30.012 - Dialogues Across Systems That Support Students and Families: The Urgency to Teach, Protect, and Reduce Vulnerability

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session brings attention to our increased understanding of the multiple factors that reduce students’ ability to learn and to achieve in school and the urgency to enhance our knowledge across systems to teach, protect, and reduce vulnerability among children and families. While many of the factors reside in schools and can be associated with schooling, they are not limited to education and schooling. Responding to them and to ensure contexts that provide the foundation and support that students need requires cross-collaborations and efforts between and among child and family-serving systems, particularly as they aim to reduce structural barriers associated with poverty, racial discrimination, and obstructions to access and equality. Panel/symposium participants will address these issues highlighting the major problems associated with different systems designed to serve the vulnerable populations, current and emerging approaches to addressing them including examples, and the possibilities for cross-collaborations for the future of students in and out of school.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Lora A. Cohen-Vogel, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Participants

• Fred Wulczyn, University of Chicago

• Kevin G. Welner, University of Colorado Boulder

• Robert L Crosnoe, The University of Texas - Austin

• Lora A. Cohen-Vogel, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill