THE 2017 NAED/SPENCER SPRING FELLOWS RETREAT

AGENDA


The Keck Center of the National Academies

500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Wednesday, March 15

Fellows Reception

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Reception for Dissertation & Postdoctoral Fellows

Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan
Chair of the NAEd Professional Development Committee

China Chilcano

418 7th St NW

Thursday, March 16

Fellows Retreat

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Keck Center of the National Academies.

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Registration & Breakfast

First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)

8:30 AM – 8:40 AM

Opening & Welcome to the Spring Fellows Retreat

Elizabeth Moje, University of Michigan
Chair of the NAEd Professional Development Committee

Keck 100

8:45 AM – 11:30 AM

Fellowship Retreat Sessions

Dissertation Fellows: Check-in and updates

Postdoctoral Fellows: Check-in and updates

Fellows will have check-in time with their cohorts and then each cohort will move to small table topical discussions.

Dissertation Fellows will utilize Keck 100.

Postdoctoral Fellows will utilize Keck 105 and 106.

Keck 100

Keck 105

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Lunch

Keck Cafeteria (3rd Floor)

12:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Individual Mentoring Session

Fellows will meet individually with mentors during their assigned times.

Room Assignments Below

Tom Dee 100
Ruben Flores 101
Kris Gutiérrez 101
Rogers Hall 101
Shirley Brice Heath 100
David Kirkland 103
Michal Kurlaender 100
Carol Lee 103
Valerie Lee Atrium
Judith Warren Little 100
Ebony McGee 103
Laura Muñoz 105
Richard Murnane 100
Adam Nelson 106
Jeannie Oakes 106
Geoffrey Saxe 201
Robert Smith Atrium
Deborah Stipek 201
Judith Torney-Purta 105
Paige Ware 201
Lois Weis 100
Maisha Winn 100

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Break

First Floor Lobby

2:30 PM – 4:10 PM

Fellows Discussion Panel 1

See Assignments Below

Panel 1-A, Keck 101

Senior Discussant: Susan Goldman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussants: Laura Aull, Rawia Hayik, Blaine Smith

Kyle Booten, University of California, Berkeley
Online Quotation Culture: Investigating the Fate of the Book in the Age of New Media

Jennifer Higgs, University of California, Berkeley
A National Study of Talking to Learn Across Digital and Face-to-Face Contexts in K-12 Classrooms

Laura Horton, University of Chicago
The Influence of Communicative Ecology on Language Acquisition and Emergence at Home and in School: Shared Homesign Systems in Guatemala

Panel 1-B, Keck 106

Senior Discussant: Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan
Discussants: Kabria Baumgartner, Alan Dillingham, Michael Hevel, Kathryn Schumaker

John Bell, Harvard University
Equality by Degrees: Abolitionist Colleges and the Throes of Integration, 1833-1895

Alisha Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Respectable from their Intelligence: The Education of Louisiana’s gens de couleur libres, 1800 to 1860

Lauren Lefty, New York University
Seize the Schools, Que Viva Puerto Rico Libre: Cold War Education Politics in New York and San Juan, 1948-1975

Louis Mercer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Detention of a Different Kind: Police, Chicago’s Schools, and the Origins of the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Panel 1-C, Keck 105

Senior Discussant: Helen “Sunny” Ladd, Duke University
Discussants: Katharine Destler, Cassandra Hart, Matthew Steinberg

Barbara Biasi, Stanford University
Wages and The Composition of the Teaching Body: Evidence from Wisconsin

Johanna Quinn, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Unequal Work in Unequal Schools: Working in New York City Middle Schools in an Era of Accountability

John Singleton, Duke University
Incentives and the Supply of Effective Charter Schools

4:10 PM – 4:30 PM

Break

Keck Atrium (3rd Floor)

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Meet the Funder

Elizabeth Albro, Institute of Education Sciences
Wilsonia Cherry, National Endowment for the Humanities
Emily Doolittle, Institute of Education Sciences
John Easton, Spencer Foundation
Michael Ford, National Science Foundation
Rhoda Freelon, Spencer Foundation
Vivian Louie, William T. Grant Foundation
Brett Miller, National Institute of  Child Health and Human Development
Elizabeth Shuey, Administration for Children and Families
Douglas Wood, Ford Foundation

Keck Atrium (3rd Floor)

7:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Fellows Dinner

This dinner will not include a speaker or formal program.

Rather, this dinner will be a time for fellows to socialize among themselves and other retreat guests.

La Tasca

722 7th St NW

Friday, March 17

Fellows Retreat

Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Keck Center of the National Acadmies.

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration & Breakfast

First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)

9:00 AM – 10:25 AM

Fellows Discussion Panel 2

See Assignments Below

Panel 2-A, Keck 106

Senior Discussant: Kris Gutiérrez, University of California, Berkeley
Discussants: Conra Gist, Tzu-Jung Lin, Frank Reichert

Sarah Fine, Harvard University
Unlearning Certainty: Deeper Learning, Restorative Practices, and the Quest to Transform Relationships at an Urban Charter School

Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, University of Chicago
Student Behavior in Context: Examining School Practice Contributions to Behavioral Peer Effects

Sarah Miller, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Tolerance Generation: High School, Inequality and the Anti-Bullying Era

Panel 2-B, Keck 101

Senior Discussant: Susan Moore Johnson, Harvard University
Discussants
: Shiv Desai, Megan Hopkins, Elizabeth Todd-Breland

Brandon Buck, Teachers College, Columbia University
White Schools, White Ignorance: Toward a Racially Responsive Pedagogy

Eliot Graham, Rutgers University
“In Real Life, You Have to Speak Up”: Civic Implications of Behavior Management in a No-Excuses Charter School

Laura Hernández, University of California, Berkeley
Managing the Brand: Racial Politics, Strategic Messaging, and the Coalition-Building Efforts of Charter Management Organizations

Panel 2-C, Keck 103

Senior Discussant: Geoffrey Saxe, University of California, Berkeley
Discussants: Sarah Levine, Shirin Voussoughi, Dake Zhang

Dominic Gibson, University of Chicago
Putting Cognitive Science to Work: How Word-Learning Biases are the Source and Solution to Children’s Misconceptions in Mathematics

Nicholas Johnson, University of California, Los Angeles
Expanding Competence: Creating Space for Students to Engage with Each Other’s Mathematical Ideas

Patricia Vela, Emory University
Heuristics Employed by Problem Solvers Engaged in a Robotics-based Task

Panel 2-D, Keck 105

Senior Discussant: Jennifer Lee, Indiana University
Discussants: Sarah Gallo, Jie Park, Amy Stich

Karina Chavarria, University of California, Los Angeles
Land of Opportunity: School Incorporation of Undocumented Latina/o High School Students

Rita Harvey, University of Pennsylvania
Complexities of Capital: Readings of Cultural Capital in the Education of Youth on the Margins

Cristina Lash, Stanford University
Making Americans: Schooling, Diversity, and Assimilation in the Twenty-First Century

10:25 AM – 10:35 AM

Break

First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)

10:35 AM – 12:00 PM

Fellows Discussion Panel 3

See Assignments Below

Panel 3-A, Keck 101

Senior Discussant: Valerie Lee, University of Michigan
Discussants: Huriya Jabbar, Ann Owens

Jordan Conwell, Northwestern University
Racial Achievement Gaps within Income Categories: Historical Trends and Gap Development in a Single Birth Cohort

Daphne Henry, University of Pittsburgh
The Intersection of Race and Socioeconomic Status (SES) in Early Family Life: Why Do the Academic Returns to SES Differ for Black and White Children?

Natasha Quadlin, Indiana University
Academic Performance and Gender: Perceived Causes and Potential Consequences

Panel 3-B, Keck 103

Senior Discussant: Mitchell Chang, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussants: Michelle Bellino, Brian Burt, Gina Garcia

Anthony Johnson, Northwestern University
Social Identity, Campus Culture, and STEM Persistence at Selective Colleges and Universities

Bethany Mulimbi, Harvard University
Botho – “I am because we are.” Constructing National Identity in the Midst of Ethnic Diversity in Botswana’s Junior Secondary Schools

Nydia Sánchez, University of North Texas
Educational Uplift Along the U.S.-Mexico Border: How Students, Families, and Educators Cultivate a College-Going Culture in Contested Terrain

Panel 3-C, Keck 105

Senior Discussant: Richard Murnane, Harvard University
Discussants: Daniel Klasik, John Papay

Tolani Britton, Harvard University
Locked Up and Locked Out: The Effects of the Anti-Drug Act of 1986 on Black Male Students’ College Enrollment

Emily Weisburst, University of Texas
Discipline, Safety and Learning: What is the Impact of Police Officers in Public Schools?

Panel 3-D, Keck 106

Senior Discussant: Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
Discussants: Bianca Baldridge, Chenyi Zhang

Shayl Griffith, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Home Learning in the New Mobile Age: Parent-Child Interactions and Emergent Academic Development across Multiple Home Learning Contexts

Julia McWilliams, University of Pennsylvania
Branding Against Closure: Philadelphia Neighborhood Schools and the Management of Risky Futures

Kathryn Wiley, University of Colorado Boulder
Explaining the Contradictions: Autonomy, Equity, and the Development of Exclusionary Discipline and Tracking Practices in an Innovation School

12:00 PM – 1:10 PM

Lunch

Keck Cafeteria (3rd Floor)

1:15 PM – 2:50 PM

Small Group Sessions

Session 1, Keck 101

The Journal Review Process: A Behind the Scenes Look
Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University
Deborah Stipek, Stanford University

Session 2, Keck 105

Writing a Winning Proposal
Glynda Hull, University of California, Berkeley
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, University of Michigan

2:50 PM – 3:00 PM

Break

First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)

3:00 PM – 3:55 PM

Group Mentoring Session

Fellows will meet with mentors in assigned rooms.

Room Assignments Below

Tom Dee 100
Ruben Flores 101
Kris Gutiérrez 101
Rogers Hall 101
Shirley Brice Heath 100
David Kirkland 103
Michal Kurlaender 100
Carol Lee 103
Valerie Lee Atrium
Judith Warren Little 100
Ebony McGee 103
Laura Muñoz 105
Richard Murnane 100
Adam Nelson 106
Jeannie Oakes 106
Geoffrey Saxe 201
Robert Smith Atrium
Deborah Stipek 201
Judith Torney-Purta 105
Paige Ware 201
Lois Weis 100
Maisha Winn 100

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Recap and Closing

Keck 100

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