Events

Bank Street at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting

Date/Time
Thursday, April 11, 2024 - Sunday, April 14, 2024
All Day

Location:
Philadelphia, PA

Event Title:
Bank Street at the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting

Description:
Join Bank Street Graduate School of Education at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting—”Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.” Throughout the conference, faculty and staff will lead sessions on various topics in education, including early childhood education, multilingual education, anti-racist education, and more. A schedule of sessions led by Bank Street is below.

Schedule:

THURSDAY, APRIL 11

  • 4:20 PM – 5:50 PM | Approach to Early Childhood Career Advising: Using an Asset-Based Framework for Career Exploration with Educators
    Led by Cristina Medellin-Paz, Associate Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families

FRIDAY, APRIL 12

  • 7:45 AM – 9:15 AM | Community and Family Engagement Post-Covid
    Led by Samantha Nadal, Teacher, Bank Street School for Children
  • 7:45 AM – 9:15 AM | Using Puppets to Create Kinesthetic Access to UDL Checkpoints
    Led by Charlotte Maltby and Veronica Walton, students at the Graduate School of Education
  • 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM | Co-Constructing Antiracist Educational Futures: Community Knowledges, Black Family Literacies, and Decolonial Possibilities
    Led by Pamela Jones, Supervised Fieldwork Advisor & Course Instructor, Graduate School of Education
  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM | Descriptive Inquiry to Advance Justice in Early Childhood Special Education Teacher Preparation
    Led by Soyoung Park, affiliated faculty member at the Straus Center for Young Children & Families and Director of Online Programs in Early Childhood and Childhood Special Education at the Graduate School of Education, and Rae Leeper, Program Director of Early Childhood Special Education at the Graduate School of Education
  • 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Bank Street: On the Road in Philadelphia
    Join Bank Street at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as we welcome our new dean of the Graduate School of Education, Amy Stuart Wells. Learn more and register

SATURDAY, APRIL 13

  • 7:45 AM – 9:15 AM | Speaking Through Silence: How Multilingual Children of Color with Disabilities Resist Intersectional Oppression with Silence
    Led by Soyoung Park, affiliated faculty member at the Straus Center for Young Children & Families and Director of Online Programs in Early Childhood and Childhood Special Education at the Graduate School of Education
  • 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM | Do You Have Any Thriving Black Students? Troubling “Quality” in Early Childhood Education
    Led by Raygine C. Diaquoi, Chief Equity Officer, Bank Street College of Education
  • 3:05 PM – 4:35 PM | How Participatory Are Our Participatory Approaches? A “Pop-Up” Community of Praxis
    Led by Mark Nagasawa, Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families, and Cristina Medellin-Paz, Associate Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families

SUNDAY, APRIL 14

  • 7:45 AM – 9:15 AM | Giving Voice to Antiracist Educators: Changing Political Discourse, Policy, Practice and Public Engagement
    Led by Amy Stuart Wells, Dean, Graduate School of Education
  • 9:35 AM – 11:05 AM | The Persistence of School Segregation and Opportunities for Change: Lessons from New York City
    Led by Amy Stuart Wells, Dean, Graduate School of Education
  • 11:25 AM – 12:55 PM | Growing for Justice: Leaders’ Reflections on Building Capacity and Transforming Perspectives for Advocacy
    Led by Jessica Blum-DeStefano, Course Instructor & Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Graduate School of Education, and Deborah Brooks-Lawrence, Adjunct, Graduate School of Education

Cost and Registration:
For more information, visit AERA’s website