When: March 7, 2025 8:45 am – 5:00 pm CT
Where: Education Building, WI Idea Room 159, 1000 Bascom Mall, Madison, WI 53706
Program Fee: Free; pre-registration required
Link to the Google Form- 2025 EPS Conference Registration Form (google.com)
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Conference Description
Education for Every Generation stems from the Seventh Generation cultural value of the Indigenous philosophy of the Haudenosaunee Tribe ([h-oh-D-EE-n-oh-SH-oh- n-ee]). This keeps in mind the next seven generations to guide our decisions and actions today, inspiring us to ask questions such as: How are we guided by those who came before us? How do our actions impact those to come? What can education look like for every generation?
The 2025 EPS Conference pushes us to traverse across space and time and to consider what it means to be educators, scholars, and advocates for generations to come. In a time of conflict, with grandparents, parents, children, and grandchildren facing violence all over the world, we hold the responsibility to deeply reflect on the following questions: How do we map a better future for the generations to come? How do we think about alternative educational opportunities amid complex times? How do we consider what we are borrowing from future generations?
This year’s conference brings together a wide variety of voices and scholarship with several keynote panels, speakers, and breakout sessions, including:
1) Indigenous advocates and educators who will illuminate the efforts of language revitalization and the importance of behaving as elders-in-training
2) International voices who will help us only scratch the surface of what it means to navigate moments of conflict
3) Art and Education and Policy in Practice presenters who will help us dream of what is possible
Conference Highlights
The conference will feature Indigenous Language Advocates, EPS faculty, alumni, and student keynote speakers.
Language Revitalization: A Pathway for Self-Determination
Kahōkū Lindsey-Asing, Mailelani Nāmauʻu, Jessi Falcon, and Samson Falcon
WCER Panel
Dr. Annalee Good, Dr. Latoya Holiday, & Lavenia Vulpal
EPS Panel
Dr. Adam Nelson, Dr. Elena Ayadarova, & Dr. Erica Turner
Schedule
8:15-8:45 a.m. Registration
Tea and coffee provided
8:45-9:00 a.m. Conference Welcome, 159 Wisconsin Idea Room
9:00-10:00 a.m. Keynote Presentation – Language Revitalization: A Pathway for Self-Determination
Kahōkū Lindsey Asing, Dawnserly Ann Mailelani Nāmauʻu, Jessi Falcon and Samson Falcon
Moderator: Laura Red Eagle
10:00-10:15 a.m. BREAK
10:15-11:15 a.m. Breakout Sessions A
Thought Partnerships Session- Voices of Resistance: Intersecting Identities in Equity and Inclusion
- When They Come for Us, Who all gon be There?
Courtney Parker West - Transformational Policy Centering our Very Young and Most Marginalized Children
Kristen Witzling - Unveiling exclusion: Utilizing critical discourse analysis to understand the role of discretion in disciplinary practices
Ann L. Perepezko
Thought Partnerships Session- Educational and Social Environment: Relationships and Possibilities
- Policy Initiatives in Changing Post-COVID-19 Climates Advanced to Improve the Culture in Education
Gabriel De Los Reyes - Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Multicultural Competence in Nigeria
Charity Okpara
Paper Session – Education and Citizenship: Times of Conflict and Transition
- Fostering democratic citizenship through diverse perspectives: A critical content analysis of secondary social studies lessons on Iraqi refugees
Priyanka Subramanian - Navigating Democratic Ideals Amidst Political Polarization: A Study of Colombian Teachers
Lina Rangel - From being ‘at risk’ or to being ‘a risk’ to others: disciplinary procedures surrounding the drug market in urban schools
Zaira Magana
Paper Session – Voice Matters: Centering Race and Youth
- A Different Kind of Backlash: Race-Evasive Efforts to Undermine Restorative Practices
Emily O. Miller - Black Girls Matter: Combatting Hyper in-visibility in K-12 Schools
Angelica Euseary - Queer Youth and Legislative Erasure: Navigating Identity in the Shadow of Anti-Trans Athletic Policies
Benjamin Lebovitz
Paper Session – Empowering Voices: Transformation through Multilingual and Racial Literacy Education
- Asian Male Teachers of Color & Racial Literacy Development: A counterstory centering the NYC Men Teach Asian American initiative
Tony DelaRosa - Multilingual and Critical Intercultural Education
Leidy Catalina Jaramillo Cárdenas - Language of instruction in schools in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review
Yasmina Haddad
11:15-11:30 a.m. BREAK
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. WCER Panel
Dr. Annalee Good, Dr. Latoya Holiday, Lavenia Vulpal
12:30-1:15 p.m. Lunch
1:20-2:20 p.m. Keynote Presentation- History In Education: the humanities, the academy, and Hōlualoa
Dr. Derek Taira
2:20-2:30 p.m. BREAK
2:30-3:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions B
Paper Session- Unveiling Higher Education Realms: Perspectives on Identity, Access, and Evolution
- Critical Construction of Space: lenses of gender and race in higher education
Elijah Lin - Striving for Eliteness: African Immigrant Youth and College-Going
Lisa Oyolu - The Rise and Fall of Liberal Arts Education in Russia
Max Yakubovskiy
Thought Partnerships Session – Transforming Education: Global Strategies and Innovations Post-Pandemic
- An Empirical Investigation into the Impact of University Support Services on the Academic Experiences of International Students – A Case Study Analysis
Weijun Wang - The Path of Transformational Development of Regional Newly Established Undergraduate Colleges and Universities in China
Fei Gao - The Role Transformation of Universities in Cultivating Top Innovative Talent
Qiong Yang
Paper Session – Ways to Teach, Ways to Lead: School Reform in the International Context
- School Leadership in Multi-Grade Schools in the Global South: Understanding Teachers’ Perspectives in Rural Peru
Micaela Wensjoe - Distributed Leadership Practices According to the Comprehensive Assessment of Leadership for Learning (CALL) in Taiwan’s Public Elementary Schools
Yi-jung Wu - Gendered Math Attitudes in Latin America: Exploring the Role of ICTs
Carla Z. Glave
Paper Session – Advocacy, Policy and Social Transformation: Stories from Past and Present
- The Educational Application of Organism Metaphor (1890-1920s)
Lanhui Wang - Contemplations about the intellectual function of the policy analyst
Batuhan Aydagul - The Battle over the Braille Presumption in the IDEA
Justin Mark Hideaki Salisbury
Panel Session – How to Remodel the Majority: Listening to the Invisible Race
Chundou Her, Priyanka Subramanian, Amelia Catacutan, Lily Varilla
Panel Session – How and Why to Include Philosophy in Your Education Classes
Anna Nelson, Teresa Nelson, Genesis Liriano-Terrero, Harry Brighouse, Carrie Welsh
Panel Session – Education Transformation: Beyond the Global North Perspective
- Taiwan: Top Performer? Recent Reform in Taiwanese Educational Context
Ting-Ya Chen - Vietnam Higher Education System Overview
Thao Pham - Understanding Turkish Education System within Neoliberal and Neoconservative Frameworks
Aydın Kaan Şenel
3:30-3:45 p.m. BREAK
3:45-4:45 p.m. Keynote: EPS Faculty Panel
- Machine Learning, Then and Now
Dr. Adam Nelson - Caught in a Story: Science of Reading Advocacy and the Educational Reform Movement
Dr. Elena Aydarova - Beyond documenting disparities: Critical policy analysis as a lens on the school-prison nexus
Dr. Erica Turner
4:45-4:50 p.m. Closing Remarks
Dr. Taylor Odle
2024 EPS Conference Committee
Makamae Sniffen, Max Yakubovskiy, Mya Halvorson, Pamela Reyes Galgani, Pushpamitra Das, Zaira Magana Carbajal
2024 EPS Co-sponsors
This event is hosted by the UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies and the Office of Professional Learning and Community Education (PLACE). This partnership was made possible by the generosity of the School of Education Dean’s Office.
Additional co-sponsors include:
University Lecturer Funds, IRIS NRC, Centre for South Asia, and Teacher Education Center