Time

Event

2:00 p.m.

Check-In Begins at Bader Hall

4:00 p.m.

Opening Session with S-STEP Luminaries Tom Russell, Linda Fitzgerald, & Stefinee Pinnegar

in the Castle Conference Room

5:30-7:00 p.m.

BBQ & Brews in the Castle Courtyard  

Barbeque Menu

Grilled Chicken with Spiced Pineapple Salsa  

Chipotle Prawn and Pepper Skewers

Halloumi & Zucchini Skewers (v)

Sides: BBQ Sweet Potatoes with Chickpeas and Tahini (v)  

Salads : Potato Salad with Lemon Crème Fraiche Mayo (v)

Vine Ripened Tomato, Red Onion and Basil (v)

All Served with a selection of breads, relishes and sauces

Desert

7:00 p.m.- Pub Closes

Methodological Discussions in the Castle Pub

Monday, August 7

Time

Dacre Room

Seminar Room 1

Conference Room

Boardroom

Film Room

7:30-9:00 a.m. 

Breakfast

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Alyson Lischka, Natasha Gerstenschlager and Jennifer Webster: Interrogating Grading Practices in Mathematics Methods: Creating Threshold Opportunities for Examining Institutional Norms

Tanya Manning-Lewis and Kerry Robertson: Liberating Our Anti-racist Selves: A Collaborative Self-Study

Elizabeth Y. Stevens, Kristen L. White, Tess M. Dussling, Nance S. Wilson, Amy Tondreau, Wendy Gardiner, Tierney B. Hinman and Sophie Degener: Collaboratively Cultivating Critical Racial Literacy Practices for Teacher Education

Charlotte Frambaugh-Kritzer and Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle: Making the Familiar Strange Again: Pausing to Re-evaluate How Self-Study Scholars Describe Their Critical Friendships

Laura Haniford and Rebecca Sanchez: From Tourist Teachers to Place Rooted Educators: Road Blocks on the Journey

10:00-10:50 a.m.

Kevin Patton, Maura Coulter and Chris North: Navigating the Thresholds and Crossing Boundaries Into Academic Leadership

Tammy Mills, Rebecca Buchanan and Kevin Roberge: Ungrading: A Collaborative Self-Study Into the Intersection of Vulnerability and Assessment Practices

Kathie MacKay, Cecilia Pincock, Shelby Forsyth, Mina Money, Miriam Richards, Eliza Pinnegar and Stefinee Pinnegar: Experience as a Clinical Faculty Associate Shifting Teacher and Teacher Educator Identity:

Jason Pearson and Michael Richardson: Something Happened: Exploring Student Religious Experiences Through the Eyes of Their Teacher

Melanie Shoffner: Pedagogical Care: Considerations of COVID and Care in Middle Grades ELA Methods Instruction

11:00-11:20 a.m.

Tea and Coffee Elizabethan Room

11:30-12:20 p.m.

Elizabeth Stolle, Katarina Blennow and Martin Malmström: New Understandings of Liminality: Pausing at the Threshold of Action

Tanya van der Walt and Tamar Meskin: Dancing With Others: Exploring Critical Friendship As Creative Collaboration

Valerie Allison, Laura Haniford, Pamela Powell, Christi Edge, Carol Moriarty and Laurie Ramirez: Learning About Self Through a Multi-Institution Inquiry Into New Teacher Preparedness Post-COVID

Barbara McNeil Vulnerability, Ontological, and Epistemological Assault

Confronting Award-Winning Children's Literature

Melva Grant and Signe Kastberg: Critical Friend Intimacy and Individual Transformations

12:30-1:50 p.m.

Lunch

2:00-2:50 p.m.

Eve Zehavi, Diane Miller and Laura Link: Three Thresholds in a Single Crossing: Harnessing New Alliances Within a Critical Friendship

Shaun Murphy, Trudy Cardinal, Janice Huber and Stefinee Pinnegar: A Course That Explores Indigenous Perspectives of Assessment

Alicia Crowe: Navigating Leadership With an Eye Toward Equity: Understanding My Practice and Experience As an Educational Administrator

Brandon Butler and Diane Yendol-Hoppey: Trials and Tribulations of Transitioning Into Leadership: A Self-Study of Teacher Education Leadership

Ronny Johansen, Siv Svendsen, Bjarne Isaksen and Janne Madsen: “It Is a Bit Like Cooperating As Teachers”: Group Supervision of Master’s Theses in Teacher Education

3:00-3:50 p.m.

Margaret Mnayer & Pamela Schmidt: Threshold Inertia: Fearful to Move Without Redefining Pedagogy and Elucidating Praxis

Amy Staples and Deborah Tidwell: Me Versus We: A Self-Study On The Power Of Collaboration In Analyzing Data

Edda Óskarsdóttir and Megumi Nishida: Living Up to Expectations: Learning to Be Critical Friends in Foreign Contexts

Ian Matheson and Tom Russell: In Pursuit of Quality Teaching and Learning: Self-study of an Online Teaching Experience

Signe Kastberg, Lizhen Chen, Mahtob Aqazade and Sue Ellen Richardson: Voices in Debriefing Mathematics Methods Teaching

4:00-4:20 p.m.

Tea and Coffee Elizabethan Room

4:30-5:20 p.m.

Jane Cooper, Christine Beaudry and Leslie M Gauna: Listening Pedagogies : Teacher Silence as the Threshold to Responsive Teaching

Candy Jones and Alysha Farrell: Parallel Performance: Constructing Identities in a New Teacher Education Program

Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir and Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir: Discovering the Value of Ticket Out of Class As Critical Reflection and Formative Assessment: Self-Study in Teacher Education

Kristina Doubet: Implementing Standards-Based Grading in the University Classroom: Do My Practices Align With My Professed Beliefs About Assessment?

Elaine Marhefka: Developing a sense of belonging in spaces for community curricular collaboration: A self-study of indigenizing and localizing

5:30-7:00 p.m.

Dinner

7:00 p.m.- Pub Closes

Methodological Discussions in the Castle Pub

Time

Dacre Room

Seminar Room 1

Conference Room

Boardroom

Film Room

7:30-9:00 a.m. 

Breakfast

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Candy Jones: Rural Experience and Its Impact on the Identities and Practice(s) of Teachers/Teacher Educators

Alyson Lischka, Signe Kastberg and Susan Hillman: Articulating a Pedagogy of Discussion

Alan Ovens, Rod Philpot and Blake Bennett: Teaching As Orchestration: A Self-Study of Adapting to Forced Change

Rodrigo Fuentealba and Tom Russell: “Listen Before You Push”: A Dean’s Self-Study of Leadership and Critical Friendship

10:00-10:50 a.m.

Gayle A. Curtis, Michaelann Kelley, Cheryl J. Craig and Annette Easley: Looking Into the Rear-View Mirror While Moving Forward: Drawing on Past Collaborative Experiences to Inform Present Practice

Jeff Spanke and Devon Lejman: “Buoys in the Sea”: A Collaborative Self-Study of Teaching as a Sacred Practice

Inbanathan Naicker, Daisy Pillay and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan: Revisiting collaborative editorial initiatives to learn more about our academic motivations: A collective poetic self-study

Tanya van der Walt: Who Is the ‘I’ in All of This? Learning About My Self Through Self-Study

11:00-11:20 a.m.

Tea and Coffee Elizabethan Room

11:30-12:20 p.m.

Gretchen Whitman: Pedagogy in Progress: Self-study of a Novice Teacher Educator

Dawn Garbett, Rena Heap, Linda Fitzgerald and Ronnie Davey: What Advice Would We Give Ourselves on the Threshold of a VUCA Environment? An International Collaborative Memory-work Project

Julian Kitchen: Enacting a Relational Approach As an Editor: A Self-Study

Laura Haniford, Valerie Allison and Laurie Ramirez: Building and Modeling Warm Demander Teaching Identities

12:30-1:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:30-5:00 p.m.

Optional Bus Tour to Seven Sisters (please meet outside the Castle with

everything you need for the afternoon for a prompt departure)

or Afternoon Contemplation, Collaboration, and Reflection

5:30-8:00 p.m.

Banquet Dinner and Reflections with S-STEP Luminaries Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir and Deb Tidwell

 (Please see the Castle Conference website for the menu)

8:00 p.m.- Pub Closes

Methodological Discussions in the Castle Pub

Wednesday, August 9

Time

Dacre Room

Seminar Room 1

Conference Room

Boardroom

Film Room

7:30-9:00 a.m. 

Breakfast

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Brandon Butler, Rosemarie Caraballo, Danielle Christian, Kerstin Devlin, Angela Fair and Simone Stallings: “It Helps Us Remember Our Why”: Instructional Coach Learning in a Self-Study Community of Practice

Elizabeth Dorman and Elizabeth Grassi: Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Practice During Pandemic Zoom Teaching

Dawn Garbett, Linda Fitzgerald, Rena Heap and Ronnie Davey: Contemplating the Academy Using Memory-work as Method: Pausing at the Threshold

Linda Abrams, Charity Dacey, Kathryn Strom and Tammy Mills: “We are Going to Need a Bigger Bottle”: Surfacing and Leveraging a Decade of Relational Knowledges

Monica Anthony and Michael Krell: Reflecting on Supervision During Emergency Remote Teaching: How Two Novice Teacher Educators Supported Each Other and Teacher Candidates

10:00-10:50 a.m.

Derek Anderson: A Self-Study of Whiteness and Teaching About Teaching Race in a Social Studies Methods Course

Mark D. McCarthy: Imaginary Critical Friends: Three Perspectives on Practice

Karen Rut Gísladóttir, Svanborg Rannveit Jónsdóttir and Edda Óskarsdóttir: Constructing Spaces for Professional Development in an Action Research Course: A Self-Study of Teacher Educators’ Practice

Tony Sweeney, Richard Bowles and Maura Coulter: Looking Back to Move Forward: Identifying Value in Collaborative Self-Study

Mary Rice and Mark Diacopoulos: Responding to Pandemic-Centered Nihilism With Democratic Renewal and Restoration in Teacher Education

11:00-11:20 a.m.

Tea and Coffee Elizabethan Room

11:30-12:20 p.m.

Lavina Sequeira, Charity Dacey and Kevin Cataldo: Exploring the Role of Mentorship, Resistance, and Affirmation: A Self-Study of Developing Leaders

Mark Diacopoulos: What Does It Mean to Be a Teacher-Educator? Using Self-Study to Understand Teacher to Teacher-Educator Identity Shift During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Linda van Laren and Lungile Masinga: “An Organic Vessel With Rippling Effect”: Pausing for Creative Co-reflection on Our Arts-Inspired Collaborative Self-Study Research Initiatives in Teacher Education

Kathleen Sellers and Stephanie Baer: Missed Connections: How the Quality of Teacher Education Community Impacts Student-Teacher Practicum and Teacher Educators

Kelly Lormand: Questions of Feminist Power: A Self-Study of a Critical Incident

12:30-1:50 p.m.

Lunch

2:00-2:50 p.m.

Nikki Aharonian: Uncovering Care in My Pedagogy and Collaborative Self-Study

Megumi Nishida and Deborah Tidwell: Building the Boat, Growing the Tree: Exploring the Development of Self-study Analytic Methods

Maria Assunção Flores and Tom Russell: Learning How to Be a Better Teacher Educator Online: A Self-Study in Times of COVID-19

Micheal Flannery, Mary Nugent and Frances Burgess: Examining the Value of Integrated Arts in Teacher Education From a Collaborative Cross-Border Cross-Institutional S-step Perspective

Luiz Sanches Neto, Luciana Venâncio, Willian Lazaretti da Conceição and Luciano Nascimento Corsino: Pausing to Breathe, but Is It Possible to Pause Whiteness in Teaching and Teacher Education?: Narratives of Four Brazilian Physical Education Teacher-Researchers

3:00-3:50 p.m.

Tamar Meskin: Me, Myself, and I: Finding the Self in Self-Study Through Scholarly Personal Narrative

Rebecca Buchanan and Margaret Clark: Beyond Critical Reflection: Breaking Old Habits and Shifting Pedagogical Values

Shaun Murphy, Celina Lay, Eliza Pinnegar and Stefinee Pinnegar: Exploring Our Knowledge of Narrative S-step Methodology Through Collaboration

Richard Bowles and Anne O'Dwyer: Taking Stock: Retracing and Recalibrating Our Self-Study Learning Journey

4:00-4:20 p.m.

Tea and Coffee Elizabethan Room

4:30-5:20 p.m.

Mona Zignego and Kathleen Sellers: Reading the Room: Teacher Literacy Education Pedagogy and Its Potential at the Threshold of a Pandemic

Christine Beaudry, Jane Cooper and Leslie M Gauna: Ungrading As Turning Point in “Forever on the Way” to Becoming Critical Educators

Mia Sosa-Provencio, Helena Omaña Zapata, Ybeth Iglesias and Jackie Cusimano: Testimonio Pedagogy On the Borderlands in Teacher Education: Breaking Open Spaces to Let the Light In

Kevin O'Connor, Gladys Sterenberg and Tom Russell: Enacting Theory-Practice Pedagogies: Thresholds of Transition from People and Partners to Program and Partnerships

5:30-5:45 p.m.

Conference Photo  

5:45-7:00 p.m.

Dinner

7:00 p.m.- Pub Closes

Methodological Discussions in the Castle Pub

Time

Event

9:00-9:50 a.m.

Closing Session in the Boardroom

10:00-10:50 a.m.

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