Join Rutgers GSE at the 2024 AERA Conference in Philadelphia!

Members of Rutgers University and the Graduate School of Education (GSE) will be participating in the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting this April. This conference allows the research conducted by members of our community to be shared and discussed, contributing to the future of educational research and measurement.

AERA will take place Wednesday, April 10 through Sunday, April 14 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The primary site of the Annual Meeting in Philadelphia is the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The headquarter hotel where additional sessions will be held is the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

This year’s theme is Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action. For more information on AERA’s Annual Meeting, please visit the AERA website. To register, click here.

Wednesday, April 10

Event Title: A Curriculum of Cheating (Invitation Only)
Session Organizer: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:00 AM -12:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 106B, Level 100 

Event Title: Embracing Educational Possibilities: Theorizing and Acting at the Intersections of Disability Studies in Education and Curriculum Studies (Invitation Only)
Session Organizer: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 110A, Level 100 

Event Title: The Evolution of Anti-Racist Curriculum Scholarship: From Access to Afrofuturism (Invitation Only)
Session Organizer: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 109A, Level 100 

Event Title: Writing with/in Curriculum Studies: An Engagement with the Politics of Citation (Invitation Only)
Session Organizer: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 104A, Level 100 

Thursday, April 11

Event Title: Advancing Critical Social Network Analysis to Address Issues of Equity in Education Policy and Politics
Presenting Author: J Matthew Weber
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: AI and Formative Assessment: The Train Has Left the Station
Presenting Authors: Janice D. Gobert and Ellie R. Segan
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 102AB, Level 100 

Event Title: Still Nuthing Ta F’ Wit:  Examining the Power of Hip Hop to Advance Justice for Youth
Presenting Author: Lauren Leigh Kelly
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 12:40 PM – 2:10 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon K, Level 5 

Event Title: Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG (#113) Poster Session A
Non-Presenting Author: Angela M. O’Donnell
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 12:40 PM – 2:10 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, Second Floor 

Event Title: Research on Inclusive Math and Literacy Instructional Practices in Special Education
Presenting Author: Dake Zhang
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 12:40 PM – 2:10 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 303, Level 3 

Event Title: Leveraging the Holmes Scholars Program to Dismantle Racial Injustice in Public Education
Presenting Author: Wanda J, Blanchett
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 119B, Level 100 

Event Title: The Beauties, Tensions, and Power of Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy: An Interactive Dialogue
Session Organizer and Discussant: Lauren Leigh Kelly
Session Type: Session
Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon K, Level 5 

Event Title: Uplifting Black Women Educator’s Critical Pedagogies for Liberation and Justice
Presenting Author: Shanique Lee
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 104A, Level 100 

Event Title: Youth and Education: Intersections of Identity, Resistance, and Engagement in the 20th Century
Presenting Author: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 113C, Level 100 

Event Title: Hip Hop Pedagogy and Teacher Education for the next 50 years: Interrogating the tensions in the arcs and trajectories of Hip Hop
Chair: Lauren Leigh Kelly
Session Type: Session
Time: 4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112B, Level 100 

Event Title: Youth and Education: Intersections of Identity, Resistance, and Engagement in the 20th Century
Presenting Author: Ajua Kouadio
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 113C, Level 100 

Friday, April 12 

Event Title: Step One, Liberate Minds: An Exploration of Research and Practice in K-12 Settings
Presenting Author: Travis E. Dumas
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Building Equitable Mixed-Delivery PreK Systems by Including Family Childcare: Perspectives from States, Researchers, and Practitioners
Non-Presenting Author: Karin Garver
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 109A, Level 100 

Event Title: Civic Collaborative Learning Spaces: Reimagining the Civic Across Disciplines and Contexts
Discussant: Nicole Mirra
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin 8, Level 4 

Event Title: Activism, Education, and Integration: The Historical Roots and Continued Persistence of Segregation
Chair: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Critical literacies in teaching and teacher education
Participant: Nicole Mirra
Session Type: Session
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 118B, Level 100 

Event Title: Predictors and Moderators for Preschool Children’s Social Emotional Development
Non-Presenting Author: Steven W. Barnett
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Reconciling Traditional Quantitative Methods with the Imperative for Equitable, Critical, and Ethical Research
Participant: Nichole M. Garcia
Session Type: Session
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 201A, Level 200 

Event Title: Culturally Responsive Assessment and English Learner Inclusion
Presenting Author: Jeremy Lee
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon J, Level 5 

Event Title: Trans Disciplinary Approaches to Improving Queer, Trans Climate
Chair: Melinda M. Mangin
Session Type: Session
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Exploring How Identity and Epistemic Engagement Shape Learning
Presenting Author: Clark Chinn
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 4:55 PM – 6:25 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin 11, Level 4 

Event Title: They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds: An Exploration of Schools, Communities and Families Efforts to Raise Critical Consciousness
Presenting Author: Kevin L. Clay
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 4:55 PM – 6:25 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: The Educational Possibilities of Truth-Telling: Dismantling Dominant Narratives of Race, Place, and Histories
Presenting Author: Nichole M. Garcia
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 4:55 PM – 6:25 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 115C, Level 100 

Saturday, April 13

Event Title: Recentering the Transnational Community Cultural Wealth of Latinxs
Chair: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Marginalized Positionality and Intersectional Understandings
Non-Presenting Author: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 104B, Level 100 

Event Title: Leveraging Partnerships to Serve the Whole Child: Supportive and Antiracist Practices
Chair: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: School Boards: Repair, Replace or Face the Consequences
Presenting Authors: Drew H. Gitomer and Robin McKeon
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 201B, Level 200 

Event Title: Repositioning Youth of Color in Teacher Education
Presenting Author: Lauren Leigh Kelly
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 105A, Level 100 

Event Title: Baldwin and Curriculum Studies: Multiple Perspectives
Session Organizer: Esther O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 118B, Level 100 

Event Title: Disability Inclusion in Educational Assessment
Presenting Author: Dake Zhang
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Persistence of Unjust Systems: The Consequences of Sustained Inequality
Discussant: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 113C, Level 100 

Event Title: Designing for Racial Justice through Speculative Pedagogies: Learning to Build Liberatory Futures
Session Organizer and Chair: Nicole Mirra
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 102AB, Level 100 

Event Title: The 27th Conversations with Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education
Presenting Author: Wanda J. Blanchett
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 204 AB 

Event Title: Classroom Observation SIG Business Meeting: Innovating Methods to Transform Teaching through Formative Use of Classroom Observation
Participant: Drew H. Gitomer
Session Type: Session
Time: 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 405, Level 4 

Event Title: Media, Culture and Learning SIG Business Meeting and Reception – Learning for the World to Come: Building Futures for Educational Research
Speaker: Nicole Mirra
Session Type: Session
Time: 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin 4, Level 4 

Sunday, April 14 

Event Title: Marx SIG session 2
Presenting Author: Kevin L. Clay
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 7:45 AM – 9:15 AM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 407, Level 4 

Event Title: #AttendingPWIsWhileBlack: Navigating racism and cultivating joy
Presenting Author: Alex J. Kenney
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Navigating Race, Immigration, and National Identity in Transnational Educational Contexts
Discussant: Krystal Strong
Session Type: Session
Time: 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 201C, Level 200 

Event Title: Mathematics Education Poster Session
Presenting Author: Dan Battey
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, Second Floor 

Event Title: Re-thinking Community Engagement Across Youth Development
Discussant: Briana Bivens
Session Type: Session
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 111A, Level 100 

Event Title: Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG (#113) Poster Session B
Presenting Author: Judith R. Harrison
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, Second Floor 

Event Title: Mathematics Education Poster Session
Presenting Author: Brittany L. Marshall
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A, Second Floor 

Event Title: Collaborative and Participatory Qualitative Methodologies
Presenting Author: Mary E. Curran
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Designing for Social Change: Justice-Oriented Interventions in K-12 STEM Settings
Chair, Non-Presenting Author, Session Organizer: Ravit Golan Duncan
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 115C, Level 100 

Event Title: AERA Professional Development and Training Committee Closed Meeting Participant: Nichole M. Garcia
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 101, Level 100 

Event Title: Collaborative and Participatory Qualitative Methodologies
Presenting Author: Nora E. Hyland
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Examining Intersectional Identities, Alterity, and the Interconnectedness of Teaching and Teacher Education Across the Globe
Discussant: Krystal Strong
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 115A, Level 100 

Event Title: Collaborative and Participatory Qualitative Methodologies
Presenting Author: Anel V. Suriel
Session Type: Session
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Applying and Extending Institutional Theory in Educational Research
Presenting Author: Michelle Van Noy
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Leveraging Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDSs) To Conduct Equity-Focused Research
Presenting Author: Kristine Joy Bacani
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon I, Level 5 

Event Title: Accounting for the Black Radical Tradition in the Heart of Black Pedagogy
Chair, Presenting Author, and Session Organizer: Kevin L. Clay
Presenting Author: Krystal Strong
Session Type: Session
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Room 302, Level 3 

Event Title: Social Aspects of Learning with Technology
Presenting Author: Danielle Murphy
Non-Presenting Author: Clark A. Chinn and Ravit Golan Duncan
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 108B, Level 100 

Event Title: Taking Up Social Justice in Pre-Service Teacher Education
Presenting Author: Sharon Ryan
Session Type: Session Paper
Time: 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B, Second Floor 

Event Title: Division B Business Meeting and Reception
Officer: Kevin L. Clay
Session Organizer: Ester O. Ohito
Session Type: Session
Time: 4:55 PM – 6:25 PM
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Franklin 1, Level 4