AM 2013 Daily Preview
AM 2013 Daily Preview
 
Sunday, April 28
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Welcome to Day 2 of the AERA Annual Meeting. Each morning, AM2013 Preview will provide tips on major sessions and events, as well as other updates.

Join the conversation: Use the conference hashtag #AERA13, and follow AERA on Twitter at @AERA_EdResearch and @AERA13.

Questions during your stay? Email AERA staff at annualmtg@aera.net

Highlighted Sessions - Sunday, April 28

Welcoming Orientation for New Members and First-Time Attendees

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 7:00 - 8:00 am
Place:
Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Imperial Ballroom

Chairs: William G. Tierney, University of Southern California; Barbara Schneider, Michigan State University; Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association

AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award (2012) Address: Guadalupe Valdés (#AERAEd)

Getting Language Right: New Standards and K-12 English Language Learners
Time: 
Sun, Apr 28 - 10:35 am - 12:05 pm
Place: 
Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 5

Guadalupe Valdes will address a key aspect of the equity and opportunity challenge in the American context: The future education of English Language Learners (ELLs). Valdes will focus on language itself and the often controversial questions that surround language. Further, she will discuss the difficulties of “getting language right” in the crafting of English Language Proficiency Development Standards, the fundamental component of all ELL state policies.

Against the Odds: A Discussion With National Public Radio Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez (#AERAOdds)

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 10:35 a.m. - 12:05 pm
Place:
Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A

A native of Nogales, Mexico, and a former elementary and middle school teacher, Claudio Sanchez focuses on the “three p’s” of education reform: politics, policy and pedagogy. He has reported recently on Common Core, the falsifying of test scores, and the Pell Grant recipient graduation rates. In this session, Sanchez will discuss the challenges facing low-income students and educators, at all levels of education, in today’s America.

Can’t attend the session? Register to watch the livestream.

Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the Continuous Improvement Initiative, and Having Research Matter

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 10:35 am - 12:05 pm
Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 8
Presenter: John Q. Easton, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
Discussants: Anthony S. Bryk, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Catherine Snow, Harvard University; Susanna Loeb, Stanford University

American Indian and Alaskan Native Education and the Challenge of Poverty

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 12:25 - 1:55 pm
Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 4
Presenters: Matthew Snipp, Stanford University; Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Arizona State University

Education, Poverty, and School Reform: Perspectives From the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education (#AERAReform)

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 2:15 - 3:45 pm
Place:
Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 4
Chair: James A. Banks, University of Washington; Participants: Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Prudence L. Carter, Stanford University; Lois Weis, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College; Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

Can’t attend the session? Register to watch the livestream.

Challenges and Opportunities for Education Data and Statistics: The Current State and Well-Being of NCES (National Center for Education Statistics)

Time: Sun, Apr 28 - 2:15 - 3:45 pm
Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 7

Presenter: Jack Buckley, Commissioner, National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education

Discussants: Susan M. Dynarski, University of Michigan; Jane Hannaway, American Institutes of Research; Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University 

Open Access in Publishing and Data: New Challenges and Opportunities

Time: Sun, Apr 28, 4:05 - 6:05 pm

Place: Hilton Union Square, Ballroom Level - Continental 1
Chair: William Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Participants: John M. Willinsky, Stanford University; Diane Harley, University of California, Berkeley; Joan Ferrini-Mundy, National Science Foundation; Alison Mudditt, University of California Press; Felice J. Levine, American Educational Research Association

New in 2013

Mobile Mac Lab Fund

Inspired to give back to the San Francisco community? Consider a donation to GLIDE's MacBook Learning Lab, a mobile unit that enhances youth and children's learning in areas of literacy, nutrition, tutoring, creative arts, wellness, media awareness, and digital arts.

Community Cashmob

Why not check out a local restaurant committed to social good? Each day of the conference we’ll share a location that has been selected as a “community cashmob.” We hope you’ll visit the site and support their work in the San Francisco community.

 

Farmerbrown places emphasis on supporting local and African-American farmers, using organic, biodynamic, and/or sustainably raised foods. Menu | Entrees: $16.95-$21.95

AERA Film Festival

The Association’s Film Festival features contemporary films related to the conference theme, “Education and Poverty: Theory, Research, Policy, and Praxis,” and to other critical issues in education. Films run throughout the Annual Meeting, and some will include post-viewing discussions led by educators, filmmakers, and researchers. All film festival events take place in Hilton Union Square, Fourth Level - Union Square 22.

Today’s films include: Waiting for Superman, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, The Lottery, and Bully. 

IGNITE Sessions

Ignite presentations, like Pecha Kucha, are short talks accompanied by automatically timed slides, 20 slides of 15 seconds each (5 minutes total). The point of Ignite presentations is to present an idea about some topic—in this case, the conference theme—in an engaging, concise way.

Watch educational researchers tackle the theme “Nine Perspectives on Poverty” today, 2:15 – 3:45 pm, in Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A.

AERA ED Talks

AERA ED Talks enable education researchers to use the TEDx format for “ideas worth spreading.” Presenters will address the conference theme or some other compelling aspect of the practice of education research. Attend “Poverty and Technology, Teaching, Diversity, and Identity” today, 4:05 - 5:35 pm, in Hilton Union Square, Lobby Level - Plaza A.