Marsal School Faculty Members to Present at AERA Annual Meeting

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting takes place from April 23-27 in Denver. This event represents a significant opportunity to acquire insights and cultivate connections with esteemed experts in the field of education. Don't miss out on our very own faculty discussions and presentations!

AERA Presentations 2025

April Baker-Bell
Teaching Critical Qualitative & Humanizing Research Methods as a Site for Justice and Equity in Graduate Education
Thu, April 24, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Phillip J. Bowman
The Crucial Role of a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective in Politics and Policy Decisions
Fri, April 25, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 2A and 3A

Carson Byrd
Beyond the Surface: Identifying Identity-Based Bias in Student Evaluations through NLP Techniques
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Are Student Evaluations of Teachers (SETs) Related to Instructor, Student, or Course Characteristics?
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Angela Calabrese Barton
Rightful Parental Presence and Translanguaging: A Pathway to Equity and Consequential Learning in STEM for Multilingual Learners
Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2D

Care Praxis-Driven Engineering Design: A Pathway to Advance Justice in Middle School STEM
Sat, April 26, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C

“Mapping Myself” Instrument: Building Bridges and Connections in/to Science, Community and Sustainability
Sat, April 26, 5:10 to 6:40 pm MDT (7:10 to 8:40 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3B

Kevin Cokley
Impostor Phenomenon and Emotional Cost as Predictors of Biomedical Research Career Intentions
Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Elizabeth Davis
Possibilities for Transformative Science Teaching in Elementary: One Preservice Teacher’s Story
Fri, April 25, 3:20 to 4:50 pm MDT (5:20 to 6:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3A

Natalie Davis
The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM: Re-Inscriptions and Contestations Across Two Learning Environments
Wed, April 23, 10:50 am to 12:20 pm MDT (12:50 to 2:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2A

Learning Alongside & From Black Children: Methodological Considerations for Studying Race and Teaching & Learning
Sat, April 26, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1CD

Charles H.F. Davis III
Student Protests, Then and Now: Research on Free Speech, Social Movements, and Administrative Response in Education
Fri, April 25, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

For White-Serving Institutions That Have Considered Anti-Racism When Diversity Was Not Enough
Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 108

Racialized Policing and the Campus Borderlands: A Longitudinal Descriptive Analysis of Interactions with Campus Police
Sun, April 27, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Tom Drake
Beyond the Surface: Identifying Identity-Based Bias in Student Evaluations through NLP Techniques
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Are Student Evaluations of Teachers (SETs) Related to Instructor, Student, or Course Characteristics?
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Walter Ecton
Young Adults’ Attitudes Towards Higher Education in America
Fri, April 25, 3:20 to 4:50 pm MDT (5:20 to 6:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Cynthia Finelli
Perspectives of engineering college students with ADHD about how different pedagogical practices influence student engagement
Wed, April 23, 4:20 to 5:50 pm MDT (6:20 to 7:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Kara Finnigan
Invited Speaker Session: Achieving Community Equity Goals Holistically Through Cross-Sector Collaborations: P-20 Education and Local Governments Disrupting Systemic Inequities
Wed, April 23, 12:40 to 2:10 pm MDT (2:40 to 4:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

Invited Speaker Session: Enhancing the Preparation of Researchers for Transformative Research
Thu, April 24, 1:45 to 3:15 pm MDT (3:45 to 5:15 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 4EF (R)

Housing (In)stability and K-12 Schools: New Evidence on Linkages, Impacts on Student Outcomes, and Remedies
Thu, April 24, 3:35 to 5:05 pm MDT (5:35 to 7:05 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3F

Invited Roundtable Session: The Handbook Education Policy Research Roundtable Session
Sat, April 26, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 1A

Invited Speaker Session: The Academic Publishing and Peer Review Crisis: Remedy and Repair to Address Systemic Challenges and Inequities
Sun, April 27, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 4EF (R)  

Maisie L. Gholson
Critical and Ethical Perspectives on the Role of Embodiment in Learning
Thu, April 24, 3:35 to 5:05 pm MDT (5:35 to 7:05 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

Understanding Black Girls’ Co-construction of Sociomathematical Support through Relationships, Friendships, and Networks
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2D

Mark Guzdial
“Once you’re teaching, you’re consumed with so much!”: A Longitudinal Study of Factors Influencing Pre-Service Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy for Teaching Critical Data Literacy in Social Studies
Sat, April 26, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Sharim Hannegan-Martinez
Sophisticated Racial Tools: Expanding the Explanatory Power of Critical Race Praxis
Fri, April 25, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Mark Hoover
The Work of Listening to and Hearing Children’s Mathematical Competence
Wed, April 23, 10:50 am to 12:20 pm MDT (12:50 to 2:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 709

Debi Khasnabis
It Didn’t Have to Be the Children: A Historical Analysis of School-Based Trauma
Sun, April 27, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2E

Deborah Loewenberg Ball
The Work of Listening to and Hearing Children’s Mathematical Competence
Wed, April 23, 10:50 am to 12:20 pm MDT (12:50 to 2:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 709

Designing and Studying Teaching to Advance Equity and Foster Students’ Mathematical Identity
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 712

Retrospective Interviews with “Once-Children”: Critical Methodology for Uncovering the Curriculum of White Supremacy
Sat, April 26, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Vanessa Louis
Risking It All: Justice-Oriented Science Teacher Educators’ Work
Thu, April 24, 3:35 to 5:05 pm MDT (5:35 to 7:05 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Enhancing Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development for Black and Brown Science Teachers through the Noyce Fellowship
Fri, April 25, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2H

Bridget Maher
Toward Just Education Renewal and Neighborhood Reclamation: An Urban P-20 Partnership
Wed, April 23, 2:30 to 4:00 pm MDT (4:30 to 6:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 606

“The Reason I Stay”: Examining Support Networks in Extended, Embedded, and Place-Based Teacher Education
Sat, April 26, 5:10 to 6:40 pm MDT (7:10 to 8:40 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Elizabeth Birr Moje
Toward Just Education Renewal and Neighborhood Reclamation: An Urban P-20 Partnership
Wed, April 23, 2:30 to 4:00 pm MDT (4:30 to 6:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 606

Student Protests, Then and Now: Research on Free Speech, Social Movements, and Administrative Response in Education
Fri, April 25, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

“The Reason I Stay”: Examining Support Networks in Extended, Embedded, and Place-Based Teacher Education
Sat, April 26, 5:10 to 6:40 pm MDT (7:10 to 8:40 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Chauncey Monte-Sano
Middle School Teachers’ Critical Self-Reflection to Support Critical Historical Inquiry
Sun, April 27, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Alaina Neal-Jackson
“Got everybody hating”: Black Girls’ Reauthoring Discipline Narratives Through The Arts
Thu, April 24, 5:25 to 6:55 pm MDT (7:25 to 8:55 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Michaela Krug O'Neill
Toward Just Education Renewal and Neighborhood Reclamation: An Urban P-20 Partnership
Wed, April 23, 2:30 to 4:00 pm MDT (4:30 to 6:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 606

'If we will hear them they will teach us”: Learning (and policymaking) in oppressive schools
Sat, April 26, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1CD

On Session Paper: “The Reason I Stay”: Examining Support Networks in Extended, Embedded, and Place-Based Teacher Education
Sat, April 26, 5:10 to 6:40 pm MDT (7:10 to 8:40 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Donald J. Peurach
The Structure and Distribution of Leadership in the Hub Organizations of Improvement Networks
Thu, April 24, 5:25 to 6:55 pm MDT (7:25 to 8:55 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

The “Grammar” of Improvement Research
Fri, April 25, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2A

Jennifer Randall
Educational Assessment: Designing for Learning, Justice, and Equity
Sat, April 26, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

Deborah Rivas-Drake
Promoting Belonging in School for Latine Students: The Role of Ethnic-Racial Identity and Asset-based Pedagogy
Thu, April 24, 5:25 to 6:55 pm MDT (7:25 to 8:55 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3C

Perceived Teacher Support, Ethnic-Racial Identity, and STEM Achievement among Black and Latino Early Adolescents
Sat, April 26, 3:20 to 4:50 pm MDT (5:20 to 6:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 711

Conversations that go Beyond Imagination: Latinx Parents Shape Reality for Youth of Color
Sat, April 26, 5:10 to 6:40 pm MDT (7:10 to 8:40 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Matthew Stephen Ronfeldt
Beyond the Surface: Identifying Identity-Based Bias in Student Evaluations through NLP Techniques
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Are Student Evaluations of Teachers (SETs) Related to Instructor, Student, or Course Characteristics?
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Allison Ryan
Investigating Need Supportive Teaching in Middle School Math and Science Using a Person-Centered Approach
Thu, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Longitudinal Analysis of Teachers' Work Engagement: The Mediation Role of Teaching Emotions
Fri, April 25, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Teachers and Peers Contribute to Children’s Sense of Belonging With Diverse Socioeconomic and Ethnic Backgrounds
Sun, April 27, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3H

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Equitable Conversations about/with/through Texts: A Framework for Facilitating Digital Discourse in English Classrooms
Wed, April 23, 9:00 to 10:30 am MDT (11:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 108

Enslavement, Conflict, and Collective (Re)Memory: The 1619 (Digital Discourse) Project as Research, Remedy, and Repair
Wed, April 23, 4:20 to 5:50 pm MDT (6:20 to 7:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 707

Teaching Critical Qualitative & Humanizing Research Methods as a Site for Justice and Equity in Graduate Education
Thu, April 24, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Teaching English for Joy, Justice, and Hope: Toward a Restorative English Education
Sat, April 26, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2G

Chris Torres
“They Actively Poach My Teachers:” From Competition for Jobs to Teachers as ‘Free Agents’
Fri, April 25, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 402

How Substitute Teachers Perceive and Experience the Job and Why It Matters: Evidence from Michigan
Sat, April 26, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Jon M. Wargo
Division A Fireside Chat: Navigating Book Bans and Anti-DEI Pressure in K-12 Schools: School Leaders' Responses and Research-Driven Resistance
Wed, April 23, 10:50 am to 12:20 pm MDT (12:50 to 2:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 4CD

Learning to “Fail Forwards”: Interactional Insights on Failure from an Escape Room
Fri, April 25, 3:20 to 4:50 pm MDT (5:20 to 6:50 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Making Futures from the Past? Racialized Spectres Disrupting Anti-bias, Antiracist Pedagogy in a University-School RPP
Sun, April 27, 8:00 to 9:30 am MDT (10:00 to 11:30 am EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2C

Camille M. Wilson
The Epistemic Violence of School Shuttering: Perpetuating the Color Line in Black School Communities
Fri, April 25, 11:40 am to 1:10 pm MDT (1:40 to 3:10 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3H

Pedagogies of Youth Organizing for Educational Justice
Sat, April 26, 1:30 to 3:00 pm MDT (3:30 to 5:00 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1CD

Tanya Wright
What Components of Interactive Writing do Kindergarten Teachers Use? A Case Study
Thu, April 24, 3:35 to 5:05 pm MDT (5:35 to 7:05 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Jeremy Wright-Kim
Debt PLUS? A Look at the Characteristics and Outcomes of Parent PLUS Loan Borrowers
Thu, April 24, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Tuition-Free Community College and Student Retention: Causal Evidence from 31 Promise Programs in California
Fri, April 25, 9:50 to 11:20 am MDT (11:50 am to 1:20 pm EDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2E