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Faculty and Students Presenting at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2021 Meeting

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Thousands of scholars from education and aligned fields and disciplines will join together and present their work at the 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) virtual meeting, April 8-12, 2021. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Accepting Educational Responsibility.” Education researchers are not merely scholars; we are also citizens of the places in which our scholarship is produced, disseminated, and implemented. Equity and justice in these places depend as much on our deep thinking as they do on what we do with what we know. Racism, xenophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and other manifestations of hate continually poison these places. Mass shootings occur in too many places close to where we live and do our academic work. Sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault occur too often within and beyond our workplaces. Myriad consequences of wealth inequity negatively affect people inside of and around the places where many of us think, teach, research, and write. Attendees of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting will be empowered to accept greater responsibility for social problems that plague places around the world. Our identities as citizens and as scholars will be embraced.

In the past, over 14,000 scholars have attended individual AERA Annual Meetings. This year, Montclair State University and the College of Education and Human Services will be represented by over 50 faculty, staff, and students giving approximately 50 lectures, papers, and discussions at the conference.

Below is a full list of Montclair State University community members who will be presenting, along with their presentation topics and times.

For more information about AERA, please visit: http://www.aera.net

John Adamski
  • Event: What “Unprecedented” Actually Looks Like: Teachers and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Paper: Examining Teacher Identity and Possible Selves During COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Khadija M. Ahmed
  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Teacher’s Post-Traumatic Growth and Stress Response as Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Virtual Teaching: Case Study
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Denish Ogweno Akuom
  • Event: Perceptions, Procedures, and Prospective Teachers; STEM Teacher Education
  • Paper: Prospective Teachers’ Design Decisions, Rationales, and Resources: Re/claiming Teacher Agency Through Mathematical Making
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Shanna Anderson
  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Quawntaseha B. Bailey
  • Event: Faculty Job Satisfaction and Career Challenges
  • Paper: Doctoral Students of Color and the Racialized Faculty Job Market Amid COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Nicole Barnes
  • Event: Education and Learning in the COVID-19 Context
  • Paper: Together and Apart: Co-Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Teacher Motivation for Learning and Professional Development
  • Paper: An Examination of Teacher Motivation in a Self-Directed Model of Professional Learning
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: What “Unprecedented” Actually Looks Like: Teachers and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Paper: Examining Teacher Identity and Possible Selves During COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Victoria D. Bonaccorso
  • Event: Supporting Families, Groups, and Communities in Qualitative Research
  • Paper: Methodological Advancements for Analyzing Teachers’ Learning in a Community of Practice
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Katrina E. Bulkley
  • Event: Equity, Race, and Access Within the School Choice Landscape: The Next Wave of Research
  • Paper: Equity Through Authorizing? Charter Authorizing and Meeting the Needs of Historically Underserved Students
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm

  • Event: Charter School Leadership and Governance
  • Paper: A Tale of Two Systems: Choice and Equity in the District of Columbia’s Charter Schools
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
Liz Carletta
  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Nancy Chae
  • Event: School Counseling and Counselor Education Research
  • Paper: School Counselors’ Experiences of Gatekeeping with Underrepresented Students in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programs
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:10 pm
María Cioè-Peña
  • Event: Equity and Ableism in Preservice Teacher Education
  • Paper: “[It] Did Not Cross My Mind”: Teacher Candidates’ Conceptualizations of Disability and Language Learning
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  • Event: English Learners with Disabilities and Opportunity to Learn
  • Paper: We Value What We Experience: Translanguaging to Increase Learning Opportunities for Emergent Bilinguals with Dis/abilities
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: Bilingual Education Research SIG Special Session
  • Participant
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 12:20 pm – 1:20 pm

  • Event: Intersectional Responsibilities: The Linguistic Rights of Disabled Students
  • Chair
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Jessica Davidson
  • Event: Responding, Relating, Caring: How Teachers Respond to Students
  • Paper: Dare to Care: The Impacts of a Caring Pedagogy on Mathematical Making, Teaching, and Learning
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:40 am – 11:40 am
Joseph DiNapoli
  • Event: Supporting Families, Groups, and Communities in Qualitative Research
  • Paper: Methodological Advancements for Analyzing Teachers’ Learning in a Community of Practice
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Eileen Fernandez
  • Event: Responding, Relating, Caring: How Teachers Respond to Students
  • Paper: Dare to Care: The Impacts of a Caring Pedagogy on Mathematical Making, Teaching, and Learning
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:40 am – 11:40 am
Kate Marilu Meza Fernandez
  • Event: Equity, Race, and Access Within the School Choice Landscape: The Next Wave of Research
  • Paper: Equity Through Authorizing? Charter Authorizing and Meeting the Needs of Historically Underserved Students
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
Helenrose Fives
  • Event: Education and Learning in the COVID-19 Context
  • Paper: Together and Apart: Co-Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Teacher Motivation for Learning and Professional Development
  • Paper: An Examination of Teacher Motivation in a Self-Directed Model of Professional Learning
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: Teachers’ Beliefs and Ideologies About Supporting Marginalized Learners
  • Paper: An Umbrella Review of the Research on Teachers’ Bias and Expectations
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm

  • Event: What “Unprecedented” Actually Looks Like: Teachers and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Paper: Examining Teacher Identity and Possible Selves During COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Rachel Garver
  • Event: Revisiting School Segregation, Integration, and Their Alternatives
  • Moderator
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm

  • Event: Dissecting Policy Discourses That Contribute to Educational (In)Equalities
  • Paper: Making Sense of Howard County Board of Education’s Apology for a Racially Segregated School System
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Erell Germia
  • Event: Teaching and Learning: Computers and Learning – Mathematics and Science Education
  • Paper: Integrating the STEM Disciplines Through Debugging
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Steven Greenstein
  • Event: Perceptions, Procedures, and Prospective Teachers; STEM Teacher Education
  • Paper: Prospective Teachers’ Design Decisions, Rationales, and Resources: Re/claiming Teacher Agency Through Mathematical Making
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Emily Hodge
  • Coping with Crisis: District Responses to COVID-19
  • Chair
  • Paper: Who Stands to Gain from COVID-19? Identifying School District-Organization Contracts
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

  • Event: Districts in Research and Reform SIG Business Meeting
  • Officer
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm

  • Event: Comprehending Curriculum Implementation During the Common Core Era
  • Paper: Logics of Local Control: State Educational Agency Coordinators Balance Bureaucracy and Democracy in Standards Implementation
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Michael Hannon
  • Event: School Counseling and Counselor Education Research
  • Paper: The Intentionality of Prioritizing Racism, Systemic Inequities, and Cyclic Trauma in Counselor Education: A Self-Study
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:10 pm
Emily J. Klein
  • Event: Volcanic Disruptions: On the Intersectional Synergy of Theater of the Oppressed and Teacher Education
  • Paper: An Interview with Julian Boal: The Role of Theater of the Oppressed to Promote Social Activism
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Science Teaching and Learning: Student Discourse and Argumentation
  • Paper: Teaching Noticing and Leveraging of Student Thinking in Science Lessons and Debriefs of Classroom Videos
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Douglas Larkin
  • Event: Equitable Science Instruction for Emergent Multilingual Students: Exploring Relationships Between Professional Learning and Teacher Practice
  • Discussant
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 12:20 pm – 1:20 pm

  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: Protocols and Pedagogy: Curricular Interventions in Practice
  • Chair
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Helene Leonard
  • Event: Supporting Families, Groups, and Communities in Qualitative Research
  • Paper: Methodological Advancements for Analyzing Teachers’ Learning in a Community of Practice
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Roman Liera
  • Event: Early Career Socialization and Gender and Race Considerations
  • Paper: Learning Disciplinary Legitimacy: How Faculty and Students Construct the Transition to Doctoral Candidacy
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: Faculty Job Satisfaction and Career Challenges
  • Paper: Doctoral Students of Color and the Racialized Faculty Job Market Amid COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Alfred Limbere
  • Event: Science Teaching and Learning: Student Discourse and Argumentation
  • Paper: Teaching Noticing and Leveraging of Student Thinking in Science Lessons and Debriefs of Classroom Videos
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Tanya Maloney
  • Event: Abolitionist teacher education: Anti-racist Praxis, Critical Perspectives, and Humanizing Pedagogies
  • Invited Speaker Session
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
Sabrina D. MisirHiralall
  • Event: Current Issues in Postcolonial Studies in Education
  • Paper: Postcolonial Dress Narratives Through Cultural Becoming
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Mika Munakata
  • Event: Science Teaching and Learning: Student Discourse and Argumentation
  • Paper: Teaching Noticing and Leveraging of Student Thinking in Science Lessons and Debriefs of Classroom Videos
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am
Benjamin Nienass
  • Event: Dissecting Policy Discourses That Contribute to Educational (In)Equalities
  • Paper: Making Sense of Howard County Board of Education’s Apology for a Racially Segregated School System
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Angela Pack
  • Event: Critical Consciousness: Implications for Teacher Education Programs in a Global Context
  • Paper: Discovering Critical Literacy, Reconstructing Identity
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Nicole Panorkou
  • Event: Teaching and Learning: Computers and Learning – Mathematics and Science Education
  • Paper: Integrating the STEM Disciplines Through Debugging
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Veronica Elizabeth Pardo
  • Event: Teachers’ Beliefs and Ideologies About Supporting Marginalized Learners
  • Paper: An Umbrella Review of the Research on Teachers’ Bias and Expectations
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:10 pm

  • Event: What “Unprecedented” Actually Looks Like: Teachers and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Paper: Examining Teacher Identity and Possible Selves During COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Suzanne Poole Patzelt
  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Bree Picower
  • Event: Division K Critical Dialogues. Disrupting Racism and White Supremacy in Teaching and Teacher Education Policy/ Practice and Research
  • Speaker
  • Friday, April 9, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm

  • Event: Abolitionist teacher education: Anti-racist Praxis, Critical Perspectives, and Humanizing Pedagogies
  • Invited Speaker Session
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
Tania Dumicic Pinto
  • Event: What “Unprecedented” Actually Looks Like: Teachers and Teaching During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Paper: Examining Teacher Identity and Possible Selves During COVID-19
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 11:10 am – 12:40 pm
Ashley Pollitt
  • Event: Education and Learning in the COVID-19 Context
  • Paper: Together and Apart: Co-Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Erin Pomponio
  • Event: Responding, Relating, Caring: How Teachers Respond to Students
  • Paper: Dare to Care: The Impacts of a Caring Pedagogy on Mathematical Making, Teaching, and Learning
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:40 am – 11:40 am
Evangelina Pride
  • Event: The Pandemic’s Toll on the Teaching Profession
  • Paper: Toward a Theory of Job Embeddedness in Teacher Retention: Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic Era
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:40 am – 12:10 pm
Victoria Puig
  • Event: Engaging Families and Communities in Learning Across Concepts and Contexts
  • Paper: Listening to Families of Children with Disabilities: Partnering with Educational Equity
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Erin Riley-Lepo
  • Event: Division C – Learning and Instruction / Division C – Section 2b: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts
  • Paper: Together and Apart: Co-Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Jennifer Robinson
  • Event: From the Teacher to the Superintendent: Building Educational Systems to Support Racial Equity
  • Chair
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm
Elizabeth Rivera Rodas
  • Event: STEM Academic Achievement Gaps
  • Chair
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  • Event: Excellence in Education Research: Early Career Scholars and Their Work
  • Paper: The Impact of Gentrification on Mathematics Achievement of Latino High School Students
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Stephen Paul Tarsitano
  • Event: Education and Learning in the COVID-19 Context
  • Paper: Together and Apart: Co-Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Monica Taylor
  • Event: Volcanic Disruptions: On the Intersectional Synergy of Theater of the Oppressed and Teacher Education
  • Paper: An Interview with Julian Boal: The Role of Theater of the Oppressed to Promote Social Activism
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Science Teaching and Learning: Student Discourse and Argumentation
  • Paper: Teaching Noticing and Leveraging of Student Thinking in Science Lessons and Debriefs of Classroom Videos
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 11:00 am

  • Event: Journal Talk 6
  • Paper: The Educational Forum
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 2:50 pm – 3:50 pm
Yune Kim Tran
  • Event: Technology, Instruction, Cognition, Learning: Current Trends in Theory and Research
  • Paper: What Preservice Teachers Know and Can Do: Developing Computer Science Knowledge and Skills
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  • Event: Evaluation of STEM Technology Programs
  • Paper: Early Intervention and Access to STEM and Computer Science: What Difference Does It Make?
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 2:50 pm – 3:50 pm
Blanca Elizabeth Vega
  • Event: Exploring Future Research Agendas and Responsibilities in the Study of Central Americans in Higher Education
  • Chair and Discussant
  • Saturday, April 10, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Social Justice and Equity and Leadership in Changing Times: New Perspectives
  • Chair
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

  • Event: Race, Gender, and Resistance in the Academy
  • Discussant
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 4:10 pm – 5:40 pm

  • Event: Critical Analyses of STEM’s Systemic Inequities
  • Discussant
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Ana Maria Villegas
  • Event: Teacher Preparation at New Graduate Schools in Education: Findings From a National Study
  • Discussant
  • Sunday, April 11, 2021, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Kathryn Fraser Whitley
  • Event: Disrupting Status Quo Understandings and Practices Through Self-Study
  • Paper: Envisioning and Reimagining My Feminist-Queer Pedagogy: A Self-Study of the Relationship Between Theory and Practice
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Jameelah R. Wright
  • Event: Roundtable 1 (Preschool/Kindergarten)
  • Paper: Drawing Conclusions About Writing in Preschool
  • Thursday, April 8, 2021, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Antonia York
  • Event: Teaching and Learning: Computers and Learning – Mathematics and Science Education
  • Paper: Integrating the STEM Disciplines Through Debugging
  • Monday, April 12, 2021, 9:30 am – 10:30 am