Every year at the American Educational Research Association, the education node of URBAN organizes events and helps to connect like-minded scholars and activists. This page is devoted to sharing information and connecting people to our work over time and to this year's conference.
URBAN and GRASSROOTS SIG AT AERA 2022
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Police-Free Schools: Education Research and Antiracist Movements
Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Ballroom 6E
Presidential Session
This session examines the dynamic intersection of research and action in the movement for police-free schools. It brings scholars and community organizers together to compare insights from education research and from antiracist movements. The session will consider the following questions: what kinds of research is needed to help build the capacity of antiracist movements for police-free schools and expand their abolitionist vision and program for alternatives? What insights come from grassroots efforts to remove police from schools and transform school climates that can inform understanding of the nexus between education and criminalization and white supremacist systems more broadly? What are future directions to connect scholarship and organizing and reimagine safe, humane and liberatory education beyond systems of discipline, punishment and criminalization?
Organizer and Chair: Mark R. Warren
Participants: David Stovall, Russell Skiba, Jonathan Stith, Maisie Chin, Decoteau Irby, Kesha Moore
Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), San Diego Convention Center, Floor: Upper Level, Ballroom 6E
Presidential Session
This session examines the dynamic intersection of research and action in the movement for police-free schools. It brings scholars and community organizers together to compare insights from education research and from antiracist movements. The session will consider the following questions: what kinds of research is needed to help build the capacity of antiracist movements for police-free schools and expand their abolitionist vision and program for alternatives? What insights come from grassroots efforts to remove police from schools and transform school climates that can inform understanding of the nexus between education and criminalization and white supremacist systems more broadly? What are future directions to connect scholarship and organizing and reimagine safe, humane and liberatory education beyond systems of discipline, punishment and criminalization?
Organizer and Chair: Mark R. Warren
Participants: David Stovall, Russell Skiba, Jonathan Stith, Maisie Chin, Decoteau Irby, Kesha Moore
2019 Upcoming AERA Sessions and Paper Presentations
PS15: The Resurgence of Zero Tolerance? Combating the School-to-Prison Pipeline in a Post-Truth Era
Sat, April 6, 2019 2:15 to 3:45pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Over the past fifteen years, the movement to combat the school-to-prison pipeline has made important gains in shifting public discourse away from zero tolerance, winning changes in school discipline policy at state and local levels and advancing positive and restorative alternatives. But the movement now faces the prospect of its gains being reversed as a resurgent movement and federal administration pushes for zero tolerance policies and arming school staff. This session will bring together researchers, grassroots organizers and civil rights legal advocates to assess the state of the movement to combat the school-to-prison pipeline. Participants will highlight new strategies used to combine data and stories with advocacy and organizing to create both a compelling narrative and the power to resist the criminalization of children of color in schools and communities.
Chair: Mark R. Warren, UMASS Boston. Discussant: Linda Darling-Hammond, LPI
Panelists: Russell Skiba, University of Indiana; Dan Losen, UCLA Civil Rights Project; Judith Browne-Dianis, Advancement Project; Jonathan Stith, Alliance for Educational Justice; Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Dignity in Schools Campaign
Saturday, April 6th 4-5pm Beacon Press Booth in the Exhibit Hall
Book signing Lift us up Don’t push us out! Voices from the front lines of the educational justice movement with contributors Mark Warren, Varja Watson, Maureen Gillette, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar and Jonathan Stith
On Tiptoe and Tightrope: Motherscholars Recalibrating Evidence of Truth and Reimagining Hope in Educational Research
Sunday, April 7, 2019 11:50am-1:20pm Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 level, Room 201 D
Joy Howard, Kindel Nash & Candace Thompson; Tehia Starker Glass & Erin Miller; and Fabienne Doucet & Heather Woodley
PS3: What Can Researchers, Philanthropies, and Practitioner-Educators Do to Democratize Evidence in Education? Sun, April 7, 2019 3:40 to 5:10pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Participants: Megan Bang, The Spencer Foundation; John Diamond, University of Wisconsin, Roth Lopex Turley, Rice University; Douglas A. Watkins, DPSD; Esther Quintero, Albert Shanker Inst.
Critical Examination of Emerging Tensions in Youth Participatory Action Research and Building Liberatory Praxes
Mon, April 8, 2019 10:25 to 11:55am Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201A
Research for Justice: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment
Mon, April 8, 2019 10:25 to 11:55am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 713B
This symposium engages ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional issues in collaborative research for justice in movements contesting policing, school closures, and youth disinvestment and unemployment. This action research is situated in the inter-related contexts of local inter/national struggles against a resurgent anti-immigrant white supremacy, gentrification, low pay and lack of meaningful employment opportunities, and the privatization of the public sector. The papers offer lessons for scholars, educators, teachers, activists, community leaders, and policy makers about the production and mobilization of knowledge as a force for building a multi-issue movement for justice and truth-based democracy not just in schools but also in communities. The collaboratively written papers by activists and scholars draw from movements that deploy research for community-driven progressive change. Chairs: Ronald David Glass, UCSC; Michelle Fine, CUNY. Papers: by Mark Warren, UMB; Jerusha Conner, Villanova; Ronald David Glass, UCSC; Brett Stoutt, CUNY; Discussants: Timothy Eatman, Rutgers; Gustavo Fischman, ASU
Monday, April 9 4:10-6:10 (with John Diamond)
America to Me, (film) Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:20 to 1:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
The Hijab Project: Art as a tool for self-authorship and collective action- Ana Antunes
Sat, April 6, 2019 2:15 to 3:45pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Over the past fifteen years, the movement to combat the school-to-prison pipeline has made important gains in shifting public discourse away from zero tolerance, winning changes in school discipline policy at state and local levels and advancing positive and restorative alternatives. But the movement now faces the prospect of its gains being reversed as a resurgent movement and federal administration pushes for zero tolerance policies and arming school staff. This session will bring together researchers, grassroots organizers and civil rights legal advocates to assess the state of the movement to combat the school-to-prison pipeline. Participants will highlight new strategies used to combine data and stories with advocacy and organizing to create both a compelling narrative and the power to resist the criminalization of children of color in schools and communities.
Chair: Mark R. Warren, UMASS Boston. Discussant: Linda Darling-Hammond, LPI
Panelists: Russell Skiba, University of Indiana; Dan Losen, UCLA Civil Rights Project; Judith Browne-Dianis, Advancement Project; Jonathan Stith, Alliance for Educational Justice; Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, Dignity in Schools Campaign
Saturday, April 6th 4-5pm Beacon Press Booth in the Exhibit Hall
Book signing Lift us up Don’t push us out! Voices from the front lines of the educational justice movement with contributors Mark Warren, Varja Watson, Maureen Gillette, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar and Jonathan Stith
On Tiptoe and Tightrope: Motherscholars Recalibrating Evidence of Truth and Reimagining Hope in Educational Research
Sunday, April 7, 2019 11:50am-1:20pm Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 level, Room 201 D
Joy Howard, Kindel Nash & Candace Thompson; Tehia Starker Glass & Erin Miller; and Fabienne Doucet & Heather Woodley
PS3: What Can Researchers, Philanthropies, and Practitioner-Educators Do to Democratize Evidence in Education? Sun, April 7, 2019 3:40 to 5:10pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Participants: Megan Bang, The Spencer Foundation; John Diamond, University of Wisconsin, Roth Lopex Turley, Rice University; Douglas A. Watkins, DPSD; Esther Quintero, Albert Shanker Inst.
Critical Examination of Emerging Tensions in Youth Participatory Action Research and Building Liberatory Praxes
Mon, April 8, 2019 10:25 to 11:55am Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 200 Level, Room 201A
Research for Justice: Challenging Discriminatory Policing, School Closures, and Youth Unemployment
Mon, April 8, 2019 10:25 to 11:55am, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 700 Level, Room 713B
This symposium engages ethical, epistemic, political, and institutional issues in collaborative research for justice in movements contesting policing, school closures, and youth disinvestment and unemployment. This action research is situated in the inter-related contexts of local inter/national struggles against a resurgent anti-immigrant white supremacy, gentrification, low pay and lack of meaningful employment opportunities, and the privatization of the public sector. The papers offer lessons for scholars, educators, teachers, activists, community leaders, and policy makers about the production and mobilization of knowledge as a force for building a multi-issue movement for justice and truth-based democracy not just in schools but also in communities. The collaboratively written papers by activists and scholars draw from movements that deploy research for community-driven progressive change. Chairs: Ronald David Glass, UCSC; Michelle Fine, CUNY. Papers: by Mark Warren, UMB; Jerusha Conner, Villanova; Ronald David Glass, UCSC; Brett Stoutt, CUNY; Discussants: Timothy Eatman, Rutgers; Gustavo Fischman, ASU
Monday, April 9 4:10-6:10 (with John Diamond)
America to Me, (film) Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 100 Level, Room 104A
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:20 to 1:50pm, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 300 Level, Hall C
The Hijab Project: Art as a tool for self-authorship and collective action- Ana Antunes
2019 Sessions from our Partner: Grassroots Community and Youth Organizing Special Interest Group
GCYO Off-Site
A few pictures from 2018 in New York
Celebratory dinner: Sonia Rosen, Sarah Hobson, Van Lac, Jerusha O'Conner, John RogersMark Warren's new collaborative book: Lift Us Up Don't Push Us Out!The student-led presentations (Lyons, Harvest) taught us about restorative justice, students as teachers, and reminded us that schools can be places where justice and hope can live. |
URBAN education offsite event in New York City at City as School |