AERA 2023

Chicago, Illinois: April 13-April 16;  Online: May 4-May 5

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of scholars in the field of education research. It is a showcase for ground-breaking, innovative studies in a diverse array of areas -- from early education through higher education, from digital learning to second language literacy. It is where we go to encounter ideas and data that will shape tomorrow's education practices and policies, and where we go to connect with leading thinkers from the U.S. and around the world.

Learn more about the 2023 AERA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, and online.

To view the daily schedule of GSEHD participation and presentations, click on the dates below. (Please note: session times are listed in Central Daylight Time followed by Eastern Daylight Time in parentheses.)

Thursday, April 13

ADAM BERMAN

Roundtable Session Making Work Work: Improving Employment Outcomes for Autistic Adults

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

SABRINA CURTIS, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Fostering Black Girls' Critical Consciousness Through Historically Responsive Literacy

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 7th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon III

 

LESLIE SMITH DUSS

Roundtable Session Literature Review as Bricolage: Critiquing and Extending Psychoanalytically Informed Pedagogical Approaches to Difficult History

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

JONATHAN EAKLE, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Charting Baroque Lines of Escape for Education Movements With Jackson Pollock

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

TIFFANY SIKORSKI Ph.D., EKUNDAYO SHITTU, Ph.D., and ERICA WORTHAM, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Social Innovation as Accountable Disciplinary Knowledge in Undergraduate Engineering

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

SAMUEL BURMESTER and ARSHAD I. ALI, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Dancing in Moonlight: Resisting Precarity Through Pedagogies of Multimodality, Critical Circulation Literacy, and Queer Futurity

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

JOSHUA L. GLAZER, Ph.D.

Paper Session Discussant School Choice: Investigating the Experiences of Who Chooses to Participate

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Lucerne Level, Alpine I

 

ARSHAD I. ALI, Ph.D.

Paper Session Purposes and Promises of American Higher Education for Arrivant Muslim Undergraduate Students

11:40am-1:00pm CT (12:40-2:10pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Huron

 

TIFFANY SIKORSKI, Ph.D.

Paper Session Discussant Analyzing Youths' and Teachers' Science Practices as a Vital Part of Learning and Instruction 

11:40am-1:00pm CT (12:40-2:10pm ET) - Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: West Tower - Ballroom Level, Toronto

 

HEATHER WALTER, Ed.D., ELISABETH KUTSCHER, Ed.D., and LIONEL HOWARD, Ed.D.

Roundtable Session Using a Dialectical Stance to Enhance Our Understanding of Early Childhood Special Education Teachers' Well-Being

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20pm ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 7th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon III

 

KARLY BALL

Paper Session Paradigms Transformed: Distinguishing the Transformative Paradigm in Mixed-Methods Research

4:40-6:10pm CT (5:40-7:10pm ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 6th Floor, Northwestern/Ohio State

 

Friday, April 14

ERIN BAILEY

Poster Session Flows Are Never in Neutral: Theorizing Hip-Hop and Mobilities to Rupture Static Conceptions of Embodied Literacies

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower - Exhibit Level, Riverside West Exhibition Hall

 

MIKYONG MINSUN KIM, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session College Tuition Break Through Regional Interstate Compacts

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

DOWAN AMIS MCNAIR-LEE

Roundtable Session I Am ... Hippolyta: How Speculative Fiction Calls This Black Woman Teacher Into a Currere Conversation

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

DWAYNE KWAYSEE WRIGHT, J.D., Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Educating the "Most Special Nation in the History of the World": A Critical Policy Analysis

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

ARSHAD I. ALI, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Chair Encountering Counterstories: Crosscurrents of Racialized Narratives in School and Social Contexts

11:40am-1:10pm CT (12:40-2:10pm ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

SABRINA CURTIS, Ph.D.

Invited Speaker Session Civic Engagement & the Politicization of Black Girls’ Praxis as a Research Imperative

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20pm ET) - Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: West Tower - Concourse Level, Water Tower

 

NATALIE MILMAN, Ph.D.

Invited Roundtable Session: Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20pm ET) - Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower- Ballroom Level, Grand Ballroom B

 

BETH TUCKWILLER, Ph.D., HALLIE FOX, Ph.D., KARLY BALL, and JERRY ST. LOUIS

Paper Session A Nod to Care: Expanding Nel Noddings's Ethics of Care Framework to Sustain Educator Resilience

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20pm ET) - Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel, Chicago, Floor: 2nd Floor, Bering

 

Saturday, April 15

ARSHAD I. ALI, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session The Ethnographic Record as Archive: Epistemic Tensions and the Construction of Evidence With Muslim Youth

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 7th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon III

 

NATALIE MILMAN, Ph.D.

Paper Session Chair Portfolios and Reflection in Teaching and Teacher Education SIG Paper Session

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Event Centre, 1st Floor, Zurich B

 

CHRISTINE NGANGA, Ed.D.

Paper Session Chair and Presenting Author Mentoring Through Acknowledging Epistemic Truths

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:00 am ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Superior B

 

REBECCA THESSIN, Ed.D., JENNIFER CLAYTON, LESLIE TRIMMERand ABEBAYEHU TEKLESELASSIE

Roundtable Session Facilitators and Barriers to Assistant Principal Learning and Development in an Urban School District

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

JONATHAN EAKLE, Ph.D., JESSICA MONTE, XIAOYUE ZHANG, and WILLIAM ZHOU

Paper Session A Content Analysis of a MOOC of Artworks and Thinking Routines

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Lobby - Level 3, Streeterville

 

JOSHUA L. GLAZER, Ph.D.

Paper Session Discussant Education Reform and Equity

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower - Concourse Level, Michigan 1A

 

JISUN JEONG, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Trajectory of Social and Emotional Learning Policy Making in Lebanon Since the Syrian Refugee Influx

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park, Floor: B2 Level, Imperial Ballroom

 

NATALIE MILMAN, Ph.D.

Paper Session Discussant Spotlighting Presence Within Online Learning Environments

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 6th Floor, Purdue/Wisconsin

 

CHRISTINE NGANGA, Ed.D.

SIG Business Meeting Officer Leadership for School Improvement SIG

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Chicago Ballroom VI

 

IRINA LAGRANGE and REBECCA THESSIN, Ed.D.

Roundtable Session Instructional Leadership Supports and Collaboration With Central Office Leaders: Middle School Principals' Perspectives

11:40am-1:10pm CT (12:40-2:10pm ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 7th Floor, Grand Ballroom Salon III

 

CHRISTINE NGANGA, Ed.D.

Paper Session Discussant Coaching, Mentoring, and Other Critical Supports to Leadership Development

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Erie

 

Sunday, April 16

KARLY BALL

Paper Session "Things Can Be Tough": A Qualitative Analysis of Disability Disclosure in Graduate School

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 4th Floor, Clark - 1/2 Marriott Ballroom

 

JESSA HENDERSON and NATALIE MILMAN, Ph.D.

Paper Session A Literature Synthesis Examining Critical Educational Technology Teacher Education Research

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Floor: 6th Floor, Northwestern/Ohio State

 

CHRISTINE NGANGA, Ed.D., KIMBERLY JAMISON, Ed.D., and SHAUN SHEPARD

Paper Session Whose and What Knowledge Counts in Equity and Justice–Oriented Leadership Preparation

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Lucerne Level, Lucerne 2

 

ARSHAD I. ALI, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session Chair Empathy and Empowerment for Critical Leadership and Community Solidarity

9:50-11:20am CT (10:50am-12:20pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

JESSA HENDERSON and NATALIE MILMAN, Ph.D.

Roundtable Session A Case Study Investigating Ireland's Multistakeholder Effort Toward a National Vision for Micro-Credentials

11:40am-1:10pm CT (12:40-2:10pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Sheraton Ballroom IV and V

 

JONATHAN EAKLE, Ph.D., ERIN BAILEY, and EVAN CRUMP, Ed.D.

Paper Session Extensive Research in and of Theaters, Museums, and Gardens: A Continuing, Moving Investigation

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20 ET) - Swissôtel Chicago, Floor: Event Centre, 1st Floor, Zurich B

 

JOSHUA L. GLAZER, Ph.D.

Paper Session Discussant Advancing Continuous Improvement in Theory and Practice

2:50-4:20pm CT (3:50-5:20 ET) - InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, Floor: Lobby Level, Avenue West

 

JESSA HENDERSON

Paper Session The Impact of Algorithmic Literacy and Purpose on Educator Use and Confidence in Algorithmic Advice

4:40-6:00pm CT (5:40-7:00pm ET) - Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Lobby - Level 3, Streeterville

 

Thursday, May 4 (online)

KRISTEN MCINERNEY, Ed.D.

Virtual Paper Session Translanguaging for Belonging: Newcomer Immigrant Adolescent Experiences in High School

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:00am ET) - SIG Virtual Rooms, Second Language Research SIG Virtual Paper Room

 

KRISTEN MCINERNEY, Ed.D.

Virtual Paper Session Case Study Research Design With Multilingual Youth: Quantitative and Qualitative Methodological Considerations

11:30am-1:00pm CT (12:30-2:00pm ET) - SIG Virtual Rooms, Adolescence and Youth Development SIG Virtual Session Room

 

KIMBERLY SLOAN, Ed.D.

Virtual Roundtable Session Collaborative Re-Visioning: Recursive Cycles in Narrative Methods

11:30am-1:00pm CT (12:30-2:00pm ET) - SIG Virtual Rooms, Narrative Research SIG Virtual Roundtable Room

 

MIKYONG MINSUN KIM, Ph.D.

Virtual Paper Session Relationship Between Student Learning Experiences and Learning Outcomes of Science and Engineering Students: Korean Case

4:15-5:45pm CT (5:15-6:45pm ET) - SIG Virtual Rooms, International Studies SIG Virtual Paper Room

 

Friday, May 5 (online)

 

ELISABETH KUTSCHER, Ed.D., MAXINE FREUND, Ed.D., and KARLY BALL

Virtual Paper Session Preparing College Students With Disabilities for Employment: Disability Service Professionals' Perspectives

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) - Division J Virtual Sessions, Division J - Postsecondary Education Virtual Paper Room 2

 

DWAYNE KWAYSEE WRIGHT, J.D., Ph.D.

Virtual Roundtable Session Blackness as "Debt": Excavating the Racial Economy of "Merit" Devaluing Black Professional School Faculty

8:00-9:30am CT (9:00-10:30am ET) -  Division I Virtual Sessions, Division I - Education in the Professions Virtual Roundtable Room

 

ELISABETH KUTSCHER, Ed.D., MATTHEW FLANAGAN, Ed.D., and CHLOE MASSEY

Virtual Paper Session Disability and Professional Identities Intertwined: The Stories of Disabled Teachers

11:30am-1:00pm CT (12:30-2:00pm ET) - SIG Virtual Rooms, Disability Studies in Education SIG Virtual Paper Room