Presentations
"Building the culturally and academically relevant classroom library: how to organize, what to select, where to look." Presentation at the Annual Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Washington, DC., with Catapano, S., November 2009.
"Pre-Service Teachers’ Field Experiences in Urban Early Childhood Settings: Examining the Best Preparation, Practices and Programs that We Can Offer." Symposium of the NAECTE Urban Education Researchnet Group at the Annual Conference of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Washington, DC., with Catapano, S., November 2009.
" ‘Urbanizing’ Teacher Education Curricula to Prepare Community-Focused Teachers for City Schools." Symposium at the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA.,
April 2008.
"Engaging Beginning Teachers as Experts in Professional Development." Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA., April 2008.
"Innovative Strategies for Supporting and Retaining New Teachers in Hard-to-Staff Schools." Symposium at the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA., with Catapano, S., Slapac, A., & Huisman, S., April 2008.
“Seeing Double: Paired Observations to Improve Mentoring of Novice Teachers in High-Need Urban Schools.” Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Beginning Teacher Center (BTC), Boston, March 2007.
“Going where the greatest needs are: Gauging progress in urban teacher education by our impact on the hardest-to-staff schools.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, with Chou, V., & Radinsky, J., April 2006.
"Building teacher preparation relationships with schools: Going where schools need teachers most." Ed: data briefings on teacher preparation in Chicago area schools, 2(1), 1-4. Chicago: University of Illinois at Chicago, with Chou, V., Radinsky, J., Roarty, D., 2005.
"Building communities of practice for urban teacher preparation." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Department of Education, Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants Program, Phoenix, AZ, with Catapano, S., Reynolds, T., November 2004.