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    • SS Curriculum Review
    • Big Questions, Big Issues
    • Getting Proximate

presentations

I am an experienced presenter and leader of professional development with both pre- and in-service teachers, and I am available to lead workshops on a range of educational topics: humanizing and democratic civic education, service learning, 21st-century critical pedagogies, inquiry-based instruction, and promoting authentic intellectual work among students. 

Practitioner Presentations

Research Presentations

Problem Posing Through Film: Digital Video Inquiry as Critical Civic Education | 2020
National Council of the Social Studies [digital conference]. With Candance Doerr-Stevens.

From Compliance to Decolonization: Transforming the Treatment of American Indian Studies in Teacher Education | 2019
National Association of Multicultural Education. With Theresa Burant, Jacqueline Shram, and Alexis Garcia.

Making Time for Inquiry | 2017
National Council for the Social Studies

​Teaching Toward Justice in Civic Education: Applying Lessons from Innovative Global Classrooms | 2017
National Council for the Social Studies


Getting Proximate: Reimagining Service Learning with Youth Participatory Action Research | 2017
Students Shoulder to Shoulder Global Solutions Forum
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Social Studies Curriculum Review | 2016-2018
Oconomowoc Area School District

Differentiation in the Secondary Classroom | 2016
Marquette University

​Teaching Students to Question | 2014
American School Foundation of Guadalajara


Tools for Implementing Service Learning | 2013
American School Foundation of Guadalajara

Enhancing Service Learning | 2012
American School Foundation of Guadalajara


Integrating the e-Portfolio in Teacher Education | 2009
University of Wisconsin-Madison 
Office of Educational Portfolios and Career Services

Improving Reading Instruction | 2006
Chicago International Charter School-Basil Campus

For the Love of Reading: Teaching Literature in the K8 Classroom | 2005
Chicago 
International Charter School-Basil Campus

Living and Teaching by our Mission Statement | 2005
​Civitas Schools Chicago
​Counter-narrative & testimonio in civic education: Talking back as raced/erased citizens | 2020
College & University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Austin TX

The silences we speak: Deliberative pedagogies & the overwhelming whiteness of civic education | 2019
American Educational Research Association, Toronto


Translanguaging toward justice: Bilingualism as embodied citizenship | 2018
College & University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Chicago IL


Ally pedagogy: Praxis in troubling times | 2017
American Educational Research Association, San Antonio TX

Translanguaging toward justice: Bilingualism as a civic tool | 2016
International Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Washington DC


“Inherently embodying justice”: Enacting equity in the classroom | 2016
American Educational Research Association, Washington DC

Big questions, big issues: Investigating social issues in a social studies classroom | 2015
National Association for Multicultural Education, New Orleans LA

“Inherently embodying justice”: Enacting equity in the classroom through justice- oriented teaching | 2015
American Educational Research Association, Chicago IL 

Dismantling color-blind fronteras in work for educational justice | 2014
National Association for Multicultural Education, Tuscon AZ 

Blinded by privilege: Negotiating race, class, & power in a justice-oriented, multicultural school | 2014
American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia PA 

Understanding the role of teacher beliefs in social justice pedagogy | 2013
with Bethany Brent. American Educational Research Association, San Francisco CA 

Power, privilege, & parental involvement: Sustaining justice in community organizing for school reform | 2012
American Educational Research Association, Vancouver BC 

Principled pragmatism: An asset-based approach to educational reform & justice | 2011
National Association for Multicultural Education, Chicago IL

Asset-based community development and urban school reform | 2011
​American Educational Research Association, New Orleans LA

Moving toward justice: A workshop on dance, democracy, & pedagogy | 2010
with Alison Leonard. National Association for Multicultural Education, Las Vegas NV

An inequality of purpose: Framing the aims of education in urban schools | 2010
American Educational Research Association, Denver CO

Toward a “paideia of the soul”: Enriching America’s multicultural democracy | 2009
with Carl Grant. Center for Anti-Oppressive Education, Chicago IL

Good intentions are not enough: Exploring student teachers’ understanding of social justice pedagogy | 2009
National Association for Multicultural Education, Denver CO

Playing teacher: Pre-service teachers’ e-portfolios as performances of ‘good teaching’ | 2009
with Alison Leonard. American Association for Teaching and Curriculum, Alexandria VA

Are we reading the world? A review of multicultural literature on globalization | 2009
​American Educational Research Association, San Diego CA

These are revolutionary times: Human rights, social justice, & popular protest | 2009
with Carl Grant. American Educational Research Association, San Diego CA


CONTACT

melissa.gibson [at] marquette.edu
office | 414.288.1421

Marquette University College of Education
Department of Educational Policy & Leadership
561 N 15th St | 113H Schroeder Complex

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