CTS at AERA 2024 Annual Meeting

Will we see you in Philly April 11-14 at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2024 Annual Meeting? Sessions led by CTS scholars and faculty affiliates are below. This year’s conference theme is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action”. The full schedule is available here. Please note that session times and locations are subject to change and refer to the full schedule for any updates.

Thursday, April 11th

9:00am-10:30am: Roundtable Session: Advancing Critical Social Network Analysis to Address Issues of Equity in Education Policy and Politics (Table 35)

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

9:00am-10:30am: Presidential Invited Speaker Session: Expanding on the Scholarship of a Pioneer Advocate for Racial Justice

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is a Discussant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A

12:40pm-2:10pm: Symposium: Pipe Dreams: Humanizing the Teaching Profession & Pipeline through Liberatory Imagining

CTS California Educator Diversity Project Director Dr. Kai Mathews is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104A

12:40pm-2:10pm: Symposium: Dismantling Oppressive Practices and Envisioning Tailored Practices to Foster Multilingual Learners’ College and Career Readiness

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar is the Discussant.
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 308

2:30pm-4:00pm: Presidential Invited Speaker Session: Lessons and Reflections From Ghana: Toward Justice and Freedom in the U.S. Education System

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Chair. Participants include CTS Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kenyon Lee Whitman, CTS Graduate Student Researchers Gene McAdoo and Demontea Thompson, and CTS Scholar Affiliates Jaleel Howard and Dr. Earl Edwards.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A

2:30pm-4:00pm: Roundtable Session: Reducing Structural Barriers to Educational Opportunity: Multilingual Education and Beyond (Table 27)

CTS Co-Faculty Director Dr. Lucrecia Santibañez is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

4:20pm-5:50pm: Presidential Invited Speaker Session: Learning from New Research on Large Scale Efforts to Disrupt Racial Injustices in Education

CTS Executive Director Dr. Joseph Bishop is the Chair and a presenter. CTS Co-Faculty Director Dr. Lucrecia Santibañez, CTS Senior Project Scientist Dr. Angela James, CTS Project Director, Community Schools Dr. Brian Huff, and CTS Scholar Affiliate Dr. Travis Dumas are all presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A

4:20pm-5:50pm: Presidential Symposium: Complicating Black Fatherhood as a Site of Educational Theorizing and Practice

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Discussant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201C

4:20pm-5:50pm: Presidential Invited Speaker Session: Toward the Fulfillment of Full Personhood: The Persistent Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions and Educational Scholarship 3.0

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201B

6:10pm-7:40pm: Invited Speaker Session & AERA Annual Meeting Opening Plenary: Fighting Back to Move Forward: Defending the Freedom to Learn In the War Against Woke

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Chair.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 300, Ballroom AB

Friday, April 12th

7:45am-9:15am: Symposium: Imagining Beyond the Epistemes, Structures, and Practices of Schooling: Black Intergenerational and Interdisciplinary Abolitionist Perspectives

CTS Graduate Student Researcher Gene McAdoo is the Chair.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B

11:25am-12:55pm: Invited Speaker Session: 2024 AERA Distinguished Lecture – “Not Yet at Plessy”: 70 Years Post-Brown

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Chair.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Michael A. Nutter Theater

11:25am-12:55pm: Symposium: Liberation as Political Imperative: Toward the Conceptualization of Ethnic Studies Education

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Daniel Solorzano is the Discussant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 118C

3:05pm-4:35pm: Paper Session: New Questions and Outcomes for Research on Teacher Turnover

CTS Co-Faculty Director Dr. Lucrecia Santibañez is the Discussant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 109B

3:05pm-4:35pm: Invited Speaker Session: Fairness in the Next Generation of the Standards: A Discussion on Equity

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is a Participant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 203AB

4:55pm-6:25pm: Invited Speaker Session: Educational Leadership and Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action

CTS Graduate Student Researcher Gene McAdoo is the Chair.
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 5, Salon J

4:55pm-6:25pm: Invited Speaker Session: Resurgence of Backlash to Redressing Pernicious and Persistent Inequities: Navigating Race, Class, and Systemic Equity-Driven Improvement

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Discussant.
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 4

Saturday, April 13th

7:45am-9:15am: Presidential Symposium: Troubling Gender and Sexuality: Meditations on Performances of (Un)Gendering in Black Educational Spaces

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Chair.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A

9:35am-11:05am: Symposium: Confronting the Assault on Critical Race Theory: Lessons Across Generations

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Daniel Solorzano is the Discussant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 111A

11:25am-12:55pm: Paper Session: TEP (Teacher Education Program) Deserts: The Link Between Teacher Shortages and the Location of Teacher Education Programs

CTS California Educator Diversity Project Director Dr. Kai Mathews, Graduate Student Researchers Hui Huang, Cathy Balfe, and Erika Yagi are presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104A

11:25am-12:55pm: Symposium: Critical Race Feminista Methodologies in Educational Research

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Daniel Solorzano is the Chair.
Location: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 13

3:05pm-4:35pm: Paper Session: Humanizing the Teaching Profession: Implications for Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color

CTS California Educator Diversity Project Director Dr. Kai Mathews and Graduate Student Researcher Hui Huang are presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 104B

3:05pm-4:35pm: Presidential Invited Roundtable: The 27th Conversations With Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education
(Table 15)

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 204ABC

3:05pm-4:35pm: Symposium: Examining Community College Baccalaureates (CCBs) as Tools for Social Mobility and Equity

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Cecilia Rios-Aguilar is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115A

3:05pm-4:35pm: Roundtable Session: Fantasies, Dreams, and Testimonios: Storying Just Futures of Qualitative Research (Table 36)

CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Daniel Solorzano is presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B

4:55pm-6:25pm: Invited Speaker Session: AERA Presidential Address – Examining Our Past to Imagine a Better Future: Recognition and Redress of Racial Injustice in Education

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Speaker.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 300, Ballroom AB

Sunday, April 14th

7:45am-9:15am: Poster Session: Contemporary Issues in Science Teaching and Learning

CTS Computational Thinking Equity Project Director Dr. Stanley L. Johnson, Jr., CTS Senior Project Scientist Dr. Angela James, and CTS Scholar Affiliate Dr. Kirk Rogers are presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A

9:35am-11:05am: Presidential Invited Speaker Session: Centering Black Children in Education: Revolutionizing K–12 and Higher Institutions and Research Toward Our Collective Liberation

CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is a Participant.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201A

11:25am-12:55pm: Presidential Symposium: The Experiences of Foster Youth of Color: Interrogating Carceral Systems Toward (Re)Imagining Educational Opportunity

CTS Research Analyst Dr. Maria Luz Espino is the Chair. CTS Co-Faculty Director and AERA President Dr. Tyrone Howard is the Discussant. CTS Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kenyon Lee Whitman and CTS Faculty Advisory Board Member Dr. Audra Langley are presenting.
Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Room 201C

1:15pm-2:45pm: Invited Speaker Session: 2024 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: Disrupting Dominant Research Paradigms: A Collective Journey to Chicana/Latina Feminista Methodologies