Context”: Learning With and From the Development of a Survey for “Urban” Settings
Non-Presenting Author: Katherine Schultz

Practical Measures in Service of Instructional Improvement: Attending to Issues of Rigor
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon
In Search of Powerful Predictors in Practical Measurement: Student Experience of Coherence in Science Instruction
Presenting Authors: William Penuel and Katie Van Horne

Processes of Partnering: Local Development of Methods to Democratize Knowledge Production in Research on Learning
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; The Parker, Second Floor, Lorica Room
Intention, Desire, and Power in a New Community Partnership
Presenting Authors: A. Susan Jurow, Brian Lightfoot, and Terrenda White

Summer Learning and Test Score Gap Trends: New Descriptive Research, Methodological Issues, and Policy Implications
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Madison
School’s Out; The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities
Non-Presenting Author: Allison Atteberry

Toward a Civil Rights Education Finance Research Agenda
Monday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Gibson Suite
Unenforceable Rights: When State Courts Refuse to Engage in School Finance Disputes
Presenting Author: Kevin Welner

International and Comparative Studies in School Choice
Monday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Rendezvous Trianon
Discussant: Terrenda White

Research on School Discipline Policy: Exploring Bias, Race, and Local Context
Monday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Clinton Suite
Chair: Wagma Mommandi

(Re)Imagining Education for Girls of Color
Monday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom
Exploring Mujerista Literacies Among Chicana/Latina Youth
Presenting Author: Monica Gonzalez

Responsive Approaches to Supporting English Learner Students in P-12 Contexts
Monday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; Sheraton New York Time Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East
Beyond One Language, One Answer: Reflection and Inquiry in the Reading Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals
Presenting Author: Silvia Nogueron-LIu

Student Learning Across Contexts and Content Areas
Monday, 4:05 PM – 5:35 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square, Second Floor, Empire Ballroom East
Chair: Melissa Braaten
Understanding Preservice Teachers’ Experiences and Trajectories Working With Children in a Nontraditional Learning Environment
Presenting Author: Jose Ortiz 
Non-Presenting Author: Kelsey Tayne

Research-Practice Partnerships for Implementation and Scale-Up
Monday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, East Suite
Chair: Caitlin Farrell
“What the Hell is This, Who the Hell Are You?” Role Negotiation in Research-Practice Relationships
Author: Caitlin Farrell

Professional Fit of Multiple Routes to Teaching: STEM and Urban Settings
Monday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse F Room
Chair: Ashley Scroggins

Youth Co-Design: The Possibilities, Affordances, and Challenges of Including Youth in Educational Design
Monday, 4:05 PM – 6:05 PM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Fourth Floor, Room 4.02-4.03
Discussant: Ben Kirshner

Division K Business Meeting
Monday, 6:15 PM – 7:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Mercury Ballroom
Chair: Katherine Schultz


Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Applying Multiple Lenses to the Study of Project-Based Learning to Promote Equitable Educational Opportunity
Tuesday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Seventh Floor, Room 7.04
Discussant: Joseph Polman

Supporting and Sustaining Productive Research-Practice Partnerships in STEM
Tuesday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; New York Marriott Marquis, Seventh Floor, Chelsea/Gotham Room
Seeking Causal Inference: Emerging Tensions in an Evolving Research-Practice Partnership
Presenting Author: Erin Furtak
Non-Presenting Author: Derek Briggs
Using Co-Design to Test and Refine a Model for Three-Dimensional Science Curriculum
Presenting Author: William Penuel
Non-Presenting Author: Katie Van Horne

Youth Organizing and Social Change
Tuesday, 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM; New York Marriott Marquis, Manhattan Ballroom
Refusing the Test: Youth Activism and the Right to Opt Out
Presenting Author: Terri S. Wilson

The Affective Turn in Literacy Research: Theories, Potentials, Difference
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Room 4.11
Visceral Literacies, Political Intensities: Affect as Critical Potential in Literacy Research and Practice
Presenting Author: Elizabeth Dutro

Critical Consciousness and IDentity: THe Benefits of Ethnic Studies Courses for K-16 Latinx Students
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Fourth Floor, Lincoln Suite
“Defend Yourself With Words, With the Knowledge That You’ve Gained”: An Exploration of Conocimiento Among Latina Undergraduates in Ethnic Studies
Presenting Author: Monica Gonzalez

Measuring Making: Methods, Tools, and Strategies for Capturing Learning, Participation, and Engagement in Maker Activities
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square; Second Floor; Central Park East Room
Discussant: William Penuel

Multiple Pathways to Teacher Leadership: Elevating the Profession
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse B Room
Co-Design as an Entryway to Teacher Leadership
Presenting Authors: Karla Scornavacco, Mary Kelly, Joseph Polman, and Alison Boardman

Policy and People: Exploring the Use of Organizing and Activism in Education Policy
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square; Second Floor; Metropolitan West Room
Constructing Race: Negotiating Difference In the Context of an Education Activist Movement
Presenting Authors: Maravene Taylor-Heine and Terri S. Wilson

Race, Rights, and the Educational Experience: Revisiting the Role of Resistance as Epistemic Wisdom
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square; Second Floor; Metropolitan West Room
Bound Together: White Teacher/Latinx Students Revising Resistance
Presenting Author: Adam York

Teachers’ Choices and Experiences in the Charter Sector
Tuesday, 10:35 AM – 12:05 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Madison
Chair: Wagma Mommandi

English Language Learners and the Politics of Education Policy
Tuesday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Grand Ballroom Suite-West Ballroom
The Politics of Official English: Exploring the Intentions and Outcomes Behind English-Only Policies in the United States
Presenting Author: David Nieto

Large-Scale Teacher Leader Initiatives: Findings From the Field
Tuesday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse C Room
Chair: Karla Scornavacco

Teacher Educators Creating Critical and Anti-Oppressive Alternative Spaces Within University-Based Programs
Tuesday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse B Room
Discussant: Katherine Schultz
Designing for Critical-Affective Pedagogies in Practice-Based Models of Teacher Education
Presenting Authors: Elizabeth Dutro, Ashley Cartun, and Ellie Haberl

Teacher Inquiry and Collaboration to Support Pedagogical Innovations
Tuesday, 12:25 PM – 1:55 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse E Room
Chair: Rebecca Kaplan
Co-Design for Teaching Learning: Developing and Using Tools to Study Responsive Teaching
Presenting Author: Ashley Potvin

Educational Policy
Tuesday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Grand Ballroom Suite-West Ballroom
45 Years Since Title IX: A Critical Feminist Review of the Literature
Presenting Authors: Mary Quantz and Elizabeth Meyer

Situating Organizational Theory in Schools, Districts, and State Departments of Education
Tuesday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Marriott Marquis, Fifth Floor, Belasco
Chair: Caitlin Farrell

Teacher Leaders (Re)Imagining Professional Learning Opportunities
Tuesday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; Sheraton New York Times Square; Second Floor; Empire Ballroom East
Chair: Ashley Potvin

Working Within the Tensions: Exploring Dilemmas in Participatory and Humanizing Research With Young People
Tuesday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse G Room
Tensions Between Insider/Outsider Activism of Black and Brown Students at a Predominantly White Institution
Presenting Author: Brian Lightfoot

Working Within the Tensions: Exploring Dilemmas in Participatory and Humanizing Research With Young People
Tuesday, 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM; New York Hilton Midtown, Concourse Level, Concourse G Room
Chair: Ben Kirshner
Tensions Between Insider/Outsider Activism of Black and Brown Students at a Predominantly White Institution
Presenting Authors: Ana Julia Contreras and Ginnie Logan
Schools as Contexts for Youth Participatory Action Research: Compliance or Criticality?
Presenting Author: Ben Kirshner
Using the Master’s Tools: The Politics of Pragmatism
Non Presenting Author: Monica Gonzalez


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