Tentative 2008 Conference Schedule
(as of May 15th)
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
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SATURDAY, JUNE 7
Breakout Session #1
9:30-11:00am
1A: Symposium: Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom: Strategies from Urban Educators
Karen Manheim Teel, Holy Names University; Jennifer E. Obidah, University of the West Indies; Tarika Barrett, New York University; and Kimberly Mayfield, Holy Names University
1B: Curriculum Showcases: Innovative Courses for Pre-Service Teachers
Social Justice Education in Schools: A Graduate Course Linking Theory to K-12 Practice
Alison George and Bailey Jackson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
The Right to an Education: Reflections on Justice
Virginia McCormack, Ohio Dominican University
Social Foundations of Teaching and Learning: Education in a Democratic and Pluralistic Society
Linda Nowell, California State University at Sacramento
Breakout Session #2
11:15am-12:45pm
2A: Research Presentations: Critical Analyses of Teacher-Education Programs
Making the Invisible Visible: An Assessment of Illinois Teacher Preparation Programs' Inclusion of LGBTQ Issues
Therese Quinn, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and others
Educational Leadership and Teacher Training for Capacity Building and Social Justine in Thailand
Mohamed A. Nur-Awaleh, Illinois State University
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School
Mica Pollock, Harvard University
Social Justice: Rhetoric or Reality? ... An Evaluation of Teacher Preparation at the University of Texas at Austin
Jamie Stone, University of Texas at Austin
2B: Research Presentations: Learning from the Experiences of Students
Cyberbullying Internationally Increasing: New Challenges in Technology Generation
Ikuko Aoyama and Tony L. Talbert, Baylor University
Adult Bullying in Academia: Narratives from Gay Men of Color in Higher Education
Mitsu Misawa, University of Georgia
The Model Minority Stereotype and the Underachiever: Academic and Social Struggles of Underachieving Korean Immigrant High School Students
Gilbert C. Park, Ball State University
Maintaining Diversity in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An Action Research Ethnography
Pamela Quiroz, Vernon Lindsay, and Endea Murry, University of Illinois at Chicago
2C: Curriculum Showcases: Interactive Activities for Teacher-Education Courses
Idealized versus Raced Experience of Life: Preparing Educators to Eradicate "the [Racial] Gap Between the Promise of Our Ideals and the Reality of Our Time"
Devon Alexander, Oak Park and River Forest High School
"You've Wrecked Cosmo Forever!": Media Analysis in a Teacher Preparation Diversity Course
Sheila K. Marquardt, Michigan State University
Into the Wind: Teacher Education in the Slipstream
Kaia Tollefson and Eric Toshalis, California State University at Channel Islands
2D: Curriculum Showcases: Using Literature in K-16 Classrooms
Developing Critical Consciousness through Social Justice and Resistance Literature
Curtis Acosta, Tucson High Magnet School and University of Arizona
Media, Determinism, and Bigger Thomas: Reading Our Social Worlds through Richard Wright's Native Son
Noah Golden, City University of New York Graduate Center and Satellite Academy
Using Literature to Discuss Critical Issues
Michelle Reidel, Georgia Southern University; and others
Breakout
Session #3
1:15-2:45pm
3A: Research Presentations: Experiences of New and Continuing Teachers
Understanding Diversity: How New Teachers See the Diversity among Their Students
Nelson Graff, San Francisco State University
How Teachers Learn to Teach in the School Workplace
Hsiang-ling Huang, Indiana University
Struggling to Define "Teaching for Social Justice" through the Practices of Five Elementary School Teachers
Nora E. Hyland, Rutgers University
3B: Research Presentations: Cross-Disciplinary Conversations
Becoming Critical Mathematics Pedagogues: Three Teachers' Beginning Journey
David W. Stinson, Georgia State University
"It's Just a Movie!": Finding Facts within the Fiction through Collective and Connective Reading
Grisel Y. Acosta, University of Texas at San Antonio
Reframing Science Teaching: Towards Fostering a Critical Multicultural Scientific Literacy
Aamer Shujah, University of Windsor, Canada
Culturally Relevant Arts Integration: An Approach to Socially Responsive Curriculums
Kelly Hrenko, University of Minnesota
3C: Curriculum Showcases: More Interactive Activities for Teacher-Education Courses
Teaching Students from Diverse Cultures: Challenges and Solutions
Elaine Pierce Chakonas, Northeastern Illinois University
The Difficult but Essential Work of Discussing Stereotypes
Yasar Bodur, Georgia Southern University; and others
Reforming the Road to Jericho: Using Performative Pedagogy to Bridge Discourses
Mary Ann Reilly, Manhattanville College
3D: Curriculum Showcases: Social Studies Curriculum for K-16 Classrooms
Using the Internet as a Tool for Promoting Social Justice: An Important Skill for Pre-Service Teachers
Alberto Lopez-Carrasquillo, Northeastern Illinois University
Theater of the Assessed: Drama-Based Pedagogies in the History Classroom
Rachel Mattson, New York University
Camoflouged: Investigating How the U.S. Military Affects You and Your Community
Edwin Mayorga, New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE)
Breakout Session #4
3:00-4:30pm
4A: Symposium: Current Political Context of Education and Teacher-Education Reform
William Ayers, Pauline Lipman, David Omotoso Stovall, and others, University of Illinois at Chicago
4B: Research Presentations: More Cross-Disciplinary Conversations
The Implementation of Technology at a Fourth and Fifth Grade Elementary School
Adel T. Al-Bataineh, Illinois State University
Initial Response of University Teachers for Recapturing Spiritual and Cultural Values Into Science Education: The Case of Ethiopian People
Solomon Belay, Ontario Institute for the Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada
The Art of Social Justice: Visualizing Democracy in the Age of Standardization
Pablo Serrano, Northern Illinois University
Beyond Tacos and Pizza: Critical Literacy in the World Language Classroom
Rita Verma, Adelphi University
4C: Research Presentations: Texts, Voice, and Community
Teacher Films as Texts
Claire Fontaine, City University of New York Graduate Center
"That's Where the Power's At": Exploring Spaces of Power and Learning through Hip-Hop with Youth and Adult Teachers
Jung Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
Teaching Wilshire Bus: Exploring "Voices of America" in the Classroom
Karen Su, University of Illinois at Chicago
Making Connections between Black Migration and Mexican Immigration through Children's Literature and the Arts
Lucille Tomlinson, Marlene Tyler, and Cristina Menendez, Chicago Public Schools
4D: Curriculum Showcases: Teacher Professional Development
Challenging Oppressive Hegemonic Views: Encouraging Human Rights and Social Justice Perspectives in the Classroom
Elizabeth DeMulder, Stacia Stribling, Moni Day, and Elavie Ndura, George Mason University
Social Justice Critical Inquiry Project
Bree Picower, Symone Johnson, Dan Hildreth, Emily Eller, Veronica Cuerva, Valerie Bracco, and Emily Munzer, New York University
Working "Under the Radar" toward Teacher Understanding of Sexual Orientation
Laurie Puchner, Ann Taylor, and Nicole Klein, Southern Illinois University
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SUNDAY, JUNE 8
Breakout Session #5
9:30-11:00am
5A: Research Presentations: Innovative K-12 Co-Curricular Programs
Transnational Teaching Connections: Linkages and Learning
Janelle Johnson, University of Arizona
Teach America to Your Passion: Impact of the Chess Program on Alternative School Students
Mikhail Korenman, Community Christian Alternative Academy
Models of Tutoring Programs Launched at High Schools on the South-Side of Chicago and Suburbs
Tamara V. Korenman and Eileen Quinn Knight, Saint Xavier University; JoAnn Gesiakowska and Larry Ehretsman, Reavis High School
Revisiting a Student-Oriented Curriculum in the Nigerian Secondary School System
Roseline E. Tawo, University of Calabar, Nigeria
5B: Curriculum Showcases: New Programs within Teacher Education
Working from the Outside In: Transforming One Graduate School of Education
Mary R. Ferguson, University of Missouri at St. Louis
Growing Integrated Support Systems for Student Success
Bert Klunder, Illinois State University
Moved to Tears - Moved to Act
Judith Reed, Keene State College and World Educational Links; and Karen Saunders, Putney Central Elementary School
5C: Curriculum Showcases: Critical (Media) Literacy
PUSHing Pre-Service Teachers to Rethink Literacy
Cathleen C. Clara, Michigan State University
What Might Media Literacy Look Like in Practice?
Ian Esquivel, Toronto District School Board, Canada
What Might Critical Literacy Look Like in Practice?
Carol Ricker-Wilson, Toronto District School Board, Canada
Breakout Session #6
11:15am-1:00pm
6A: Symposium: Learning from Student Teachers
Kevin Schneider, Dana Munoz, Melissa Cartagena, and Luz Arroyo, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Lisa Marie Gregory, Israel Hernandez, Maribel Ortiz, Vigunya Sandy Voratanitkitkul, and Asif Junaid Wilson, University of Illinois at Chicago
6B: Research Presentations: Contesting "Public," "Democracy," "Social Justice"
Is Teaching for Social Justice and Democracy an Oxymoron?
Connie North, University of Maryland
As Democratic as We Can Be
John Duffy, National Louis University
Redlining the Lavender Menace: Restrictive School Covenants as a Way to Deny Access to Undesirables in Education
Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University; John Ploof, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and others
Polycultural Education as a Variant of Multicultural Education: Its Origins, Agenda, Development
Roman Bulgakov, I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University, Ukraine
6C: Research Presentations: Colonialism and Canadian Contexts
The Persistence of Professional Educational Practices that Reproduce Colonialism and Inequality
Carol Schick, University of Regina, Canada
What's Yours is Mine in White Settler Mythology
Valerie Mulholland, University of Regina, Canada
Language Diversity, Power, and Pre-Service Educator Belief Systems in Settler Postcolonial Saskatchewan
Andrea Sterzuk, University of Regina, Canada
6D: Curriculum Showcases: Addressing the "Isms" with Students and Student Teachers
Organizing the Curriculum: Labor's Voice in the Schools
Rob Linne and Laraine Wallowitz, Adelphi University
Picture Books for Critical Literacy
Kevin McGee, Eden Prairie Schools
Promoting Social Justice through Art
Ralph Raunft and Elizabeth Rossi, Miami University of Ohio
Teaching for Social Justice: Children's Literature in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Sara L. Young and Tara M. Nappi, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Breakout Session #7
1:30-3:00pm
7A: Research Presentations: Experiences of Pre-Service Teachers and Teacher Educators
On Democratizing Teacher Education
Paula Argentieri, University of California at Berkeley
"Should I Be Teaching?": A Novice Teacher Educator Grapples with Teaching toward Social Justice
Heather L. Horsley, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Disconnect of Idealized versus Realized Urban Teaching: Making Tangible Connections in Teacher Preparation
Eleni Katsarou, University of Illinois at Chicago
Poetry in Motion: Blurring the Boundaries in Teachers' Lives
Christopher Palmi, National-Louis University
7B: Curriculum Showcases: Linking Pre-Service Coursework with Communities
Journaling Project
Marsha Acerra and Elizabeth Himes, Ithaca College
Action for Illumination: Community-Based Research for Social Justice Teacher Education
Kate Kauper, DeeAnn Grove, and Caran Crawford, University of Iowa
TBA
7C: Curriculum Showcases: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology in K-16 Classrooms
Sustainability, Urban Permaculture in Science and Math Curriculum
Erica R. Davila, Arcadia University; and Jody Luna, Conscious Designs, Inc.
Learning How to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice
Rico Gutstein, University of Illinois at Chicago; George Carr, Veronica Gonzalez, Amparo Ramos, Rut Rodriguez, and Robert Welch, Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice
Designing Curriculum to Facilitate Digital Equity
Vivian Johnson, Hamline University
Breakout Session #8
3:15-4:45pm
8A: Research Presentations: Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers and Leaders
Urban Teacher Leadership Development for Equity-Based School Improvement
Sonia James-Wilson, University of Rochester
A Collaborative Intervention to the Lack of Male Teachers
Shaun Johnson, Indiana University
Using Participatory Action Research in a Teacher Training and Mentoring Program: Integrating Social Justice in Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Preparation
Kalyani Rai and Pa Y. Vang, Univeristy of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Social Justice and Teacher Education: Reflections from an African American Male Professor Teaching at a Predominantly White University
Robert W. Simmons III, Eastern Michigan California
8B: Curriculum Showcases: Contexts for Interdisciplinary Teaching
Unpacking What It Means to Teach and to Learn in Urban Institutions: Voices from the Field
Yolanda Majors and Sana Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago
Messages We Send Students: Connecting Critical Media Literacy to Content Areas
Adriane M. Slaton, Michigan State University
Soul Voices, Sound Changes
Laura Marie Thompson, Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy
Post-Conference Workshop on Publishing for Emerging Scholars
5:00-7:00pm
Designed for emerging scholars (graduate students and recent graduates) in the field of teacher education and social justice, this workshop shares tips on publishing books and journal articles. The Director of the Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, will lead this workshop. No registration necessary.
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