UC Links at AERA 2024

Scholars and partners from throughout the UC Links international network will be coming to Philadelphia, April 11-14, 2024 to participate in the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association

Twelve UC Links programs will be presenting their work on Saturday (3:05-4:35pm) as part of the UC Links Structured Poster Session University-Community Engagement as a Strategy for Dismantling Racial Injustice and Co-Constructing Educational Possibilities. Come see us! 

Below are some examples of AERA posters and presentations by partners from throughout the UC Links network. This list is not exhaustive - please let us know of other presentations that we may have missed!

We are looking forward to seeing many of you from around the world in Philadelphia this April! 

Thursday April 11, 2024

• Toward the Fulfillment of Full Personhood: The Persistent Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions and Educational Scholarship 3.0— Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Getting Newcomer Youth “On The College Bus”: A Collaborative Effort To Increasing College Access — Sophia L Angeles (Pennsylvania State University)

• Educational Differences in Parents’ Math Support Self-Efficacy and Relations to Adolescents’ Math Motivation: Conceptual Replications — Sandra D. Simpkins (University of California, Irvine); Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester)

• Math Identity and Cultural Historical Activity Theory: Storying Preservice Teachers’ Math Trajectories —  Aria Razfar (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Critical Sociotechnical Perspectives on Young People Using, Experiencing, and Making Sense of AI — José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder) [co-chair]

• Embracing Everyday Fugitive Wellness: Knowledge and Transformation in Hip-Hop Learning Sanctuaries — Kalonji L. Nzinga (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Challenging Traditional Museum Facilitation Practices Through Practice-Based Facilitation Professional Development — Danielle Boyd Harlow, Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Educational Partnerships as Collective Resistance: Perspectives From Emerging Scholars and Collaborators — Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Chair]

Friday April 12, 2024

• Developing Justice Leaders: High Impact Strategies in Leadership Preparation— Michelle Young (University of California, Berkeley)

• Scholarship that Befits a Democracy: Disrupting Educational Inequality through the Scholarship of Mike Rose — Kris D. Gutiérrez [Chair & Discussant], Glynda A. Hull [Presenter] (University of California, Berkeley) 

• 10th Annual Language and Social Processes Mentoring Session — Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles)

• Family Ecosystem and it’s Relationship to Positive Adolescent Functioning — Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester) [Chair]

• Promoting Adolescent Social and Emotional Development During Out-of-School Time: A Systematic Review — Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego)

• The "Invisible" Resonance: (Re)Imagining Writing for a "Just Present" in Local and Global Technoscapes — Glynda A. Hull (University of California, Berkeley) [Discussant]

• Dreaming DEAI: Leadership Visions and Implementation Efforts of DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusivity) Work in Science and Technology Centers —  Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• Past, Present, and Futures: Intentional Dreaming With Early-Career Researchers About Museum Education and Research — Alexandria Muller (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Chair]

• Immigrant Youth’s (Re-)Imagining of Communal Well-Being Through Multivocal, Improvisational Storytelling — Jackson Gzehoviak (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Prioritizing Educator Diversity Research: A Journey of Reflection, Insights, and New Possibilities —  Travis Bristol (University of California, Berkeley) [Discussant]

Saturday April 13, 2024

• University-Community Engagement as a Strategy for Dismantling Racial Injustice and Co-Constructing Educational Possibilities— Mara Mahmood, John Cano, Wesley Veiga (University of California, Berkeley)

• Remaking Exclusionary Definitions of Engineering and Design: Centering Minoritized Youth Assets in Maker Education — Lee Martin & J.C Leapman, (University of California, Davis)

• A Community-Engaged Effort: Co-Constructing College Knowledge in a Multilingual Community — Sophia L Angeles (Pennsylvania State University) & Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles)

• College Mentors as Agents of Change in a Math University-Community Partnership Engaging Latinx Youth — Alessandra Pantano, Li-Sheng Tseng, Sandra D. Simpkins, Stephanie Soto-Lara, (University of California, Irvine); Mark Vincent B. Yu (McREL International); Ta-yang Hsieh (Search Institute)

• Undergraduate Students’ Shifting Views as They Teach Science Lessons in Spanish at Bilingual Elementary Schools —  Alejandra Yep, Jasmine M. Nation,  Chanel DeSmet,Ana Banuelos, Dayanara Ramirez, Angelica Quintana,  Araceli Camarillo (California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo)

• Understanding the Impact of Socio-Cultural Coursework for Future Educators Prior to Pre-Service Training — Ja’Nya Banks (University of California, Berkeley)

• Examining Corrective Feedback Narratives of Teachers: Implications and Aspirations — Aria Razfar & Rebecca Ziegler Rupnick (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Calling for a Socially Just, Critical Reading Assessment for the 21st Century — Diana J. Arya, Sabiha Sultana, John Galisky (University of California, Santa Barbara); Daniel Katz (NWEA)

• Street Design as Social Justice: Advancing Community Voice Through an Intergenerational Multilingual Community of Practice — Ellen Middaugh,  Laura Vega Hernandez, Amrita Deo, Yesenia Diaz (San Jose State University)

• Hacking New Social Futures: Speculative Dream Sprints as Sites for Futurecasting — Arturo Cortez, José Ramón Lizárraga, Alexis E. Hunter, Ashieda McKoy, Godwin W. Amouzou, Humberto Echevarria-Rios, Jade Cortez-Vargas, Isabella Herrera, Scott Perkins (University of Colorado, Boulder);  Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Mariel Reyes Galvez (Metropolitan State University - Denver)

• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in Out-of-School Time — Amy Vatne Bintliff, Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego); Ashley Batchelor (Arizona State University); Sayra Martinez (La Colonia De Eden Garden Inc.)

• Transformative University-Community Partnerships Facilitating Resilience Processes in Vulnerable Schools During COVID-19 in Spain — Beatriz Macias Gomez-Estern, Virginia Martínez-Lozano (Universidad Pablo de Olavide); Jose Luis Lalueza, Ibis Álvarez-Valdivia (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

• The Role of Positionality in Promoting Racial Equity Through a Formative Intervention Study — Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland), Nimco Noor

• Integrating Socio-Political Frameworks for Noticing to Support Equitable Transformation in College Mathematics — Alessandra Pantano (University of California, Irvine)

• Education Recovery in California — Ja’Nya Banks (University of California, Berkeley)

• Modding New Social Futures in Virtual and Everyday Worlds: Co-Designing Speculative Pedagogies in Videogame Play — Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Speculative Pedagogies in Video Gameplay: Designing for New Social Futures in Collaborative Worldmaking — Arturo Cortez & José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• School Well-Being: Central Determinants and Effects — Amy Vatne Bintliff (University of California, San Diego) [Discussant]

• The Dynamics of Domestication in Utopian Methodological Research in Finnish Upper Secondary Schools —  Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland)

• Embracing the Speculative via Utopian Methodology: The Role of Heterochrony —  Antti J. Rajala (University of Eastern Finland); Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego); Moises Esteban Guitart (University of Girona)

• Educating While Racially Marginalized: The Teaching Profession as a Site for Care and Activism — Nives Wetzel de Cediel (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Transformative Digital Spaces: Disrupting Traditional Notions of Learning and Reimagining Educational Possibilities Through Social Media — Glynda A. Hull (University of California, Berkeley) [Chair]

• Incorporating Diasporic Indigenous Latinx Worldviews Into the Study of Transformative Social and Emotional Learning — Saskias Casanova (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Hope and Resilience: Migrant Essential Workers — Rebeca Mireles-Rios (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Sunday April 14, 2024

• Complexities of Participation in Cultural Practices as Essential and Normative—  Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California, Berkeley)

• Discovering (to Construct) the Educational Possibilities of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Video-Based Linguistic Anthropological Approaches — Marjorie Elaine (University of California, Los Angeles) [Discussant]

• The Role of Caregivers in Fostering Student Learning and Development — Nestor Tulagan (University of Rochester) [Chair]

• Reconstructive Possibilities of Languaging: the Language and Social Processes (Un)Business Meeting — Sabiha Sultana (University of California, Santa Barbara) [Officer]

• Teaching Critically in Times of War: The Promises and Challenges in Citizenship Education — Ellen Middaugh (San Jose State University) [Officer]

• Attuning to Indicators of Equity: Developing Axiological Commitments Across Research Partnerships —  Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder); Paula K. Hooper, Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University); Melita Morales (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

• Social Dreaming With Youth From Nondominant Communities: Co-Designing Abolitionist Technologies in Virtual Worlds — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• AlgoRitmo Literacies in Gaming: Leveraging Chicanx Praxis to Reimagine AI Systems — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University); José Ramón Lizárraga, Arturo Cortez (University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Social Media Usage and Teacher Identity — José Ramón Lizárraga (University of Colorado, Boulder) [Chair]

• Strategies to Support Full Implementation of Community Schools: Lessons From New Mexico — Rebecca S. Levine (University of California, San Diego)

• An Autoethnography of an LGBTQ+ Woman’s Intersectional Digital Learning Community to Raise Critical Consciousness — Gloriana Lopez-Leon, Saskias Casanova (University of California, Santa Cruz)

• Latinx Parental Participation and Approval of Ethnic Studies Courses in High School — Rebeca Mireles-Rios (University of California, Santa Barbara)