THE 2020 NAED/SPENCER SPRING FELLOWS RETREAT
AGENDA
The Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

Wednesday, March 11
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Reception for Fellows and Awardees
Clyde’s, Piedmont Room
707 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Thursday, March 12
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
Megan Franke, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair of the NAEd Professional Development Committee
Keck 100
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM
Fellowship Retreat Sessions
Dissertation Fellows and Awardees: Check-in and updates
Postdoctoral Fellows and Awardees: Check-in and updates
Keck 100
Keck 105
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM
Break
First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Meet the Funder
It is valuable for grant writers to know their audience and understand what that particular audience values in regard to education research. During this session, representatives from a range of funding agencies will provide insight into their specific programs and organizational values. Each funder’s session will last 35 minutes, including Q&A. The funders will present their session twice, allowing fellows and awardees to attend two different sessions. There will be 10 minutes allotted between sessions, during which time fellows and awardees may introduce themselves to the funders or ask individual questions.
Fellows and awardees signed up for two sessions prior to the retreat via a survey that was sent by NAEd staff and should only attend the sessions for which they signed up.
Room Assignments Available in Program Book
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Lunch
Keck Cafeteria (3rd Floor)
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Fellows and Awardees Discussion Panel 1
Panel 1-A, Keck 101
Senior Discussant: Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Examining the Racial Awareness and Literate Meaning Making Practices of First Grade African American Children in an Urban Community School
Postdoctoral Discussant: Keon McGuire, Arizona State University
Ashley Smith-Purviance, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Everyday Anti-Black Girl Violence: Surviving and Learning Amidst Persistent School Violence Among Middle School Black Girls
Postdoctoral Discussant: Vincent Willis, University of Alabama
Stephanie Toliver, University of Georgia
Speculative Herstories: A Narrative Analysis Study of Black Girls’ Afrofuturist Stories
Postdoctoral Discussant: Douglas Sperry, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Panel 1-B, Keck 103
Senior Discussant: Kim Warren, University of Kansas
Zita Dixon, Brandeis University
How Did a Racially Equitable Social Program Become and Stay a State Law?: A Critical Historical Case Study of the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Policymaking Process and the Hidden Bureaucrats Who Made It Happen Using Critical Race Theory
Postdoctoral Discussant: Cristina Groeger, Lake Forest College
Sara Doolittle, University of Oklahoma
The Legal Battle for Schools: Oklahoma Territory and its Role in School Segregation Law
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maureen MacLeod, Mercy College
Mahasan Offutt-Chaney, University of California, Berkeley
Discipline for the “Educationally Deprived”: ESEA and the Punitive Function of Federal Education Policy 1965-1998
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Kimberly Ransom, University of Michigan
There Are Children Here: Examining Black Childhood in Rosenwald Schools of Pickens County Alabama (1940-1969)
Postdoctoral Discussant: Derek Taira, University of Hawaii
Panel 1-C, Keck 105
Senior Discussant: Megan Franke, University of California, Los Angeles
Anthony Hernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pockets of Opportunity: An Analysis of Leadership at Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
Postdoctoral Discussant: Yader Lanuza, University of Miami
Timothy Monreal, University of South Carolina
Hecho en South Carolina: Latinx Teachers Made In, and (Re)making, the NuevoSouth
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maribel Santiago, Michigan State University
Alyssa Morley, Michigan State University
Reimagining Teachers’ Work: The Everyday Creativity of Primary School Teachers in Malawi
Postdoctoral Discussant: Sharon Wolf, University of Pennsylvania
Panel 1-D, Keck 106
Senior Discussant: Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University
Amelia Farid, University of California, Berkeley
Relations between Disciplinary Practices and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics: Leveraging Definitional Practices to Support Students’ Fraction Understanding
Postdoctoral Discussant: David Weintrop, University of Maryland
Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego
Exploring the Naturalness of Natural Numbers: Do Undergraduates’ Everyday Conceptualizations of Natural Number Match the Formal Characterization?
Postdoctoral Discussant: Denis Dumas, University of Denver
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Break
First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Fellows and Awardees Discussion Panel 2
Panel 2-A, Keck 101
Senior Discussant: Amanda Tachine, Arizona State University
Desiree Abu-Odeh, Columbia University
The Sexual Violence Problem and Anti-Violence Work on American College Campuses, 1950 to 2000
Postdoctoral Discussant: Vincent Willis, University of Alabama
Katherine Soojin Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
How Did We Get Here? Actually, We’ve Always Been: Exploring Institutional Responses to Campus Racism and Student Activism
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Megan Nanney, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Gendered Possibilities in Higher Education: Transfeminism, Admissions Policies, and Student Experiences at Women’s Colleges
Postdoctoral Discussant: Keon McGuire, Arizona State University
Panel 2-B, Keck 103
Senior Discussant: Deborah Michaels, Grinnell College
Aldo Anzures Tapia, University of Pennsylvania
The Promise of Language Planning in Indigenous Early Childhood Education in Mexico
Postdoctoral Discussant: Bethany Wilinski, Michigan State University
Marlén Rosas, University of Pennsylvania
Indigenous Education and Power in Highlands Ecuador: Political Literacy, Archives, Authority
Postdoctoral Discussant: Emma Elliott-Groves, University of Washington
Jenny Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Literacy in Development Discourse and Practice: The Case of Literacy Boost in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leah Durán, University of Arizona
Panel 2-C, Keck 105
Senior Discussant: Michael Feuer, The George Washington University
Jesse Chanin, Tulane University
Activism, Power, and Backlash: The United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) from 1972 – Today
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jeremy Fiel, University of Arizona
Adam Edgerton, University of Pennsylvania
Worth the Partisan Political Battle? Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Agreements and Student Achievement
Postdoctoral Discussant: Di Xu, University of California, Irvine
Brittany Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
Reframing Parent Involvement: PTOs and the Impact of Parent Collectives on Educational Opportunity
Postdoctoral Discussant: Martina Rau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 2-D, Keck 106
Senior Discussant: Matt Diemer, University of Michigan
David McMillon, University of Chicago
A Complex Systems Approach to the School to Prison Pipeline
Postdoctoral Discussant: Chris Curran, University of Florida
Jie Min, Rice University
Neighborhood and Summer School Effects on Summer Learning
Postdoctoral Discussant: Ilana Umansky, University of Oregon
Cynthia Pollard, Harvard University
Teaching, Learning, and Race: Identifying the Mechanisms Underlying Own- and Other-race Teacher Effects
Postdoctoral Discussant: Matthew Hirshberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Break
Keck Atrium (3rd Floor)
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Individual Mentoring Sessions
Fellows and awardees will meet individually with mentors during their assigned times, which were sent to all groups via email. Please ask at the registration desk if you are unsure of your individual mentoring time.
Room Assignments Available in Program Book
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Fellows and Awardees Dinner
This dinner will not include a speaker or formal program but rather will provide time for fellows and awardees to socialize among themselves and other retreat guests.
Hotel Monaco, Paris Ballroom
700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004
Friday, March 13
Fellows Retreat
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Keck Center of the National Acadmies.
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast
First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)
8:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Fellows and Awardees Discussion Panel 3
Panel 3-A, Keck 101
Senior Discussant: Ebony McGee, Vanderbilt University
Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, University of Oregon
Centering the Indigenous in Science Education
Postdoctoral Discussant: Anna Lees, Western Washington University
Hannah Nieman, University of Washington
Supporting Teachers to See and Treat Students as Mathematically Capable: An Examination of School-embedded Professional Learning
Postdoctoral Discussant: Shanyce Campbell, University of California, Irvine
Ashlyn Pierson, Vanderbilt University
Modeling and Modes: Broadening Participation in Science Practices for Emerging Bilinguals Postdoctoral Discussant: Diego Román, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Panel 3-B, Keck 103
Senior Discussant: Perla Gámez , Loyola University Chicago
Janet Cerda, University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish and English Reading Growth Trajectories of Multilingual Students Enrolled in a Dual-Language Immersion Program: Impacts of Language Use, Motivational Processes, and Instructional Programming
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leah Durán, University of Arizona
Lily Fesler, Stanford University
Unpacking the Nudge: How Students Respond to Assistance from Remote College Counselors
Postdoctoral Discussant: Chris Curran, University of Florida
Kate Turetsky, Columbia University
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Social: Building Stressed Students’ Social Networks Shapes Academic Persistence and Success
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leya Mathew, Ahmedabad University
Carly Robinson, Harvard University
I Believe I Can Connect: Improving Teacher-Student Relationships by Targeting Teachers’ Relational Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maria Bolsinova, ActNext
Panel 3-C, Keck 105
Senior Discussant: Richard Murnane, Harvard University
Siddhartha Biswas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
General Equilibrium Effects of Student Loans on the United States College Market
Postdoctoral Discussant: Alex Eble, Teachers College, Columbia University
Zachary Bleemer, University of California, Berkeley
Essays on the Ramifications of American Youths’ Postsecondary Schooling Decisions
Postdoctoral Discussant: Rachel Baker, University of California, Irvine
Michael Cassidy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Finding the Fit: Childhood Homelessness, Athletics, and the Microeconomics of Educational Performance
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jeremy Fiel, University of Arizona
Elise Dizon-Ross, Stanford University
The Effects of Low-Income Housing Development on School Segregation
Postdoctoral Discussant: Alex Eble, Teachers College, Columbia University
9:50 AM – 10:05 AM
Break
First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)
10:05 AM – 11:35 AM
Fellows and Awardees Discussion Panel 4
Panel 4-A, Keck 101
Senior Discussant: Ryan Gildersleeve, University of Denver
Sherelle Ferguson, University of Pennsylvania
College Chutes and Ladders: How Undergraduates Navigate Contingencies and Institutional Demands
Postdoctoral Discussant: Rachel Baker, University of California, Irvine
Beth Hart, University of California, Davis
On the Verge: College Life in an Era of Precarity
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leya Mathew, Ahmedabad University
Panel 4-B, Keck 103
Senior Discussant: Frederick Erickson, University of California, Los Angeles
Maggie Dahn, University of California, Los Angeles
The Weaving of Artistic and Political Voice in Art Making about Social Issues
Postdoctoral Discussant: Martina Rau, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Maurer, University of Chicago
Learning and Teaching Musical Heritage in Immigrant Chicago
Postdoctoral Discussant: Emma Elliot-Groves, University of Washington
Panel 4-C, Keck 105
Senior Discussant: Ritty Lukose, New York University
Patrick Lewis, University of Chicago
Publics of Value: Youth, Language, and Higher Education in Turkey
Postdoctoral Discussant: Douglas Sperry, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Samiha Rahman, University of Pennsylvania
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Migration, and Mobility in Senegal
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maryam Kashani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Moodjalin Sudcharoen, University of Chicago
Childhoods of Anticipation: Schooling for “Alien Children” and the Imagination of a Thai National Future
Postdoctoral Discussant: Gabrielle Oliveira, Boston College
Panel 4-D, Keck 106
Senior Discussant: Hala Ghousseini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Glass, Princeton University
Schooling Suburbia: The Politics of School Finance in Postwar Long Island
Postdoctoral Discussant: Hilary Falb Kalisman, University of Colorado
Thomas Loyd, Georgetown University
Black in the USSR: African students, Soviet empire, and the politics of global education during the Cold War, 1956-1976
Postdoctoral Discussant: W. Christopher Johnson, University of Toronto
Qiao Wen, Teachers College, Columbia University
Higher Education Expansion in China: Consequences for Students, Institutions, and Global Competitiveness in Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Discussant: North Cooc, University of Texas
11:35 AM –11:50 AM
Break
First Floor Lobby
(outside Keck 100)
11:50 AM – 12:50 PM
Group Mentoring Session
Room Assignments Available at Front Desk
12:50 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch
Keck Cafeteria (3rd Floor)
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Discussion Panel Feedback
Each dissertation fellow or RDA will meet individually with their postdoctoral discussant to discuss the fellows forum presentation and feedback provided.
Room Assignments Available in Program Book
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Small Group Sessions
Session 1, Keck 105
Enacting Different Leadership Roles in the Academy and Beyond
David Kirkland, New York University
Cybele Raver, New York University
Jonathan Zaff, Boston University
Session 2, Keck 106
Engaging the Public in Your Research
Angela Calabrese Barton, University of Michigan
John Rogers, University of California, Los Angeles
Room Assignments Below
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Recap and Closing
Keck 100