CTS at AERA 2026 Annual Meeting

We hope to see you in Los Angeles for this year’s annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Meeting from April 8-12! Sessions led by CTS scholars are listed below. 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.

Wednesday, April 8th

9:45 am – 11:15 am (PT): Racialized Emotions, Trauma, and the Ethics of Feeling in Teacher Education

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone Howard is a Discussant.

Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

9:45 am – 11:15 am (PT): Promoting Equitable Learning and Career Pathways in STEM Through Positive Youth Development

CTS Senior Project Scientist Stanley L. Johnson Jr. is a presenting author of  “Incorporating the Social, Cultural, and Emotional Dimensions of Student Learning to Develop STEM Identities in Computer Science.”

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 301B

Thursday, April 9th

7:45 am – 9:15 am (PT): Understanding and Supporting Black and Hispanic Faculty (Table 1)

CTS Research Analyst Maria Luz Espino is a presenting author of  “Remembering to Reimagine: Black and Hispanic Engineering Faculty Experiences with the Tenure and Promotion Process.”

Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

7:45 am – 9:15 am (PT): Remembering and Reimagining Black Communities and the Role of Black Education in the Pursuit of Educational Justice and Renewal (Table 6)

CTS Doctoral Candidate & Researcher Gene McAdoo is a presenting author of “Black-Male-Centered Counter-Spaces: Utilizing Abolitionist Teaching & Black Trans Feminism to Disrupt Patriarchal Norms.”

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

Friday, April 10th

11:45 am – 1:15 pm (PT): Imagining and Enacting Indigenous Futures: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Education

CTS Research Analyst Thomas Jacobson is a presenting author of  “Imagining Indigenous Futures through the Enactment of Linguistic Sovereignty – Wisdom from Indigenous-Language Education.”

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

1:45 pm – 3:15 pm (PT): Measuring Impact, Imagining Futures: What Works (and Doesn’t) in Education Reform

CTS Project Director Brian Huff is a presenting author of “Unfulfilled Expectations for Equitable Schools & Education Futures: Findings from the CA Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) Scale Up.”

Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 2

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm (PT): Unforgetting the History of Racism and Education in the US: Imagining a Future for DEI and Multicultural Education Research, Policies, and Practices

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone Howard is a Discussant.

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A

Saturday, April 11th

9:45 am – 11:15 am (PT): Writing, Righting, and Rioting Against Colonial-Carceral Machineries: School Abolition in Real Life, Time, and Context

CTS Doctoral Candidate & Researcher Gene McAdoo is a presenting author of “Prison Break: Black-Male-Centered Educational Spaces, Gender Abolition, and Gender Self-Determination.”

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 303A

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm (PT): The 29th Conversations With Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education (Table 15)

CTS Faculty Co-Director Tyrone Howard is a presenting author of “Targeting Areas of Educational Needs and Developing Effective Programs to Address Them.”

Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

Sunday, April 12th

9:45 am – 11:15 am (PT): Affective Climates in Teaching: Optimism, Discipline, and Retention (Table 7)

CTS Research Analyst, Grace Ha Eun Kim, CTS Doctoral Candidate & Researcher, Erika Yagi, and CTS Senior Project Scientist, Stanley L. Johnson Jr., are presenting authors of “Supporting and Retaining Teachers in the Profession: K-means Clustering Analysis of Teacher Profile Survey Data.”

Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

9:45 am – 11:15 am (PT): Centering Equity and Belonging: Transforming Outcomes Across Higher Education

CTS Research Analyst Maria Luz Espino is a presenting author of “STEM Journeys: A Cross-Case Analysis of STEM Scholarship Student Experiences Across Three Regional Higher Education Contexts.”

Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum H