Past Meetings
The Grassroots Community and Youth
Organizing SIG held its second full AERA program in May 2010. In
addition to a number of exciting program sessions, we hosted two special events.
Special Events
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010
Presidential Off-Site Visit with Co-Sponsors Padres y Jovenes Unidos:
Community Organizing and the Struggle for Equity and Justice in Education: Denver and Beyond
5:00–7:00pm, Academia Sandoval, 3655 Wyandot Street, Denver.
Free buffet dinner to follow, catered by Rosa Linda’s Mexican Café.
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A special AERA off-site event discussing the groundbreaking work community organizing groups are doing to promote equity and justice in schools communities in Denver and across the country. Co-hosted by Padres y Jovenes Unidos, a dynamic community organizing group with deep roots in the Chicano community of Denver, this session brings together organizers from Padres y Jovenes Unidos and other nationally significant community organizing initiatives with public education officials, policy-makers and researchers with state-wide and national perspectives. It is designed to produce exciting conversation assessing the accomplishments and challenges organizing groups face as they try to build a powerful grassroots force for education reform in the age of Obama.
Featuring:
Ricardo Martinez, Co-Director, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, Denver
Robert Cordova, Principal & ONE LA-IAF Leader, Los Angeles
Leticia Berrara, Parent Leader, Logan Square Neighborhood Association
Peter Groff, Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Dept. of Ed., & former President of the Colorado State Senate
Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator & former Superintendent of Schools, Denver
Jeannie Oakes, Director of Education, Ford Foundation
Charles Payne, University of Chicago
Chairs:
Mark Warren & Karen Mapp, Harvard Graduate School Education
Transportation and Registration:
Free bus transportation provided to and from conference. Reserve a space
under the “Visits/Tours” tab in the online AERA registration process:
OFF7, OFF7D & OFF7T. For more info visit AERA.net, or e-mail pjkuttner@gmail.com 
Grad Student Coffeehouse Chat with Education Organizing Scholars
8:15–9:30am, The Market at Larimer Square, 1445 Larimer St (6 blocks north of Convention Center)
A chance for graduate students to speak with emerging and senior scholars in the field for feedback on research and guidance on navigating the doctoral process.
Participants:
Michael Evans, Miami University School of Education Health and Society
Eva Gold, Research for Action
Soo Hong, Wellesley College
Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Educational Leadership, Arizona State University
Karen Mapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Charles M. Payne, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Michelle Renee, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University
Elaine Simon, Urban Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Mark Warren, Harvard Graduate School of Education
RSVP:
Please RSVP for this great FREE event to gcyo.events@gmail.com with your
name, institution, a few keywords that describe your research interests and “coffeehouse chat” in the subject line. We'll be matching you up with at least two scholars for the chat. Hope to see you there!
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Program Sessions
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2010
Roundtable Session: Learning from Youth Education Organizing
8:15–9:45pm, Sheraton Denver, Grand Ballroom Section 2
Roseanne Macias, University of California-Santa Barbara
Jesse
Moya, University California-Los Angeles
Cristen Jenkins, University of Illinois-Chicago
Mark Warren, Harvard University
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Negotiating Reciprocal and Ethical Relationships in Youth Participatory Action Research and Collaborative Community-Based Research
Co-sponsored by Division B, Section 1—Critical Perspectives and Communities in Actions
8:15am—10:15am, Sheraton Denver, Plaza E
- Beyond Youth Development: A Framework for Understanding What Happens in an Intergenerational PAR Partnership
Sarah Machel Zeller-Berkman, CUNY Graduate Center - Inadequate Touchstones: Moving From an Ethics of Regulation to an Ethics of Involvement in Participatory Action Research
Monique Antoinette Guishard, CUNY Graduate Center - Questioning Reciprocity in Youth Participatory Action Research: Relationships, Responsibility, and Ethics by Design
Jessica Ruglis, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health - Across a Great Divide: The Developing Relationship between a Youth Researcher and Her Adult Colleague
Maddy Fox, CUNY Graduate Center; Dominique Ramsey, Youth Researcher - Sustaining Relationship: Looking Back and Looking Ahead at Ethical and Reciprocal Participatory Co-Research
Maria Bacha, Institute of Participatory Action Research and Design; Eve Tuck, SUNY-College at New Paltz - Discussants:
Jennifer Ayala, St. Peter’s College; Maria Elena Torre, CUNY Graduate Center; Caitlin Cahill, University of Utah
2:15pm—3:45pm, Sheraton Denver, Governor’s Square 9
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MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Education Organizing: From Theory to Practice to Theory
4:05pm—6:05pm, Sheraton Denver, Plaza Court 8
- Democracy in Education through Community-Based Policy Dialogues
Sue Winton, SUNY-University at Buffalo - Grassroots Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Case Study
Carl R. Enger, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Marla Sandvik, Fourth World Movement - The Evolution of Self-Interest through Participation in Education Organizing
Michael P. Evans, Miami University - Youth Activism in Urban Schools and the Prospect of Change
Cynthia Taines, Northern Illinois University - Discussant:
TBA - Chair:
Michelle Renee, Annenberg Institute
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