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,
Respectable from their Intelligence: The Education of Louisiana’s gens de couleur
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,
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