Workshops

2026-207 Workshops

October 2: Geoffrey Wodtke, University of Chicago
Workshop: Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-dimensional Model of Place-based Disparities in Academic Achievement

November 6: Nora Gordon, Georgetown University
Workshop: "Why Is It Like This?" Compliance and Discretion in a Large School District

November 20: Eos Trinidad, University of California, Berkeley
Workshop: Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education 

December 4: Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan
Workshop: The Bilingual Reading Brain: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Child Literacy

January 15: Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University
Workshop: The Return to University Courses

January 29: Elizabeth Tipton, Northwestern University
Workshop: What Schools Want vs What Evidence Can Deliver

February 12: Paul von Hippel, The University of Texas at Austin
Workshop: A Mississippi Miracle? The Effect of Mississippi’s Science-of-Reading Reforms on Elementary Reading Skills
Related Reading: The Reading First Controversy and Changing How Literacy Is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics

February 26: Victor Lee, Stanford University
Workshop: Secondary Students’ Entrée into the New Order of AI in Schools: Snapshots and Opportunities

April 2: Heather McCambly, University of Pittsburgh
Workshop: Federal Grantmaking and the Racialized Stratification of Educational Knowledge Production

April 16: Terri Sabol, Northwestern University
Workshop: Taking Early Childhood Education Back to the Basics: From Impact to Measurement

May 14: Misha N. Ailsworth, Cornell University
Workshop: Black Girls as Knowledge Producers: Toward Epistemic Justice in Community-Research Partnerships

October 9: Marshall Jean, University of Chicago
Workshop: Primer on Education Jargon

October 16: Alizé Hill, Crown
Workshop: Accessing Whiteness: The Process Through Which Black-White Multiracial Youth and Their Parents Navigate the Education System

October 23: Alizé Hill, Daniela Juarez, Grace Li, and Jake Nicoll
Workshop: Navigating Education Research: Perspectives from Current PhD Students

October 30: Linyun Fu, Crown
Workshop: The Effects of a Culturally Sensitive Social and Emotional Learning Program on Rural Chinese Children: Evidence from a Matched-Pair Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

November 13: Ana Vasan, CHD
Workshop: Carceral Care: The Intimacies of Antiblackness in Chicago High Schools

February 5: Emilia Wenzel, CHD
Workshop: How Preschool Teachers Learn from Early Math Formative Assessment: Exploring the Mechanisms of the On Track Math Intervention

February 19: Elaine Lu, EDSO MA
Workshop: “Do I look/sound like a vocational student?”--Crafting the Vocational Self and Negotiating Futures within Skill-Oriented Schooling

March 5: Jake Nicoll (Harris) and Nathan Ausubel (Harris)
Workshops: (How) Do We Teach Emotions? and Revisiting the Teach For America Debate: A Localized Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial 

April 9: Ashley Lehmann, CHD
Workshop: Rural Missouri’s Access and Equitability of STEM and CTE Education

April 23: Student Research Showcase - Poster Session
Location: Ida Noyes Hall, 3rd Floor

April 30: Noah Liu, Harris
Workshop: Heterogeneous Fadeout and Counterfactual Skill Growth in Early Childhood Interventions

May 7: Grace Li, Computer Science
Workshop: Exploring how Community College Educators Integrate AI Literacy Knowledge into their Discipline