Friday, 02/27/2015 8:30am - 9:45am Opening Plenary
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 The Struggle for Social Justice Oriented School Governance Practices Across Three US Cities GSE 007
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 Exploring Education in an International Context: GSE 120 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
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 Youth Literacy Practices In and Out of School Sanctioned Spaces GSE 121
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 Buckley Marudas, Katharina Cerny 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 Data Analysis Consultation Language/Literacy Learning in a College Freshman Seminar and a Community-Based GSE 200 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 Exploring Multimodal Improvisations, Use of Social Media, and GSE 203 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 Teachers as Agents of Change within Classrooms and Schools GSE 300
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 Ethnography of Education in Russia and Ukraine: Challenges and Prospects GSE 322 (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 Riina-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 Diversity and Segregation: Negotiations Across Different Academic Contexts GSE 007
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 Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching, Identity Development, and GSE 008 Issues of Power and Play in Two 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
Play and Power in a Pre-School Classroom: An Exploration of Interdependencies Maria Persons, The Graduate Center, CUNY
11:45am - 1:00pm Philadelphia Bilingual Education Project GSE 114 (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 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 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-McCutchen, Lehman College, CUNY Maria Hantzopoulos, Vassar College 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 and University of Pennsylvania
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 Using Ethnographic Methods to Explore Latino Experiences Across Two Literacy Experiences: GSE 300 College Transition and Family Literacy
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 Gonzalez, 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 *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 007 Brian Street, King's College & University of Pennsylvania
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 008 Brian Edmiston, University of Ohio
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 114 Lalitha Vasudevan, Teachers College, Columbia University
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 120 Valerie Kinloch, Ohio State University
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 121 Mere Berryman, The University of Waikato
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 200 Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas at Austin
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 300 Kathy Hall, University of Pennsylvania
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 322 Jim Collins, University at Albany, State University of New York
1:30-2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 400 Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
1:30pm - 2:30 pm *Senior Scholar Roundtable GSE 427 Tarajean Yazzie-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-of- Understandings 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 Gonzalez, York College of the City University of New York
3:00pm – 4:15 pm Conceptualising Language in Context (Group Session) GSE 114
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 Whose Story is Heard? Reflections of American Education across Three Diverse GSE 120 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 Troubling Deficit Perspectives: Counter Narratives of Literacy Achievement GSE 121 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
Differentiating Students Alexandra Freidus, New York University
3:00pm – 4:15 pm Graduate Student Meeting Point GSE 124
This drop-in session provides a space for graduate students to informally gather to network and discuss their research.
There will be no facilitator or agenda. Light refreshments provided.
3:00pm – 4:15 pm Data Analysis Consultation GSE 200 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, University of Pennsylvania
Studying How Creative Communities Can Provide Alternative Pathways to Career Opportunity Krishnan Vasudevan, Craig Watkins, University of Texas at Austin
9 3:00pm – 4:15 pm Teachers as Critical Educators: GSE 300 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
3:00pm – 4:15 pm The Invention Itself: Building Up Identities at the Site of Teachers’ Practices GSE 322 (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 Exploring and Challenging “Achievement Gaps” and “Deficit Discourses” GSE 400 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 Object or Subject? Representation of the Multilingual and Multi Racial Child in GSE 007 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 Language, Literacy, and Learning: Local/Global Perspectives GSE 114
‘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 Becoming Learners, Teachers, and Communities: Ethnographic Snapshots of Identity GSE 120 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 “New” Ethnographic Methods in Teacher Education and Applications with Beginning Readers
GSE 124 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 Critical Conversations in Practitioner Research: An Interactive Session that Explores GSE 200 Frameworks, Methods, Practices, and Possibilities (Practitioner Inquiry-Group Session)
Andy Danilchick, Sharon Ravitch University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm Breaking the Silence: Immigrant Families’ Experiences with Immigration Policies and GSE 203 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 Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and Crossing Borders in Two US-Mexican GSE 322 Educational Contexts
Precarious Cosmopolitanism: Double-Voiced Narratives of Transnational University Students on the Texas- Tamaulipas 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 Building Community through Distance Learning and Social Media GSE 400
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 Fostering STEM Identities for Underrepresented Groups in Three Supplementary GSE 427 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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14 Saturday, 02/28/2015 8:30am - 9:45am Saturday Morning Practitioner Inquiry Plenary
Race, Place, and Justice: Possibilities for Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Urban Communities Houston Hall Hall of Flags Presenter: Valerie Kinloch, Ohio State University
Introduction: Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania Convenor: Nancy H. Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am Multimodality and the Marginalized Student: Locating Agency and Identity in GSE 007 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 Rewriting The Script: Students Creating in Multiple Modalities in the Humanities GSE 008 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Joshua Block, Science Leadership Academy Science Leadership Academy Students
10:15am - 11:30am Are We a Teacher Research Group? A PLC? A Leadership Group? Practices and GSE 114 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 Poetry Inside Out – Translation as a “Contact Zone” for Languages, Cultures, and GSE 120 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 Examining School Leadership and Institutional Systems through Teachers’ and GSE 121 School Leaders’ Eyes
Teacher and Administrator Response to Teaching With Poverty In Mind: A Work-in-Progress Kathy Ann Gephart University of Pennsylvania
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 Middle Schoolers and Teacher-Researchers: Engaging Students through Poetry, Book GSE 124 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
16 10:15am – 11:30am Data Analysis Consultation GSE 200 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
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 Translingual Writing in TESOL Teacher Education GSE 300 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Geeta A Aneja, Kaini Gu, Wan Hee Kim, Mingyue Wang University of Pennsylvania
10:15am - 11:30am Race, Class, and Classrooms: Negotiating Intersectionality and Identity GSE 322 (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
17 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
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 Multimodal Explorations: Negotiations of Youth’s Storytelling Practices GSE 007 (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
18 11:45am - 1:00pm Classroom Practices, Multimodality, & Enacted Literacies: Reflections on Student GSE 008 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
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. John’s University
11:45am - 1:00pm It’s Not Whatever: Dangerous Culturally Responsive Teacher Development Because Our GSE 120 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 Empowering All Students through Digital Storytelling GSE 121 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Kristin Nicole Rainville, Katie Cunningham, Victoria Fantozzi, Bill Gordh, Courtney Kelly Manhattanville College
19 11:45-1:00pm Data Analysis Consultation
GSE 200 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
11:45am - 1:00pm Immigrant Youth Navigating Language and Identity through Speaking, Listening, and GSE 203 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 How We Used Practitioner Research to Address the Effects of Inequality of ELLs in the GSE 300 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 Making to Learn: The Opportunities of High School Makerspaces GSE 322 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Amy Stornaiuolo, Phil Nichols, Veena Vasudevan, Jin Kyeong Jung University of Pennsylvania
Sam Reed, U School
11:45am - 1:00pm Selfhood, Public Identity, & Academia: Explorations of Identity Across Two Contexts GSE 400 (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 Exploring the Impact of Pedagogical and Demographic Shifts on Teaching Practices GSE 007 (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 Systems Approaches as a Means to Consider and Understand Teacher and Leadership GSE 008 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 Building School-to-Youth Connections through Culturally Responsive and Participatory GSE 114 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 Lara Guo, Alex Lamantia, Eliza Osman, Tatiana Stroud, and Betsy Feiner, 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 Voices Left Behind? Philadelphia, Youth Activism, and the Contemporary Moment GSE 120 (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 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 Youth Researchers as Knowledge Constructors and Critical Readers GSE 121 (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
Jacqueline Chow, Masterman School Frianna Gultom, Independence Charter School Brenda Kwee, Folk Arts-Culture Treasure Charter School A. Jennifer Lie, Academy at Palumbo High School Erick Perez, Kirkbride School Aavo Reinvald, Central High School David Setiawan, Folk Arts-Culture Treasure Charter School Albert Tanjaya, Central High School
22 3:00pm – 4:15pm Graduate Student Meeting Point GSE 124
This drop-in session provides a space for graduate students to informally gather to network and discuss their research. There will be no facilitator or agenda. Light refreshments provided.
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 Majority- Hispanic 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 Crafting Multimodal Storytelling Spaces with Youth in Service of Educational Justice GSE 203 (Group Session)
Lalitha Vasudevan, Kristine Kerr, Ahram Park, Lydia Browne, Cristina Salazar Gallardo, Katie Newhouse Teachers College, Columbia University
3:00pm – 4:15pm How Do We Teach For Joy and Justice in a Standard-Based Era? GSE 300 (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 The Arts and Writing: Practitioners From the Philadelphia Writing Project's Summer GSE 322 Institute II Share Their Experiences: Part One (Practitioner Inquiry)
Bethany Silva, Lorraine Ustaris, Timothy Boyle, Alethea Chisolm, Trina Allen, Angela Chan Philadelphia Writing Project
23 3:00pm – 4:15pm Students’ Perceptions of Socioeconomic Status and the Impact on Relationships
GSE 400 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Audrey Grommers, Solumtochukwu Onwuchekwa, and Persephone Tsebelis Miss Porter’s School
3:00pm – 4:15pm 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
) GSE 427 (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry
Kristin M. Larsen, University of Pennsylvania and The University of Delaware, English Language Institute Carrie Neely, Kate Copeland, Lynn Gallo, Denise Solon, Man Jiang, Yvonne Kunz, Brittany Zezima, Ann Parry The University of Delaware, English Language Institute
4:30pm – 5:45pm Youth Participatory Action Research for Urban Teacher Education: Pre-Service Teachers GSE 007 Becoming Civic Educators (Group Session)
Beth C. Rubin, Thea Abu El-Haj, Kevin Clay, Eliot James Graham Rutgers University
4:30pm – 5:45pm Inquiry in Learning To Teach: Developing Action-Oriented Knowledge Among GSE 008 Pre-Service Teachers (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Frances O'Connell Rust University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm – 5:45pm Identity Development For Teachers in a Third Space Teacher Research Group GSE 114 (Group Session)
Daniel J. LaSalle, Andy Danilchick, Indi Ekanayake, Gary Yin, Kirsten Dolan University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Knipps, Kathleen Dickerson, Sharae Graham Olney Charter High School
4:30pm – 5:45pm Power, Positioning, and Social Imagination: Exploring Possibilities and Challenges When Teaching Using Dialogic and Dramatic Inquiry to Promote Inclusion in Elementary GSE 120 Through College Classrooms (Group Session: Practitioner Inquiry)
Brian Edmiston, Stephanie Barrows, Kathleen Farrand, Timothy San Pedro, Cary Saxton The Ohio State University
Respondent: Timothy San Pedro, The Ohio State University
24 4:30pm – 5:45pm Critical Practitioner Research Across Urban Contexts: Inquiries into Supporting the GSE 121 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: Rob Simon, OISE University of Toronto, Canada
4:30pm – 5:45pm Lenses and Methods for Understanding Refugees’ Experiences with American GSE 200 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 Discussing Asymmetries in English Language Learner Spaces: Perspectives of Teachers, Students, GSE 300 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 Practitioner Inquiry, the Arts, and Writing: Practitioners from the Philadelphia Writing Project’s Summer Institute II Share their Experiences: Part Two (Group Session: GSE 322 Practitioner Inquiry)
Shirley Brown, Lisa Darnowsky, Michele Scutti, Jose Ramos, Annie Huynh, Shira Cohen, Philadelphia Writing Project
4:30pm-5:45pm Social Justice and Activism as Catalysts For Learning Across Teaching and Learning GSE 427 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 Saturday Evening Plenary
A Culturally Responsive Approach to Achieving Educational Equity for Māori Secondary School Students in New Zealand: Considerations for Ethnography Houston Hall
Hall of Flags
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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