Friday, 02/27/2015
Opening Plenary
8:30am - 9:45am
The Public Ethnography of Policy:
'Studying Up' in the Texas State Legislature
Houston Hall
Hall of Flags
Presenter: Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin
Introduction: Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania
Convenor: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 007
The Struggle for Social Justice Oriented School Governance Practices Across Three US Cities
Educational Leaders’ Perceptions of the Public: An Ethnographic Analysis of St. Louis Public Schools
Olivia Marcucci, Washington University in St. Louis
“New Parents” with Old School Politics? Public Engagement and Education in a Gentrifying City
Esa Syeed, New York University
"Not Racism, Simply A Fact": The Past and Present of Chicago’s School Closings
Eve Ewing, Harvard University
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 008
Indigenous Communities and Culturally Responsive Education: Two Cases
The Impact of Tribal Colleges and Universities in Tribal Development
Ginger Stull, University of Pennsylvania
Culturally Responsive Maker Activities with Electronic Textiles in an American Indian Community School
Kristin A. Searle, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 114
Connections and Contradictions for Multilingual Learners Across Educational Sites
Exploring the Contradictions in an In-Service Teacher’s Learning to Teach ESL in Urban Schools
Ying-Sin Chen, Indiana University, Bloomington
Making Connections: Adolescent English Language Learners’ Collaborative Literacy Practices in Face-to-Face
and Online Contexts
Oksana Vorobel, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Deoksoon Kim, University of South Florida
Caring and Working Together: A School Where Emerging English/Spanish Bilingual Students Succeed
Virginia Diez, University of Massachusetts, Boston
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 120
Exploring Education in an International Context:
Intersections of Gender, Privilege, Language, and Ethnicity
Adjust Karo: Cultivating 'Privileged' Identities at Elite All-Girls’ ‘Public Schools’ in North India
Meghan Marie Chidsey, Teachers College, Columbia University
When Educational Policies Clash with Local Realities: The Case of the Teaching of English in Colombian Rural
Areas
Ferney Cruz-Arcila, King's College, London
The Politics of Education in Swat Valley, Pakistan: A Gendered, Classed, and Ethnicity-Based Analysis
Lubna Chaudhry, Binghamton University
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10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 121
Youth Literacy Practices in and out of School Sanctioned Spaces
An Ethnographic Look at Teens’ Experiences Navigating Staff Dynamics While Making Documentary Films
Jessica Ann Lipschultz, New York University
Where the Girls Talk: Meta-Morphing Literacies in Safe School Spaces
Mary Beth Schaefer, St. John's University
“Something that Makes You Pop”: Secondary School Writing that Matters
Molly Marudas Buckley, Cleveland State University
10:15am - 11:30am
Labels, Identity, Social Mobility, and Access to Educational Opportunities
GSE 124
Upward bound: Marginalized students’ Constructing and Re-Constructing Literacy Identities with Aspirations of
Social Mobility
Terry Voorhees, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Ethnography on Labeling in an Afterschool Charter School Program
L. Trenton Marsh, New York University
10:15am –11:30pm
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Language/Literacy Learning in a College Freshman Seminar and a Community-Based
Heritage Language Learning Group
Consultant: Brian Street, King’s College, London and University of Pennsylvania
Consultant: Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania
Using Evidence to Develop an Argument
Rebecca Sharon Shargel, Lisa Twiss
Towson University
“Aprender com” The Interplay of Singing, Playing, and Socializing in a Portuguese Heritage Community
Simone Maria Gugliotta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Smith College
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 203
Exploring Multimodal Improvisations, Use of Social Media and
Gaming Literacy Practices of Youth
Freedom to Play: Building Meaning and Communities through Multimodal Improvisations
Sandra Abrams, St. John's University
The Minecraft Project: A Case Study of Youth Gaming Practices
Rob Simon, Jason Brennan, Ty Walkland
University of Toronto, Canada
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10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 300
Teachers as Agents of Change within Classrooms and Schools
Teacher Agency: Incorporating Students’ Lives into a French-English Writing Curriculum
Elizabeth Morphis, Teachers College, Columbia University
Teacher Activist Organizations and the Development of Professional Agency
Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, Frances Starn
University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 322
Ethnography of Education in Russia and Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects
(Group Session)
Teacher Education as Object, Subject, and Instrument of Social Change: Russian Experiments to Create a
Neoliberal Subject
Olena Aydarova, Michigan State University
The Unknowns of the Orphans' Education in Contemporary Russia: A Call for an (Empowering) Ethnographic
Study
Marina Kudasova, Lehigh University
Seeing What Isn’t There (and Hearing What Is): Understanding Local Orientations to National Language Policy in
Ukraine
Bridget Goodman, Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 400
Problematizing Deficit Discourses of Reading, Vocabulary, and Special Education Practices
Student Participation in a Multicomponent Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers:
A Discourse Analysis
Melodee Anne Walker, University of Texas at Austin
Why Counting Words Tells Us Nothing: Closing the Word Gap through Critical Discourse Analysis
Stephanie Lynn Abraham, Rowan University
“Special" Education: One Boy's Experience
Tessa E. Bishop, Tennessee Tech University
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 427
New Approaches to Incorporating the Arts into Education
Spoilsport or a Most Welcome Participant: Drama in Education vs. Democratic Dialogic Education
Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Chestnut Hill College
Youth Documentary Production and Educational Well-Being(s)
Joseph Rinna-Ferrie, Henry Santana, Elijah Bennett, Lalitha Vasudevan
Teachers College, Columbia University
Transforming Pedagogies: Adopting a Critical, Democratic and/or Feminist Approach In The Art Classroom
Angela K. Kost, Leslie Gates, Millersville University
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11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 007
Diversity and Segregation: Negotiations Across Different Academic Contexts
A New Reality for Suburban Schools: How Suburban School Leaders Approach Increasing Diversity in a Context
of Accountability
Jessica Shiller, Towson University
Academic Segmented Assimilation: Assimilate for Academic Success--or Fail
Lori Diane Ungemah, Stella & Charles Guttman Community College
Performing Whiteness, Negotiating Blackness: Identity, Achievement, and The Invisible Burden of Institutional
Racism
Steven Jefferson, Duke University
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 008
Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching, Identity Development, and
Issues of Power and Play in Three Pre-School Settings
Uncovering Parents’ and Teachers’ Ethnotheories in Preschool Children’s Learning in Two Immigrant
Communities
Lok-Wah Li, Christine McWayne, Jayanthi Mistry
Tufts University
The World Through the Eyes of Children
Anu Sachdev, Iveta Silova, Marina Kudasova
Lehigh University
Play and Power in a Pre-School Classroom: An Exploration of Interdependencies
Maria Persons, The Graduate Center, CUNY
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 114
Philadelphia Bilingual Education Project
(Group Session)
Nelson Flores, Sofia Chaparro, Mark Lewis
University of Pennsylvania
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 120
Examining Institutional Forces in Two Catholic Schools and a Charter School
Stick to the Script(s): Procedural Display in an Urban Catholic School
Robert J LeBlanc, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching What It Means to Be Catholic: Gender and Sexuality in Catholic Religious Education
Emily Katherine Bartlett, Tufts University
Classroom Management and Civic Identity in a No-Excuses Charter School
Eliot James Graham, Rutgers University
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 121
Alternate Possibilities for Supporting Social Change in Schools: Looking Beyond the Classroom
“Why settle for McDonalds?” Aspiration Management in an Urban Vocational Training Program
Ginger McCartney, Karen Pezzetti, Erin McNamara Horvat
Temple University
Beyond Intervention: Yoga in Schools as Opportunity for Social Change
Janet Johnson, Rhode Island College
A Hunger for More: Food, Fullness, and a Sense of Connection at One Low-income Urban School
Erin Cassar, Temple University
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11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 124
Ethnographic Methodologies: Research and Representation within Three Diverse Settings
Researching While Ill: Storytelling, Workplace Research, and Chronic Illness (practitioner inquiry)
Melissa Kapadi-Bodi, University of Pennsylvania
Documentation or Transformation? Ethnographies of Things, Tools and Emotions in an Adult Digital Literacy
Café
Suzanne Smythe, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Autoethnography within the Context of Charter School Expansion: A Theoretical and Methodological Lens for
Urban Leaders (Practitioner Inquiry)
Charlene Marie Reid, University of Pennsylvania
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Transformational Pathways in Assessment and in Parental Engagement
Consultant: Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin
Consultant: Anne Pomerantz, University of Pennsylvania
Transitioning from High-Stakes Testing: How Performance-Based Assessment Shapes Instruction, Curriculum,
and School Culture
Rosa Rivera-McCutchenVassar College
Maria Hantzopoulos, Lehman College, CUNY
Alia Tyner-Mullings, Gutman Community College, CUNY
Co-constructing Active and Collective Pathways of Family and Community Engagement: A Community-based
Relational Approach
Joyce Mahler Duckles, Joel Gallegos Greenwich, Joanne Larson, Amy Meade, University of Rochester
Kimberly Nelson, George Moses, Robert Moses, Jeremy Smith, Wallace Smith, North East Area Development, Rochester, NY
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 203
Language and Literacy in Education (Group Session)
Moving on in the Academic Literacies Field
Brian Street, King's College, London
Modern Languages as Cultural Capital in School and Life
Simon Coffey, King’s College, London
Inequality and Inadequacy of Academic Literacy Instruction in Anglophone Universities
Ursula Wingate, King’s College, London
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 300
Using Ethnographic Methods to Explore Latino Experiences Across Three Literacy Experiences:
Informal Learning, College Transition, and Family Literacy
Latino Boys and Digital Literacy: A Critical Ethnographic Approach to Informal Learning in an Urban Context
Carlos Martinez-Cano, University of Pennsylvania
The "College Imagination" of Latino Males From the Bronx: The Role of Habitus in Their Transition to College
Alejandro Carrion, Brooklyn College
Family Literacy in the New Latino Diaspora: An Ethnographic Study
Jennifer Leigh Stacy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 322
Inequality in Education in Brazil: What Does It Mean to Be Poor in Rio de Janeiro’s Schools?
(Group Session)
School Culture and Production of School Failure as Traces of Modernity Inherited by Latin American Societies:
A Lens on Brazilian Schools
Luis Antonio Gomes Senna, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Understanding Schools, Students and Teachers of a Public School in Rio de Janeiro: Contribution of Ethnographic
Approach
Tatiana Bezerra Fagundes, State University of Rio de Janeiro
The Beginning of the “quota” System in Brazilian Universities: Opinions and Perceptions from Academics
Maythe de Bríbean San Martin Pulici, Antonia Valbênia Rosa
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Exclusion by Poverty: Migration from Northeast to Southeast –Implication for Students
Antonia Valbênia Rosa, Maythe de Bríbean San Martin Pulici
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Gender and Poverty: Pictures from Schools
Carmen Lucia Guimarães de Mattos, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Paula Almeida de Castro, State University of Paraiba
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 400
Educational Opportunities on the Margins:
Three Cases to Reconsider What It Means to Be Educated
Leaders and Leadership in New York State’s Education Policy Resistance Movement
Elizabeth Ten Dyke, Independent
Family Voices: Possibilities and Challenges of Ethnographic Approaches
Ysaaca Axelrod, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lori Falchi, Yandra Mordán, La Escuelita, Manhattan, New York
Never Been: An Exploration of the Influence of Dis/ability, Giftedness, and Incarceration on Adolescents in Adult
Correctional Facilities
Kelsey Jones, University of Pennsylvania
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 427
Silences, Underrepresentations, and Identity Discourses in STEM Subjects
The Icky and the Eww: Brave Journeys into Post-Secondary STEM Disciplines
Kumar Rashmi, University of Pennsylvania
I’m not a Minority, I am an American: Analyzing the Ways in which STEM Students Construct Identities
Through Literacy in Millenium Scholars Program
Donna-Marie Cole-Malott, Pennsylvania State University
Expanding the Circle: Challenging the Under-representation of Women in Mathematics
Lidia Gonzales, York College of the City University of New York
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Senior Scholar Roundtables 1:30-2:30 pm (Pre-registration only)
Due to limited space, attendees must sign up to attend roundtables. Pre-registration for registrants will be available the second week of February.
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 007
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Brian Street, King's College & University of Pennsylvania
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 008
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Brian Edmiston, University of Ohio
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 114
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Lalitha Vasudevan, Teachers College
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 120
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Valerie Kinloch, Ohio State University
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 121
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Mere Berryman, The University of Waikato
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 200
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 300
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Kathy Hall, University of Pennsylvania
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 322
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Jim Collins, University at Albany, State University of New York
1:30-2:30 pm
GSE 400
1:30pm - 2:30 pm
GSE 427
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
*Senior Scholar Roundtable
Tarajean Yazzi-Mintz, American Indian College Fund
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3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 007
Hope, Struggle and Crossing Boundaries: Education and the Impact of Language Choice
The Politics of Hope: School “choice”, English, and Inequality in Liberalizing Kerala (India)
Leya Mathew, University of Pennsylvania
Higher Education as a Site of Ideological and Labor Struggle
Daniel Morales, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language learners and Learning Language in the Era of Reinforced Boundaries. Challenging Webs-ofUnderstandings Related to Bilingualism Ethnographically
Sangeeta Baggagupta, University of Orebro, Sweden
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 008
Educating ‘Native Speakers’ and ‘Citizens’: Epistemological and Ideological Considerations
The Effects of District and Local Policy on the Racialized, and Mathematics Pedagogical Identity of two Novice
Teachers
Whitney Johnson, Marcus Wolfe
Morgan State University
Broadening, Bridging and Balancing: Math Learning for Parents
Judith McVarish, Margot Ely, Belen Matias
St. John's University
Trapped: Teacher Support for and Resistance to Math for Social Justice
Lidia Gonzales, York College of the City University of New York
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 114
Conceptualising Language in Context (Group Session)
Academic Language in Classroom Talk – Keeping an Ear to the Ground
Constant Leung, King's College, London
Identification, Self-understanding and Professional Expertise Among ‘non-native’ English Speaking Teachers
Martin Dewey, King's College, London
Learning and Working in London’s Language Market: The Case of a Multilingual Call Centre
Johanna Woydack, Vienna University of Economics and Business
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 120
Whose Story is Heard? Reflections of American Education across Three Diverse
Educational Contexts
Multivocal Storylines: One Pakistani Immigrant Mother’s Pursuit to Understand Her Children’s Schooling
Martha Strickland, Amina Mahmood
Penn State-Harrisburg
Am I Chinese, Chinese-American or American? Exploring the Cross-generational Issues of Identity Development
and Language Ideology of a Bilingual Immigrant Family
Qianqian Zhang, Jason Wu
Boston College
Globalization in Rural America: A Study of Community-Based Educational Neoliberalism
Daniella Hall
Pennsylvania State University
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3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 121
Troubling Deficit Perspectives: Counter Narratives of Literacy Achievement
for Marginalized Students
Narratives of Success: A Phenomenological Study of Black Males in College
Eva Rona Navera, Africa Jones, Kathy-Ann C. Hernandez
Eastern University
Deficit Discourse, Literate Lives: Literacy Narratives of Black Youth
Ann Marie Bennett, The University of Tennessee
Differentiating Students
Alexandra Freidus, New York University
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Latino/a Children’s Language and (Bi) Literacy Socialization at Home and in School
Consultant: Betsy Rymes, University of Pennsylvania
Consultant: Ebony Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
The Multi-directional Socialization of Communicative Repertoires in the Homes of Mexican Immigrant Families
Meredith McConnochie Byrnes
Rutgers University
Shifting Latina/o Demographics and Spanish-Immersion Schooling: Possibilities and Tensions of Building upon
Native Spanish-Speakers’ Resources in the Classroom
Sarah Gallo, Mileidis Gort, Luis Fernandi Macías
The Ohio State University
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 203
Location, Filmmaking, and Performance Art in Three Communities
Hecho en Marshall: Exploring Latino/a Students’ Social Identification through Documentary Filmmaking
Holly Link, University of Pennsylvania
Obed Arango, Centro de Cultura, Arte, Tecnología y Educación
Learning Together: Reflections on Trust, Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation from a Nicaraguan
Action Research Program
Matthew Tarditi, University of Pennsylvania
Sharon Ravitch, Seeds of Progress Foundation
Studying How Creative Communities Can Provide Alternative Pathways to Career Opportunity
Krishnan Vasudevan, Craig Watkins, University of Texas at Austin
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 300
Teachers as Critical Educators:
How Diversity in the Classrooms is Impacted by (lack of) Diversity in the Faculty Lounge
Teacher Identity: An Exploration of How a Teacher’s Identity Forms in Conjunction with Socio-economically
Diverse Students
Tiffany Farias-Sokoloski, University of Texas at San Antonio
High School in Hollywood: Promoting Critical Media Literacy Through Counter-readings of Teacher Films
Courtney Kelly, Carleigh Brower, Manhattanville College
Critical Ethnography of Emerging Critical Consciousness in White Educators
Amanda Borow, Tufts University
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3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 322
The Invention Itself: Building Up Identities at the Site of Teachers’ Practices
(Group Session)
The Invention Itself and Polysemic Transiting through the Social Intelligibility of Gender
Marcio Caetano, Federal University of Rio Grande
Paula Castro, State University of Paraíba
Voices of Teachers: Vulnerability and Poverty
Luis Borges, Carmen Mattos
State University of Rio de Janeiro
Paula Castro, State University of Paraiba
Inclusion in Public Administration: Developing Concepts, Building Up Identities
Sandra Melo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Developing Inclusion in the City of Rio de Janeiro: An Episode in a Day of a Primary School
Mônica Santos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
3:00pm – 4:15 pm
GSE 400
Exploring and Challenging “Achievement Gaps” and “Deficit Discourses”
of Minoritized Groups
Translingual Writing and the Subversion of Native Speaker Ideologies: A Case Study
Geeta Aneja, University of Pennsylvania
Meditations on the Subject of Rights: Epistemological Considerations in the Study of Citizenship in Education
M. Belén Hernando Llorens, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Making Sense of Achievement Gaps in Segregated Minority Schools
Rachel Garver, New York University
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 007
Object or Subject? Representation of the Multilingual and Multi Racial Child in
Literature and the Classroom
The Poverty of our Multi-Racial Imaginations: Problematizing the Multi-Racial Subject as Object in Children's
Literature
Erin Moira Lemrow, University of Notre Dame
A Postcolonial Analysis of Bilingual Immigrant Students’ Linguistic Experiences in Preschool
Amanda Irwin Miller, Tufts University
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4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 114
Language, Literacy, and Learning: Local/Global Perspectives
‘Kind of a Slang Between English and Afrikaans’: Teachers’ Perspectives on Language Diversity and Social
Inequality in a South African School
James Collins, State University of New York at Albany
Implementing a Literacy Education Project in Rural Sierra Leone
Nancy Allen, Peter McDermott, Pace University
This is Learning? The Struggle to Define Learning While on the Road in El Salvador
Ali Nedd Sakkal, Wake Forest University
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 120
Becoming Learners, Teachers, and Communities: Ethnographic Snapshots of Identity
Construction (Group Session)
English Learning as Cultivation of Language and Identity through Multiliteracy Practices: Glimpses from the
Classroom
Marisa Ferraro, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Complicating and Mediating Arab Culture: Critical Literacies in the College Language Classroom
Shaimaa Moustafa, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Becoming a Literacy Teacher: A Pre-service Teacher’s Identity Construction
Marsha Liaw, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reading Community: Social Activism-Themed Children’s Literature as Ethnographic Data
Maria José Botelho, University of Massachusetts Amherst
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 121
Qualitative Research for Advocates (Group Session)
Sarah Hobson, Kerri Valesey, SUNY Cortland
Charles Vanover, University of South Florida
Gioria Chilton, Creative Well Being Workshops
Nicola K Williams, Johns Hopkins University
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 124
“New” Ethnographic Methods in Teacher Education and Applications with Beginning Readers
Dialogic Authorial Approach to Creativity in Education: Transforming Deadly Homework in an Afterschool
Program
Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Chestnut Hill College
Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware
New Tools for Doing Ethnographic Research With Beginning Readers: Young Students as Co-Investigators
Carolyn Strom, New York University
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4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 200
Critical Conversations in Practitioner Research: An Interactive Session that Explores
Frameworks, Methods, Practices, and Possibilities (Practitioner Inquiry-Group Session)
Andy Danilchick, Sharon Ravitch
University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 203
Breaking the Silence: Immigrant Families’ Experiences with Immigration Policies and
Schooling (Group Session)
Sarah Gallo, The Ohio State University
Holly Link, University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 300
Owning our Professional Development: Becoming Science Teacher Leaders (Group Session)
Emily Klein, Monica Taylor, Montclair State University; Christine Costello, Kearny Schools; Regina Boriello, Monique Dituri
Clifton Schools; Joyce Weeg, Montclair Schools; Alison Mahfouz, Paramus Schools
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 322
Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Crossing Borders in Two US-Mexican
Educational Contexts
Precarious Cosmopolitanism: Double-Voiced Narratives of Transnational University Students on the TexasTamaulipas Border
Brendan O’Connor, Arizona State University
New Migrations-New Confrontations: Mexican Immigrant Youth Understandings of Race and Experience of
Inter-Ethnic Relations in a Post-Industrial Community
Roberto Martinez, City University of New York-The Graduate Center
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 400
Building Community through Distance Learning and Social Media
Synchronous LOTE Learning Community (SLLC): Building Capacity and Empowerment
Diane E. Lang, Orange-Ulster Board of Cooperative Educational Services
Diane W. Gomez, Manhattanville College
Earthquake Stories: Using Discourse Analysis of Social Media to Understand the Student Side of Institutional
Resiliency
Ginger Walker, Virginia Commonwealth University
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4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 427
Fostering STEM Identities for Underrepresented Groups in Three Supplementary
Enrichment Programs
A Study of the Experience of Female African-American Seventh Graders in a STEM After School Program
B. Fiona Hinds, AvancED Michigan
The Meaning of “Reciprocal Dialogue” in Curriculum Co-Construction: Recent Findings and Site Variation in
Two Head Start Programs Serving DLLs
Sunah Hyun, Christine M.McWayne, Jayanthi Mistry, Tufts University
Daryl Greenfield, University of Miami
Kimberly Brenneman, Rutgers University
Betty Zan, University of Northern Iowa
Mobilizing Across Difference: Remapping Urban Schooling Experiences
Shana Riddick, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Friday Evening Plenary
From the Fight to End Poverty to the
Quest to Quantify Teacher Quality:
Power/Knowledge in the History of Education Reform
Houston Hall
Hall of Flags
Presenter: Kathy Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction: Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania
Convenor: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Light Appetizers Will Be Served Beginning at 6:00 pm
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Saturday, 02/28/2015
8:30am - 9:45am
Saturday Morning Practitioner Inquiry Plenary
Houston Hall
Hall of Flags
Race, Place, and Justice: Possibilities for Publicly Engaged
Scholarship in Urban Communities
Presenter: Valerie Kinloch, Ohio State University
Introduction: Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania
Convenor: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 007
Multimodality and the Marginalized Student: Locating Agency and Identity in
Multimodal Classrooms (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Multimodality and the Marginalized Millennial: The Aesthetic Transduction of College Writing in a 21st
Century ‘underprepared’ Medial Landscape
Marilyn Buono, Hofstra University
"Stories invite us to come to know the world and our place in it": Ethnographic Writings in a
Multicultural Curriculum
Josefa Pace, Hofstra University
Co-constructing Identities within a First Grade Classroom: Literacy Labels and Identities
Sasha Ramlal, SUNY Oneonta
Constructing Multimodal Narratives as a Condition for Re-defining Identity and Establishing Agency in
Otherwise Marginalized Students
Melinda Smith, Hofstra University
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 008
Middle Schoolers and Teacher-Researchers: Engaging Students Through Poetry, Book
Clubs, RTI Intervention, and Sketchbooks (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Same Unit, Different Schools: Teaching through Book Clubs and Inquiry Groups
Marie Clevering, The Urban Assembly Academy of Arts and Letters
Media and Mentors: Enhancing Student Engagement in Poetry
Lexie Fichera, P.S./I.S. 49
Beyond Notebooks: Using Sketchbooks to Motivate Students to Write
Lauren Scott, MS 821 Sunset Park Prep Middle School
Improving Writing and Vocabulary through RTI Intervention and Heterogeneous Grouping
Andrew Wintner, Fahari Academy Charter School
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 114
Are We a Teacher Research Group? A PLC? A Leadership Group? Practices and
Possibilities For a Teacher-Led Inquiry Group (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Andrew Lee, Andy Danilchick
University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Gardy, Maria O’Keefe, Steve Williams
Downingtown Area School District
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10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 120
Poetry Inside Out – Translation as a “Contact Zone” for Languages, Cultures, and
Practitioners (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
PIO In Action: A Film with Meta-commentary from Clark Undergraduates
Lyor Dotan, Jeremy Albright, Celia Ringland, Margaret Foster, Savannah MacLean
Clark University
Researching Language, Nurturing Voices: Collaborative Engagement and Knowledge Building in PIO
Lori Simpson, Jesse Bicknell
Claremont Academy
Jie Park, Sarah Michaels
Clark University
“A Word Can Have Two Meanings”: Poetry Inside Out as a Site For Youth Research on Language
Safa Al Jeboure, Elvis Arancibia, St. Cyr Dimanche, Deborah Diaz Lembert
Claremont Academy
Abby Moon, Clark University
Chair: Vivian Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 121
Examining School Leadership and Institutional Systems through Teachers’ and
School Leaders’ Eyes
Exploring Teacher Leadership through Beginning Teachers’ Stories
Roseanne Rostock, Jeanne Vissa
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
Zora Wolfe, Widener University
The Moral Imperative of Bi-cultural Leadership: The Leader Laid Bare
Peggy Margaret Burrows, University of Canterbury
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 124
Rewriting The Script: Students Creating in Multiple Modalities in the Humanities
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Joshua Block, Science Leadership Academy
Science Leadership Academy Students
10:15am – 11:30am
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Indigenous/non-Indigenous Interaction and Engagement through Narrative
Consultant: Mere Berryman, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Consultant: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Reconciliation in (inter)action: Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relationship-building in Sites of Popular
Education
Stephen Kenneth Heinrich Peters, McGill University, Canada
Re-storying the Indian Residential School Experience with Young non-Indigenous Students
Daniela Tamara Bascuñán, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada
16
10:15am - 11:30a
GSE 203
Teacher Activism: The Struggle for Justice and Equity in Philadelphia Public Schools
“It’s 5:30. I’m exhausted. And I have to go all the way to f*%#ing Fishtown...”; or, Finding (Armed) Love
in a Hopeless Place
Mark Stern, Colgate University
Amy Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Democracy Thwarted or Democracy at Work? Coalitions and the Fight for Influence in the Philadelphia
Public Schools
Elaine Simon, Rand Quinn, University of Pennsylvania
Marissa Golden, Jody Cohen, Bryn Mawr College
Imagining Change: An Inquiry into Educators’ Experiences of Political Involvement in Philadelphia
Rhiannon M Maton, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 300
Translingual Writing in TESOL Teacher Education
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Geeta A Aneja, Kaini Gu, Wan Hee Kim, Mingyu Wang
University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 322
Race, Class, and Classrooms: Negotiating Intersectionality and Identity
(Practitioner Inquiry)
Exploring Race-Class Intersections in and Through Student Inquiry
Brian Ford, Montclair State University
Recovering and Uncovering: A Community’s Reaction to Racism in Its High School
Katie Lazdowski, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Conceptualizing “Urban Education” from Within: Literacy Teacher Preparation Students’ Sense-making
of their Field Experiences
Katrina Bartow Jacobs, University of Pittsburgh
Christopher Rogers, Kenloy Henry, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 400
Academic Literacy: Unpacking the Complexities of First Year College Writing Courses
The Skills to Pay the Bills: Transfer and the First-Year Writing Classroom
Sarah V. Seeley, Binghamton University
College Students’ Struggles with Critical Thinking & Argumentation in Writing
Rebecca Sharon Shargel, Towson University
Power Relations in the Borderlands: The Co-Construction of Language Ideologies in an Introductory
Composition Course
Jair Alejandro Munoz, University of Texas at El Paso
17
10:15am - 11:30am
GSE 427
Love. Dream. Do. Design Principles for Teacher and Pre-teacher Collaboration
(Practitioner Inquiry)
Samuel Reed, Amber Burnett,
U School
Irene Kipervasser, Jake Melman
U School/Temple University
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 007
Multimodal Explorations: Negotiations of Youth’s Storytelling Practices
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Storying [Social] Identities: A Multimodal Narrative Inquiry Study with Pre-Service Art Educators
Emily Bailin, Teachers College, Columbia University
Storytelling and Activism: Multimodal Practices of Young Adults
Ahram Park, Teachers College, Columbia University
Literacy Practices and Identity: Undocumented Youth
Cristina Salazar-Gallardo, Teachers College, Columbia University
Negotiating and Navigating Transnational Borderlands through Critical Media Making
Alexandra Thomas, Teachers College, Columbia University
Discussant
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 008
Classroom Practices, Multimodality, & Enacted Literacies: Reflections on Student
Engagement (Practitioner Inquiry)
Aesthetic Ethnography and Youth Media Production: How Six High School Students in Crete, Nebraska
Become Filmmakers
Elisabeth Reinkordt, No Coast Films (formerly University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Adolescents Take a Social Inquiry Stance Towards Addressing the Issues of Violence through Trade Card
Gaming
Nicole Elizabeth Sabatino, University of Pennsylvania
Can Embodiment Be Used as a Scaffold to Increase Comprehension in Dramatic Literature? A Mixed
Methods Approach
Austyn Tempesta, University of Pennsylvania
18
11:45am - 1:00pm
Culturally Responsive Practitioner Inquiry: Using Ethnographies to Reconsider
GSE 114
What We Know
Expanding the circle: An Ethnographic Study of Changing Student Demographics and Teacher Attitudes
Lesley Alison Gear, School District No. 50 Haida Gwaii, Canada
Practitioner Inquiry In the Museum Setting: Developing an Exhibition About the American Philosophical
Society’s Past and Present Role in Collecting Recordings and Documentation on Native American
Languages and Cultures
Tara McGowan, American Philosophical Society Museum
We Came Out of Nowhere and Won: Powerful Social Studies for a Changing World
Julie H. Carter, St. Johns University
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 120
It’s Not Whatever: Dangerous Culturally Responsive Teacher Development Because Our
Lives Depend on It (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Gerald Tiglao Reyes
UC Berkeley & ARISE High School
Ed Arimboanga Jr., Karen Salazar, Josette Neal de Stanton
ARISE High School
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 121
Empowering All Students through Digital Storytelling
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Kristin Nicole Rainville, Katie Cunningham, Victoria Fantozzi, Bill Gordh, Courtney Kelly
Manhattanville College
11:45-1:00pm
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Civic Engagement and Identity Building in Adult Education Classrooms
Consultant: Valerie Kinloch, The Ohio State University
Consultant: Vivian Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania
Becoming American in the Refugee Community: How Language Learning Shapes Understandings of Civic
Engagement
Amanda Leigh Barbour, State University of New York at Buffalo
The new three Rs: Reading, wRiting, and Readiness?
Amy R. Pickard, Rutgers University
19
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 203
Immigrant Youth Navigating Language and Identity through Speaking, Listening, and
Storytelling (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Erin Whitney, University of Pennsylvania, Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School
Kathy Brody, Annie Huynh, Noga Newberg, Debra Repak,Mayuko Perkins,
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 300
How We Used Practitioner Research to Address the Effects of Inequality of ELLs in the
Classroom in a Queens, New York Public School (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Maggie Fishman, Lindsay MacNaughton, Erin Loughran
ArtsConnection
Cheralene Kondel
New York City Department of Education
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 322
Making to Learn: The Opportunities of High School Makerspaces
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Amy Stornaiuolo, Phil Nichols, Veena Vasudevan, Jin Kyeong Jung
University of Pennsylvania
Sam Reed, U School
11:45am - 1:00pm
GSE 400
Selfhood, Public Identity, & Academia: Explorations of Identity Across Two Contexts
(Practitioner Inquiry)
Writing Selves Into Academic Spaces
Grace D. Player, Toby Martinez
University of Pennsylvania
Students Performing the Role of the Ideal Student: An Ethnographic Study of the Reading Experiences of
Elementary Students
David Costello, University of South Australia
20
1:30pm – 2:45 pm
Communities of Inquiry Symposium
GSE 203
Drawing Upon Places of Strength and Knowing:
Wakanyeja Communities of Inquiry Strengthen Early Childhood
Learning Opportunities with Native Children and Families
Wakanyeja ECE Initiative at the American Indian College Fund
Dr. Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Program Officer & Principal Investigator
American Indian College Fund, Denver, CO
Dr. Birgit Meany, Ilisagvik College, Barrow, AK
R. Cyndi Pyatskowit, College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI
Dr. Danielle Lansing, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Shelley Macy, Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, WA
Introduction: Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania
Discussants:
Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Lytle, University of Pennsylvania
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 007
Exploring the Impact of Pedagogical and Demographic Shifts on Teaching Practices
(Practitioner Inquiry)
The Promise of Lake Los Angeles: An ethnographic study of changing student demographics and teacher
attitudes in the Antelope Valley (AV) region of Los Angeles County
Justin Adam Gelzhiser, University of Pennsylvania
Processing a Pedagogical Shift: Exploring the Move From Prescriptive Teaching to Democratic Education
Brandon Miller, University of Pennsylvania
Managing Deficit Discourses and Subtractive Schooling Within Alternative Education: A Self-Study
Jenna Gwen Mitchler, University of Minnesota
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 008
Systems Approaches as a Means to Consider and Understand Teacher and Leadership
Communities
Utilizing the Complex Adaptive System Heuristic to Advance Urban School Leadership
Patrick McQuillan, Boston College
Activity Systems as a Framework for Exploring Teacher Community and Teacher Leadership
(Practitioner Inquiry)
Roseanne Rostock, Jeanne Vissa
Knowles Science Teaching Foundation
21
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 114
Building School-to-Youth Connections through Culturally Responsive and Participatory
Research Methodologies
From LREs to School-Community Connections: Examining Transformative Possibilities through
Collaborative Research
Korina Jocson, Ashley Carpenter, Charles Estus, Cameron Cox
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
When the School Day Ends: How We’re Really Spending Our Time
Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, University of Pennsylvania
Betsy Feiner, Meryl French, Greenwich Academy
"The more you know, the better": Reflecting on Students' Perspectives on Learning
Nastasia Lawton-Sticklor, Jie Park
Clark University
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 120
Voices Left Behind? Philadelphia, Youth Activism, and the Contemporary Moment
(Group Session)
“We’re Running the Show”: Youth Leadership in Youth Organizing
Jerusha O. Conner, Villanova University,
Sonia M. Rosen, Arcadia University
Speaking Truth to Power: Young People Tell How they are Set up for Failure
Barbara Ferman, Nick Palazzolo
Temple University
Youth Activism in the Age of New Media Technologies: Confronting the Philadelphia Schools’ Crisis
Rand Quinn, Veena Vasudevan, Tom Szczesny
University of Pennsylvania
Youth Media as an Organizing Tool: The Philadelphia Student Union and the Fight for Educational
Justice
Beth Patel, Philadelphia Student Union
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 121
Youth Researchers as Knowledge Constructors and Critical Readers
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
The Community Researchers Project
Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania
Community-University Partnership and Research
Grace D. Player, David Low, Lan Ngo
University of Pennsylvania
Aavo Reinvald, Albert Tanjaya, Central High School; Jacqueline Chow, Masterman School; Frianna Gultom, Independence
Charter School; Brenda Kwee, Folk Arts Culture Treasure Charter School; Jennifer Lie, Academy at Palumbo High School;
Erick Perez, Kirkbride School; David Setiawan, Folk Arts Culture Treasure Charter School
Friendship
Jennifer Lie, Jacqueline Chow, Aquinas Center
School Budget Cuts
Albert Tanjaya. Aquinas Center
Aavo Reinvald, Central High School
22
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 200
Data Analysis Consultation
Perspectives on Humanizing Pedagogies and Cultural Boundary-Crossing in
Urban Schools Serving Latina Children (Practitioner Inquiry)
Consultant: Kathy Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Consultant: Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania
Discursive Construction of My Home & Friends’ Homes by an Anglo Student Attending A MajorityHispanic Dual Language School
Jenny E Jacobs, Harvard University
Locating Humanizing Spaces in the Classroom: A Self-Study
Cyrene Crooms, Montclair State University
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 203
Crafting Multimodal Storytelling Spaces with Youth in Service of Educational Justice
(Group Session)
Lalitha Vasudevan, Kristine Kerr Ahram Park, Lydia Browne, Cristina Salazar Gallardo, Katie Newhouse
Teachers College, Columbia University
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 300
How Do We Teach For Joy and Justice in a Standard-Based Era?
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Kate O’Donnell, Katherine McClafferty, Alison Morgan
Graham Road Elementary School, Virginia
Latisha Nero, Jefferson Middle School, Washington D.C.
Jessica Brown, Sleepy Hollow Elementary School, Virginia
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 322
The Arts and Writing: Practitioners From the Philadelphia Writing Project's Summer
Institute II Share Their Experiences: Part One (Practitioner Inquiry)
Bethany Silva, Lorraine Ustaris, Timothy Boyle, Alethea Chisolm, Trina Allen, Angela Chan
Philadelphia Writing Project
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 400
Students’ Perceptions of Socioeconomic Status and the Impact on Relationships
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Audrey Grommers, Miss Porter’s School
Solum Onwuchekwa, Tsebelis, University of Pennsylvania
23
3:00pm – 4:15pm
GSE 427
Voice and Visibility: K-5 ESL Teachers Working Within and Against a Public Education
System to Create More Equitable Learning Opportunities for English Language Learners
(Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Kristin M. Larsen, University of Pennsylvania and The University of Delaware
Carrie Neely, Kate Copeland, Lynn Gallo, Denise Solon, Man Jiang, Yvonne Kunz, Brittany Zezima
The University of Delaware
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 007
Youth Participatory Action Research for Urban Teacher Education: Pre-Service Teachers
Becoming Civic Educators (Group Session)
Beth C. Rubin, Thea Abu El-Haj, Kevin Clay, Eliot James Graham
Rutgers University
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 008
Inquiry in Learning To Teach: Developing Action-Oriented Knowledge Among
Pre-Service Teachers (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Frances O'Connell Rust
University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 114
Identity Development For Teachers in a Third Space Teacher Research Group
(Group Session)
Daniel J LaSalle
University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 120
Power, Positioning, and Social Imagination: Exploring Possibilities and Challenges When
Teaching Using Dialogic and Dramatic Inquiry to Promote Inclusion in Elementary
Through College Classrooms (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Brian W. Edmiston, Youmna Diri-Rieder, Kathleen M. Farrand, Timothy J. San Pedro, Meredith Whittaker, Bridget N. Lee,
The Ohio State University
Respondent: Tim San Pedro
24
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 121
Critical Practitioner Research Across Urban Contexts: Inquiries into Supporting the
Learning of Racialized and Historically Marginalized Students (Group Session:
Practitioner Inquiry)
Exploring Critical Consciousness in Toronto’s Urban Classrooms: A Critical Practitioner Inquiry
Approach to Understanding and Improving Black Student Achievement
Nicole West-Burns, Karen Murray, Austen Koecher
OISE University of Toronto, Canada
(Re)Making Identities: A Case Study of Racialized Youth in the Steps to University Program in Toronto,
Canada
Airin Stephens, OISE University of Toronto, Canada
“Whose dreams are taken seriously?” Devaluation as Default in an Urban Academic Upgrading Program
Will Edwards, OISE University of Toronto, Canada
Chair/Discussant
Rob Simon, OISE University of Toronto, Canada
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 200
Lenses and Methods for Understanding Refugees’ Experiences with American
Educational Settings (Group Session)
Erin Kearney, Amanda Barbour, Lisa Roof
State University of New York at Buffalo
Nicole Nichter, State University of New York at Buffalo and Buffalo Public Schools
Tamara Alsace, Buffalo Public Schools
Jill Koyama, University of Arizona
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 203
Listening to the Silences: Performance (Group Session)
Charles Vanover, Heather McConnell
University of South Florida
Sarah Hobson, SUNY Cortland
Andrew Babson, University of Pennsylvania
Nicola Williams, Johns Hopkins University
Nancie Sanderson Byrne, Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia
Jenna Lam, Temple University
Barr Kisha, Playhouse West Philadelphia
25
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 300
Discussing Asymmetries in English Language Learner Spaces: Perspectives of Teachers, Students,
and Student Teachers
Contextualization Cues: Valuable Messages To Discover Immigrant Adults Learners’ Hidden Identities,
Voices and Needs In Classroom Discourses
Bingjie Zheng, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching Literacy With English Language Learners
Rosemarie Brefeld, University of Missouri
Teacher-Research Perspective: A Critical Approach To A Service-Learning ELT Project
Jessie Curtis, Rutgers University
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 322
Practitioner Inquiry, the Arts, and Writing: Practitioners from the Philadelphia Writing
Project’s Summer Institute II Share their Experiences: Part Two (Group Session:
Practitioner Inquiry)
Shirley Brown, Lisa Darnowsky, Michele Scutti, Jose Ramos, Annie Huynh, Shira Cohen,
Philadelphia Writing Project
4:30pm – 5:45pm
GSE 400
Teacher and Administrator Response to Teaching With Poverty In Mind:
A Work-in-Progress (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Kathy Ann Gephart, Janet Wisniewski
University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm-5:45pm
GSE 427
Social Justice and Activism as Catalysts For Learning Across Teaching and Learning
Communities (Practitioner Inquiry)
Epistemological Tensions In Teaching For Social Justice
Scott Storm, Beth Krone
Harvest Collegiate High School
“It Struck a Chord”: High School English As a Catalyst In Shaping Students’ Self-Perceptions
Peers Pontin, Tracy Ann
State University of New York at Albany
26
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Houston Hall
Hall of Flags
Saturday Evening Plenary
A Culturally Responsive Approach to Achieving
Educational Equity for Māori Secondary School
Students in New Zealand:
Considerations for Ethnography
Presenter: Mere Berryman, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Introduction: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Convenor: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday Evening Dinner
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