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16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND JUSTICE
4-5 September 2026, Honolulu, Hawai‘i

DETAILED SCHEDULE

(updated 6 August 2026)

FRIDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2026

8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION OPENS [Wist Hall]

On Friday only, the Registration Table, Book Sale, Art-Making Table, and Snacks & Beverages Counter will all be on the ground floor of Wist Hall, 1776 University Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be served in the morning. You are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle.

8:30 a.m. – 8:55 p.m.
WELCOME AND ICEBREAKER [CCC, Wist Hall]

Bring your coffee/tea to hear brief welcome remarks, land acknowledgment, and conference-going tips by conference organizer Kevin Kumashiro, and to meet other conference participants with a memorable icebreaker.

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 p.m.
INTERACTIVE BREAKOUT SESSIONS #1

1.1. Guided Tour and Student Showcase: University Laboratory School [starts at the Registration Table in Wist Hall]

Join this popular guided tour of the University Laboratory School, a K–12 Hawai‘i public charter school, a collaborator with several in the UHM College of Education, and the co-host of this conference! We will also meet with several student leaders who recently returned from Hiroshima, Japan on a Peace Study program, and who will be sharing the projects they developed as a result. The tour will be led by Alyssa Kapaona, Research and Development Coordinator at the University Laboratory School.

1.2. Workshop on California College of the Arts: A Call for Collective Action [CCC, Wist Hall]

Two weeks before the start of the Spring 2026 semester, the President of California College of the Arts (CCA) made a surprise announcement that he and the Board of Trustees had decided to permanently close the 120 year-old institution and sell off its assets by the end of the 2026–2027 academic year. The news was devastating. In response, members of the unionized faculty and staff have begun a campaign to see how the deep arts legacy and resources left behind, as abandoned facilities, workers and curricula, might serve a broadened community of local arts organizations and participants. In this interactive session, we will use a map of the abandoned CCA Oakland campus as our canvas to construct a new collective vision. Together we will brainstorm, draw, annotate, cut and paste our way toward more equitable financial and governance structures, programming, and facility re-use, capturing everyone’s input in a durable artifact of images and text. We will discuss real-time nuts-and-bolts organizational strategies for collective action, surfacing both the obstacles to and opportunities for arts education. In the larger context of potential school closures nationwide, CCA offers a case-study for how to create more resilient and equitable educational models to serve expanded communities. Carol Batker, University of San Francisco; Peter Anderson, California College of the Arts; and Mark Anderson, University of California-Berkeley

1.3. Workshop on Leveraging Transformative Philanthropy to Develop a Collective Agenda for Higher Education in Prison and Reentry [Room A, Wist Hall]

Our foundations are members of the Higher Education in Prison and Reentry collaborative (HEP.RE), which brings together philanthropic leaders committed to expanding equitable access to higher education for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, recognizing education as a critical pathway to long-term social and economic mobility. Our approach to transformative philanthropy focuses on disrupting traditional funder-grantee power dynamics, designing strategy with community input, and using storytelling to drive narrative change. How can we design and implement strategies that truly center decarceral and justice-oriented approaches? How can we leverage our role as funders to bring policymakers, academics, and community leaders to build and lead a collective movement for transformational change in the higher education in prison and reentry landscape? This session will begin with a moderated discussion among the panelists, then move to an interactive activity with the attendees. Elif Yucel, ECMC Foundation; Jonathan Reid, ECMC Foundation; Miguel Leon, Michelson 20MM Foundation; and Jenny Achilles, Trellis Foundation

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #2

2.1. Panel on Justice Movements Around the World [Room B, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: Christopher B. Knaus

Developing a Course of Ethnic Studies as a Practice of Social Justice Education in Japanese Higher Education
Kayoko Aoki, Ibaraki University, Japan
(10-12 minutes)

The Injustice of Current Mathematics Education in Juvenile Justice Settings: A Global Review
Sarah Trench, University of South Florida
(10-12 minutes)

Layer by Layer: Vienna Cake Pedagogy and Collective Resistance to Colonial Narratives in St. Croix’s Social Studies Classroom
Alexandria (Ria) Christmas, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
(10-12 minutes)

Learning Self through Place: Fostering Cultural Identity through Social Justice in Early Childhood Education (Hawai‘i and Japan)
Mizuki Yasumi, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa
(10-12 minutes)

Teaching to Empower: Centering Afrocentric Histories Across the Diaspora
Martin P. Smith, Duke University
(10-12 minutes)

Visual Dynamics and Collective Care: Movement Building through Art, Public Pedagogy, and Transnational Education
Raél Jero Salley, Maryland Institute College of Art
(10-12 minutes)

2.2. Panel on Reimagining Teacher Education and Educational Leadership [Room C, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: K. ʻAlohilani HN Okamura

Adaptive Strategic Leadership: Lessons from Latinx Entrepreneurs Navigating Multiple Cultural Worlds
Jaime Peñaherrera, Independent Scholar
(10-12 minutes)

Centering Justice through Collective Curriculum Renewal: Responding to Emerging Professional Expectations
Courtney Kane, University of California-Riverside
(10-12 minutes)

From Competing Models to Collective Action: Partnership, Simultaneous Renewal, and the Future of Teacher Education
Marisa Bier, Independent Educational Consultant
(10-12 minutes)

Relational Pedagogy and Program Stewardship in Precarious Times: A Self-Study of Liberatory EdD Leadership
Violet Ballard, San Francisco State University; and Barbara Henderson, San Francisco State University
(10-12 minutes)

Sensemaking about Place: Restoring Teacher Agency through Place-Based Science Professional Learning in Rural Hawaiʻi, Montana, and Maine
Joanna Philippoff, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa; Kirsten Mawyer, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa; and Stacy Prellberg, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa
(10-12 minutes)

Navigating Change through Aloha: A Culture-Based Adaptation of Design Thinking in Teacher Education
K. ʻAlohilani HN Okamura, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
(10-12 minutes)

2.3. Panel on Refusing to Overlook Intersected Dimensions of Diversity [Room D, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: Gerardo Mancilla

Five Decades of Research, Teaching, and Service Advancing the Collective Identity and Progress of a Recent U.S. Refugee Community: The Hmong American Experience
Pao Lor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
(10-12 minutes)

Loving Autistic Me: Our Rules, Mottos, Hard Earned Lessons, and Glorious Triumphs
Dre Abeita, University of New Mexico
(10-12 minutes)

Reclaiming Relational Pedagogies: The Role of Talking Circles in Decolonizing Classrooms
Veneice Guillory-Lacy, San José State University
(10-12 minutes)

Religious Microaggressions: A Critical Typology and Descriptive Analysis
Sachi Edwards, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Matthew R. Sayers, Lebanon Valley College; and J.T. Snipes, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
(10-12 minutes)

What Young Black Students Teach Us
Christine Quince, Santa Clara University
(10-12 minutes)

The Legacy of Roberto G. Sánchez: Establishing a High School Scholarship Program to Support Bilingual Latinx Students
Gerardo Mancilla, Edgewood University; Kathy Price, Friends of Sánchez Scholars; and Lesli Ann Vázquez Vargas, Friends of Sánchez Scholars
(10-12 minutes)

11:45 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
FRIDAY LUNCH [Wist Hall]

All conference attendees are invited to our Friday Lunch! Vegan options will be available. Feel free to sit and eat in the conference meeting rooms (128, 129, 130, 131) or outdoors (you are welcome to bring a blanket or towel for a picnic on the lawn). You are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle.

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
INFORMATION SESSION:
PUBLISHING YOUR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS [CCC, Wist Hall]

We are pleased to announce that this Conference will once again partner with Professing Education, the journal of the Society of Professors of Education, on a special issue that features papers based on several conference presentations. For some inspiration, check out the issues of Professing Education that featured papers from previous conferences. If you are a presenter and are interested in publishing your work, please join this information session to learn more about this opportunity, and feel free to bring your lunch!

12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #3

3.1. HSESJD Roundtable #1 [Room A, Wist Hall]

Join the Hawai‘i Scholars for Education, Social Justice and Diversity (HSESJD) for a roundtable discussion about equity and education in Hawai‘i. Learn about research on equity in Hawai‘i schools and universities. Join the discussion to share your ideas for future research on social justice and education in Hawai‘i that you would like to pursue.

Island Campus and the Empire Within: Diversity, Equity, and Faculty Labor in Hawai‘i
Marina Karides, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

Leveraging the Hawaiʻi Youth Risk Behavior Survey to Explore Mental Health Outcomes for Hawaiʻi High School Students
David A. Stupplebeen, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Jonathan Y. Huang, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; and Jeanelle J. Sugimoto-Matsuda, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa

The Human Experience Behind the WIDA Assessment Data
Saofaigaalii Lowe, John Hancock Charter School

3.2. Preserving Academic Freedom Under Duress: Institutional Strategy, Structural Defense, and the Role of Minority-Serving Institutions [Room B, Wist Hall]

The anti-DEI legislative wave has exposed a structural paradox: the institutions most committed to the students most harmed by these laws are simultaneously the institutions most targeted by them. But here is what the headlines miss: Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) have been navigating hostile political terrain for generations. The question this session addresses is not whether MSIs will survive this moment—they have survived far worse—but what their survival strategies can teach every institution of higher education about defending academic freedom under sustained and coordinated attack. This panel brings together scholars who study or lead within MSIs. What do individual faculty members actually control in this moment, and what collective conditions must be in place for individual resistance to matter? Chair M. C. Brown II, Thurgood Marshall College Fund (Payne Center); Fred A. Bonner, Prairie View A&M University; Jorge Burmicky, Howard University; Nigel Pierce, North Carolina Central University; Anthony Pittman, Medgar Evers College; and Discussant Christopher B. Knaus, University of Washington-Tacoma

3.3. Imagining, Building and Embodying Racial Justice through Turbulent Times: Insights from the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice [Room C, Wist Hall]

The Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) was created in 2011 as a space for teachers of Color with advanced racial literacy to come together and address the impacts of white supremacy and racism on schooling and their own professional and personal lives, and to build racial and intersectional justice based frameworks, ways of being, and practices to support the well-being and upliftment of students, families and communities of Color. This session will provide participants the opportunity to learn about and experience the larger ITOC project with a focus on the grounding principles that have guided us, the conceptual frameworks that have supported us, the racial justice tools that we have built and shared, and the transformative practices that have allowed us to support teachers of Color. Participants will be supported in imagining ways that they can design and curate a racial justice culture of possibility in their own spaces. Marcos Pizarro, California State University-Los Angeles; Rita Kohli, University of California-Riverside; Emily Dech, University of California-Riverside; Re’Nyqua Farrington, University of California-Riverside; Altagracia Montilla, A.M. Consulting | The 7 Space Art Gallery & Wellness Center; Danielle Mireles, University of Nevada-Las Vegas; Angelina Momanyi, University of Minnesota; and Saraswati Noel, University of Washington

2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #4

4.1. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Troubling Dialogue and Inquiry [Room A, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: Catherine Wong

Challenging Experiential Learning Facilitation for Inclusive Practices
Ryan Ozar, The College of Wooster
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

From Practitioner Inquiry to Collective Action: Reimagining the Public Life of Social Justice Scholarship
Marcos Viveros Cespedes, Independent Scholar
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Take a Hike: Unfiltered Dialogue for Those Blazing New Trails
Shirley Steinberg, University of Calgary, Canada
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

E Hana Kā Kākou: Talk Story as Co-Authored Liberation Women of Color Building a Commons Together
Catherine Wong, CW Consulting & The Institute for Recruitment of Teachers
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

4.2. Panel on Teacher Education in Repressive Contexts [Room C, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: Mayida Zaal

Bridging Worlds, Sustaining Futures: A Collective-in-Formation Resisting the Weaponization of Policy against Community-Rooted Teacher Education
Patricia D. López, California State University-Fresno; Robin Brandehoff, University of Colorado-Denver; and Mayida Zaal, Montclair State University
(10-12 minutes)

From Critical Friends to Collective Action: Building Relationships through Critical Language Pedagogy
Daniel Holden, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Alexandra Lee, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Graham Crookes, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Priscila Leal, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; and Nicole Ziegler, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa;
(20-22 minutes)

“It’s Part of My Purpose”: Found Poetry and the Collective Resistance of Women Teacher Educators of Color
Elyse Hambacher, University of Florida; and Jalea Turner, P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School
(10-12 minutes)

The Unwavering Racial Justice Commitments of Teacher Education Leaders of Color: Navigating the Layered Racial Climate of Teacher Education
Rita Kohli, University of California-Riverside; Uma Jayakumar, University of California-Riverside; Re'Nyqua Farrington, University of California-Riverside; and Markeshia Henry, University of California-Riverside
(20-22 minutes)

4.3. Panel on Education Beyond the School Walls [Room D, Wist Hall]

Session Moderator: Amber Strong Makaiau

Building Educational Ecosystems: A Community-Centered Framework for Educational Justice
Dayna Lewis-Jones, Eastern Michigan University & BlackCount; and Shannon Rochon, Eastern Michigan University & BlackCount
(10-12 minutes)

Puʻuhonua: Decarceral Education in Incarcerated Settings
Ardis Eschenberg, Windward Community College; Haunani Reed, Windward Community College; and Kahea Kim, Windward Community College
(10-12 minutes)

Show Them the Money!: A Discussion of the Economic Benefits of Restorative Justice and Ethical Practice
LisaMarie Miramontes, Fred Finch Youth & Family Services
(10-12 minutes)

Teaching Teacher-Leaders Social Justice Action Planning and Movement Building
Amber Strong Makaiau, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Chad Miller, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Monette Ines, Hawai‘i State Department of Education; Espie Chapman, Hawai‘i State Department of Education; Ally Bettencourt, Hawai‘i State Department of Education; Caitlin Gonzales, Hawai‘i State Department of Education; and Dwayne Sakaguchi Jr, Hawai‘i State Department of Education
(30-32 minutes)

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNINGS
[Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

All conference attendees are invited to our Reception to mingle and network. Refreshments will be provided.

This is the perfect time to purchase books and get them signed by the authors! Some of the books by presenters that will be on sale or on display include:

Collectives and the Commons: The Role of Educational Scholars in Movement Building for Justice, by Kevin Kumashiro; chapter by Colleen Rost-Banik, Waynele E. Yu, E. Brook Chapman de Sousa, Lois A. Yamauchi, and Jonathan Y. Okamura
A Federal Right to Education: Fundamental Questions for Our Democracy, by Kimberly Jenkins Robinson
Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts Classroom, chapter by Betina Hsieh
Civic Literacy in Schools and Communities: Teaching and Organizing for a Revitalized Democracy, by Brian Charest
Handbook of Critical Special Education: Research, Policy, and Practice, coedited by Amy L. Ferrell
Igniting Ink: 30-Day Writing Journey with Affirmations, Prompts, and Inspiration for Aspiring Women of Color Authors, co-conceived by Catherine Wong
Jack of All Trades, Master of All: Being Multi Gifted in a Singular Gifted Society, by Shannon Rochon
Making Student Voices Matter: Implementing Culturally Sustaining Literacy Practices in PreK-12 Classrooms, coedited by Brooke Ward Taira; chapter by Paul Dela Balazs and Rainbow Pharaon
Modern Jungles: A Hmong Refugee’s Childhood Story of Survival; One Blink: Transformation of an Ancient Culture; and Bamboo Son: A Hmong Refugee’s Search for Identity and the American Dream, by Pao Lor
Moments & Movements: Counterstories for Critical Asian American+ Studies in Education, coedited by Betina Hsieh; chapter by K. ‘Alohilani HN Okamura and Kirsten Mawyer
Remixed and Reimagined: Innovations in Religion, Spirituality, and (Inter)Faith in Higher Education, coedited by J.T. Snipes
Repertoires of Racial Resistance: Pedagogical Dreaming in Transborder Educational Spaces, chapter by Gerardo Mancilla
Systems Transformation for Equity in Education: Principles for Organizational Change, by Betina Hsieh
Against Common Sense 4th edition; Surrendered; and Bad Teacher!, by Kevin Kumashiro
And more!

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
FRIDAY PLENARY SESSION
[Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

Collectives and the Commons: The Role of Educational Scholars in Movement Building for Justice

Collectives and the Commons: Endless Examples!
Kevin K. Kumashiro, Conference Organizer

Educational Pipelines in Hawai‘i: School to Prison and to the University of Hawai‘i
Colleen Rost-Banik, Independent Researcher & HSESJD
Lois Yamauchi, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa & HSESJD
Brook Chapman de Sousa, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa & HSESJD
Waynele Yu, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa & HSESJD
Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa & HSESJD

5:00 p.m.
Optional Dinner Outings (on your own)

Conclude the first day by connecting with other conference attendees and making plans to enjoy dinner and reflect together on the presentations and conversations thus far. Ask one of our locals for dining and activity suggestions!

SATURDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER 2026

8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
REGISTRATION OPENS [Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

On Saturday only, the Registration Table, Book Sale, Art-Making Table, and Snacks & Beverages Counter will all be in the Multipurpose Building (cafeteria) of the University Laboratory School, 1776 University Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96822. The designated Quiet Area (for reflection, meditation, and rest) will be in the adjacent Band Room. Coffee, tea, and refreshments will be served in the morning. You are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle.

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
INTERACTIVE BREAKOUT SESSIONS

5.1. HSESJD Breakfast Meeting [Room A, University Lab School]

All conference attendees from Hawai‘i are invited and encouraged to join the Hawai‘i Scholars for Education, Social Justice and Diversity for this informal discussion about what research and advocacy is needed at this time and how you might get involved. If you know others in Hawai‘i who might be interested, please encourage them to come (no need to register for the conference to attend this session). Breakfast will be provided, so bring your appetite as well!

5.2. Workshop on Planting the Seeds of Liberation: A Living Practice of Ancestral Peace and Educator Wellness (Lessons from the ITOC Well-Being Collective) [Room B, University Lab School]

Educators committed to racial justice are increasingly caught in an untenable in-between space: between the world they envision and the world that currently exists. In response, the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice developed the Well-Being Collective, a virtual and in-person gathering space for educators of Color committed to justice across the nation. Through grounding rituals, relational dialogue, reflection activities, storytelling, and collective imagination, participants will experience a condensed version of the practices that shape the Well-Being Collective. Facilitators will share the origins, vision, and liberatory framework of the space, while members of the collective reflect on the personal and communal transformations that have emerged through participation. The session will conclude with participants imagining how they might cultivate their own “gardens” of collective care and liberation within schools, organizations, classrooms, and communities wherever they are located. (Open to all conference attendees.) Altagracia Montilla, A.M. Consulting | The 7 Space Art Gallery & Wellness Center; Érica González Jones, Puget Sound Educational Service District; Waynele Emi Yu, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; Marcos Pizarro, California State University-Los Angeles; and Rita Kohli, University of California-Riverside

5.3. Workshop on We’ve Been Here Before: Fighting Colonial Racism with Love (Again and Again) [Room C, University Lab School]

As tech companies and corporate interests colonize social reality, monetize connection, police thought, and drain the earth’s ecologies, education systems struggle to uplift the masses, much less heal children and adults from racialized capitalistic violence. Rather than succumb to hopelessness, this workshop returns to the very forces that overthrew colonial governments and created ethnic studies: Radical love, ancestral storytelling, and collaborative healing. This interactive workshop centers global Black-centric critical race theory approaches to re-vision what learning systems can look and feel like. Christopher B. Knaus, University of Washington-Tacoma; Martin P. Smith, Duke University; Velisiwe Gasa, University of South Africa; and Kenderick O. Wilson, Seattle Central Community College

10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
SATURDAY PLENARY SESSION
[Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

School Times for eUtopias: A Brief History of Leveraging Technologies Against Democracy
Keynote Address by Kevin Kumashiro

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #6

6.1. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Educator Collectives and Collective Action [Room A, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Amber Strong Makaiau

Onward: Black Women’s Collective Leadership for Educational Justice and Student Success
Arah M. Parker, Cal Poly Pomona
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Protectors of the Educational Commons: Black Teachers as Collective Actors, Public Intellectuals, and Movement Builders
Jasmine Hawkins-White, New York University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

“We’re Not Beholden to Them”: Ethnic Studies Teachers of Color Generative Refusal with and for District Institutionalized Racial Affinity Spaces
Emily Dech, University of California-Riverside; and Angelina Momanyi, University of Minnesota
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Hui Holomua: Nurturing Connection, Action, and Resilience among Hawaiʻi’s Social Justice Educators
Jingwoan Chang, Hawaiʻi State Department of Education; and Amber Strong Makaiau, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

6.2. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Diversity in Teacher Education [Room B, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Betina Hsieh

Hauntings that Complicate Progress: A Collective Struggle toward Linguistic Inclusion
B Waid, California State University-Fullerton; and Kira LeeKeenan, California State University-Fullerton
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

The Quiet Collective: Building a Rural Teacher Pipeline—But at What Cost?
Gennie VanBeek, Linfield University; and Carrie Kondor, Linfield University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Using Picture Books to Inspire and Ignite Social Justice and Ethical AI Use in Education
Melissa Zipper, University of Louisville, and Kathryn Rusnak, Purdue University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Building Humanizing Collectives in Teacher Education to Address Ongoing Anti-Blackness
Betina Hsieh, University of Washington; and Stacey Hardin, University of Washington
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

6.3. Panel on Educational Law, Policy, and Politics [Room C, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Kimberly Jenkins Robinson

Learning, Belonging, Complying: Analyzing Ideology in Arizona’s Restrictive Educational Language Policy
Katie Clones, Arizona State University
(10-12 minutes)

Linguistic Justice as Public Pedagogy: Celebrating Multilingualism in U.S. Education
Octavio Pimentel, Texas State University; and Charise Pimentel, Texas State University
(10-12 minutes)

Local Boards, National Agendas: Mapping Far-Right Networks in California Education
Huriya Jabbar, University of Southern California; and Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, University of San Francisco
(10-12 minutes)

Reconceptualizing In Lak’ech: CERF v. State of California and the Appropriation of Spiritual Learning
José Ortiz, SUNY Cortland; and Chelsea Stinson, Syracuse City School District
(10-12 minutes)

Shaping Safe Schools: Practical Tools for Preventing and Addressing Race-Based Harassment in K–12 Schools
Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Education Rights Institute, University of Virginia School of Law
(10-12 minutes)

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
SATURDAY LUNCH [Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

All conference attendees are invited to our Saturday Lunch! Vegan options will be available. You are welcome to bring a blanket or towel for a picnic on the lawn, and you are encouraged to bring a reusable water bottle.

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #7

7.1. HSESJD Roundtable #2 [Room A, University Lab School]

What I Find Important Too: Values of Secondary Mathematics Teachers in Hawai‘i
Roxanne Moore, Washington State University

Changing the Lens on Family Engagement in Hawaiʻi: Using Equitable and Indigenous Frameworks
J. Umiokalani Jensen, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa

From Invisible to Visible: Designing a Rigorous Evaluation of an Ethnomathematics Intervention for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students
Bocar Wane, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

7.2. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Secondary & Postsecondary Curriculum [Room B, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Elizabeth Healey Mainoo

Coupling Civic Engagement and Workforce Development for Democracy: Perspectives from Community College Leader Perspectives
Catherine Hartman, North Carolina State University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Curating Curriculum around Collective Memory and Artmaking in a Higher Education Classroom: Using First-Hand Accounts from Topaz Internment Camp and Intermountain Indian School as Curriculum and an Act of Resistance towards Legislative Limitations
Elizabeth Healey Mainoo, Utah Valley University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Designing and Implementing a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Project Between U.S. and Japanese High School Students
Yuka Chubachi, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Who Counts as an Institutional Agent? Student Advocacy and the Mobilization of Community Cultural Wealth
Daniela A Cortez Bravo, UCLA
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

7.3. Panel on Want to Build a Collective? Here are Innovative Models! [Room C, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Brooke Ward Taira

Justice Reboot 2.0: Building a Collective for Justice in Teacher Education
Frances Valdovinos, University of California-Riverside; Brenda Burgo, University of California-Riverside; and Mayeen Quader, University of California-Riverside
(10-12 minutes)

Building Collectives and a Commons Behind Prison Walls: Lessons from the Born to Run Program
Brian Charest, University of Redlands; Kashus Perona, Born to Run; Chris Koppi, Born to Run; Brenna Anne Shaw, Born to Run & Skid Row Running Club; and William Rodriguez, Born to Run
(20-22 minutes)

Culturally Sustaining Literacies in Hawai‘i
Brooke Ward Taira, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa; Paul Dela Balazs, Kaiser High School; Rainbow Pharaon, Manu ‘Iwa O Ka Malanai; and Summer Maunakea, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa
(20-22 minutes)

3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS #8

8.1. Roundtable (works in-progress) on Students of Color [Room A, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Demond Hill

Already Equipped: Reframing Educational Inquiry through Black Students’ Meaning-Making
Tomi Ingram, Eastern Michigan University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Building the Commons from Within: Civic Self-Efficacy and Collective Agency among Black Diasporic Graduate Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Sage D. Assiam, Florida International University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Pedagogy, Praxis, and Preparation: Examining K–12 Educators’ Support for Queer Transgender Students of Color
Denise Villarrial Nealon, San Diego State University & Claremont Graduate University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Discarded Feelings: Emotional Embodiment, Moral Beauty, and the Development of Self
Demond Hill, Tufts University
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

8.2. Panel on Indigenous and Decolonial Frameworks [Room D, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Veneice Guillory-Lacy

A Comparative Study of the Assimilative Education in Okinawa and Hawaiʻi: Toward Collective Action for Culture-Based Education Grounded in Educational Sovereignty to Promote Identity Self-Determination in Okinawa
Kazufumi Taira, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa
(10-12 minutes)

Cultivating Future Leaders Rooted in Indigeneity, Liberatory Relationality, and Juvenile Justice
Shiv R. Desai, University of New Mexico; Shawn L. Secatero, University of New Mexico; and Alejandro (Trae) Madrigal, University of Texas
(10-12 minutes)

Moves to Decoloniality: A Thematic Analysis of Three Humanitarian Aid Organizations
Deborah Randall, Waimea Canyon Middle School
(10-12 minutes)

Practicing Ea: Navigating Sustaining and Restraining Forces
Kirsten Mawyer, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa; and K. ʻAlohilani HN Okamura, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
(10-12 minutes)

“I Wouldn’t be in School if It Weren’t for NAISSC”: Native Student Reflections and the Co-Creation of the Native American and Indigenous Student Center at an MSI
Veneice Guillory-Lacy, San José State University; Soma de Bourbon, San José State University; Jodie Warren, San José State University; and Elisa Aquino, San José State University
(20-22 minutes)

8.3. Panel on Innovations in Curriculum [Room E, University Lab School]

Session Moderator: Mayida Zaal

Animating Marginalized Histories: Preparing Teachers to Rematerialize Counter Narratives through Arts and Technology
Mousumi De, University of Redlands
(10-12 minutes)

Building Musical Commons: Collective Learning with Justice-Involved Youth
Johanna Gamboa-Kroesen, UCLA
(10-12 minutes)

Juneteenth, Black Liberation, and Hawaiian Sovereignty: Scaling Public-Facing Scholarship through Cultural Intervention
Malia Luza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(10min presentation, with 8min feedback)

Ungrading in a Leadership Preparation Program: Collective Work for Healing, Wellbeing, and Learning Towards Liberation
Doron Zinger, California State University-Dominguez Hills; and Jaquelyn Hernandez, California State University-Dominguez Hills
(10-12 minutes)

When Visibility is Not Enough: Muslim Teachers and Liberatory Praxis
Mayida Zaal, Montclair State University
(10-12 minutes)

4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
POSTERS SESSION AND REFRESHMENTS
[Multipurpose Building, University Lab School]

Grab some refreshments and speak with presenters of the amazing posters and exhibits on display!

Act in This Moment: Expanding van Dijk through Maslow and Bronfenbrenner to Intervene in Children’s Digital Disparities
Rosy Razo, Fremont Unified School District

Black Birthing Experiences: Respectful Maternity Care with Doula Support
Zakeya A. Warner Hand, Touro University California

The Collective: A Love Letter to Black Futures
Davie Celeste Williams Yarborough, University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

Division by Design: How Settler Colonial Capitalism Creates and Reinforces Identity-Based Divisions to Undermine Collective Action and Liberation
Natalie J. Thoreson, rEVOLution

Ethnic Studies Death Pedagogy: A Conceptual Framework for Reframing Death Education as a Site of Cultural Affirmation, Historical Analysis, and Social Justice Praxis
Rogelio C. Petras, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

La Trenza Methodology: From Ancestral Roots to Ethnic Studies Futures
Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, California State University-Northridge; and Theresa Montaño, California State University-Northridge

The Missing Voice
Terra E. Webster, Eastern Michigan University

Planting Seeds: Using Digital Gardens for Community College Teacher Development & Activism
Virginia Schwarz, San Francisco State University; Andrea Serrano, San Francisco State University; and Sam Hyder, San Francisco State University

Reclaiming the Visual Commons: Collective Counter-Storytelling Against the Canon of Teaching
Kris Bell, San Diego State University

Restructuring from Within: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration for Belonging and Justice in Health Professions Graduate Education
Marcella C McCollum, San José State University; and Melisa Kaye, San José State University

Returning Home with a Mic and a Mirror: Leveraging Education Scholarship and Emotion with Christian Nationalist Audiences
Amy L. Ferrell, University of Colorado-Denver

Trauma-Informed Education, Collective Healing, and Second Chances
Tracy A. Hunt, Independent Scholar

What Hawaiʻi’s Students Deserve: ʻike Hawaiʻi as Educational Justice
Ululani Oana, Waiʻanae Intermediate School