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 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 10 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 11 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 12 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 13 This page intentionally left blank 14 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 15 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 27
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