Join BU Wheelock and other experts from Boston University at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), taking place April 11–14, in Philadelphia, Penn. The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.”
Please check the official AERA schedule for more information about the sessions. All times are in ET and subject to change.
Thursday, April 11
9–10:30 am
Does the Compass Circle Practice Improve Teachers’ Emotional State? Results Using the Experience Sampling Method
BU: Alexandra Allen
10:50–12:20 pm
Justice-Oriented Collaborators (JOCs): Working in Solidarity to Do Soul Work to Support and Affirm Black Students
BU: Davena Y. Jackson, Ashley Houston-King (chair)
A Meme-ingful Way to Collectively Analyze Mathematical Cultural Beliefs
BU: Gregory Benoit
Racial Identity and School Belonging Across the COVID-19 Pandemic
BU: Michael Alan Medina
12:40–2:10 pm
Race and Mental Health Referrals: The Relationship Between Student Demographics and Likelihood of Teacher Referral
BU: Elizabeth A. Bettini, Jennifer Greif Green, Melissa K. Holt
Expanding Multilingual Learners’ Access to College: Can High Schools Make a Difference?
BU: Yasuko Kanno, Erning Chen, Kuang Li, Nicholas David
Teachers On the Verge of Leaving: Using Pláticas to Understand Why They Stay
BU: Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Janine Bempechat
2:30–4:00 pm
Reexamining the Tools We Use: A Qualitative Inquiry into Overlooked Assumptions in Critical Consciousness Measurements
BU: Soe Young Lee, Christina L. Dobbs
Developing the Debate-Inspired Classrooms Observation Guide in a Research-Practice Partnership
BU: Soe Young Lee, Jonathan Zaff, Yawei Huang, Sarah Mayper, Leal Carter
4:20–5:50 pm
How Do Teachers Who Were English Learners Make Sense of the English Learner Label?
BU: Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano
Friday, April 12
7:45–9:15 am
The Anti-Syllabus as a Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Approach to Online Instruction
BU: Lindsey A. Chapman
Preparing Inclusive Teachers: A Systematic Review of Teacher Educator Pedagogies for Inclusive Practice
BU: Tashnuva Shaheen
Centering Africa in the Curriculum
BU: Elsa Wiehe
Identifying and Recontextualizing Problems of Practice Using Representations of Leading Classrooms Mathematics Discussions
BU: Eric Cordero-Siy
9:35–11:05 am
Examining Science Identity: Contributions of Social Factors to Individuals’ Belongingness to Science and Explanatory Tendency
BU: Aarti Bodas, Deborah Kelemen, Malvika Khandelwal, Cristian Latorre, Ankita Kumar
Boosting Curiosity and Early Science Learning with Storybooks
BU: Hannah Puttre (chair), Kathleen H. Corriveau
Teaching Critical Consciousness Together: How PLCs Support Middle School Teachers in Teaching Potentially Controversial Topics
BU: Christina L. Dobbs
11:25–12:55 pm
Prioritizing Social Outcomes with and for Diverse Readers: A Conceptual Framework for Equity-Oriented Sciences of Reading Assessment
BU: Elena Forzani
3:05–4:35 pm
Exploring the “Co”-Ness of Group Teaching: Distributed Authority and Collective Responsibility in Youth Pedagogical Development
BU: Eli Tucker-Raymond, Xi Cici Yu, Juan Miguel Guiterrez, Katherine K. Frankel, Maria C. Olivares, Ashley Houston-King, Clifford Freeman, Perpetua Saintine
Facilitating Mathematics Discussions: Case Study of Attending to Mathematical Language and Mathematical Development and Participation
BU: Eric Cordero-Siy
Designing Professional Development That Supports Teachers in Leading More Equitable Discussions
BU: Meghan M. Shaughnessy
“It Changed How I Feel About Being a Teacher”: COVID-19’s Effect on Teacher Identity Development
BU: Erin Nerlino
Educational Design for Nurturant STEM Learning: A Framework in the Making
BU: Maria C. Olivares, Yuxuan Wu
4:55–6:25 pm
Preparing Elementary Teachers to Support Students with Disabilities in Mathematics
BU: Nathan Jones
Centering Equity in the Planning and Implementation of Universal Pre-Kindergarten
BU: Kyle DeMeo Cook, Stephanie Michelle Curenton, Olivia Nazaire, Daphne Babrow, Christine Haas, Sara Moran
Saturday, April 13
7:45–9:15 am
Building Community Through Collaborative Observation: Structures and Moves to Intervene on Biases and Support More Equitable Instruction
BU: Meghan M. Shaughnessy
Advancing Cultural Humility into Special Education Practice: Suggestions for Working With Minoritized Students With Disabilities
BU: Elsie Choe
9:35–11:05 am
Disrupting by Invitation Scholarship in International Digital Literacies Research
BU: Elena Forzani
Remixing the Word and the World: Critical Computational Literacies in Virtual and Physical Spaces
BU: Eli Tucker-Raymond, Clifford Freeman
The Impact of Skin Tone, Racial Solidarity, and Centrality on Black Emerging Adults’ Psychosocial Outcomes
BU: Leanne Villareal
Meaning-Making About the Salience of Race in Middle School Among Adolescent Students of Color
BU: Tina M. Durand, Efe I. Shavers
11:25–12:55 pm
Loving Blackness is Soul Work: Cultivating a Justice-Oriented Stance and Praxis
BU: Davena Y. Jackson
High School Educational Outcomes for Justice-Involved Youth: General Trends and Predictors
BU: Yawei Huang, Jonathan Zaff, Soe Young Lee
Enabling Fairer Interpretations of Learning Analytics Data Using Multiple Visualizations: A Co-Design Study
BU: Qiyuan Li
1:15–2:45 pm
Learning in Culturally Sustaining Assessments of Computational Explorations
BU: Eli Tucker-Raymond
Open Office Hours with Program Officers from the Institute of Education Sciences and the National Science Foundation Directorate for STEM Education (EDU)
BU: Nathan Jones (chair)
“What is ‘Tenure-Worthy’ Work?”: A Duoethnographic Exploration of What ‘Counts’ in Teacher Education
BU: Christina L. Dobbs
3:05–4:35 pm
A Critical Gender Analysis of State Educational Agency Policy During COVID-19
BU: Erin Nerlino
6:45–8:15 pm
Vocabulary SIG Business Meeting and Reception
BU: Christina L. Dobbs (officer)
Sunday, April 14
9:35–11:05 am
Orienting Network Improvement Communities for Equity-Focused School Improvement: Insights from a Nonprofit-District-University Research-Practice Partnership
BU: Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, Hardin L.K. Coleman
Measuring Teachers’ Momentary Affect: An Experience Sampling Study
BU: Nathan Jones, Lindsey Kaler
Online Professional Learning Community: White Teachers Facing and Disrupting Their Own Oppressive Classroom Practices
BU: Laura M. Jiménez, Betsy Beckert, Brenda Le Blanc Jaster
11:25–12:55 pm
The Impact of Prohibitive Legislation on Elementary Social Justice Mathematics Lesson Plans
BU: Meghan Riling
White Adolescents Perceptions of Ethnic-Racial School Climate and Identity: Complexity in “Seeing the World Differently”
BU: Tina M. Durand, Anna Skubel
1:15–2:45 pm
Exploring Teacher Characteristics and Contextual Factors in Early Reading Instruction to Improve Implementation
BU: Marissa Pilger Suhr, Nancy J. Nelson Fien, Jessica Markham Anderson
The Critical Role of Teacher Assessment for Translating the Science of Reading into Effective Teaching Practice
BU: Nathan Jones, Nancy J. Nelson Fien
Centering Cripistemologies in Culture Circles: Building Community and Critical Pedagogy in Teacher Education
BU: Kathryn M. Meyer
Comparing Teacher Turnover Intentions to Actual Turnover: Cautions and Lessons for the Field
BU: Elizabeth A. Bettini
Career and Future Readiness: Pathways to Social Mobility and Generational Wealth
BU: V. Scott H. Solberg, Chong Myung Park, Luis Esquivel, Mason Blake
E-Learning in South Korea: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Research Trend Analysis
BU: Yeji Cho
3:05–4:35 pm
Merit, Fit, and Diversity Unpacked: How Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences Reproduces Inequality
BU: Leping Wang
Homework as Adversary, Reading as Ally: A Discursive Analysis of Teachers’ Decisions to Eliminate Homework
BU: Janine Bempechat
4:55–6:25 pm
Research in Mathematics Education SIG Business Meeting and Social
BU: Meghan M. Shaughnessy (chair)