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 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 |