Bank Street at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting

Location:
Denver, CO

Event Title:
Bank Street at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting

Description:
Join Bank Street Graduate School of Education at the 2025 AERA Annual Meeting—”Research, Remedy, and Repair: Toward Just Education Renewal.” Throughout the conference, faculty and staff will lead sessions on various topics in education, including educational leadership, early childhood education, equity- and social-justice-centered teacher preparation, and more. A schedule of sessions led by Bank Street is below.

Schedule:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23

• 4:20 PM | Evidence for the Right to Learn: Research Responses to Bans on Teaching and Learning
  By Amy Stuart Wells, Chief Research Officer, Bank Street College of Education; Jessica Blum-DeStefano, Course Instructor & Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Bank Street Graduate School of Education; and José L. Vilson, Bank Street College of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University

FRIDAY, APRIL 25

• 8:00 AM | The Interpersonal Dimensions of Justice-Centering Educational Leadership: Developing Loving, Liberatory Practice & Capacity
  By Jessica Blum-DeStefano, Course Instructor & Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Bank Street Graduate School of Education; Deborah Brooks Lawerence, Adjunct, Bank Street Graduate School of Education; and Eleanor E. Drago-Severson, Teachers College, Columbia University

SATURDAY, APRIL 26

• 9:50 AM | A World Café Honoring the Legacy of Jeannie Oakes | Detracking
  By Amy Stuart Wells, Chief Research Officer, Bank Street College of Education, and Margaret Thornton, Rowan University
• 11:40 AM | Testimonios from Across our Land: Latina Scholars call to Adapt the RAC for the East Coast
  By Cristina Medellin-Paz, Associate Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families, Bank Street College of Education; Vanessa Rodriguez, New York University; and Alexandra Figueras-Daniel, National Institute for Early Education Research
• 3:20 PM | Promoting Teacher-Child Relationships in Early Care and Education Classrooms
  By Cristina Medellin-Paz, Associate Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families, Bank Street College of Education, and Sheila Smith, Director, National Center for Children in Poverty, Bank Street Graduate School of Education
• 5:10 PM | Creating Inclusive Higher Education Spaces: A Case Study on Supporting Latina Family Child Care Educators
  By Cristina Medellin-Paz, Associate Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families, Bank Street College of Education

SUNDAY, APRIL 27

• 8:00 AM | Using Phenomenological Processes to Unearth Understudied Challenges to Enacting Equity-and-Social-Justice-Centered Teacher Preparation
  By Jessica Charles, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation, Bank Street Graduate School of Education; Jamy Stillman, University of Colorado, Boulder; Manka M. Varghese, University of Washington; Thomas M. Philip, University of California, Berkeley; and Margarita Jimenez-Silva, University of California, Davis
• 11:40 AM | Repairing Invisible Trauma: Using Drawing to Restore Preschoolers’ Well-Being in a Native American Community
  By Mila Costa, Course Instructor & Supervised Fieldwork Advisor, Bank Street Graduate School of Education
• 11:40 AM | Jesters of Gender: An Archival Exploration of College Humor in the Early 20th Century
  By Gio Capone, Director of Community Building and Inclusive Affairs, Bank Street College of Education

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