AISR Announces Sessions at AERA 2012
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Staff from the Annenberg Institute, a national leader in education reform, presented on a variety of topics spanning AISR's work in district redesign, community organizing and engagement, research and policy, and teaching and learning, with a focus on equity and social justice.
Session: Analyzing the School District as Agent of Reform
Schedule information
Scheduled Time: Fri, Apr 13 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, Second Level - East Room 1
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Jacob Mishook
Ellen L. Foley
Alethea Frazier Raynor
Tracie Potochnik
Other Participants
Tina M. Trujillo, Tom Shelton, Samuel C. Stringfield, Kyo Yamashiro (Chair)
Abstract
This roundtable session focuses on school districts - including superintendents, board members, and district staff - as agents of change with respect to instructional improvement and district-wide reform, and as the subject of empirical research. Papers included in this session will include: a study of the effects of district superintendents and boards on math achievement, an evaluation of a large-scale urban reform effort in Nashville, and an analysis of district effectiveness research and its parallels/divergences with school effectiveness research.
Session: Examining Teacher Research and Classroom Practice
Schedule information
Scheduled Time: Sat, Apr 14 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, First Level - East Ballroom B
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Keith C. Catone
Other Participants
Tonda Liggett, Jonina Vala Kristinsdottir, Punya Mishra, Danah A. Henriksen, Nitza Schwabsky, Dawn Tracey Lambeth, Ann Marie Smith, Tanja Gabriele Baudson, Franzis Preckel, Wang Lijia, Darrell S. Carson, Christopher H. Tienken, Rebecca D. Cox, Eran Tamir, Monica Eileen McGlynn-Stewart, Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer, Doreen Cerny, Deborah S. Zurmehly, Young Ah Lee, Ye Wang, Robert M. Talbot, Laura Desportes, Avner Segall, Kevin Burke
Session: Game Change? The Increasing Significance of University-Based Research Centers in School Leadership and Policy Making
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Scheduled Time: Sat, Apr 14 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Center / East Room 19 & 20
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Michelle Renée
Richard Gray
Other Participants
Kevin G. Welner, Julian Vasquez Heilig
Discussant
Sonya Douglass Horsford
Session: Joining Forces: The Potential of Union-Community Organization Collaborations
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Scheduled Time: Sun, Apr 15 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Center / East Room 12
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Sara McAlister, Chair
Michelle Renée
Other Participants
Mary Cathryn Ricker, Eric Zachary, Steven Fletcher, Michael Mulgrew
Discussant
Richard Gray, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Abstract
Teacher unions have long been targets of the right and of advocates of market-based education reforms. In current education debates, however, teacher unions are being cast as impediments to reform and as privileging adult concerns over the needs of students. The pressures on teacher unions have led to a new openness on their part to collaborate with parent and community groups as they redefine their own roles in school reform. This session will explore emerging collaborations between teacher unions and organized parent/community groups - whose work draws heavily on labor organizing principles - through the perspectives of a school reform intermediary and organizing support center, a national teacher union official, and a local case study of a new collaborative effort.
Session: Leadership for Authentic Family and Community Partnerships: Research Perspectives to Inspire Practice
Schedule information
Scheduled Time: Tue, Apr 17 - 12:25pm - 1:55pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, First Level - East Ballroom
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Sara McAlister
Michelle Renée
Other Participants
Susan Auerbach (Chair), Carolyn J. Riehl, Susan Auerbach, John S. Rogers, Rhoda Freelon
Abstract
This session brings together complementary papers that address gaps in the literature on school leadership for partnerships with families and communities. There have been repeated calls for schools to pursue meaningful partnerships with stakeholders, yet many leaders are unprepared to do so and there are few empirical studies on the topic. After a conceptual paper on the place of partnerships in the leadership literature, presenters explore leaders’ role in authentic partnerships - respectful alliances that value relationship building, dialogue across difference, and sharing power. We offer a model for moving beyond more typical, limited partnerships and managerial approaches that control and contain stakeholders. We then present empirical studies of principals and parent participation in decision-making and of relations between community organizing groups and school leaders.
Session: Preparing Scholars Across the Disciplines
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Scheduled Time: Mon, Apr 16 - 2:15pm - 3:45pm
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, First Level - East Ballroom C
Annenberg Institute Presenters/Authors
Keith C. Catone
Other Participants
Rachel Anne Winston (Chair), Auli Toom, Kirsi Maria Pyhalto, Jie Chao, Melissa D. Hurst, Yesim Capa Aydin, Esma Emmioglu, Esen Uzuntiryaki, Mark R. Warren, Soojin Susan Oh, Mara Casey Tieken
Session: Reculturing Schooling: Strategies and Consequences
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Scheduled Time: Sat, April 14 - 8:15 to 10:15 am
Building/Room: Vancouver Convention Centre, Second Level, West Room 202&203
Session Participants
Andy Hargreaves (Chair), Mel Ainscow, Henry I. Braun, Beth Morton, Kathryn Ann Sallis, Karen W. Lam, Maureen Hughes, Charles M. Payne
Discussant
Warren Simmons, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Abstract
Reculturing is the transformation of the culture of an organization (Hargreaves 1991). This symposium comprises papers that collectively show how increased equity and social justice can be secured when systems go beyond professional and organizational transformation to the reculturing of practices that enable them to engage more effectively with marginalized students and communities. Equally important, they demonstrate the promise of balanced, respectful partnerships between local actors and central authorities. Such partnerships can spur system-wide efforts that combine clear theories-of-action of WHAT to change and HOW to change based, in part, on an appreciation for local context. The presentations combine the subdisciplines of cultural studies and organizational change to inform the design of reforms leading to educational improvement for all.