Schedule at a Glance
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Academic Festival Registration & Check-in, Zankel Building – Main Hall
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast, Everett Lounge
10:00 – 11:15 a.m. Academic Festival Opening Ceremony, Joyce B. Cowin Auditorium
Keynote Address by Cynthia Bissett Germanotta, President & Co-Founder, Born This Way Foundation
11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions I
* Beyond the Seven Vectors with Arthur Chickering, Horace Mann 140
* Dancing Your Way to Mobility: Integrating Dance & Rehabilitation in Parkinson’s Disease, Grace Dodge 285
* Gender Bias in the Workplace: Obstacles to Career Progress, Macy 130
* New Media and Social Change, Grace Dodge 277
* Scaling the Wall of Education Inequity: Cases from China, Grace Dodge 279
* Witness to History: Rolling Out Brazil’s Common Core, Grace Dodge 179
* WeBop!, Horace Mann 519
12:30 – 2:30 p.m. Distinguished Alumni Awards Luncheon, Grace Dodge Dining Hall
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions II
* ARAD Presents Global Perspectives from a Career in Arts Administration, Horace Mann 431
* Educating a Generation of Environmentalists, Horace Mann 138
* From Home Room to Schoolhouse, Horace Mann 433
* Living on the Margins: Risk and Resiliency within LGBTQ Populations, Horace Mann 438
* New Frontiers in Healing, Horace Mann 140
* Reimagining Education: Teaching And Learning In Racially Diverse Schools, Thompson 136
3:45 – 5:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III
* One Drop of Love, Milbank Chapel
* Social Justice In Practice, Grace Dodge 179
* Teaching for the 21st Century, Grace Dodge 277
* The Opt-Out Movement, Grace Dodge 281
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Closing Networking Reception and Student Research Poster Session
Concurrent Sessions I
Beyond the Seven Vectors with Arthur Chickering
Arthur Chickering's Seven Vectors theory was created to examine the identity development process of students in higher education, laying the foundation for many Student Affairs programs. Join us to hear more insights about how the theory was shaped, in addition to how the concept has been revisited over the years and also how it holds up on today's campuses.
Speakers:
Arthur Chickering (Ph.D. ’58), Inventor Seven Vectors Theory and Founding Vice President, Academic Affairs, SUNY-Empire State College
Noah Drezner, Associate Professor, Director of the Higher & Postsecondary Education Program, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dancing Your Way to Mobility: Integrating Dance and Rehabilitation in Parkinson's Disease
This session will give an overview of integrating dance interventions into current rehabilitation protocols designed to provide opportunities for movement for people with Parkinson's disease. The panel will overview the work being conducted in the Neurorehabilitation Research lab, in collaboration with Mark Morris Dance Group and Washington University St. Louis, on a new dance program for people with Parkinson's disease. The panel will further discuss current research in promoting physical activity and exercise for people with Parkinson's disease including use of wearable technologies to monitor and facilitate movement.
Speakers:
David Leventhal, Program Director, Dance for PD
Lori Quinn (Ed.D. ’96), Associate Professor of Movement Science and Kinesiology, Director, Neurorehabilitation Research Lab, Teachers College, Columbia University
Gregory Youdan, TC Master's candidate, Biobehavioral Sciences
Gender Bias in the Workplace: Obstacles to Career Progress
This talk will provide an overview of Dr. Madeline Heilman's research concerning the effects of gender stereotypes on women’s career progress. She will discuss the nature of gender stereotypes and the processes that result in their detrimental effects. Research about both descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes will be discussed. Central to the discussion, Dr. Heilman will explore the question of why being competent and qualified provides a woman no assurance that she will advance to the same organizational level as an equivalently competent and qualified man.
Speakers:
Caryn Block, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Madeline Heilman (Ph.D. '72), Professor of Psychology, New York University
New Media and Social Change
A panel of faculty and students representing the Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab) at Teachers College will discuss some of the ways in which new forms of representation, knowledge and connectivity are shaping current conversations around social change. What is the role of media in facilitating broader and more meaningful participation, and what are some of the opportunities and challenges involved?
Speakers:
Caroline DeVoe, TC Master's Candidate
Kyle Matthew Oliver, TC Doctoral Candidate
Joe Riina-Ferrie, TC Doctoral Candidate
Ioana Literat, Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Lalitha Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University
Scaling the Wall of Education Inequity: Cases from China
This session will explore issues related to education equity in China from distinctive yet related angles. Drawing on case studies and field experience in China, panelists will delve deeper into concerns of equity issues in China’s current international education programs, a thriving field with rapid changes, as well as exploring how social and economic factors influence occupational choice and teacher labor quality in China. While examining different perspectives, the panelists will address one of the ultimate concerns of education equity in China and U.S., i.e., how to make high quality education accessible to all students.
Speakers:
Henan Cheng (Ed.D. '10), Associate Director, Center on Chinese Education at Columbia University; Adjunct Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ji Liu, TC Doctoral Candidate
Shenzhan Liao (M.Ed. '04), Director of Education and Dean of Confucius Institute, China Institute
Vivian (Chen) Zhao, TC Master's Candidate, President, Future China Initiative
Witness to History: Rolling Out Brazil's Common Core
This esteemed panel will discuss Brazil's learning standards, which are being constructed almost 30 years after they've been set out by the country's constitution. The standards should become a backbone for Brazil's educational system, as they will promote the alignment between what skills and competences students are expected to develop and key elements such as teacher training, textbooks and assessments. The standards will especially take aim at overcoming educational inequality - where, for instance, 9 out of 10 students leave high school without the proper knowledge of math.
Speakers:
Vera Cabral, Visiting Scholar, Lemann Foundation
Susan H. Fuhrman (Ph.D. ’77), President, Teachers College, Columbia University
A. Lin Goodwin (Ed.D. ’87), Vice Dean and Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Leticia Lyle (M.A. ’11), Director of Curriculum and Teacher Development, Somos Educação; Founder: Instituto Vila Educação; Mindset Education; and AfterSchool Educação
Alice Andrés Ribeiro, Executive Secretary, Movimento Pela Base Nacional Comum
WeBop!
Webop! is an early-childhood jazz education program for children, ages 8 months to 5 years, and their parents/caregivers, which was co-created at Jazz at Lincoln Center by Dr. Lori Custodero, Associate Professor of Music Education at Teachers College. Learn about jazz instruments and improvisation and the creative process of great performers, and have fun, too. This session provides a creative outlet for parents and children to explore jazz and express themselves together.
Speakers:
Patrice Turner (Ed.D. '09)
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Concurrent Sessions II
ARAD presents Global Perspectives from a Career in Arts Administration
ARAD graduates work in diverse arts organizations around the globe, including opera and dance companies, auction houses, advocacy organizations, government ministries, community arts organizations, galleries and museums. They work in fundraising and development, marketing, education, programming, and in executive and operations roles. Learn more about how each panelist has put his or her ARAD foundation to work to promote and support the arts.
Moderator: Kelly Olshan, TC Master's Candidate
Speakers: Donald Borror (M.A. '15), Executive Director, Dorrance Dance
Christina Daniels (M.A. '16), Marketing and Development Associate, Pioneer Works
Daniel Gallant (M.A. '04), Executive Director, Nuyorican Poets Café
Annmarie Zito (M.A. '16), Membership Coordinator, Events & Engagement at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Educating a Generation of Environmentalists
What is the role of schools of education in the face of global environmental challenges? The panel will examine the work of TC faculty, students and alumni to promote Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE). Specifically, the panel will present the work of the TC Working Group on ESE, which brings together faculty from across the College representative of TC’s three primary domains: education, health and psychology. We define ESE as work that is focused on the interactions between environmental, social, health and economic issues that together promote the long-term health of complex living systems. Members of the Working Group lead research projects, curriculum development and public engagement with community-based organizations and governmental agencies.
Speakers:
Meredith Hill (M.Ed. '15), Assistant Principal from Columbia Secondary School
Pamela Koch (Ed.D. ’00), Executive Director, Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy Teachers College
Jessie Ostrow (M.Ed. ’13), Assistant Director, Teachers College, Columbia University
Sonali Rajan (Ed.D. ’10), Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Olivia Tandon TC Master's Candidate, Green Senator, TC Student Senate
From Home Room to Schoolhouse
We’re all teachers and lifelong learners. As our children’s first teachers we are facilitating their early development in our everyday decisions and the environments in which we live. Yet, have we been mindful in creating our home environment, is it an ideal place to learn, explore and stretch possibilities? Just as schools, museums and libraries do, we can create optimal learning spaces that speak to our children’s development and maximize their creative potential. This session is proudly presented as part of the Teachers College Smarter Parenting and Grandparenting Series 2017. For more information about our final event of the year or to hear past sessions go to bit.ly/TCParentingSeriesSpr2017.
Speaker:
Karen Aronian (Ed.D. '15), Aronian Education Design LLC
Living on the Margins: Risk and Resiliency within LGBTQ Populations
Chaired by TC professor, Riddhi Sandil, Co-founder of the Sexuality, Women and Gender Project, this panel will showcase projects and research initiatives aimed at improving the lives of LGTBQ individuals and their families. From the viewpoints of both researcher and practitioner, the panelists will explore the intersectionality of the various bodies of research that range from issues related to stigma and mental health, bullying and curriculum, and across settings from K-12 and higher education settings to the not for profit arena.
Speakers:
Michael Palmieri (M.A. ’16), TC Doctoral Candidate, Writer, Producer, Consultant
Gregory Payton (Ph.D. ’09), Lecturer, Teachers College, Columbia University
Thomas Rock (Ed.D. ’02), Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Teachers College, Columbia University
Riddhi Sandil, Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Sandra Schmidt, Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
New Frontiers in Healing
The Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI) explores the intersection of science and spirituality through the framework of psychology, creating a new archetype for learning and teaching. Learn more about how the institute has been fostering true self-exploration to build an international community of inspiring thought leaders, mind-body healers, spiritual activists and visionaries. Hear how the pioneering work done by SMBI in this emerging field of universal spirituality has focused on creating evidence-based science that examines the effects of spirituality across the lifespan, including spirituality as a protective factor against mental illness, a source of resilience in cultivating relationships and as a gateway to personal fulfillment.
Speakers: Sarah Sherman (M.A. ’09), Director, Summer Intensive Master's Degree Program, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University
Clayton McClintock (M.S. '16), Instructor, Spirituality Mind Body Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University
Peri Zarrella, TC Master's Candidate
Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools
As our public schools become increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, educators need to reimagine teaching and learning to assure all students reap the multiple educational benefits of this diversity. In 2016 TC launched the Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools Summer Institute - a four day professional development experience and opportunity to connect with people across the country who are committed to sustaining racially, ethnically and socio-economically integrated schools and classrooms. Learn more about how this cross disciplinary program came to be and hear more from the participants about the outcomes and plans for the future.
Speakers:
Amy Stuart Wells (Ph.D. '92), Director of the Reimagining Education Summer Institute, Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Michelle G. Knight-Manuel, Associate Dean and Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ann LoBue, TC Master's Candidate, 2016 & 2017 Institute Coordinator, Reimagining Education: Teaching and Learning in Racially Diverse Schools, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ernest Morrell, Professor & Director Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Melissa Moskowitz, (M.S. ‘04), Assistant Principal, University Neighborhood Middle School, 2016 Reimagining Education Institute Workshop Leader
Juontel White, TC Doctoral Candidate, 2016 Reimagining Education Institute Participant
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Concurrent Sessions III
One Drop of Love
An award-winning actor, producer and educator, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni (M.A. ’97), is currently touring the one-woman show she wrote and performs in: One Drop of Love. One Drop travels near and far, in the past and present to explore racism, family, love and a path towards reconciliation. The show is produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Cox DiGiovanni.
Speaker:
Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni (M.A. ’97)
Social Justice in Practice
The Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice were created in 2005 by the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) to symbolize Deutsch’s incredible legacy as an eminent social psychologist and to honor a distinguished scholar-practitioner in the field of social justice and an exemplary student paper on social justice. This year’s recipient, Professor Derald Wing Sue, will be recognized for his influential research in the field of microaggressions. Sue, who almost single-handedly made “microaggressions” a lay term, will present his work that underscores how these unintended slights toward people of color, gay and transgender people and women are often more harmful than overt racism and hate crimes. A student presentation will also take place.
Morton Deutsch Awards for Social Justice Recipients:
Derald Wing Sue, Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Hadia A. Sheerazi, CU Master’s Candidate
Speakers:
Susan H. Fuhrman (Ph.D. ‘77), President, Teachers College, Columbia University
Peter Coleman (Ph.D. ’98), Director, MD-ICCCR, Teachers College, Columbia University
Danielle Coon, Associate Director, MD-ICCCR, Teachers College, Columbia University
Laura Smith, Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Kevin Nadal (Ph.D. ’09), Executive Director, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the Graduate Center CUNY
David Rivera (Ph.D. '13), Associate Professor, Queens College-CUNY
Teaching for the 21st Century
In this interactive workshop, Teachers College's Center for the Professional Education of Teachers (CPET) facilitators will provide an overview of the need for a 21st Century pedagogy and present an instructional framework that teachers of all levels can use as a lens to develop their curriculum, units and lessons. Participants in the workshop will work in small groups to investigate components of the framework. They will consider ways that current assessments or projects can evolve to incorporate additional concepts and skills. Participants will explore current assessment examples, analyze them using the framework and design their own assessment aligned with 21st Century skills.
Speakers:
Roberta Kang (Ed.D. '15), Initiative Director, The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers
Brian Veprek, TC Master's Candidate, NTN@TC Senior PD Coach
The Opt-Out Movement
In the past two academic years, 20% of students in New York State did not take the federal mandated standardized tests. The Opt-Out movement, as it is called by activists, is challenging the current direction of policy reform movement. This panel comprised of TC Policy faculty, alumni and students who have all played active roles on the front lines of the movement will share their personal experiences and research findings.
Moderator: Aaron Pallas, Aurthur I. Gates Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Speakers: Carol Burris (Ed.D. ’03), Executive Director, the Network for Public Education and NPE Action
Nancy Green-Saraisky (Ph.D. ’15), Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Eric Shieh (M.Ed. ’10), Teacher, Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School
Julia Zuckerman (Ed.D. ’01), Principal, Castle Bridge School
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