Faculty Presentations
Over the past few months, NCE faculty have shared their expertise at conferences and events across local, national, and international stages. The following presentations highlight their contributions to advancing research, fostering collaboration, and shaping conversations in education.
- NCE faculty and partners presented research at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference in Los Angeles, California.
- Fostering Instructionally Focused Mentorship:Designing and Testing Mentoring Conversation Cards
Kavita Matsko (Northwestern University), Eun Kyung Ko, and Lisa Mozer - First-Year Teachers Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence: A Culturally Responsive Teaching Perspective
Eun Kyung Ko and Vishodana Thamotharan - Scaffolding AI Pedagogical Integration: Supporting Early Childhood Teacher Candidates in Culturally Responsive Teaching
Eun Kyung Ko, Xiaoning Chen. Vishodana Thamotharan, and Julie Sidarous - Implementing Critical Visual Literacy in Teacher Education to Promote Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices for All Students
Hyeju Han and Xiaoning Chen - John Dewey: From Industrialization to the Viral Era
Todd Price - The Pernicious Whiteness of Coloniality: Genealogizing to Locate the "Nowhere" of Global Curricula
Todd Price - Verbal Protocol Analysis for Investigating Online Multimodal Reading
Hyeju Han
- Fostering Instructionally Focused Mentorship:Designing and Testing Mentoring Conversation Cards
- Professor Xiaoli Wen participated in the international panel “Leading with Vision and Integrity: Transforming Early Childhood Education for a Sustainable Future” at the 2026 World Forum on Early Care and Education in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Professor Seema Imam co-chaired and presented preliminary findings from her study, “Muslim Women in Institutional Leadership of Islamic Schools,” at the Islamic Schools League of America’s Second Global Virtual Research Symposium.
- Associate Professor Gloria McDaniel-Hall presented on creating spaces of belonging and ensuring every student feels seen at Carthage College’s Celebration of Teachers 2026 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
- Associate Professor Leslie Katch presented “An I/ECMH Framework: Seven Foundational Practices for Building a Stronger Early Childhood Workforce” at the Annual Symposium for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (I/ECMH) Consultants in Naperville, Illinois.
- Associate Professor Julie Sidarous and Associate Professor Ben Lathrop presented preliminary findings from their research on NLU teacher candidates at TEACHx 2026 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
- Assistant Professor Matt Adams presented “Examining Elementary Pre-Service Teacher Learning of Science Content through Learning Progression-based Models” at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) 2026 Annual International Conference in Seattle, Washington.
- Associate Professor Leslie Katch presented “Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health: What Teachers and Leaders Need to Know” and Associate Professor Lee Tate presented “Leading and Learning Through SEL: Insights from Early Childhood Research to Strengthen Academic Achievement” at the Leadership Connections Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois.
- Associate Professor Dana Hagerman and Associate Professor Tracee Farmer presented “Oral Language Acquisition” at the 2026 Teacher Leader Institute in San Francisco, California. Dr. Farmer also presented “Recent Research in Reading Recovery: Improvement Science” at the 2026 Teacher Leader Institute in San Francisco, California.
