AOCC 2022 Conference Schedule - Room Assignments & Zoom Links

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Friday, March 4th

Welcome and Keynote

Askwith Hall; 4:00 - 5:30 PM 

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96386808321?pwd=Q0VsQldSSDZCcjBTdG8rSEhxS3paZz09  (hybrid session)

Breakout Session #1 (5:40 - 6:40 PM):

• Bringing Back the Village: Co-Creating a Village of Support; Gutman 305
• Honesty Hour: Let's Talk About Liberation Through Education; Larsen 203
• PBS KIDS: Inclusive & Equitable Family Engagement Design & Practice; Longfellow 229
• Resilience Against the Plights of Redlining: Through the Lens of LAUSD Students of Color; Longfellow 320
• The Birth of Becky: White Women Upholding White Supremacy; Larsen G08
• You Can't Spell Equity without EQ (Emotional Intelligence); Larsen 106

Saturday, March 5th

Check-in for in-person attendees will take place in Longfellow Hall (13 Appian Way, Cambridge) until 9:30AM.

Welcome Remarks

Askwith Hall; 9:30 - 9:50 AM

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96386808321?pwd=Q0VsQldSSDZCcjBTdG8rSEhxS3paZz09  (hybrid session)

Breakout Session #2 (10:00 - 11:00 AM):

• A Pedagogy for Community Empowerment and Reforming the Politics and Policies of Urban School Reform; Longfellow 228
• Education & Career Opportunities for Undocumented Students; Longfellow 319
• Fostering a Culture of Belonging in the Workplace; GCC Event 4&5
• Identity: Search for Belonging; Gutman 305
• We Got Next: Teen Internships in Museums Influencing the Next Generation; Longfellow 320
• Pandemic PAR: An Attempt to Create Change Amidst Collective Uncertainty; Longfellow 229

Breakout Session #3 (11:10 AM - 12:10 PM):

• Planting The Seeds: Fostering Pathways for Equitable Mental Health Care; Longfellow 320
• Building Schools That Liberate: The Role of Islamic Faith-Based Education in the African American Community Experience; Longfellow 228
• Lessons from the Life of Wayne Newell: Education in Indian Country; Gutman 440
• Drop the Facade: Building Healthy Relationships; Longfellow 229
• Painted Mexican mural reflecting lived experiences, education, policy, and culture for a first-generation Latino in America - Mexican Me: Growing up Undacamented in America; Longfellow 319 (hybrid session)
• The Liberatory Pedagogy of Music for Social Transformation; Gutman 305

Virtual Expo (12:10 - 12:55 PM) - https://harvard.zoom.us/j/95335125602

Zoom Breakout Rooms for the Expo: please enter the Expo through the link above

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• "Becoming Black Lawyers" : Questions & Answer Session with Flimmaker Evangeline Mitchell
• Teachers as Researchers: Supporting Social Justice Through Inquiry-Based Practice
• Developing Inclusive Pedagogy to prepare preservice Teachers to Support Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student Learning
• Preparing Teachers to Implement Social-Emotional Learning: Access to Training, Resources, and Collaboration at an Elementary School 
• Postcolonialism in Secondary English Curriculum in Hawai'i: A-One Teacher Self-study
• Exploring Middle School Perspectives on Social-Emotional Learning and their Impact on School Violence
• Exploring the relationship between communication, curriculum, and learning outcomes during virtual learning
• The intersection of ELL education and cultural pluralism in adult education
• Action research for cognitive and psychological student engagement in a secondary school dropout prevention program
• Factors impacting female underrepresentation in STEM
• Technology integration and access to digital literacy in the time of COVID

Breakout Session #4 (1:10 - 2:10 PM):

• Carceral Education: Expression as a Praxis of Freedom; Longfellow 228
• JusticeLoves: The Five Languages of Justice; Gutman 303
• Being a White-Presenting Person of Color; Gutman 305
• Racial Healing Spaces for School Leaders of Color: A Movement to Build More Equitable Schools; Longfellow 229
• Pontiac Resilience Project: Addressing ACEs, Childhood Trauma, and Historical and Sustained Racism in Pontiac; Longfellow 319

Breakout Session #5 (2:20 - 3:20 PM):

• Confronting Exploitation and Coloniality in Education Research; Gutman 305
• Equitable and Liberatory Computer Science Education: The Path to Culturally Responsive/Sustaining CS For All; Longfellow 228
• Neoterism: Exploring Bicultural Identity Transformation; Gutman 303
• Using a Critical 'White' Literacy Framework to Disrupt Whiteness in Children's Literature; Longfellow 229
• Already Enough: Using the Inherent Creativity of Black Culture to Serve Black Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); Longfellow 207 (hybrid session)
• Invisible to Visible: Strides in Asian American Studies in K-12 and Higher Education; Gutman 302

Breakout Session #6 (3:35 - 4:45 PM)

• Coaching to Disrupt the Status Quo: Promoting Liberation and Well-Being; Longfellow 228
• Exploration of Manhood through an Afrocentric Paradigm: The Manhood Tree Group; Gutman 303
• Kindling the Flame: Supporting Student Advocacy in Educational Spaces; Gutman 305
• New Found Strategies for Newfoundland & Labrador Teachers: Launching an Anti-Racist Professional Learning Series in a Canadian Province; Gutman 302
• Talking College: A Community Based Language and Racial Identity Development Model for Black College Student Justice; Longfellow 207
• What Works in DEI? Research-Based Practices to Advance DEI Work in Education; Longfellow 229

Closing Keynote & Awards Ceremony

Longfellow 319/320; 4:50 - 6:30 PM

https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91868757070?pwd=Z1B2Z0ZSWmZLRDMrb3MrRXN5MVNoQT09  (hybrid session)

Dinner & Dance Party

Gutman Conference Center & Reading Area; 6:45 - 8:45 PM

Virtual dance party simulcast (https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91868757070?pwd=Z1B2Z0ZSWmZLRDMrb3MrRXN5MVNoQT09)