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Authoring New Narratives with Youth at the Intersection of the Arts and Justice

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Lalitha Vasudevan, Daniel Stageman, Kristine Rodriguez, Eric Fernandez, and E. Gabriel Dattatreyan

Forged in the Crucibles of Difference: Building Discordant Communities

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Colette Cann and Eric DeMeulenaere

Patterns of Exclusionary Discipline by School Typology, Ethnicity, and their Interaction

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Amity Noltemeyer and Caven S. Mcloughlin

School-Community Partnerships and Community-Based Education: A Case Study of a Novice Program

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Anna Gahl Cole

ARISE to the Challenge: Partnering with Urban Youth to Improve Educational Research and Learning

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Tara M. Brown

Building Local Capacity to Bring Arts Education to All Children: Lessons Learned from the First Half of the Ford Foundation's National Demonstration

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Gertrude Spilka and Meg Long

Re-Placing the Arts in Elementary School Curricula: An Interdisciplinary, Collaborative Action Research Project

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Allen Trent and Jorge-Ayn Riley

Women's Well-Being Initiative: Creating, Practicing, and Sharing a Border Pedagogy for Youth

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Sheri Hardee and Amanda Reyelt

Home-School Conflicts and Barriers to the Academic Achievement of Children of Latin American Immigrants

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Carolyn Sattin Bajaj

Historical Identity Development Patterns and Contemporary Multicultural Identity in First, Second and Third Generation Counseling Students

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Nola Butler Byrd

More than a Least Restrictive Environment: Living up to the Civil Covenant in Building Inclusive Schools

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Ellen Skilton-Sylvester and Graciela Slesaransky-Poe

Pathways to Social Justice: Urban Teachers' Uses of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy as a Conduit for Teaching for Social Justice

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Jennifer Esposito and Ayanna N. Swain

School Safety under NCLB’s Unsafe School Choice Option

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Bill Gastic and Josephine Ann Gasiewski

Waiting for a miracle: Why schools can't solve our problems and how we can

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James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.
Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine - Yale Child Study Center

Race and school desegregation: Contemporary legal and educational issues

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Edgar G. Epps, Ph.D.
Marshall Field IV Professor of Urban Education Emeritus, The University of Chicago, and
Professor, Educational Policy and Community Studies, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Teaching young children well: Implications for 21st Century educational policies

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Barbara Bowman, Ph.D.
President and Co-Founder of the Erikson Institute for Advanced Study in Child Development, Chicago, IL

A Life of Teaching: Reflections from Teachers in an Inquiry Group

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Sonia Nieto, Sonie Felix, and Karen Gelzinis

The Concept of Educational Sovereignty Friday evening keynote address at the 2002 Ethnography in Education Research Forum

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Luis Moll

A Dialogue Across Time, Space, and Perspective Saturday evening conversation between Kris Gutiérrez and Ray McDermott at the 2002 Ethnography in Education Research Forum, moderated by Dr. Nancy H. Hornberger of the University of Pennsylvania

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Kris Gutiérrez and Ray McDermott

Losing, Finding, and Making Space for Activism through Literacy Performances and Identity Work

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Mollie V. Blackburn

The Interactive Effects of Race and Class in Educational Research: Theoretical Insights from the Work of Pierre Bourdieu

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Erin McNamara Horvat

Critical Civic Engagement Among Urban Youth

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Ben Kirshner, Karen Strobel, and María Fernández

Supporting New Educators to Teach for Social Justice: The Critical Inquiry Project Model

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Bree Picower

Supporting new visions for social justice teaching: The potential for professional development networks

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Anne Burns Thomas

Fostering Gender Equity in Schools Through Reflective Professional Development: A Critical Analysis of Teacher Perspectives

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Ila Deshmukh Towery

Examining the Embedded Assumptions of Teaching for Social Justice in a Secondary Urban School: A Case-Study

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David Lee Carlson

Teaching under Fire

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Sigal Ben-Porath

“…still they continue teaching.”

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Dean Brooks

Bridging Troubled Waters: Principles for teaching in times of crisis

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Kevin Michael Foster

Teaching for Social Justice (see accompanying presentation for complete charts*)

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Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Teaching and Teacher Education
Stanford University

What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black? An Overview of Parent Education Research during the Civil Rights Era and Beyond

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Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Ph.D.
Clayton Professor of Urban Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Gender Equity Programs in Urban Education: Redefining Relationships between Funding and Evaluation

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Alice Ginsberg

Using Sociotransformative Constructivism (sTc) to Unearth Gender Identity Discourses in Upper Elementary Schools1

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Alberto J. Rodriguez and Cathy Zozakiewicz

Do Universities Have a Role in Managing Public Schools: Lessons from the Penn Partnership Schools

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Nancy Streim and Jeanne Vissa

School Reform on the Inside: Teacher Agency at one Philadelphia Middle School

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Tricia Niesz

Regional College-Going Patterns of Philadelphia Public High School Graduates: The Role of High School Curriculum

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Benjamin Herold

The Language We Cry In: Black Language Practice at a Post-Desegregated Urban High School

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Garrett Albert Duncan and Ryonnel Jackson

Less Tests, More Redress: Improving Minority and Low Income Students' Educational Access in the Post-Brown Era

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Jennifer E. Obidah, Christina A. Christie, and Patricia McDonough

Schools Examine Test Data to Guide Plans for What to Teach

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Suzanne (Sukey) Blanc and Jolley Bruce Christman

Education law is tougher on diverse schools

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Paul Socolar

"Making AYP: The Game"

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Benjamin Herold and Brian Lathrop

Kids on the Move: The Effects of Student Mobility on NCLB School Accountability Ratings

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Virginia L. Rhodes

Changing the Subject: Building Critical and Compassionate Communities in English and English Education Classrooms

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Deborah Bieler

Teaching to Make a Difference: Advice to New Teachers from Teachers Who've Been There

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Editors and editorial associates of Rethinking Schools Online

Philadelphia School District Deconstruction – A Case Requiring Consideration

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James H. Lytle

School Closings in Philadelphia

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James Jack & John Sludden, Research for Action

How Students Are Leading Us: Youth Organizing and the Fight for Public Education in Philadelphia

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Jerusha Conner (Villanova) & Sonia Rosen (University of Pennsylvania)

Thoughts on the Power and Promise of Parent Organizing

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Rand Quinn, University of Pennsylvania & Nicole Mittenfelner Carl, University of Pennsylvania

The Transformative Power of Taking an Inquiry Stance on Practice: Practitioner Research as Narrative and Counter-Narrative

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Sharon M. Ravitch, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

A Racio-economic Analysis of Teach for America: Counterstories of TFA Teachers of Color

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Yvette V. Lapayese, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
Ursula S. Aldana, Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
Eduardo Lara, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

Emergent Understandings: Multilingual Fourth Grade Students Generating Close Reading and Multimodal Responses to Global and Informational Texts

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Dr. Michelle Medlin Hasty, Lipscomb University

Dr. Jeanne Gilliam Fain, Lipscomb University

Multimodality, Ethnodrama, and the Preparation of Pre-service Teachers of Writing

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Sarah Hobson, Ph.D., SUNY Cortland

Using Social Media in Teacher Preparation Programs: Twitter as a Means to Create Social Presence

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Lorena R. Munoz, Ed.D. candidate, Florida International University 
Cynthia Pellegrini-Lafont, Ed.D. candidate, Florida International University
Elizabeth Cramer, Ph.D., Florida International University

Rewriting the Script: Multiple Modalities in a High School Humanities Classroom

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Joshua Block, Science Leadership Academy

Integrating Aesthetic Education to Nurture Literacy Development

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Jeanne Peloso, Ph.D., Lehman College, City University of New York

“In the Swell of Wandering Words”: The arts as a vehicle for youth and educators’ inquiries into the Holocaust memoir Night

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Rob Simon and the Teaching to Learn Project: 

Ashley Bailey, Jason Brennan, Antonino Calarco, Kevin Clarke, Will Edwards, Catherine Fujiwara, Amir Kalan, Julia Kruja, Emily McInnes-Greenberg, and Anna Pisecny

“Who has Family Business?” Exploring the Role of Empathy in Student-Teacher Interactions

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Chezare A. Warren, Ph.D., Michigan State University

Susan Lessner, M.Ed., Thornton Fractional School District (Calumet, IL)

Simple Justice or Complex Injustice?: American Racial Dynamics and the Ironies of Brown and Grutter

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Vinay Harpalani, Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania

The Simpsons and the Savior Teacher/Deficit Parent in Popular Culture

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Rowan Shafer
Simon Fraser University

Symbolic Violence: School-imposed Labeling in a “No-excuses” Charter School

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L. Trenton S. Marsh 
University of Michigan

We Are Not Even Post-colonial Yet!: Archetypes in the Master Narrative of U.S. History Textbooks

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Jenice L. View 
George Mason University 
Akashi Kaul 
George Mason University 
Andrea Guiden 
George Mason University

Social Competence in Urban Alternative Schools

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Aaron Perzigian
Western Washington University

Confronting Mandated Curriculum: Being a Transgressive Teacher and Meeting the Needs of Our Urban Learners

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Aimee Myers
Texas Woman’s University

Black Female Teachers on Teacher Preparation and Retention

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Dr. Abiola Farinde-Wu
Assistant Professor of Urban Education, Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Dr. Aaron J. Griffen, Ph.D.
Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DSST Public Schools in Denver, Colorado; Adjunct Professor

Dr. Jemimah L. Young

Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education at the University of Iowa; Assistant Professor

Equity Gaps for Students with Disabilities

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Katie Pak, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Arianna Parsons, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

What’s Going Right? Language Play and Bilingual Identities in a Predominantly African American Dual-Language Classroom

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Nina Cross, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Graduate  

Black Lives Matter, Intersectionality, and LGBTQ Rights NOW

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Monique Perry, Ph.D. Student, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

The Voice of Asian American Youth: What Goes Untold

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Owen Setiawan, Class of 2023, Central High School

Beyond Words: Reimagining Education through Art and Activism

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Bethany Monea, University of Pennsylvania; Joselyn Andrade,* George Mason University; Perla I. Gonzalez,* Northern Virginia Community College; Mikaela Pozo,* George Mason University
*student co-authors listed alphabetically

Voice(s) of a Black Man

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N. Will Anyu

Embodied Learning and Community Resilience

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OreOluwa Badaki, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania

Re-imagining professional learning in a time of social isolation: Storytelling as a tool for healing and professional growth

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Laura Colket, St.George’s University, Grenada, West Indies

Reckoning: What does it Mean to Look Forward and Back Together as Critical Educators

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Chloe Kannan (Penn GSE) and Andy Malone (UVA)

Leader to Leaders: An Indigenous School Leader’s Advice through Storytelling about Grief and COVID-19

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Sia Elle Brown, Doctoral Student, University of Pennsylvania

Finding Hope, Healing and Liberation Beyond COVID-19 within a Context of Captivity and Carcerality

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Dr. Iván Rosales Montes, Public School Principal, San José, California
Laura Peynado Castro, Public Middle School Principal, New York, New York

Flux Leadership: Leading for Justice and Peace in & beyond COVID-19

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Sharon M. Ravitch, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Gender Inclusion in Educational Research, Practice, and Policy: Transitioning Your Vocabulary

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Lena Ravitch (with proud aunt, Sharon Ravitch)
Philadelphia, PA

Flux Pedagogy for Equitable and Humanizing Education

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Sharon M. Ravitch, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

Por los míos: Mothers Pursuing Educational Justice for their Children Pre and During COVID

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Astrid N. Sambolín Morales
University of Pennsylvania

We Contain Multitudes: Calling in Youth-Focused Researchers

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Lev Burstein, Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, PA
Liyam Yaghoobzadeh, Edgemont Senior High School, Edgemont, NY

Intent vs. Impact: Analyzing & Reforming Problems within School Curriculum

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Quinn Luong - 12th Grade
The Haverford School; Haverford, PA

Radical Self-Care for Educators through Radical Student Check-Ins

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William N. Thomas, IV
Philadelphia, PA

Research Representation in Flux: COVID as Chrysalis

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Ari R. Burstein
Freshman, University of Pennsylvania