TCU College of Education Presentations | AERA

Join TCU College of Education experts at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association (AERA), taking place April 8–12, in Los Angeles, California. The theme for this year’s annual meeting is “Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research.”

Additional session details, co-presenters and conference information is available on the AERA Annual Meeting website. Information is subject to change. Please check the official meeting schedule for updates.

8:00-6:00 PDT
Coalition Advancing Knowledge and Impact
Endia J. Lindo
Location: InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 5th Floor, Hancock Park West

7:45 to 9:15
Teaching Democracy Now
Cathryn van Kessel, Rebeka Plots
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

7:45 to 9:15 PDT
Toward an Abolitionist Leadership Theory: Concepts and Cases of Anti-Racist Educational Leadership
Cornell Thomas
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 1

7:45 to Sun, April 12, 3:00 PDT
Virtual Poster Session Division B - Section 6: De/Colonization and Transformative Curriculum Studies Virtual Poster Session
Nicole K. Weinburg
Location: Virtual Posters Exhibit Hall, Virtual Poster Hall

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
Navigating graduate education and opportunities
Pablo Montes, Jose Omar Serna, Garrison Daly, Maria O’Connor, Katherine Crowe, Anna Block
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum G

11:45-1:15 PDT
Middle School Students' Engagement in Civic Education
Michelle Bauml, Jerrett Lyday
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

1:45 to 3:15 PDT
Unsettling the Present: Multigenerational, Interdisciplinary Dialogues on the Past, Present, and Futures of Inclusive Education
Audrey M. Sorrells, Rebeka Plots, Endia J. Lindo
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum J

3:45 to 5:15 PDT
Racialization, State Power, and Resilience: Comparative Perspectives on National Education Systems
Miriam Deborah Ezzani, Stephanie Cuellar, Camille Austin Henderson
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

3:45 to 5:15 PDT
Tending Our Field’s Garden: Research Deans’ (re)Imagining the Future of Teaching and Teacher Education
Frank Hernandez
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 6

7:45 to 9:15 PDT
Everything Ain’t for Everybody: Refusal as a Methodological Practice of Purposeful Data Disclosure
Pablo Montes
Location: InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 7th Floor, Hollywood Ballroom I

7:45 to 9:15 PDT
Navigating Language, Identity, and Power
Stephanie Cuellar, Daniela Castro, Daisy Troche, Taryn Ozuna Allen
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
Constructing and (Re)imagining Educational Leadership Through the Use of Case Studies
Jo Beth Jimerson
Location: Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Palos Verdes

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
Linguistic Justice and Heritage Education
Camille Austin Henderson
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

2:15-3:45 PDT
Division G VP Session: The Social Context of Education and MSI’s
Florence Emily Castillo
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall -Exhibit Hall A

2:15 to 3:4 PDT
Wake & Whirlwinds: (Re)Constructing Global Black Southern Girlhood Stories Amidst Climate Change and Implications for Educational Research
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Kiana González Cedeño

4:15 to 5:45 PDT
Leading Under Pressure: Scholar-Practitioner Research on Equity-Minded Data Use
Jo Beth Jimerson
Location: InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown, Floor: 7th Floor, Hollywood Ballroom I

7:45 to 9:15 PDT
Global Indigenous Futures: Collaboration, Climate, and Knowledge in Motion Across the Americas
Pablo Montes, Marleen Villanueva
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
(Re)imagining Education Research Through Muslim Perspectives
Miriam Deborah Ezzani
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 304B

3:45-5:15
Constructing Futures of Teacher Education: Equity, Technology, and Transformative Frameworks
Cynthia L. Savage, Robin R. Griffith, Jennifer Smith
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall – Exhibit Hall A

9:45-11:15 PDT
Counseling Poster Session B
Citlali Molina
Location:Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall – Exhibit A

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
Disassembling Mis/Disinformation, Reassembling Democracy: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Cathryn van Kessel, Lex Nikola Salazar
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 3rd Floor, Georgia I

11:45 to 1:15 PDT
A Symposium of Innovative Attempts Toward Incremental Change for Mathematics Teachers
Sarah Quebec Fuentes
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2

11:45 to 1:15 PDT
e-Lightning Ed-Talk Session 17 - Stage 2
Christelle Fayad, Richard Curby Alexander, Hayat Hokayem
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Exhibit Hall A - Stage 2

11:45 to 1:15 PDT
Exploring Diversity in Play in Children's Storytelling
Jan Lacina
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

11:45-1:15 PDT
Snapshots from the Field: Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning
Christelle Fayaf, Richard Curby Alexander, Hayat Hokayem
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Poster Hall – Exhibit Hall A

1:45 to 3:15 PDT
Culture and Climate in Higher Education
Nishala Iroshini Silva, David E. Allen, Frank Hernandez
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree D

1:45 to 3:15 PDT
Ethical Engagement, STEM Programs, and Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Evaluation Research
Nicole K. Weinburg, Gabriel S. Huddleston, Garrison Daly, Chelsea Verrette, Jason David Manriquez, Marnie Foster
Location: Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Los Feliz

1:45 to 3:15 PDT
Land, Language, and Intergenerational Learning: Indigenous Pedagogies of Place, Kinship, and Continuance Across Generations and Geographies
Pablo Montes
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 4th Floor, Diamond 1

1:45-3:15 PDT
Research-in-Progress RT058
Thomas Flagg
Location: Los Angeles Concention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C

5:45 to 6:45 PDT
Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender: Business Meeting, Awards Ceremony, and Reception
Carmen Kynard
Location: Westin Bonaventure, Floor: Lobby Level, Beaudry A

7:45 to 9:15 PDT
Writing Development and Assessment Practices across Literacy Contexts
Jan Lacina
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

9:45 to 11:15 PDT
Equity and persistence among students of color
Stephanie Cuellar, Pablo Montes
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: 2nd Floor, Platinum G

11:45am to 1:15pm PDT
Translanguaging as Praxis: Negotiating Multilingualism, Power, and Pedagogy
Christelle Fayad, Hayat Hokayem
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Gold Level, Gold 3

11:45 to 1:15 PDT
Women's and Gender Studies Departments and the Work they do
Marleen Villanueva
Location: Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 501B

1:45 to 3:15 PDT
Literacies and language development
Melissa Mendoza, Audrey M. Sorrells
Location: JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. LIVE, Floor: Ground Floor, Gold 2