See presentation here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The Importance of Community Schools in Transforming Urban Education through Partnerships with Universities, Local Foundations, and Community Organizations: The EPO Model and How it Began Revamping East.” tab_id=”1548708517737-b32a9ec6-d13b”][vc_column_text]The importance of community schools in transforming urban education through partnerships with universities, local foundations, and community organizations: The EPO model and how it began revamping East.<\/em><\/p>\n Nelms, S. (2018). The importance of community schools in transforming urban education through partnerships with universities, local foundations, and community organizations. Presented at Better Schools, Better Neighborhoods. Community Action Organization of Western, NY, Buffalo, NY[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Bridging the Gap by Expanding Opportunities” tab_id=”1548708536920-9ce057c0-b7c3″][vc_column_text]Noguera, P. (2017, June). Breaking the cycle of poverty: Bridging the gap by expanding opportunities.<\/em> Presented at Excellence through equity: Creating schools that serve all children well. Center for Urban Education Success, Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n During a two-day symposium hosted by the Center for Urban Education Success, Dr. Pedro Noguera delivered a keynote address that focused on the how and why educators, community leaders, and policymakers must understand and address the deleterious effects of poverty when aiming to improve education for our nation\u2019s must vulnerable students, often concentrated in urban areas. He proposed that the most successful way to improve achievement is through an equitable approach to schooling.<\/p>\n See presentation here.<\/a><\/p>\n See video recording of keynote here.<\/a><\/p>\n Read more about the event here.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Excellence Through Equity: Creating Conditions for Great Teaching and Learning” tab_id=”1546625736745-385b2d0c-0337″][vc_column_text]Noguera, P. (2017, June). Excellence through equity: Creating conditions for great teaching and learning.<\/em> Keynote address presented at Excellence through equity: Creating schools that serve all children well. Center for Urban Education Success, Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n During the Center for Urban Education Success\u2019s two-day symposium, Dr. Pedro Noguera gave a presentation at a professional learning workshop to a group of 270 teachers, staff and University of Rochester Warner School of Education faculty and students. His focus for the talk was how to approach teaching and learning with equity as a priority, especially in schools that serve children in urban areas. He encouraged practitioners to promote student agency and engagement when designing curricula and instruction. His presentation was followed by small group breakout sessions where participants grappled with some of the themes of Dr. Noguera’s work.<\/p>\n See presentation here<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Doing Justice: The Role of Distributed Leadership in Transforming Urban Schooling” tab_id=”1546626401783-030a5fc7-3419″][vc_column_text]Larson, J., DeAngelis, K., & Nelms, S. (2017, May). Doing justice: The role of distributed leadership in transforming urban schooling.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX.<\/p>\n The purpose of this paper is to explore initial opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of distributed leadership as one of multiple changes in a unique University\/school partnership\u2019s comprehensive reform initiative. Data are drawn from a long-term ethnography and mixed methods social design experiment of this initiative, including survey and school data. We have identified generative frictions related to distributed leadership that the paper will discuss: 1) empowerment\/compliance; resistance\/all in, which further includes multiple other generative frictions such as: a) taking responsibility\/assigning blame; b) old culture\/new culture; c) new ideas\/status quo; d) trusting relationships\/betrayal; e) experiential knowledge\/unknown knowledge. Implementation of distributed leadership occurred in everyday interactions as these frictions were negotiated.\u00a0Read the conference paper.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Learning From Each Other: Justice Work with 9th Grade English I Students” tab_id=”1546626406413-614e755b-c1c8″][vc_column_text]Larson, J., Fitta, J., Domiano, E., & Bethmann, C. (2017, May). Learning from each other: Justice work with 9th grade English I students.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX.<\/p>\n AND<\/p>\n Larson, J., Fitta, J., Domiano, E., & Bethmann, C. (2016, December). Learning from each other: Justice work with 9th grade English I students.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association. Nashville, TN.<\/p>\n The purpose of this paper is to explore how critical literacy informed the teaching and learning of teacher-students and students-teachers (Freire, 1971) in a 9th grade English I class. Data are drawn from a larger, ongoing ethnography of a novel partnership between an urban high school labeled as \u201cpersistently failing\u201d and a research university that has been approved as an Educational Partnership Organization (EPO). Using an analytics of power lens, we found that power produced generative frictions that animated culture change in general and changes in power relations in this classroom in particular. This study contributes to research on critical literacy by illustrating how critical literacy can be implemented under intense scrutiny and constraining curricular mandates. \u00a0Read the conference paper.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”What We Don\u2019t Say Out Loud: Opportunities and Challenges of Participatory Ethnography in Urban Schools” tab_id=”1546626409333-90f1f4a0-7870″][vc_column_text]Larson, J. (2017, May). What we don\u2019t say out loud: Opportunities and challenges of participatory ethnography in urban schools.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX.<\/p>\n This paper explores the complexities of participatory ethnography when that research is committed to equal power relations, co-authorship, and co-production. Data for this paper are drawn from a larger, ongoing participatory ethnography of a unique University\/school partnership. Results of the analyses found that power produced generative frictions that animated changes in understanding of the research and simultaneously produced resistance to the research. This paper contributes to recent moves in educational research toward public scholarship and engaged research that works alongside participants. The paper discusses how such research might be done by describing the generative frictions that were produced in participatory ethnography in an urban high school under intense scrutiny by the state department of education and the general public.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Collaborating for Equity: Comprehensive School Reform in an Innovative University\/School Partnership” tab_id=”1546626410237-b2786eaa-0191″][vc_column_text]Larson, J. & Nelms, S. (May, 2017). Collaborating for equity: Comprehensive school reform in an innovative University\/school partnership.<\/em> In symposium \u201cPartnerships for school reform in urban education: Models, Dynamics, and Challenges\u201d presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX.<\/p>\n This symposium engages the 2017 AERA conference theme of \u201cKnowledge to Action: Achieving the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity\u201d by sharing research on four high-schools whose creation or reform aims to narrow the achievement gap for socially marginalized youth in inner-city contexts. The session takes up the call for using \u201crelevance to practice as a criterion for rigor\u201d in educational research (Guttierez & Penuel, 2014) by exploring and assessing concrete educational interventions. All four sites \u2013 the UCLA Community School; East High in Rochester, New York; James Lyng High School in Montreal, Quebec; and the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota \u2013 are supported by, or built around, partnerships with universities and\/or community organizations. \u00a0Read the conference paper.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”So what is it you do here?\u201d Unpacking Participatory Ethnography in Urban Schools” tab_id=”1546626994842-4de9bb84-ed1c”][vc_column_text]Larson, J. & Gallego Greenwich, J. (2017, February) \u201cSo what is it you do here?\u201d Unpacking participatory ethnography in urban schools.<\/em> Paper presented at the 38th Annual Ethnography in Education Forum. Philadelphia, PA.<\/p>\n This is a \u201cwork-in-progress\u201d paper presented to experienced ethnographers. We will describe the processes of attempting to conduct participatory ethnography at East, focusing specifically on the complex roles we negotiated during the study.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Literacy and Activism” tab_id=”1546627005641-b54e3f0f-ab24″][vc_column_text]I am text block. Click edit button to change this text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Larson, J. (2017, February). Literacy and activism.<\/em> Invited speaker at the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English Assembly for Research. San Francisco, CA.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Implementing Writing Workshop at the Secondary Level: Ideals, Realities, & Flexibility” tab_id=”1546627176204-37b82de0-7677″][vc_column_text]Basile, A., Hart, D., & Larson, J. (2016, November). Implementing writing workshop at the secondary level: Ideals, Realities, & Flexibility.<\/em> Presented at the annual meeting of the New York State Reading Association. Rochester, NY.<\/p>\n In this presentation, we described the EPO and the process involved in deciding to use Atwell\u2019s Workshop curriculum for literacy classes in grades 6-9. Participants did a gallery walk of artifacts from two classrooms. Basile and Hart shared goals, challenges, and changes they made to a standing room only audience.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Lessons Learned from University K-12 School Partnerships: The East EPO” tab_id=”1546627513399-3f0b917d-9749″][vc_column_text]Uebbing, S., & Nelms, S. (2016, November). Lessons learned from university K-12 school partnerships: The East EPO.<\/em> Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities, Schools of Education\u2019s Deans. Washington, D.C.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Publicly Engaged Scholars and Literacy Research” tab_id=”1546627603500-34cc7a32-b504″][vc_column_text]Larson, J. (2016). Publicly engaged scholars and literacy research.<\/em> Study group invited scholar at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association. Nashville, TN.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Expanding Teachers\u2019 Classroom Discourse Repertoires” tab_id=”1546627606971-21727efa-c34d”][vc_column_text]Larson, J., Fitta, J., & Morris, T. (2016, May). Expanding teachers\u2019 classroom discourse repertoires.<\/em> Paper presented at the Working Conference On Discourse Analysis in Educational Research. Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n This presentation focused on classroom discourse structures and the work we did to shift from teacher-led to more conversational and collaborative discourse in English classrooms at East.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Living Public Scholarship: Insights From a University-School Partnership” tab_id=”1546627608891-d90609d6-25ba”][vc_column_text]Larson, J., DeAngelis, K., Nelms, S., Blocker, M., Davis, K., Wilson, C., Wilson, J., Castro, Z., Sanchez, G., Kwanza, H., & Young, J. (2016, April). Living Public Scholarship: Insights From a University-School Partnership.<\/em> Presidential Session at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington D.C.<\/p>\n Using an interactive format, this session reported on the partnership between East High, an urban high school labeled as \u201cpersistently struggling\u201d and the University of Rochester, approved as an \u201cEducational Partnership Organization.\u201d University researchers, the district\u2019s superintendent, a principal, a teacher, and students addressed the challenges of conducting research alongside community engaged in a comprehensive school reform effort that, in effect, is changing everything. Presenters addressed the opportunities and challenges of bring together two discourse communities who often do not know how to speak to each other to produce knowledge that reflects both scholarly and local perspectives on the struggle to transform an urban high school.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Writing Towards Diverse Democracies Through Public Scholarship” tab_id=”1546627610483-198c81d1-4c83″][vc_column_text]Larson, J. & Hart, D. (2016, March). Writing towards diverse democracies through public scholarship. Writing and Literacies Podcast #2.<\/em> Podcast retrieved from https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/writing-and-literacies<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”What’s literacy got to do with it? Imagining How One Urban High School Can Be Transformed” tab_id=”1546627612091-fa876295-bb52″][vc_column_text]Larson, J. (2015, December). What’s literacy got to do with it? Imagining how one urban high school can be transformed.<\/em> Paper presented at the annual conference of the Literacy Research Association. San Diego, CA.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”8652″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Conference Presentations [\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion style=”modern” shape=”square” color=”white” active_section=”100″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”\u201cYou Can\u2019t Teach It\u201d: When Urban Youth Lead Their Learning” tab_id=”1546625736745-45091a34-e46b”][vc_column_text]Larson, J., Atkins, G., & Golden, R. (2019, April).\u00a0\u201cYou can\u2019t teach it\u201d: When urban youth lead their learning.\u00a0Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. 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