RADICAL DREAMING: RECLAIMING THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION
Submissions are open for the 2026 BSE Research Day! This year’s theme is Radical Dreaming: Reclaiming the Future of Education. This year’s programming will include our keynote speaker, paper and poster presentations, and more.
Registration for this event has closed.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
| 9:00AM 1st Floor Lobby | Registration Check In Light Breakfast & Refreshments |
| 10:00 AM Room 1102 | Welcome Address Dr. Michelle Young, BSE Dean and Professor |
| 10:15 AM Room 1102 | Keynote Session Teaching To Transgress… The Algorithm: Resisting, Revising and Reimagining Anti-Black AI Systems in Education Dr. Tiera Tanksley, Research Fellow in Education & Critical Technology Studies |
| 12:00-12:55 PM 4th Floor Lobby | Lunch Lunch and beverages will be served at the 4th Floor Lobby. |
| 1:05-2:00 PM Various Rooms | Paper Presentations – Session I Dreaming Whole-Child Learning: SEL & Human Development – Room 1206 Dreaming Systems that Support Student Thriving – Room 1207 Dreaming Critical Classrooms: Justice, Language & Learning – Room 1211 Dreaming Education, Power & Political Context – Room 1214 |
| 2:05-3:00 PM Various Rooms | Paper Presentations – Session II Dreaming Leaders for Equity – Room 1206 Dreaming New Pathways for Learning and Belonging – Room 1207 Dreaming Undocumented Students & Institutional Barriers -Room 1211 Dreaming Leadership, Gender & Inclusion – Room 1214 Dreaming Institutions, Exclusion, & Community Voice – Room 4101 |
| 3:00-4:00 PM 4th Floor Lobby | Poster Presentations & Reception Closing Remarks will be made at 3:45pm. The conference will conclude at 4:00pm. |
Please see the program for the list of presenters, abstracts, and moderators.
THIS YEAR’S KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Tiera Tanksley, UC Los Angeles
Dr. Tiera Tanksley’s scholarship, which theorizes a critical race technology theory (CRTT) in education, extends conventional education research to include socio-technical and techno-structural analyses of artificially intelligent (AI) technologies. Her research examines anti-Blackness as “the default setting” of AI and examines the socio-emotional, mental health and educational consequences of algorithmic racism in the lives and schooling experiences of Black youth. Her work simultaneously recognizes Black youth as digital activists and civic agitators, and examines the complex ways they subvert, resist and rewrite racially biased technologies to produce more just and joyous digital experiences for Communities of Color across the diaspora.
via https://www.tieratanksley.com/
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