Berkeley a Power at Chicago AERA Conference

UC Berkeley faculty and students were an eloquent presence at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago from April 21–25, 2003. No fewer than sixty-five talks, panels, and poster sessions included representatives from Cal’s Graduate School of Education, not counting alumni.

Two Berkeley professors addressed Presidential Invited Sessions at the conference. Geoff Saxe took part in a panel where journal editors spoke on publishing qualitative and interpretive research, engaging the audience in a spirited give-and-take. Alan Schoenfeld joined with three other past presidents of the organization to discuss the question, “How does AERA need to change in order to become more effective?”

Marcia Linn	Chris Hoadley	Phil Vahey

Marcia Linn’s Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (CILT) was the focus of a lively poster session that reported on five years of the project’s research. The event was so well attended that the crowd spilled over into the hallway outside the meeting room in the Hyatt Hotel. Linn and members of her research team spoke, including GSE alums Chris Hoadley, Sherry Hsi, Phil Vahey and several current and former Cal post-docs.

Daniel Perlstein

Daniel Perlstein gave two talks in one day, one on “Democratic Dilemmas in the African American Freedom Struggle,” and another at a discussion of women educational leaders during the Progressive Era.

Maisha Tulivu Fisher and Pharmicia Mosely

There were panels that consisted mostly of UC Berkeley representatives. Faculty member Patricia Baquedano-López chaired a session on “Pulling for Coherence in Hybrid Literacies: Theorizing Emerging Languages in Various Family, School and Community Settings.” Doctoral students Laura Alamillo, Gabino Arredondo, Pharmicia Mosely, Jorge Solis, Laura Vallejo, and Wayne Yang took part in the panel.

Another panel on “Science Instruction for All: Promoting Science and Literacy for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Elementary Students” featured Cal participants Gabino Arredondo, Marco Bravo, Katherine Chun, Yu-Min Ku, Iliana Reyes, and Jorge Solis.

PLI Group: Ho Nguyen, David Stern, Andy Furco, Lynda Tredway, Peg Minicozzi, Jessica Bogner, (not shown: Matin Abdel-Qawi)

Students from the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) presented research at AERA for the first time. The speakers were Matin Abdel-Qawi, Jessica Bogner, Peg Minicozzi, and Ho Nguyen. The PLI program is only in its third year but was already providing new information on Principals as Consumers and Producers of Research.

Lance McCready	Diane Hirshberg

At Berkeley’s reception on Tuesday night many recent alums returned to visit with former professors and classmates. Lance McCready reported he’s enjoying his post-doc at Carleton College and hopes he’s headed for a tenure-track position there. Diane Hirshberg has a new title as assistant professor of educational research at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska, Anchorage.

Those at the reception cheered Dean David Pearson’s announcement that recent Ph.D. graduate Ilana Horn had just won AERA’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for Division K. Horn was just finishing up a post-doc at an anonymous campus in Palo Alto that has a tree as its mascot. She has now moved up to the University of Washington to be an assistant professor of mathematics education.

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