2024 GSE AERA Presentations

April 11–14, 2024 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action

Below is a complete list of faculty, staff, students and alumni from the Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo presenting at the AERA annual meeting.

Name Presentation Title(s) Affiliation Information
Jasmine Alvarado, PhD Latinx Siblings Reconfiguring Raciolinguicized and Spatialized Family-School Relations Faculty Presentation Information
Latina Mothers’ Refusal to School-Sanctioned Family Engagement in Bilingual Programs Within Anti-Bilingual Education States
Reconfiguring Latinx Sibling-Relations in an Elementary Bilingual Dual Language Program 
Blythe E. Anderson, PhD Development of a Multicomponent Reading Intervention in Upper-Elementary Grades: Findings From a Design Experiment Faculty Presentation Information
Vocabulary SIG Business Meeting and Reception
Tasha Austin, PhD Soy porque somos: How Black teachers create practices to bring balance Faculty Presentation Information
Black Mothers as Bad Teachers: Intersectional Raciolinguistic Erasure in Teacher Preparation Curricula
Unsettling Linguistic Landscapes with Material Culture and Culture Humility in Teach Preparation 
Melodie K. Baker, PhD The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners Alum Presentation Information
Leah Bartlo Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education Student Presentation Information
Gwendolyn Baxley, PhD Black Women Lead: Lessons from Black Women Leadership of Black Panther Party’s Oakland Community School Faculty Presentation Information
Dietary (and other) Restrictions: Community Dinners as Catalyst for Expanding an Articulation of Black Liberation in Research
Co-Generative Dialogue for Transformative Change in Communities & Schools
Black Millennial Caregivers’ Experiences With and Resistance Against Neoliberalism and Anti-Blackness in Education and Communities
Maureen Boyd, PhD
 Critical Inquiry, Dialogue Space and Purposeful Selection of Diverse Children’s Literature Faculty
 Presentation Information 
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom Conditions that Support Dialogic Space
Janina Brutt-Griffler, PhD Exploring Reading Motivation, Metacognitive Strategies, and Achievement Among Multilingual and English-Dominant Students Faculty Presentation Information
Claire E. Cameron, PhD The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learns Faculty Presentation Information
Striving for Equitable Assessment Opportunities: Preschool Teacher Feedback on a Gamified Self-regulation Task
Kristin Cipollone Humanizing Practices to Cultivate Justice, Genius, Care, and Joy in a Teacher Residency Program Staff Presentation Information
Community Members as Architects of Imagination and Agents of Authority in Teacher Education
Teacher-Student Relationships Should Drive “Classroom Un-management” for Historically Marginalized Elementary Students
Moving Beyond Teacher Preparation: Examining the Pedagogical Beliefs and Practices of Community-Engaged Elementary Graduates
Clap Back! Teacher School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
“A Seed Nurtured in Summer Bears Fruit in Fall”: Importance of Teacher Residency Summer Institute
Community Engaged Teacher Preparation: Issues and Insights from Teacher Educators 
From Incubation to Emancipation: Institutionalism as a Threat to Sustaining Community Engaged Innovation in the Academy
Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education 
Samantha R. Didrichsen The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners Student Presentation Information
Striving for Equitable Assessment Opportunities: Preschool Teacher Feedback on a Gamified Self-regulation Task  
Nicholas A. Emmanuele Reader and Disability Perceptions of Adolescents with Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading: A Mixed Study Student Presentation Information
Elisabeth Etopio, PhD New Possibilities: Course and Program Innovations in Teacher Residency  Faculty Presenation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education
Myles S. Faith, PhD Whole-Child Development Losses and Inequalities during the Pandemic: Cross-state Analyses of Achievement and Well-being Trends Faculty Presenation Information
David A. Fronczak Development of a Multicomponent Reading Intervention in Upper-Elementary Grades: Findings From a Design Experiment Student Presenation Information
Julie Gorlewski, PhD New Possibilities: Course and Program Innovations in Teacher Residency  Faculty Presentation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education
Seong Won Han, PhD Iterative Use of Mixed Methods for Addressing Inequalities in High School Mathematics Course Taking Faculty Presentation Information
Tina Hanson-Lewis Narrative Inquiry into Post-Secondary General Chemistry Students’ Experiences Through the Lens of Expectancy-Value Theory Student Presenation Information
Christopher Hoadley, PhD In-Service Computer Science Teachers’ and Researchers’ Notions of Equity in a Professional Learning Community Faculty Presentation Information
Leveraging Research-Practice Partnerships and a Whole-School Approach to Build Broad Capacity in K-5 Computer Science Education
Megan Holland Iantosca, PhD The Reception on Campus: The Experiences of Students of Color Deploying Cultural Capital Faculty Presenation Information
Dawnavyn James The Hoped for Illusions in Education and Collaboration Student Presentation Information
What’s in a Black History Course?: An Examination of High School Black History Syllabi 
Brittany Jones, PhD The Development of UTOP+: Culturally Relevant Classroom Observation Protocol for Math and Science Courses Faculty Presentation Information
“We always on ready”: How Black Students’ Discourse and Affect Challenge the ‘Difficult’ History Label
Difficult-ish as an Antidote to Villainification and its Partner, “Difficult Histories”
We See the Potential: Possibilities for Civic Education
Assessment Practices in Transition: Studying Preservice Teachers’ Into Their First Year of Teaching
Difficult Pasts, Possible Futures: A Systematic Literature Review on Difficult Histories in Social Studies Education, 2004-2022
Tiffany Karalis Noel, PhD Striving for Equitable Assessment Opportunities: Preschool Teacher Feedback on a Gamified Self-regulation Task Faculty Presentation Information
Erin Kearney, PhD New Possibilities: Course and Program Innovations in Teacher Residency  Faculty Presentation Information
Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education
Sunha Kim, PhD The Impact of Teacher Residency Pathways on Student-Level Outcomes Faculty Presentation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
Christina U. King, PhD Critical Inquiry, Dialogic Space and Purposeful Selection of Diverse Children’s Literature Faculty Presentation Information
LaGarrett J. King, PhD What’s in a Black History Course?: An Examination of High School Black History Syllabi Faculty Presentation Information
Alexandra LaTronica-Herb “Mothers Are Forces to Be Reckoned With”: Proposing an Asset-Based Model of Student-Mothers’ Capital Student Presentation Information
Jaekyung Lee, PhD Whole-Child Development Losses and Inequalities during the Pandemic: Cross-state Analyses of Achievement and Well-being Trends Faculty Presentation Information
Seoyeon Lee Recruitment, Retention, and Thriving of Residents from Minoritized Backgrounds Student Presentation Information
“A Seed Nurtured in Summer Bears Fruit in Fall”: Importance of Teacher Residency Summer Institute
Tanya M. Lewis-Jones, PhD The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners Alum Presentation Information
Xiufeng Liu, PhD Defining STEM Professional Identity: An Exploratory Study Faculty Presentation Information
Holly Marcolina “I Don’t Want to Say It Wrong”: Teachers’ Perceptions of In/Equity in Rural Extracurriculars Student Presentation Information
Preston Martin The Impact of Teacher Residency Pathways on Student-Level Outcomes Student Presentation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
Realizing the Possibilities of Teacher Residency Program Features: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation Study
Halley A. Maza, PhD
 Humanizing Practices to Cultivate Justice, Genius, Care, and Joy in a Teacher Residency Program Post Doc Presentation Information
Realizing the Possibilities of Teacher Residency Program Features: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation Study
Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
Integrating a Model of Culturally Responsive Social Emotional Learning in Teacher Education: Lessons From an Urban Residency Program
“A Seed Nurtured in Summer Bears Fruit in Fall”: Importance of Teacher Residency Summer Institute
Mary B. McVee, PhD Toward Critical Multimodal Positioning Analysis Faculty Presentation Information
Christina Mead The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners Student Presentation Information
Ian Mette, PhD Building Partnerships: Examining Equity and Supporting Faculty Development Faculty Presentation Information
Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership: Disrupting Traditional Paradigms by Centering Race to Construct New Futures in P-20 Education
Yuldonna Middleton Recruitment, Retention, and Thriving of Residents from Minoritized Backgrounds Staff Presentation Information
Arethetta Ming Recruitment, Retention, and Thriving of Residents from Minoritized Backgrounds Staff Presentation Information
Cara Monaco “Mothers Are Forces to Be Reckoned With”: Proposing an Asset-Based Model of Student-Mothers’ Capital Student Presenation Information
“When anybody speaks, we all need to be involved”: Classroom Conditions that Support Dialogic Space
Timothy Monreal, PhD De Los Abajos: Rasquache Movidas Toward Critical, Culturally, and Linguistically Relevant Social Studies Faculty Presentation Information
Mapping Potentials in Our Flow: Examining Currents in Physical, Mobile, and Virtual Samples of Classroom Cartographies
Spatializing Unruly Latinidades: Advancing the Heuristic of the Palimpsest with the ‘New’ Latinx South
Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible
Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives From the Margins
Amanda B. Nickerson, PhD Empowering Peers to Reduce Bullying and Sexual Harassment through Bystander Intervention Faculty Presentation Information
William O’Neil-White Striving to Make Our Ancestors Proud: Buffalo Black Males Leveraging Rebellious Literacies for Educational Justice and Thrival Student Presentation Information
Chris Proctor, PhD Expansive Framings of “Capacity Building” in Computing Education: Agency, Infrastructuring, and Advocacy Faculty Presentation Information
Supporting Community Participation in Designing Local CS Education
Ryan M. Rish, PhD A Critical Phenomenological Study of White Hegemony Among (Self-Described) Antiracist Teacher Educators at Predominantly White Institutions Faculty Presentation Information
Stamped from the Beginning: Using an Antiracist Text to Explore Hegemonic Whiteness in Teacher Education
Nelson Rivera Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible UBTR Alum Presentation Information
Sarah A. Robert, PhD An Integrated Perspective on Apple’s Contributions to the Sociology of Education and Education Policy Analysis Faculty Presentation Information
School Food Politics for Social Justice, Human Rights, and Sustainability
Transforming School Food With A Feminist Politics Of Care
Suzanne N. Rosenblith, PhD Answerability, Urgency, and Joy: Revitalizing and Reinvigorating Teacher Education Through Residency Faculty Presentation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
Realizing the Possibilities of Teacher Residency Program Features: A Multiple Methods Program Evaluation Study
“A Seed Nurtured in Summer Bears Fruit in Fall”: Importance of Teacher Residency Summer Institute
Margaret W. Sallee, PhD “Mothers Are Forces to Be Reckoned With”: Proposing an Asset-Based Model of Student-Mothers’ Capital Faculty Presentation Information
Stephen Santa-Ramirez, PhD What Happens Post-College? Narratives of Recently Graduated Undocumented Students Faculty Presentation Information
Alexandra Schindel, PhD A Critical Review of Environmental Justice Education in Research Faculty Presentation Information
The Environmental Education SIG Feminist Caucus
Political Empowerment in Formal School Science
Jessica Selleck Clap Back! Teachers School Teacher Educators About Making the Impossible Possible Student Presentation Information
Young S. Seo, PhD Whole-Child Development Losses and Inequalities during the Pandemic: Cross-state Analyses of Achievement and Well-being Trends Post Doc Presentation Information
Exploring Reading Motivation, Metacognitive Strategies, and Achievement Among Multilingual and English-Dominant Students
Bullying Victimization and Achievement: School Belonging and Absenteeism as Medicators Using PISA 2018 U.S. Data
Greg Simmons The Hoped for Illusions in Education and Collaboration Student Presentation information
What’s in a Black History Course?: An Examination of High School Black History Syllabi
Joshua Skeans Using Teacher Performance Assessment To Dismantle Injustice And Construct Possibilities In Teacher Education  Staff Presentation Information
Ji-Won Son, PhD Dismantling Deficit-Based Perspectives of the Pre-Primary Home Math Environments of African American and Multiracial Families  Faculty Presentation Information
Exploring the Complex Relationship Between Teacher Concerns and the CCSSM (Common Core State Standards for Mathematics)-Related Curriculum
Krystal Starke, PhD
 The Role of Racial Congruence in Early Educator-Child Linguistic Interactions: Implications for African American Learners Alum Presentation Information
Striving for Equitable Assessment Opportunities: Preschool Teacher Feedback on a Gamified Self-regulation Task
John Z. Strong, PhD Development of a Multicomponent Reading Intervention in Upper-Elementary Grades: Findings From a Design Experiment Faculty Presentation Information
Jennifer Tripp, PhD Defining STEM Professional Identity: An Exploratory Study Post Doc Presentation Information
Lauren Urban Political Empowerment in Formal School Science Student Presentation Information
X. Christine Wang, PhD Preschoolers’ Higher-Order Executive Functions Through Embodied and Shared Computational Thinking With a Programming Toy Faculty Presentation Information
Integrating Computational Thinking and Other Developmental and Learning Domains in Early Childhood
English-Language App Book Reading amongst Linguistically Diverse Kindergarteners
Yuejia Wang How Does Social Capital Influence Academic Job-Seeking Experiences in China? A Comparison Between Domestic and Returning PhD's Student Presentation Information
Lois Weis, PhD Successful Mixed Methods and/or Multidisciplinary Team Approaches to the Study of Racial Justice/Injustice in Education Faculty Presentation Information
Power of Mixed Methods: School Ethnographics, Academic Transcripts, Post-High School Interviews
STEM Education Reform with Minoritized High School Students: It’s Complicated; It’s Consequential; Is it Just?
Paris D. Wicker, PhD Towards A Well-Being Habitus Framework in Higher Education Faculty Presentation Information
Graduate Student Council Division J Fireside Chat: Let No Job Market Put Asunder: The Inter/Intrapersonal Journeys of Scholars Navigating The Academy
Bourdieusian Contexts and Cases in Teaching and Technology
Ashley Wiese Humanizing Practices to Cultivate Justice, Genius, Care, and Joy in a Teacher Residency Program Staff Presentation Information
Amanda Winkelsas, PhD Affordances and Complexities of Third/Hybrid Spaces in Teacher Residency Programs Faculty Presentation Information
The Impact of Teacher Residency Program on Students with Teacher Ethnicity as a Moderator
“A Seed Nurtured in Summer Bears Fruit in Fall”: Importance of Teacher Residency Summer Institute
Fanya Wu “Filling Up All Options”: Chinese Students’ Choice of Transnational Higher Education Student Presentation Information
The Reception on Campus: The Experiences of Students of Color Deploying Cultural Capital
Yaxin Xing Preschoolers’ Higher-Order Executive Functions Through Embodied and Shared Computational Thinking With a Programming Toy Student Presentation Information
Ling Zhai, PhD Inclusivity in Pre-Service Teaching Alum Presentation Information