Join BU Wheelock and other experts from Boston University at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), taking place April 23–27, in Denver, Colorado. The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.”
BU Wheelock and Dean Penny Bishop also cordially invite AERA attendees to join a special reception for alumni, faculty, and friends. The reception will be held on Friday, April 25, 7–9 pm, and will take place at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, Fourth Floor, Capitol Ballroom 7. RSVP for the BU Wheelock AERA reception.
Information is subject to change, so please check the official AERA schedule for any updates or changes to these sessions.
Wednesday, April 23
9–10:30 am
Pláticas with Veteran Teachers: Centering Equity in Teaching is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
BU: Eleonora Villegas-Reimers, Janine Bempechat
Towards Renewal and Repair: Crossing Boundaries and Building Hybrid Contexts in International Digital Literacies Research
BU: Elena Forzani
10:50–12:20 pm
Co-designing Equitable AI for Collaboration: Forefronting Relational Imaginations towards Expansive Technological Possibilities
BU: Michael Alan Chang
12:40–2:10 pm
‘Even-Handed Treatment of All Sides’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Massachusetts Anti-Discriminatory School Committee Proposals
BU: Lauren Funk
Academic Norms for STEM Graduate Students: Assessing Identity and Advising
BU: Hanyun Cui, Jerry Whitmore, Jr., Insook Kang
2:30–4 pm
Longitudinal Associations between Multiple Forms of Bias-Based Bullying Victimization and Adolescent Functioning
BU: Melissa K. Holt, Katharine Parodi, Nicolina Fusco, Emily Hamer
An Evaluation of Boston vs. Bullies: Effectiveness at Changing Bullying Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors (poster session)
BU: Melissa K. Holt, Jennifer Greif Green, Olivia Wyatt, Danielle Reeves
Longitudinal Associations between Multiple Forms of Bias-Based Bullying Victimization and Adolescent Functioning (poster session)
BU: Melissa K. Holt, Katharine Parodi, Nicolina Fusco, Emily Hamer
Two Decades of Teachers’ Perspectives on Secondary Reading Intervention: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research
BU: Katherine Frankel
Thursday, April 24
8–9:30 am
Action Spaces to Support Teaching Critical Consciousness: Risk-Taking Within Professional Learning Communities
BU: Christina Dobbs
9:50–11:20 am
Div C Fireside Chat: From Proposal to Defense: Navigating the Ph.D. Dissertation Journey
BU: Annabel Stoler
1:45–3:15 pm
Chinese International STEM Doctoral Students Navigating Lab Rotations
BU: Erning Henry Chen
Teachers’ Perceptions of Advisory as a Space for Nurturing Adolescents’ Civic Development and Critical Consciousness
BU: Christina Dobbs
3:35–5:05 pm
Shifting Identity: A First-Year Teacher-Educators’ Duoship
BU: Lauren Funk
A District’s Quest for Equitable Homework Policy
BU: Janine Bempechat
Advancing Inclusive STEM Teaching at a National Scale
BU: Alexandria Yen, Sarah Chobot Hokanson
7:15–8:45 pm
Vocabulary SIG Business Meeting
BU: Christina L. Dobbs (participant)
Friday, April 25
8–9:30 am
Designed to Silence: How Discriminatory Censorship Laws are Impacting Teachers
BU: Kaylene Stevens, Erin Fife, Varsha Kulkarni
Practicing the Emotional Freedom Technique: How Black Girls and Women Can Heal Race & Gender Injuries Produced in Schools and Society
BU: Azaria I. Cunningham
Toward a Poetics of Attunement in Educator Learning
BU: Beth Warren, Xi CiCi Yu, Maria C. Olivares
9:50–11:20 pm
Five Years Later: Reflecting on Institutional Attempts to Repair Pandemic-Era Harms
BU: Anthony Abraham Jack (discussant)
Effectiveness of Enhanced Core Reading Instruction (ECRI) for Student in Tier 2
BU: Nancy J. Nelson
Unmasking “Righteous Rage:” Centering the Voices of Black and Girls’ of Color in Pedagogies of Resistance
BU: Davena Jackson
Exploring Signs in Life: Language and Literacy Practices of a Deaf Adolescent in Nonsigning Environments
BU: Betsy Beckert
3:20–4:50 pm
Creating a Triad of Mediation to Facilitate White Teacher Candidates’ Learning of Race and Racism
BU: Azaria I. Cunningham
7–8:30 pm
Research in Mathematics Education Membership Meeting
BU: Meghan Shaughnessy (chair)
Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Educational Justice SIG Business Meeting and Reception
BU: Andrew R. King
Friday, April 25: BU Wheelock Reception
Join Dean Penny Bishop and BU Wheelock faculty in attendance at AERA for this special event.
Friday, April 25, 7–9 pm
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, Fourth Floor, Capitol Ballroom 7
RSVP for the BU Wheelock AERA reception.
Saturday, April 26
8–9:30 am
What Resistance Looks Like: Stories from Educators Impacted by Discriminatory Censorship Laws
BU: Kaylene Stevens, Erin Fife
9:50–11:20 am
Infrastructuring for Politicized Care: Building AI-Supported Collaboration Tools in a Long-term Research-Practice Partnership
Michael Alan Chang
Love Is Praxis: Lived Experience-To-Classroom Lessons Through the Voices of Disabled Students, Practitioners, Mothers, and Siblings
BU: Azaria I. Cunningham
Collective Responsibility & Social Identities: Learning from One Young Person’s Engagement as a Youth Teacher
BU: Ashley Houston-King, Katherine Frankel, Eli Tucker-Raymond, Maria C. Olivares
Kindergarten Teachers’ Explicit Vocabulary Instruction During Informational Text Read-Alouds and Variation by Classroom Characteristics
BU: Sen Wang
11:40–1:10 pm
Academic Development of Chinese Adolescents: A Systematic Perspective of Child, Family, School, and Culture
BU: Yawei Huang (chair)
Development and Psychometric Validation of a 12-item Scale Measuring Perceived Academic Stress of Adolescents
BU: Yawei Hwang, Jennifer Grief Green, Michael A. Medina
Perceived Oppression to Involved Conversations: A Qualitative Inquiry into Oppression Perceived by Asian American Youth
BU: Soe Young Lee and Xinyu (Janet) Gu
1:30–3 pm
Missteps Since 1958: Will We Continue Down This Path of Educational Inequity?
BU: Jerry Whitmore, Jr., Odelia Simon, Nina Cesare, Derrick Lathan
Div G Fireside Chat: Strategic Silence & Bold Resistance: Navigating Educational Renewal in an Era of Oppression
BU: Davena Jackson
A Difficult-Ish Day: Social Studies Teachers’ Approaches to (and Reasons For) Teaching 1/6/21
BU: Lauren Funk, Rob Martinelle, Brigid Rowlings
Undoing the Harm: Race, Representation, and Repair Across Schooling Contexts
BU: Tina Durand (chair)
3:20–4:50
“It Builds Bonds Between People”: Sport Participation and Belonging Among Transgender and Gender Diverse High-Schoolers
BU: Aidan Kraus, Melissa K. Holt, Olivia Wyatt, Nicolina Fusco
Exploratory Study: Iterative Development of an Evidence-based Mathematics Gaming Intervention
BU: Nancy J. Nelson
Improving Generated Feedback for Novice Teachers within DCS Through the Expertise of Teacher Educators
BU: Erin Barno
5:10–6:40 pm
Back Then, Over There, Never Here, Never Now: Fascism According to K-12 Social Studies Standards
BU: Rob Martinelle, Joe Lake, Lauren Funk
Teacher Researcher Findings & Reflections on PAR
BU: Ashley Houston-King
A Collaborative Partnership to Understand and Support Instructional Practice for Multilingual Learners in Elementary Science
BU: Jennifer Altavilla-Giordano, Eve Manz
Sunday, April 27
8–9:30 am
Regarding Pedagogical Shock: Component #1 of An Endarkened Feminist Approach to Revolutionizing Teacher Consciousness
BU: Azaria I. Cunningham
9:50–11:20 am
Duoethnography as a Way of Being for Women of Color in White Academia
BU: Christina Dobbs
1:30–3 pm
Career Planning among PhD Students in the United States: A Systematic Review of Literature
BU: Kuang Li, Sarah Chobot Hokanson, Sophie Ailsa Lewis, Daria Ivleva