ITP Conference

Thursday, May 19th

8:20am Welcome and nametag pick up

Coffee and breakfast available on first floor of the Pyle Center in a lounge room

8:30am The Wisconsin Idea and ITP

Diana Hess, Dean, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education

Courtney Bell, Director, Wisconsin Center for Education Research

Eric Grodsky, ITP Deputy Director, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:05am Wise Interventions in Education

A Replicable Identity-Based Intervention Reduces the Black-White Suspension Gap at Scale

Geoffrey Borman, Professor, Arizona State University

Receptivity and Responsiveness in a Wise Belonging Intervention

Jayme Pyne, Research Associate, Stanford University

Striving to Create Wiser Interventions: Elevating Student Voices

Yoi Tibbets, Asst. Professor, University of Virginia

9:50am Break

Coffee and breakfast available on first floor of the Pyle Center in a lounge room

10:00am Engaging with Practice: the Research Practice Partnership

Dominique Bradley, Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Nick Mader, Researcher, Chapin Hall at U Chicago
Ruth Lopez Turley, Professor, Rice University, Director of Houston Education Research Consortium

Megan Shoji, Principal Researcher, Mathematica

11:15am Racial Segregation and Educational Inequality

Dilemmas of Egalitarian Reform in Segregated School Systems

Jeremy Fiel, Asst. Professor, Rice University

Segregation and Access to School Quality

Paul Hanselman, Asst. Professor, University of California-Irvine

12:00pm Lunch

Lunch is available in a main dining room

1:15pm Learning in Educational Contexts

Differential Nonlinear Relations of Language Proficiencies to Reading and Math Achievement in Spanish or English

Garret Hall, Asst. Professor, Florida State University

Evolution of an Interdisciplinary Approach to Supporting STEM Learning

Stacy Priniski, Research Associate, Michigan State University

Cognitive Reflection in Children's Science and Mathematics Learning

Andrew Young, Asst. Professor, Northeastern Illinois University

2:15pm Improving Higher Education

Are All Degrees Worth the Same? Exploring the Labor Market and Student Loan Outcomes of College Baccalaureate Graduates

Daniel Corral, Asst. Professor, University of Toronto

Horizontal Stratification among Graduate and Professional Degree

Noah Hirschl, Current Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Constructing Corequisites: Consequences of Dev-Ed Reform in Texas

Lauren Schudde, Assoc. Professor, University of Texas at Austin

3:00 Break

Mid-day refreshments are available on first floor of the Pyle Center in a lounge room

3:15pm The Present and Future of ITP

Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation

Geoffrey Borman, Professor, Arizona State University

Martha Alibali, Director, ITP

6pm Reception Dinner at the Fluno Center for current ITP fellows, ITP Alumni, and Speakers

Executive Dining Room, 601 University Ave, Madison, WI 53715

Cash bar opens 5:30pm

Plated dinner 6:00pm

Friday, May 20th

8:30am Networking Breakfast

9:30am Engaging with Policy through Advocacy and Evaluation

Rachel Feldman, Research Scientist, NORC

Michelle Robinson, Director of the Office of Health Equity, Wisconsin Department of Health Services 

Alyn Turner, Director of Quantitative Research, Research for Action
Jessa Valentine, Director of Research, Evaluation, and Analytics, DVP-PRAXIS

10:20am Break

Coffee and breakfast available in Conference Room 313

10:30am Engaging with Research from the Practice Side: What do we do well and what could we do even better

Kurt Kiefer, Former Asst. State Superintendent, Department of Public Instruction
Derek Kindle, Vice Provost of Enrollment Management, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brianne Monahan, Director of Institutional Research & Evaluation, Madison Metropolitan School District

11:15am Removing Barriers to Educational Success

Instructors as Meaning-Makers: Growth Mindset Messages that Support Stigmatized Students

Elizabeth Canning, Asst. Professor, Washington State University

Educational Consequences of Sibling’s Disability

Amanda Gaulke, Asst. Professor, Kansas State University

The Role of Parents in Promoting STEM Motivation and Persistence

Chris Rozek, Asst. Professor, Washington University at St. Louis

12pm Lunch in Conference Room 313

12:15 Research, Practice, and Educational Equity: Where Do We Go from Here?

Adam Gamoran, President, William T. Grant Foundation