AERA 2025

 

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 2025 AERA Annual Meeting >


GSEHD Leadership will host a series of receptions and salons during the conference. Learn more and RSVP >


To view the daily schedule of GSEHD faculty, student, and alumni participation and presentations, select the dates listed below.

  All presentations will be held at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St, Denver, CO

  All times are listed in Mountain Time (MDT)

 

Session Time + LocationSession Information

   9:00-10:30 am

   Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Dr. Jennifer Clayton, Dr. Abe Tekleselassie, Dr. Rebecca Thessin, Dr. Leslie Trimmer

Roundtable Session: Novel Approaches to Supporting Graduate Education
Paper: Equity Front and Center: Using Role Plays to Identify and Prepare Aspiring Administrators to Lead for Equity in Urban School Settings

   10:50 am-12:20 pm

  Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3D

Dr. Jonathan Eakle

Symposium: Affective Cunning: Curriculum With/in Relational Networks of Gender, Knowledge, and Violence
Paper: Cutting and Making Gendered Art in the Affective Flows of an Education Yet to Come

   10:50 am-12:20 pm

  Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F

Qian Zhou

Poster Session: Technology-Mediated Learning and Social Interactions
Paper: Teaching Feedback in the Digital Age: Satisfaction Analysis Based on Student Evaluation Website Data

   12:40-2:10 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Nirmala Narayan (Visiting Scholar, PhD in Education and Inequality)

Roundtable Session: Developing Critical Consciousness and Identity Through Community-Based Research
Paper: Critical Consciousness & Transformational Learning: Exploring Ongoing Identity Development

  2:30-4:00 pm

  Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 2A and 3A

Dr. Natalie Milman

Invited Roundtable: Meet the Editors: Journal Talks 1
Paper: Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal)

   4:20-5:50 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 104

Dr. Yas Nakib, Jacqueline Muniz (Ph.D. Candidate, Education Policy)

Paper Session:  District-Level Financial Decisions and Educational Outcomes
Paper: An Examination of Spending Federal ESSER Funds

Session Time + LocationSession Information

   8:00-9:30 am

  Meeting Room Level, Room 107

Zhongxin Zheng (Doctoral Candidate)

Chair
Paper Session: Crossing Borders: Challenges and Opportunities in International Graduate Education

   1:45-3:15 pm

   Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Alaysia Bookal (Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership & Administration)

Symposium: Supporting Peer Mentorship for Doctoral Scholarly Development
Paper: Empowering Excellence: Cultivating Safe and Supportive Environments for Black Doctoral Students

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Shirley Tia Branch (Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership & Administration)

Symposium: Supporting Peer Mentorship for Doctoral Scholarly Development
Paper: From Margins to Milestones: Connection Between Community and Doctoral Scholarly Identity Development

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Presenter: Naudia Fairclough (MAEd '17; Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership & Administration)
Chairs: Dr. Christine Nganga, Dr. Alexandra Laing (EdD '24)

Symposium: Supporting Peer Mentorship for Doctoral Scholarly Development
Paper: The Doctoral Scholar’s Journey to Defining Selfhood and Establishing Legacy and Purpose

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Susanne Gray Rice (Doctoral Candidate, Educational Leadership & Administration)

Symposium: Supporting Peer Mentorship for Doctoral Scholarly Development
Paper: From Heritage to Purpose: Countering Self-Silencing in Doctoral Education

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Dr. Jonathon Eakle, Amali Amarasinghe, Madeline Doering, Susan Graham, Xiaoyue Zhang, Chris Sharp, William Zhou (Doctoral Candidates, Curriculum & Instruction)

Roundtable Session: Restorative Arts: Repair, Remediation, and Healing
Paper: Remixing Art in a National Museum for Repair and Remediation

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 402

Dr. Michael Feuer, Dr. Benjamin Jacobs

Symposium: Advancing Civic Learning and Engagement Through High-Quality, Equitable Assessment Practices
Paper: Cultures and Contexts of Civics Education and Assessment in the United States

   1:45-3:15 pm

  Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2E

Dr. Natalie Milman, Dr. Jessa Henderson (PhD '24)

Symposium: Assessment Literacies in a Post-Pandemic Digital Age: An Exploration Through Six Systematic Reviews
Paper: Data literacy and digital technology in education: A systematic literature review

   3:35-5:05 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Xinxia Li (Doctoral Candidate, Special Education), Dr. Elisabeth Kutscher

Roundtable Session: Investigating Behavior Through a Culturally Responsive Lens for Students With Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders
Paper: Research Perspectives on School Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabilities: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review

   3:35-5:05 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 712

Dr. Maranda C. Ward (EdD, MPH '17)

Participant in Symposium: Light a Fire and Watch It Burn: Disruptive Qualitative Methods in Education Research

Session Time + LocationSession Information

   11:40 am-1:10 pm

   Meeting Room Level, Room 113

Dr. Karly Ball Isaacson (PhD '24), Dr. Elisabeth Kutscher, Dr. Beth Tuckwiller

Paper Session: Integration Issues: Highlighting the Hallmark of Mixed Methods Research Designs
Paper: Using Joint Displays to Support Meaningful Integration in Convergent Sequential Mixed Methods Designs

   11:40 am-1:10 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Doo Rhee Lee (PhD Student, Comparative and International Education)

Roundtable Session: Exploring Student SES and OTL From the Perspectives of Large-Scale Education Studies
Paper: Relationship between mathematics achievement and home possessions: Cluster analysis across 73 countries using PISA 2022

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Dr. Christine Nganga, Dr. Alexandra Laing (EdD '24), Dr. Shaun Shepard (EdD '24)

Roundtable Session: Narrative Research: Methods and Practices
Paper: Narrative Inquiry as a Mentoring Pedagogical Practice

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2A

Dr. Lisa Rice

Poster Session: Critical Special Education: Reexamination, Reimagination, and Rethinking of Research, Policy, and Practice
Paper: Reimagining Quality in Special Education Research: The Importance of Disability Voice

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Dr. Xiaoyue Zhang (EdD '25)

Roundtable Session: Poetry, Music, and Embodiment: Critical Intersections of Postmodernity and Arts Education
Paper: Research on Other Space: Re-listening New Music through a Live Music Performance

   3:20-4:50 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Dr. Benjamin Jacobs

Chair + Discussant
Roundtable Session: Critical Approaches to Curriculum in History Education

Session Time + LocationSession Information

   8:00-9:30 am

   Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2A

Leslie Smith Duss (Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)

Poster Session: AI in Social Studies Education: Tools for Thoughtful Practice With Generative Artificial Intelligence
Paper: A Correspondence with ChatGPT on Non-Discursive Student Expression in History Education

   8:00-9:30 am

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

William Zhou (Doctoral Candidate, Curriculum & Instruction)

Roundtable Session: Histories, Museum Studies, and Postfoundational Thought
Paper: Psychoanalytic Structures in Museum Critiques: A Path to Post-Critical Analysis

   9:50-11:20 am

  Meeting Room Level, Room 404

Dr. Joshua Glazer

Chair + Presenter
Symposium: Exploring the Opportunities, Challenges, and Dilemmas of Institutional Logics as a Tool of Educational Research
Paper: Adventures in institutional logics: disentangling the extraordinary complexity of urban school improvement

   9:50-11:20 am

  Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F

Dr. Karly Ball Isaacson (PhD '24), Aljawharah Ibrahim AlJunaydil (Doctoral Candidate, Special Educational), Dr. Elisabeth Kutscher

Poster Session & e-Lightening Ed-Talk: Looking at Factors Affecting Stress and Resilience
Poster: A Review of Well-being among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals: Implications for Postsecondary Education

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F

Dr. Lisa Rice, Xinxia Li, Stacey Martino (Doctoral Candidates, Special Education)

Poster Session: Division D Graduate Student Committee In-Progress Research Gala Poster Session
Poster: Understanding Peer Relationships of Adolescent Girls with ADHD: Content Analysis on Voices Shared on TikTok

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Dr. Tal Vaizman (CASJE Research Fellow)

Roundtable Session: Critical Explorations of Identity, Racial Trauma, and Human Experience in Arts Education
Paper: Self-Cultivation to Academic Success: Effects of Stress and Psychological Characteristics among Performing and Non-Performing-Arts students

   5:10-6:40 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 707

Dr. Joshua Glazer

Chair + Presenter
Symposium: Can Continuous Improvement Work in the Turbulent World of Urban Districts?
Paper: Continuous Improvement in Memphis: Creating Coherence in Urban Environments

   7:00-8:30 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 710

Dr. Natalie Milman

Keynote Panelist
TACTL (Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning)-SIG Business Meeting and Keynote Panel

Session Time + LocationSession Information

   9:50-11:20 am

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Dr. Christine Nganga

Chair
Roundtable Session: Important Considerations in Mentoring

   9:50-11:20 am

   Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Dr. Lisa Rice

Roundtable Session: Centering Disability in Redefining Research Paradigms
Paper: Highlighting the Voices of People with Disabilities: Reflections on a Metaethnography

   9:50-11:20 am

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Dr. Matthew Shirrell

Chair
Roundtable Session: Responding to Upheaval With a Focus on Sustaining Improvement Over Time

   11:40 am-1:10 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Dr. Esther Friedman (CASJE Research Fellow)

Roundtable Session: Investigations of Teaching Contexts in the Lives of Teachers
Paper: Salesmen, Tour Guides and Aliens: Lived Space Experiences of Orthodox Bible Teachers in non-Orthodox Schools

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Dr. Jihae Cha

Roundtable Session: Empowering Community and Building Multicultural Future
Paper: Navigating Sense of Self and Community through Multimodal Storytelling: Experiences of Youths in Clarkston, Georgia

   1:30-3:00 pm

  Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Dr. Lisa Rice, Dr. Melissa Boston (EdD '23)

Paper Session: Global Perspectives and Experiences of Students With Autism or Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
Paper: Perceptions of the Effects of Restraint and Seclusion on School Staff

Session Time + LocationSession Information
   Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall

Dr. Mikyong Minsun Kim

iPresentation Session: Division J - Section 2b: College Student Experiences
Paper: College students with Disabilities: Factors Influencing Growth in Social Confidence and Leadership Skills

  Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall

Dr. Sarah Ray

iPresentation Session: SIG-Adult Literacy and Adult Education
Paper: Life Events as Learning Catalysts: Immigrant Women’s Entrepreneurial Career Transitions


 

GSEHD Salons & Reception

GSEHD and Dean Michael Feuer will host three salon events during the conference. Speakers, locations and times to follow.

  • Transforming Education in Azerbaijan: Lessons for Global Education Diplomacy (Friday morning)
  • Civic Education and Democracy: Priorities and Prospects (Friday afternoon)
  • Advancing Justice in a Multiracial Democracy (Saturday morning)

GSEHD Reception
Friday, April 25  |  7-8:30 pm
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, Fourth Floor, Capitol Ballroom 5

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