Conference Presentations

Council for Exceptional Children’s 2008 Convention and Expo. (Boston, April 2008)

• Use of Action Research in Implementing Brain Based Teaching Strategies

AERA’s 2008 Annual Meeting: Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility.  (New York, March 2008)

• Ethnographic narratives: Helping new teachers embrace parents and communities and foster student achievement
• Preparing urban teachers to partner with parents and communities
• Relevancy and Revelation: The Future of School Board Governance.

6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education.  (January 2008)

• Home visits: Idenitfying key questions
  • (PowerPoint)
  • Welcome to Holland
  • What Advocacy Is, Is Not
• Getting back in touch: What a return to the local high school classroom has taught us as teacher educators

Phi Delta Kappa’s International Summit on Global Education.  Preparing our students for work and citizenship in a global society.  (Vancouver, October 2007)

• Getting down to brass tacks:  A hands-on workshop to help K-12 teachers infuse their lessons and units with globalization
  • Shared Children's Books from the PDK Conference
  • Get Connected! A collection of annotated hot links to help K-12 educators "globalize" their classrooms
• Global Education and International Studies: Understanding their similarities and differences
  • Terminology Card Sort Activity
  • PowerPoint Presentation: Understanding the similarities and differences between global education and international studies
  • Venn Diagram

Ed Trust (West)

• Getting back in touch: What a return to the local high school classroom has taught us as teacher educators
• Teacher Education Internship Program (PowerPoint)
• Raising the bar of teacher quality: Accountability, collaboration, and social justice

School board research: Main lines of inquiry, a national symposium of scholars of school board governance. (DesMoines, Iowa. September 2007)

• A descriptive case study of discord & dissent: The story of a school board’s act of non-compliance to state and federal law