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CU Denver’s School of Education & Human Development’s emphasis on educational research differentiates us from other schools in Colorado and ensures that our students benefit from the latest methods and findings. This month, 70+ SEHD faculty members and doctoral students will present their latest research at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting in Denver. 

CU Denver Research Presentations at AERA 2025

Highlights

Schedule

Tue, April 22

12:00 to 4:00pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 110

Division G Pre-Conference Mentoring Session: What Does the Social Context of Education Look Like in the Age of Project 2025?

Panelists include Pete M. Newlove, Joselyne Garcia-Moreno

Wed., April 23

9:00 to 10:30am MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Latine Students Righting the Wrongs in and for their Schools and Communities

Chair: Madhavi Tandon

Roundtable: Authentic Cariño: Mexican Heritage High School Males Reflect on Characteristics of Effective Teachers

Authors: Margarita Bianco, Joselyne Garcia-Moreno, Amanda Escheman, Alexandra Rodriguez

Roundtable: Redefining Community in Reality: Latine and Black Students’ Vision of School and Community Engagement

Authors: Andrew Dutch, Paula Gallegos, Fagana Samadova Stone

Roundtable: Exploring Youth Perspectives of Field-Based Teaching Experiences: Insights and Considerations from a Grow Your Own Educator Preparation Program

Authors include Amanda J. Gonzales, Amie Hạ, Anataly Uribe

Roundtable: Latine Students Identified Obstacles to Furthering Their Education and Becoming a Teacher

Authors include Meghan Leclerc, Madhavi Tandon

10:50am to 12:20pm MDT 

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1CD 

Spotlight on Denver and the Region: Exploring Displacement in the Colorado Context: An Education Debt?  

Speakers include: antwan jefferson (Chair), Ester J. de Jong, Robin Brandehoff, Nolbert Chavez, Liliana Flores Amaro, Karen Jaramillo, and Maxine Sigala. 

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

25 Years of Community Schooling: What Have We Learned and What’s Next?

Participants include Ruben Anguiano

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Navigating Academia: Challenges and System-Level Supports for Doctoral Mother Scholars

Authors: Robin Brandehoff, Sierra Dinges, Lisa Forbes, Jennifer Greiving, Philadelphia Morgan, Melinda Rossi,

Claudia Vail

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session  

Alternatively Licensed Teachers’ Motivations to Continue Teaching

Author: Evan McClintock

12:40 – 2:10 p.m.

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Roundtable: Race, Resistance, and Restoration: Fostering Racial Healing in Teacher Education

Chair: Amanda Escheman

Roundtable: What opportunities does a P-8 Public School have to strengthen its Restorative Justice Programs?

Authors include Liana Hall, Jesse A Lasser, Julia Mahfouz, Alexandra Rodriguez

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB

Achieving Community Equity Goals Holistically Through Cross-Sector Collaborations: P-20 Education and Local Governments Disrupting Systemic Inequities

Participant: Dèsa Karye Daniel

3:35 to 5:05pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session + Stage 2

What Makes a Meaningful Science Museum Experience?

Authors include Courtney Donovan

4:20 to 5:50pm MDT (4:20 to 5:50pm MDT)

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

We Got Dance Offs, Spotify Karaoke, and Poetry: Pedagogies of Joy for the Global Majority

Chair: Marvin Lynn

Nurturing Black Joy Through the 5280 Freedom School Approach 

Author: Branta D. Lockett

Culture, Connection and Cariño: Mexican Heritage Students Describe Characteristics of Effective Teachers

Author: Margarita Bianco

This Ain't No Paint by Numbers, This is Hānai Pedagogy

Author: Robin Brandehoff

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 608

Why are Students Pursuing Their GED? Stories of Students in a Suburban GED Center

Author: Angela Lange

Thu, April 24

8:00 to 9:30am MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Exploring Factors Impacting Social Emotional Instructor Efficacy

Authors include Liana Hall, Julia Mahfouz, George Panayiotou

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 608

Looking Into the Black Box: Teacher Discussions in Collaborative Teams

Authors include Scott C. Bauer

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 201

Centering the Voices of Disabled Learners

Chair: Amy L. Ferrell

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Learning to Be Linguistically Responsive Teachers Through the eWorkshop: Mediation of Teachers’ Histories-In-Person

Authors include Christopher Carson, Jung-In Kim

What Are My Students Trying to Tell Me? A Missing Data Problem

Authors include Liana Hall, Jesse A Lasser, Julia Mahfouz, Alexandra Rodriguez

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Teachers as Policy Actors: Diagramming Community, Agency, and Participation in an Education Policy Assemblage

Authors: Julia C. Kantor, Rachel Parker Shearer, Dane Stickney

9:50 to 11:20am MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1EF 

Spotlight on Denver and the Region: Advancing Research-Driven Education Policy Initiatives in Colorado 

Speakers include: Marvin Lynn (Chair), Paul Teske (CU Denver’s School of Public Affairs), Margarita Bianco

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1  

Roundtable: The “Power of Data”: Developing Critical Quantitative Literacy in Doctoral Students

Authors: Dennis DeBay, Joselyne Garcia-Moreno, Robert M. Talbot, Daranee Taychachaiwongse Teng

Roundtable: Critical Environmental Literacies: Conceptual Framework for Hope and Reciprocity

Authors include Erica Holyoke

Roundtable: Inclusive Practices for Mentoring

Chair: Robin Brandehoff

Roundtable: Multicultural & Multigenerational Approaches to Education Research & Praxis

Chair: Amanda Escheman

Roundtable: Exploring Pathways from Preschool Tuition Credits to Children’s Outcomes via Family Processes

Authors: Diana Schaack, Claudia Vail

1:45 to 3:15pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 702

Developing SEL Ecosystems in Higher Education for Wellbeing and Inclusive Excellence: The Time Is Now

Presenters include Julia Mahfouz

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Hip-Hop, Mental Health, and the Cat

Author: Jesse A Lasser

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Born to Lead: Black Womxn in Higher Education

Author: Dèsa Karye Daniel

3:35 to 5:05pm MDT

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 712

Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Methodologies to Honor Moʻōlelo, Communities, Aloha ‘Āina, and Make it Hānai

Author: Robin Brandehoff

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Translanguaging Practices in Mathematics Multilingual Classrooms in Lebanon

Author: Rana Ziad Bassaj

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session + Stage 2  

What Makes a Meaningful Science Museum Experience?  

Authors include Courtney Donovan

Fri, April 25

8:00 to 9:30am MDT

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1AB 

Spotlight on Denver and the Region: Protecting Immigrant Students’ Right to Learn: A Spotlight on the Denver Metro Area 

Speakers include: Marvin Lynn (Chair), Lucinda A. Soltero-Gonzalez, Christopher Carson, Alex Marrero (Denver Public Schools)

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Roundtable: Critical (Dis)junctures in the Secondary–Postsecondary Language Education Pipeline: Evidence from Undergraduate Learners of Arabic

Author: Elizabeth Huntley

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Loving and Healing as Change-Makers: Preservice Teachers Writing for Change Through Multiple Means and Modalities

Authors include Erica Holyoke

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 712

Exploring Contextual Factors in the Lives of Teachers

Discussant: Amanda Escheman

9:50 – 11:20 a.m.

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 705

School Leadership Lessons about AI: What are Practitioner Journals Saying?

Authors include Scott McLeod, Amanda B Roberts, Brian C. Vedder

11:40am to 1:10pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 402

Isolation, burnout, and intention to leave: A study of elementary teachers

Author: Scott C. Bauer

1:30 to 3:00pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 2A and 3A

Examining Pathway to a College of Education Deanship: Expectations, Challenges, and Rewards

Authors include Marvin Lynn

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2A

Panel: Critical Special Education: Re-examination, Re-imagination, and Rethinking of Research, Policy, and Practice

Paper: From Inclusion to Community

Discussant and Author: Amy L. Ferrell

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2H

Amplifying Voices of Early Childhood Professionals on a BA Pathway: A Critical Feminist Study

Authors: Kathleen Sparrow, Lori Geismar Ryan

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 706

Healing the Bilingual Bodymindspirit: A Case for Theorizing Emotion in Critical Biliteracies

Authors include Adriana Alvarez, Sofia Chaparro

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Roundtable: Repairing the Harm of Reproductive Hegemonic Leadership in Higher Education: Supporting Women of Color

Authors include: Selvi Bunce

Roundtable: Innovative Rural Teacher Preparation for a Diverse Workforce: Candidate Perceptions of Program Design and Impact

Authors: Ritu Chopra, Susan C. Connors, Cindy Gutierrez, Barbara Seidl, Valerie Sherman

Roundtable: A Raciolinguistic Analysis of the Impact of the English Language Proficiency Act on Colorado Students

Authors: Sofia Chaparro, Chelsey Klassen

3:20 to 4:50pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Tinkering Toward Holism: Engaging Eastern Philosophies of Education

Chair: Amanda Escheman

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Research-Based Instruction Adoption Spectrum in Post-Secondary STEM Courses

Authors: Angela Rexwinkle, Melinda Rossi, Robert M. Talbot

5:10 to 6:40 p.m. MDT 

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom, Room 1ABC 

AERA Presidential Address – Education Research for Times Such as This 

Performers: Marvin Lynn and Dennis DeBay

Sat., April 26

8 - 9:30 a.m. MDT

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

We Are a Story: Community Storytelling Amidst and Among Standards

Authors include Cristina Gillanders

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 606

Examining Whole-School Wellbeing: Improving Wellbeing in Schools from a Community-Responsive Approach

Authors include Julia Mahfouz

9:50 to 11:20am MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 302

Bridging Worlds and Balancing Roles: The Impact on Scholar-Parents as Elected Officials in Shaping Education Policy

Participants include Marvin Lynn

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 102

International Perspectives of SEL Skills, Belongingness, and Assessment in Primary and Middle Schools

Discussant: Julia Mahfouz

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 705

Creating a Measure of Meaningful Science Museum Experiences

Authors include Courtney Donovan 

11:40am to 1:10pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2H

Politics of teacher preparation, employment, and retention

Chair: Amanda Escheman

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 4CD

Div L Fireside Chat: Empowering Youth through Participatory Action Research for Democracy and Justice

Panelists include Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

A Statewide Evidence-Based Decision-Making Model that Informs Colorado’s Early Learning Investments

Authors include Diana Schaack

1:30 to 3:00pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3  

A Rasch Analysis of the Family Partnership Survey

Author: Joe Spotts

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 4

Roundtable Session: A Raciolinguistic Analysis of the Impact of the English Language Proficiency Act on Colorado Students

Author: Sofia Chaparro, Chelsey Klassen

1:30 to 4:30pm MDT  

Off-site, El Centro del Barrio, 1351 W 38th Ave, Denver, CO 80211, El Centro del Barrio

Presenters include Dane Stickney

3:20 to 4:50pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Exhibit Hall Level, Exhibit Hall F - Poster Session

Examining the Impact of a Student-Initiated Online Learning Community on Engagement and Perceived Academic Success

Authors include Joanna C. Dunlap

5:10 to 6:40pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1

Critical Consciousness and Political Efficacy: Impacts of Action Civics and Ethnic Studies on Youth Activism

Stories of Action: A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Three Student Voice Teams

Participants include Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado, Dane Stickney

Sun., April 27

8 - 9:30 a.m.

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 3H

Teachers’ Critical Reflexivity in Community: Transformative Literacy Education

Authors: Lori Elliott, Erica Holyoke, Lucinda A. Soltero-Gonzalez, Sarah Woodard

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 1  

Coloniality of Knowledge, Whiteness, and Curricular Chang

Chair: Amanda Escheman

9:50 to 11:20am MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Roundtable: Attitudes Matter! Student Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Graphs Mediate Their Graph Reasoning and Graph Selection

Authors: Courtney Donovan, Heather Lynn Johnson, Robert Knurek, Kristin A Whitmore

Roundtable: Challenging Liberalism

Chair: Andrew Dutch

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 404

Symposium: P12 Persistence in Response to Just Education Resistance: Practitioner Scholarship as a Revolutionary Act

Discussant: Robin Brandehoff

Building Bridges to STEM Pathways: Harnessing Community Cultural Wealth

Author: Analisse Nava

11:40am to 1:10pm MDT  

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3

Turning to Children’s Informational Texts To Foster Critique, Hope, and Action Around Our World’s Water Crisis

Authors include Erica Holyoke, Jessica Ramos

Centering Family and Caregiver Voices as Equal Participants within Special Education

Chair: Amy L. Ferrell

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2F

Centering the Heart through Multimodal Approaches

Authors include Adriana Alvarez

1:30 to 3:00pm MDT

The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 712

Algebraic Reasoning Across Grades

Chair: Heather Lynn Johnson