<em>AERA18 Insider</em> - April 15, 2018


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AERA18 Insider

Sunday, April 15, 2018


Welcome to day three of the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting! Each morning, AERA18 Insider will provide tips on key sessions and events, as well as other Annual Meeting resources and highlights you won't want to miss.

Join the conversation: Use the conference hashtag #AERA18, and follow AERA on Twitter at @AERA_EdResearch.

Questions? Contact the AERA Meetings team at annualmtg@aera.net, or check out the Navigating the Annual Meeting section of the program for answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

 
 
 
In this Issue:

AERA Presidential Address: Deborah Loewenberg Ball
AERA Awards Luncheon
Disrupting Amnesia: Disability in the 21st Century
Connecting Data Sharing to Article Publishing
Perspectives and Aspirations of Foundation Leaders
AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education: Henry M. Levin
AERA Early Career Award: Morgan Polikoff
Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Linda T. Smith
Creating a Culture of Improvement Through the Empowerment of Teachers
Exhibit Hall and Speaker's Corner
Today's Live-Streaming Sessions
Download the Annual Meeting App

Resources
2018 Annual Meeting Sponsors
AERA would like to extend a special thank you to our 2018 sponsors:

Platinum Sponsor
- American Institutes for Research

Gold Sponsor
- SAGE Publishing

Silver Sponsors
- GTCOM
- Mathematica


Bronze Sponsors
- AccessLex Institute
- National Institute of Education
- RAND Corporation

 



Today's Highlights

AERA Presidential Address: Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan
Just Dreams and Imperatives: The Power of Teaching in the Struggle for Public Education

4:35 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Grand Ballroom
Session Hashtag: #AERAPres
Link to session

Teaching has enormous potential for contributing to the development of a just society and supporting the flourishing of historically marginalized groups, but it has instead often reproduced inequality and reified injustice through the discretionary spaces that are inherent in teaching. Making the transformative power of the profession more than a dream, but a practical possibility, depends on a wide range of scholarship as well as the conscious exercise of radical imagination for what teaching, and thus, public education, could be and do.

Following the address, Ball will pass the proverbial torch to AERA  President-Elect Amy Stuart Wells (Teachers College, Columbia University), who will being her term at the conclusion of the conference.

A celebratory champagne reception will follow the address.

AERA Awards Luncheon 

12:25 p.m. to 2:25 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Grand Ballroom
Session hashtag: #AERAAwards
Link to session

The sixth annual AERA Awards Luncheon is an opportunity to celebrate the field of education research and the accomplishments of AERA-wide awardees and those who receive special citations. Tickets are stil available for the luncheon and can be purchasd online at "My AERA" by all Annual Meeting attendees, while seats remain.
 
Disrupting Amnesia, Arousing a New Representational Imagination: Disability in the 21st Century

8:15 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Regent Parlor
Link to session

The purpose of this session is to disrupt traditional conceptualizations and studies of disability intersections with other marked categories, such as gender, race, social class, language background, and sexual orientation. An experimental format will be used to engage interdisciplinary scholarship that transcends the study of individual variables (e.g., cognitive factors, poverty status) or institutional factors (e.g., school size, community or school poverty) to more fully understand the inter-workings of individual, social, historical, and social forces and their consequences for educational opportunity. The session will be chaired by Alfredo J. Artiles (Arizona State University) and Beth A. Ferri (Syracuse University). Participants include Rachel Adams (Columbia University), Susan Burch (Middlebury College), and Karolyn D. Tyson (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).


Connecting Data Sharing to Article Publishing—How to Maximize the Impact of Your Research

10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton North
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Participants include Jason A. Grissom (Vanderbilt University), Margaret Levenstein (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research),Arthur (Skip) Lupia (University of Michigan), Robert Ochsendorf (National Science Foundation), Mark Warschauer (University of California, Irvine), and chair Felice J. Levine (AERA).


Perspectives and Aspirations of Foundation Leaders: A Conversation on Advancing Education Research

10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Nassau Room East
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Participants include Adam Gamoran (William T. Grant Foundation), Jacqueline Jones (Foundation for Child Development), Na’ilah Suad Nasir (Spencer Foundation), Kent McGuire (The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), and chair Jeannie Oakes (University of California, Los Angeles).


AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award (2017) Address: Henry M. Levin (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Cost-Effectiveness in Education—Mysteries and Revelations

10:35 a.m. to 12:05 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton South
Session hashtag: #AERAContributions
Link to session

Much of education research seems to be divided into two separate domains: improving educational effectiveness and practice by providing evidence of gains in standardized test scores, or enhancing social justice by
reducing inequality in educational participation, opportunities, and attainments for the least advantaged members of society. The purpose of this presentation is to suggest that we can broaden our research interests and methods to embrace both purposes of education. Examples will be given of how this can be done in whole school reform, school finance, school organization, and educational resource allocation. These examples will also suggest shifts in training with respect to methods of research preparation and application.

The Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Linda Tuhiwai Smith (The University of Waikato)
From Dream to Possibility to RealityOn Becoming and Being an Indigenous Educational Researcher


2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Trianon Ballroom
Session hashtag: #AERAWallace
Link to session

Linda Tuhiwai Smith (The University of Waikato) will deliver the 2018 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture, "From Dream to Possibility to Reality On Becoming and Being an Indigenous Educational Researcher."


AERA Early Career Award (2017) Lecture: Morgan Polikoff (University of Southern California)
Reflections on a Quarter Century of Standards-Based Reform

2:45 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Sutton North
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Morgan Polikoff (University of Southern California) will deliver the Early Career Award Lecture, "Reflections on a Quarter Century of Standards-Based Reform."


Creating a Culture of Improvement Through the Empowerment of Teachers

2:45 to 4:15 p.m.
New York Hilton Midtown, Second Floor, Beekman

Link to session

We live in an age in which many researchers, policymakers, and administrators have too much faith that they can put a number on a teacher’s worth. Yet, qualitative and quantitative data suggest that we can’t simply put numbers on what teachers do. Working through a series of reflections and scenarios with speaker Jose L. Vilson (The New York City Department of Education) and chair Suzanne M. Wilson (University of Connecticut), participants will reflect on what it would take to create a culture of improvement that was designed to leverage teacher agency and expertise, rather than thwart it. There will also be a section for room-wide discussion.

Exhibit Hall and Speaker's Corner

The exhibit hall in the New York Hilton Midtown, Third Floor, Americas Halls I and II, is open until 5:00 p.m. today.

The Speaker's Corner in Americas Hall II features presentations from organizations including Provalis, IEA/Hamburg Gateway, and the Center for Education Policy Research. View the full Speaker's Corner schedule here.


Today's Live-Streaming Sessions Browse more key speakers, featured presidential sessions, and session hashtags.
 
 
 

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"The Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessity of Public Education"
 
Friday, April 13 - Tuesday, April 17, 2018
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