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Tuesday, June 16 · 8 sessions

2:30 PM

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Hybrid Symposium · ALP 1700

Hybridity, Equity, and Conference Design: Stakeholder Perspectives & Community Discussion

A working session that gathers data and stakeholder perspectives to iterate on ISLS hybrid conference design, framing accommodation through the disability-studies idea of "curb cuts." Disabled scholars, caregivers, Majority World scholars, and organizers share experiences, followed by facilitated cross-modality breakout discussions to generate recommendations.

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Long Paper · ALP 2600

Communities and Contexts

Long papers examining learning across communities and contexts, from high schoolers cultivating future-oriented identities to digital accountability in new-teacher mentoring dialogue. Additional work probes youth authority in environmental engineering curriculum co-design and reconceptualizes psychometrics to treat context as intrinsic to learning.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk
4 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2700

Arts, Expressions, Identity

Short papers exploring how the arts support identity work, wellness, and disciplinary learning, from artmaking with youth and non-judgmental art pedagogy to reconstructing disabled identities in undergraduate courses. Other talks link art-making to computational thinking, integrate arts with science teaching, and examine trans* body politics in sport.

Co-Design & Participatory Design in a talk
6 talks
Long Paper · ALP 3610

Dialogue and Collaboration

Papers on dialogue and collaboration across varied settings, including relational attunement in making, medical students shifting from cooperation to true collaboration, and parents revoicing to guide children's computational thinking. Further talks examine how language shapes access to tools and how productive confusion unfolds during VR collaboration.

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5 talks

4:30 PM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

Co-design, Teachers, RRP

Short papers on co-design, teachers, and research-practice partnerships, including environmental engineering curriculum co-design, teacher-developed critical-thinking assessments, and curricular co-design as professional development. Further talks examine teacher-researcher thought partnership, translanguaging in teacher preparation, and Black children's sociopolitical sensemaking as a resource.

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6 talks
Short Paper · ALP 1120

Agency, Equity, and Social Justice in Learning Sciences

Short papers on agency, equity, and social justice in learning, including epistemic engagement in multilingual science, rule-breaking as a design affordance, and frameworks for hands-on open science in K-5. Other talks trace racialized assemblages in AP biology, recognition for minoritized STEM instructors, and infrastructuring for climate justice in making.

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6 talks
Symposium · ALP 2500

From Enrichment to Essential: The Value of the Arts in Learning and Education

A symposium positioning the arts as central rather than peripheral to learning, countering funding cuts and narrow evaluation frameworks that obscure their value. Six contributions present methodological and theoretical innovations and purposeful partnerships, delivered through a participatory fishbowl and co-created emotional cartography of insights.

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