• Pausing at the Threshold
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Castle Conference 14 Event Schedule
  • Vulnerability, Ontological, and Epistemological Assault
  • Section I: How can we position, reposition, reframe, re-imagine, and integrate new learnings from the past, present, and future?
  • Section II: What inspires you to pause, deliberate, consider, or take a mindful stance to determine new or enduring practices?
  • Section III: What opportunities are you considering, contemplating, exploring, or embracing to contribute to different communities and audiences?
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  • Castle Conference 14 Event Schedule

    Sunday, Aug 6, 2023

    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, Aug 7, 2023

    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

    Tuesday, Aug 8, 2023

    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, Aug 9, 2023

    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

    Thursday, Aug 10, 2023

    Time

    Event

    9:00-9:50 a.m.

    Closing Session in the Boardroom

    10:00-10:50 a.m.

    Check out of Bader Hall

    Updated 7/26/23 4:31 p.m. EST

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