Please consider these substantive off-site sessions as alternative opportunities as you plan your schedule for the Meeting. Space is limited for these visits, and interested attendees are encouraged to register in advance. Registered participants wishing to add courses, off-site visits, or tours can log in to add events to your registration. Off-site visits are listed below in day and time order.
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GSC Community Service Project: Beautifying Compass Facilities to Provide Homes and Shelter to San Francisco Families
Date: Friday, April 26 Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Location: Compass Family Services. Attendees will meet at the Hilton Union Square hotel at 8am. Fee: $25 per person. (Includes transportation costs and lunch.) Open to all attendees and pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees will meet at the Hilton Union Square hotel at 8am to travel to the location as a group. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council Contact: Cecilia Henriquez Fernandez (University of California - Los Angeles) ceci08@ucla.edu Visit Leaders: Marisa Anne del Campo (University of Connecticut) and Chris Carducci (Mills College)
Description: This year we are partnering up with COMPASS (http://compass-sf.org/), a non-profit organization that has been a part of the San Francisco community for ninety years. Today, Compass helps provide families the tools they need to achieve long-lasting stability and self-sufficiency. We will be working with this organization to help them to continue to serve the San Francisco community by helping them with a beautification project of their facilities.
Decolonizing Knowledge: Towards a Critical Research Justice Praxis. Presentation and discussion with Michelle Fine and Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Date: Friday, April 26 Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Location: The First Congregational Church in Oakland located at 2501 Harrison St., Oakland, California Fee: $15; Open to all attendees and pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees are on their own for transportation. Sponsor: Action Research SIG Contact: Lonnie Rowell, lrowell@sandiego.edu, University of San Diego
Description: This special event is co-sponsored by the Data Center, Public Science Project, URBAN, the Action Research SIG of AERA, and the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA). This is open to all registrants and pre-registration is required. The Frontlines of (In)Justice: Organizing and Activism for Effective School Discipline Policies, Youth Leadership, and More Justice
Date: Sunday, April 28 Time: 3:00 pm - 6:30 pm Location: Mission High School, 3750 18th St., San Francisco, CA Fee: Free and open to all AERA attendees; pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees are on their own for transportation and can easily take public transportation (BART) to the school. Sponsor: Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing for Education Reform SIG Contacts: Vajra Watson, vmwatson@ucdavis.edu; Shawn Ginwright, shawng@sfsu.edu
Description: This event will take place on Sunday, April 28 from 3-6:30pm at the Mission High School, the oldest comprehensive public school in the city, located at 3750 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114. This event is FREE and open to all attendees and requires participants to register.
Participants can easily take public transportation (BART) to/from the off-site. Get on BART at the Powell Station and get off at 16th and Mission. The school is two blocks away from the BART station.
The off-site visit focuses on building bridges between theory and practice, researchers and organizers, communities and schools. The topic is pertinent at the local level, but has national and international ramifications as the prison industrial complex continues to grow exponentially.
Division K Community Research Forum: Beyond Poverty and Impoverishment: Lessons for Researchers in Transformative Community Solutions, Reception Follows
Date: Monday, April 29 Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm; Reception follows from 8:30 pm-10:00 pm Location: African American Art and Culture Complex, Hall of Culture, 762 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA Fee: Free; Open to all attendees and pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees are on their own. Contact: Joyce King, drjoyceking@yahoo.com
Description: This is a community research forum followed by a reception.
Lesson Study Experience in San Francisco Unified: Lesson Study and Fish Bowl Observation
Date: Tuesday, April 30 Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Location: San Francisco Unified School in Mission Neighborhood (registrants will be sent the school location) Fee: Free and open to all AERA attendees; pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees on own. Sponsor: Action Research SIG Contacts: Lonnie Rowell, lrowell@sandiego.edu, University of San Diego
Description: Participants will take part in the lesson study process at a San Francisco public elementary school, where they will observe the research lesson and post-lesson discussion of the lesson study team. Following the lesson study experience, a panel of local teachers, coaches, administrators, and researchers will discuss key issues related to building, sustaining, spreading and documenting high-quality lesson study. Issues will include, for example, teachers' reports on how lesson study affects practice beyond the target research lesson; coaches' and administrators' reports on effective strategies to support and spread lesson study; and researchers' suggestions about measurement.
The classroom research lesson will be restricted to 15 outside participants. The post-lesson discussion and panel discussion can accommodate more attendees.
Lesson Study Experience in San Francisco Unified: Post Lesson Panel Discussion
Date: Tuesday, April 30 Time: 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm Location: San Francisco Unified School in Mission Neighborhood (registrants will be sent the school location) Fee: Free and open to all AERA attendees; pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees on own. Sponsor: Action Research SIG Contacts: Lonnie Rowell, lrowell@sandiego.edu, University of San Diego
Visit to Summit Preparatory High School: A Public Charter School Committed to Preparing Every Single Member of its Diverse Student Population for Success in College
Date: Tuesday, April 30 Time: 12:15 pm – 4:30 pm Location: Summit Preparatory Charter High School Fee: $25; Open to all attendees and pre-registration is required. Transportation: Attendees to meet at Hilton Union Square for van transportation to the school. Sponsor: Tracking and Detracking SIG Contacts: John Knudson-Martin, jknudson@eou.edu, Eastern Oregon University
Description: Summit Preparatory Charter High School’s mission is to provide a top quality, detracked, college prep education for its heterogeneous student population. Students are admitted to Summit by lottery. For eight years, the school has shown that all students, no matter their preparation level through 8th grade, can be prepared for college success in four years - 100% of Summit graduates have completed the coursework required for acceptance to four year colleges. During this school visit, participants will meet with school administrators and faculty, visit classes, and hear about how this public charter school provides a safe culture and environment where its students can succeed academically. This is a Stanford University partner school.