Your ϳԹ Guide to AERA 2021
Our faculty, students, and alumni will be busy presenting andlearning. While we will miss the camaraderie that accompanies in-person gatherings, we look forward to supporting and exchanging ideas with colleagues and friends online. Use this guide to follow and support ϳԹ researchers and their work.
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Thursday, April 8, 2021
Developing and Studying Mathematics Understandings
Thurs, April 8, 10-11:00 a.m. (MDT)
Shape Composition as a Progression of Spatial Reasoning Sophistication
Author: Sarah Wellberg
Embracing Queer Futures in a Time of Rupture: Conversatons Between Queer Studies Faculty and Graduate Students
Thurs, April 8, 10-11:30 a.m. (MDT)
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Panelist: José Lizárraga
Connections and Relationships Shaping and Redefining Queerness in Education
Thurs, April 8, 10-11:00 a.m. (MDT)
Cultivating a Queer Mind-set: How One elementary School Teachier IS “Rattling Common Sense”
Authors: Bethy Leonardi and Sara Staley
Critical Literacies: Agency, Place, Story
Thurs, April 8, 12-1:00 p.m. (MDT)
Seeking Through Lines: Storytelling With Students to Support Epistemic Agency in English Language Arts Classrooms
Author: Kristina Stamatis
Computer and Internet Applications in Education Poster Session
Thurs, April 8, 1-2:00 p.m. (MDT)
Exploring A.I. Ethics With Stories, Comics, and Chatbots in an Online Summer Camp
Authors: Benjamin Walsh and Bridget Dalton
Division K Section 7: Bilingual/Multilingual Roundtable
Thurs, April 8, 2-3:00 p.m. (MDT)
Practicing Teachers’ Perceived Pedagogical Challenges and Successes Post-Completion of a Bilingual-Bicultural Education Certification
Author: Rebecca E. Linares
Schools Working to Support Gender and Sexual Diversities
Thurs, April 8, 2-3:00 p.m. (MDT)
Race as the Starting Place: Equity Directors Addressing Gender and Sexual Diversity in K-12 Districts
Authors: Liz Meyer and Page Valentine Regan
Friday, April 9, 2021
Equity and Ableism in Preservice Teacher Education
Fri, April 9, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (MDT)
“[It] Did Not Cross My Mind”: Teacher Candidates’ Conceptualizations of Disability and Language Learning
Author: Rebecca E. Linares
Queering Concepts of Teaching and Learning
Fri, April 9, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (MDT)
“Throw the Brick”: Teaching for Social Change Within the Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Author: Page Valentine Regan
Attending to Complex Lives in Communities
Fri, April 9, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
Can I Get a Witness? Speculative Fiction as Testimony and Counterstory
Author: Stephanie Toliver
English Learners with Disabilities and Opportunity to Learn
Fri, April 9, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
We Value What We Experience: Translanguaging to Increase Learning Opportunities for Emergent Bilinguals With Dis/abilities
Author: Rebecca E. Linares
Identifying Supportive Conditions for Education Partnerships
Fri, April 9, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
What District Conditions Matter for Productive Parenting?
Author: Caitlin Farrell
Student Discipline Policies and Practices
Fri, April 9, 2:10-3:10 p.m. (MDT)
Weaving Wide and Deep: School Discipline Rooms as Nets of Social Control
Author: Kathryn Wiley
Place and Boundary-Making
Fri, April 9, 2:10-3:10 p.m. (MDT)
Chair: Trang Tran
Division K Fireside Chat. Accepting Education Responsibility in Teacher Education: Actions Toward Racial Justice and Equity
Fri, April 9, 2:10-3:40 p.m. (MDT)
Panelist: Elizabeth Bohl
Composing Just Futures
Fri, April 9, 2:10-3:40 p.m. (MDT)
Freedom Dreaming in a Broken World: The Black Radical Imagination in Black Girls’ Science-Fiction Stories
Author: Stephanie Toliver
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Ethical and Conceptual Analysis of Science, Technology, and STEAM in Education
Sat, April 10, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (MDT)
Technology and Teaching: A Moral Perspective
Author: Matthew Hastings
Self-Study, Mentoring and the Next Generation of Teacher Educators
Sat, April 10, 7:30-8:30 a.m. (MDT)
Sense-Making of the Field Coach Experience: A Collaborative Self-Study by Developing Teacher Educators
Authors: Kristen Driscoll, Elizabeth Bohl, and Mary Beth Snow Balderas
We Are Not OK: Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sat, April 10, 8:40-9:50 a.m. (MDT)
Discussant: José Lizárraga
Expanding Opportunities for Equity-Based Practice: A Collaborative Study of Implementation
Sat, April 10, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
Sustaining Project-Based Learning Over time:What Makes a New Practice Stick?
Authors: Ashley Potvin, Alison Boardman, and Kristina Stamatis
How Grassroots Activism Can Challenge Marketization of Schools
Sat, April 10, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
Teacher Dissent in a City of Market Reform: The Multiple Meanings of Activism
Authors: Terrenda White and Erin Kurtz
Reproduction of Educational Inequalities by Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Language
Sat, April 10, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
The Price of Opportunity
Authors: Christopher Saldaña and Kevin Welner
The Power of Youth for Communal and Educational Change
Sat, April 10, 8:40-10:10 a.m. (MDT)
Engage for What? Interactions Between Normative and Political Forces and Democratic Youth Participation
Author: Julia Daniel
Critical Digital Pedagogies: Educators, Parents and Researchers Co-Designing Consequential Learning Through Play and Transformative Agency
Sat, April 10, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (MDT)
Chairs: Arturo Cortez and José Lizárraga
Disrupting Firewalls by Rewriting the Code: Dismantling Oppressive Social Structures Through Gaming
Authors: Arturo Cortez and José Lizárraga
Leveraging Community-Building Through Digital Game Play in Order to Foster Healing
Authors: Katilin Baca, Arturo Cortez and José Lizárraga
Race to Discourse: Organizing Digital Tools to Support Critical Conversations ϳԹ Race
Authors: Arturo Cortez and José Lizárraga
Recessing School: Bridging Play, Joy, and Learning for Liberation
Authors: Beatriz Salazar-Núñez, Arturo Cortez, and José Lizárraga
District-Level Reforms for Equity: Politics and Implementation Challenges
Sat, April 10, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (MDT)
The Power of Education Regimes in Shaping (Counter)Hegemonic Policies and Politics
Author: René Espinoza Kissell
Explorations of Past and Future: Narrative Spaces of Teaching and Learning
Sat, April 10, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (MDT)
Figured Worlds of Addiction: A Content Analysis of 10 Young Adult Literature Texts
Author: Daniel Moore
Understanding Teachers as Learners Through Their Collaborative Sense-Making
Sat, April 10, 12:30-2:00 p.m. (MDT)
A Critical Collective: Lived Experiences and Teachers’ Sense-Making ϳԹ Discussions of Gender, Sexuality, and Immigration
Authors: Erica Caasi, Emily Yerkes, and Elizabeth Dutro
Fostering Deeper Learning in Research-Practice Partnerships: Theoretical and Practice Perspectives
Sat, April 10, 2:10-3:40 p.m.(MDT)
Chair: Caitlin Farrell
Co-created Learning: Interest Surveys and Content Dissemination
Authors: William Penuel and Kerri Wingert
Learning with Mixed-Reality Technologies
Sat, April 10, 2:10- 3:40 p.m. (MDT)
Discussant: José Lizárraga
The Ethics of Pande