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The School of Education at AERA 2026

April 26, 2026

Syracuse University School of Education was well represented by faculty and students—both graduate and undergraduate—at the American Educational Research Association’s 2026 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, from April 8 to 12.

  • Two undergraduates in front of an AERA 2026 sign
    Undergraduates Eliani Jimenez Merino ’26 and Vera Wang ’26 joined Professor George Theoharis to present “‘There’s No Way to Make it Without Your People’: Documenting the Path to Leadership for Women of Color” at AERA 2026.

    Syracuse appeared in sessions spanning arts-based research, counseling, curriculum studies, disability studies, educational leadership, indigenous education, instructional technology, literacy, and teacher education.

  • SOE Educational Technology and Media researchers appeared across multiple AI-in-education sessions, reflecting SOE’s strength in this Signature Area of Distinction.
  • SOE’s inclusive education faculty and students featured across a dozen distinct sessions, spanning symposia, paper sessions, roundtables, and posters.
  • Arts Education Professor James Haywood Rolling Jr. served as Discussant at an AERA Presidential Session.
  • Also taking lead roles, Professor Courtney Mauldin-Jones chaired the Arts-based Educational Research Special Interest Group (SIG) business meeting; Professor Yehyang Lee served as a SIG Officer for Cultural-Historical Research; and Professor David DeAngelis represented Syracuse in the Music Education SIG.

Read the full AERA 26 program or browse representative SOE-related paper titles below:

  • Christine Elaine Ashby, Beth Myers, Julia M. White, Sara H. Petit-McClure, and Shana Lewis. “All Children Succeeding: Understanding the Inclusive Education Landscape in Uzbekistan.”
  • ParKer Bryant. “Seeing the Unknown, Sensing the Possible: Unhobbling and CritQuant—A Critical, Creative Literacy Design.”
  • Chelsea Bouldin. “Futuring Education Through Archival Praxis.”
  • Yanbei Chen and Jing Lei. “Unpacking Social-Emotional Learning in Teacher Education: A Systematic Review.”
  • Moon-Heum Cho. “Rethinking Pre-Class Modality in Flipped Learning: A Comparative Study of Textbook Reading and Instructor-Created Videos.”
  • ———. “Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives on Using Generative AI in Developing Teaching Materials.
  • Moon-Heum Cho and Ying Chen. “Instructional Design Students’ Intention to Use AI Tools in ID Practices.”
  • Alex Corbitt. “Ideating Worlds with ChatGPT: Critical Inquiries into the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Narrative Composing.”
  • ———. “Negotiating Rules, Roles, and Ideologies in Children’s Narrative Gameplay.”
  • David DeAngelis and Matthew Robertson. “Master’s Degrees for Music Educators: Demographics and Disparities.”
  • Alan R. Foley. “Passing for What? Disability, Delay, and the Architecture of Academic Recognition.”
  • Jessica Fundalinski. “Clinical Simulations as Sites for Advancing Critical Multilingual Language Awareness.”
  • Jessica Fundalinski and Amanda Kingston. “In-service Educators’ Meaning-Making and Experiences with Mindful Outdoor Engagements.”
  • Julie Harnett. “‘I Felt Like a Real-Life Teacher’: Teacher Candidates Reflect on Development Through Simulations.”
  • Ethan W. Jackson and Rebekah Wallis. “The Impact of Epistemic Oases within Educational Spaces on the Disability Rights Movement.”
  • Ibrahim Kizil and Bong Gee Jang. “Exploring Racial Disparities in Digital Reading: A QuantCrit Study of U.S. Adolescents.”
  • Bong Gee Jang. “Predictors of Self-Efficacy Among Secondary Teachers in Multicultural and Multilingual Classrooms.”
  • Morgan Jacobs and Beth Myers. “The Experiences of Queer and Trans Students with Intellectual Disability within Inclusive Post Secondary Education.”
  • Sultan Kilinc. “The Education of Refugee Children with Disabilities in the Turkish Context.”
  • Yehyang Lee. “Excavating Borders, Envisioning Futures: Reimagining State Policy Guidance for Multilingual Learners with Disabilities.”
  • ———. “Assemblages of Marginality: Exploring the Geographic and Structural Displacement of Homeless Students with Disabilities.”
  • Teukie Martin and Nikkia D. Borowski. “Disability Justice Dreams and Loving Corrections of IPSE.”
  • Courtney Mauldin-Jones. “Inventing New Worlds: Channeling Black Girl Aesthetic and Imagination.”
  • ———. “Facilitating Space for Creative Resistance Through Literacy and Arts-based Methods.”
  • ———. “Black Women’s Activism and Leadership as the Blueprint for Visioning Black Girl Futures.”
  • Beth Myers, Nikkia D. Borowski, Cam Michael Powell, Rebekah Wallis, and Ethan W. Jackson. “Centering Students with Intellectual Disability in IPSE Research: A Secondary Analysis.”
  • Brian Odiwuor. “Knowledge of Context and Culture: Advancing Teacher Knowledge to Transform Mathematics for All.”
  • Sara H. Petit-McClure. “Teacher Competencies to Improve Experiences and Outcomes for Diverse Learners.”
  • Sara H. Petit-McClure, Ethan W Jackson, Christine Elaine Ashby, Beth Myers. “Living Inclusion: Experiences in Italy from an Intentionally Inclusive Study Abroad Program.”
  • Cam Michael Powell, Sara H. Petit-McClure, Teukie Martin, and Christine Elaine Ashby. “A Framework for Inclusion: Values Behind 50 Years of Practice.”
  • George Theoharis. “Increasingly Diverse Schools: Coming from Our Histories Toward Leading in a Time of DEI Backlash.”
  • George Theoharis, Christine Elaine Ashby, Sean Drake, Lauren Ashby, and ParKer Bryant. “‘It’s Not Going to Stop … So We Just Gotta Go Out and Play”: High School Student-Athletes of Color Experiences with Racism and High School Athletics.”
  • George Theoharis, Eliani Jimenez Merino, and Vera Wang. “‘There’s No Way to Make it Without Your People’: Documenting the Path to Leadership for Women of Color.”
  • Rebekah Wallis and Christine Elaine Ashby. “Learning Through Composite Narratives: Inclusive Teaching Experiences for Teacher Education Programs.”
  • Julia M. White, Christine Elaine Ashby, Rebekah Wallis, Ethan W Jackson, and Cam Michael Powell. “The Rhetorics of (Re)Branding: A Historical and Discourse Analysis of the Inclusion/Special Education Debate.”
  • Julia M. White, Qiu Wang, Christine Elaine Ashby, Rebekah Wallis, and Yehyang Lee. “A Tale of Two States: Educational Service Agencies, Access, and Outcomes for Students With Disabilities.”
  • Louise C. Wilkinson and Sunny Li. “Exploring Early Career Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices Around Academic Language for English Learner Students.”