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AERA Presidential Session
- Wednesday, April 8, 2026 PDT
- 9:45am PDT
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Building the World Anew: Historically-Responsive Educational Approaches Towards just and Sustainable Climate Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 11:45am PDT
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C
Designing Transformative Research for Systemic Change in Teaching and Learning
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Crit Moving: Black, Brown, and Queer Coalitions for Liberated Educational Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 409AB
Unforgetting Histories, Shaping Futures: AAPI Studies in K-12 Classrooms
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 1:45pm PDT
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403A
In the Hour of Chaos: Hip Hop Art and Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Disability Justice in (Special) Education Futures: Exploring Critical, Intersectional, and Social and Emotional Dimensions
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 3:45pm PDT
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Freedom-Making in the Now: A Fireside Chat on Critical Challenges to Carcerality in K–16 Education
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- Thursday, April 9, 2026 PDT
- 9:45am PDT
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
How the Science of Learning and Development and the Neurosciences Can Inform Re-Envisioning Human Possibility
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 409AB
Shifting the Paradigm: Leveraging Mentoring Networks to Advance Educational Research
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 2:15pm PDT
2:15 to 3:45pm PDT (2:15 to 3:45pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
The Future of AI in Education: Research, Policy, and Public Impact
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
2:15 to 3:45pm PDT (2:15 to 3:45pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
Tiny Desk Talks
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 4:15pm PDT
4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C
Nothing About Us Without Us: Attending to Youth Desires for Their Educational Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Wake & Whirlwinds: (Re)Constructing Global Black Southern Girlhood Stories Amidst Climate Change and Implications for Educational Research
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
Looking Back, Looking Forward, Imagining Futures: CORIBE’s Black Education Research Agenda -- Impacts 20 Years Later
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- Friday, April 10, 2026 PDT
- 9:45am PDT
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C
Futuring Against the Grain: Doctoral Students Charting New Paths in Education Research
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
From Memory to Movement: SECRET Work to Advance Science Literacy
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
The State of the K-12 Teaching Profession: Perennial Challenges and New Possibilities
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 11:45am PDT
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Grief as Remembrance: An Antidote to Institutional Trauma Across Educational Contexts
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Re-remembering the Past and Envisioning the Future to Mobilize the Present: Community Organizers, Activist Scholars, and Funders Connecting Movements for Educational Justice
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
Unforgetting in an Era of Erasure: Resisting Anti-Justice Attacks and Envisioning Futures for Higher Education
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 1:45pm PDT
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403A
Historicizing Los Angeles : Envisioning New Educational Futures in Latinx Radical Imaginations
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403B
Sankofa Pedagogies: Designing and Implementing Reparative Black Studies Curricula
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Indigenous Education Across Tovaangar: Past, Present, Trans-Indigenous, and Future Horizons
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
AERA's Past, Present, Future: A Conversation with Dr.Tabbye M. Chavous and Dr. Felice J. Levine
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 3:45pm PDT
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403A
Honoring Youth Mental Health through Abolitionist Education: K-12 Students Researching Radically Healing Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Roundtable
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Futuring Scholarly Expression Through Sound, Sound Design, and Music: A Listening Session with Liner Notes
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Unforgetting the History of Racism and Education in the US: Imagining a Future for DEI and Multicultural Education Research, Policies, and Practices
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 411 (Theatre)
Stolen School: What Desegregation Took and One Black Community's Fight to Get it Back
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- Saturday, April 11, 2026 PDT
- 9:45am PDT
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C
Cultivating Change through Critical Imagination and Collective Liberation in Childhood
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
New and Emerging Histories of Education in the American West and Pacific
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Reimagining Educational Possibilities for Immigrant-Origin Students in an Era of Exclusion
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 11:45am PDT
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403A
Scaling Equity-oriented Innovations for Just Education Futures: Navigating Power Relations During Contentious Times
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Ethnic Studies Futures: Unforgetting as a Path to Reimagining Education
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Advancing Justice through Transformation: Reflections on Institutional Leadership for Educational Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 1:45pm PDT
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Futuring Our Democracy: A Conversation About the Roles of Education, Educational Policy, and Education Research
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
School Boards, Local Democracy, and the Pursuit of Educational Justice
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
1:45 to 3:15pm PDT (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 408A
Growing Communities for Purpose: Adaptability and Scalability in Education Justice Work
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Roundtable
- 3:45pm PDT
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Petree Hall C
The 29th Conversations With Senior Scholars on Advancing Research and Professional Development Related to Black Education
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Roundtable
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 403B
Navigating Children's and Young Adult Literature in an Era of Contested Literacies: Possibilities for Education Research and Teaching
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
3:45 to 5:15pm PDT (3:45 to 5:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Archiving Art as a Legacy to Preserve Pasts/Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- Sunday, April 12, 2026 PDT
- 9:45am PDT
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Understanding the Moment Across Multiple Marginalities: Navigating Attacks on Intersectional Educational Futures
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 406AB
Unforgetting Deficit Depictions: Disrupting Education Systems of Injustice to Unlock the Hidden Geniuses
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session
- 11:45am PDT
11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 404AB
Unforgetting Histories and Dreaming for the Future of Mathematics Education
Sub Unit: AERA Presidential Session
Session Type: Invited Speaker Session