CTS at AERA 2025 Annual Meeting

We hope to see you in Denver, Colorado for this year’s annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Meeting from April 23-27! Sessions led by CTS scholars and affiliates are listed below. This year’s conference theme is “Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.” 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 24th

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm (MDT): Workplace Learning Poster Session

UCLA Doctoral Candidate & CTS Researcher Hui Huang is the presenting author of “Inequality Regimes and Professional Identity Development in Knowledge-Intensive Workplaces in China.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F
Catch Hui at the e-Lightening Ed-Talk Session 7, Stage 2, at 2:15 pm!

3:35 pm – 5:05 pm (MDT): Brown vs. Board of Education at 70: Centering Blackness in the Brown Decision (1954 to the Present), a Candid Conversation

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone C. Howard is the presenting author of “What They Knew. What They Did. The pedagogies, politics, and practices of teachers Pre-Brown. Implications for Today’s Teachers.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3G

Friday, April 25th

8 am – 9:30 am (MDT): Student Experiences and Benefits of Taking Ethnic Studies: Lessons From Three School Districts 

CTS Faculty Co-Director Lucrecia Santibañez is a presenting author of “Examining Student Experiences and Benefits from Ethnic Studies Courses through Multiple Lenses.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 106

9:50 am – 11:20 am (MDT): Teachers in Crisis, Teaching in Crisis: Unpacking Individual and Systemic Teacher Deprofessionalization and Dehumanization

CTS Scholar Affiliate Kai Mathews is the presenting author of “Emergent Strategies & Coalition.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3E

1:30 pm – 3 pm (MDT): Computer Applications for Learner Development in Diverse Contexts

CTS Senior Project Scientist Stanley L. Johnson Jr. and CTS Research Analyst Grace Ha Eun Kim are the presenting authors of “Developing Computational Thinking via Near-Peer Mentoring and Project-Based Learning.” 

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

1:30 pm – 3 pm (MDT): The 28th Conversations With Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education 

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone C. Howard is a presenting author of “The Politics of Knowledge and Educational Research –The Consequences of Reality.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 2A and 3A

3:20 pm – 4:50 pm (MDT): Addressing Challenges in Teacher Preparation: Exploring Internship Obstacles, Curriculum Perceptions, Inclusive Practices, and Community College Pathways 

CTS Scholar Affiliate Kai Mathews and UCLA Doctoral Candidates & CTS Researchers Erika Yagi and Hui Huang are the presenting authors of “Nooks & Crannies: How Community Colleges Can Contribute to California’s Educator Workforce.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 113

Saturday, April 26th

9:50 am – 11:20 am (MDT): Reckoning With Exclusionary School Discipline: Illuminating Cross-National Patterns

CTS Senior Project Scientist Angela James is the Chair and a presenting author of “Black Student Exclusion: Examining Commonalities in Patterns of School Exclusion in England and the United States.” CTS REACH Network Project Director Michael D. Corral is a presenting author of  “Patterns and Hidden Forms of Exclusionary School Discipline.” CTS Executive Director Joseph P. Bishop is a presenting author of  “Using Data to Understand Implementation Challenges: the UK and US.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3H 

11:40 am – 1:10 pm (MDT): The Power of Community: Researching Transformation by Remedying and Repairing Teacher Education

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone C. Howard is the Chair. CTS Senior Project Scientist Stanley L. Johnson Jr. is the presenting author of “Impacts on K-12 Student Experiences and Outcomes.” CTS Scholar Affiliate Kai Mathews is a Discussant.

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2G

1:30 pm – 3 pm (MDT): The Subject at Large: Regenerating Theory and Practices in Black “Male” Educational Research

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone C. Howard is the Chair. UCLA Doctoral Candidate & CTS Researcher Gene McAdoo is the presenting author.

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

3:20 pm – 4:50 pm (MDT): Addressing Educational Inequities in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Commissioned Paper Series of the National Academy of Education

CTS Executive Director Joseph P. Bishop is a Commentator.

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 4AB

3:20 pm – 4:50 pm (MDT): Enacting Holistic Education Research, Repair, and Renewal: What Indigenous Education Can Teach Us 

CTS Research Analyst Thomas Jacobson is a presenting author of “Outcomes of Indigenous Language- and Culture-Based Schooling.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1EF 

Sunday, April 27th

11:40 am – 1:10 pm (MDT): The Academic Publishing and Peer Review Crisis: Remedy and Repair to Address Systemic Challenges and Inequities

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone C. Howard is the Chair. 

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1EF

11:40 am – 1:10 pm (MDT): Indigenous Language Immersion and “Mainstream” Dual Language Bilingual Education Allyship: Learning from/with Each Other

CTS Research Analyst Thomas Jacobson is a presenting author of “Bilingual Education for Indigenous Holistic Academic Resurgence and Renewal: Findings from the Indigenous-Language Immersion Study.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 706

1:30 pm – 3 pm (MDT): Fostering Equity and Identity in Computer Science

CTS Executive Director Joseph P. Bishop and CTS Senior Project Scientist Stanley L. Johnson Jr. are the presenting authors of “Incorporating the Social, Cultural, and Emotional Dimensions of Student Learning to Develop STEM-Identities in Computer Science.”

Location: The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3