ISLS 2026 Agenda

8:00 AM

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Long Paper · ALP 2600

Ideology, Culture, and Race in Learning

A long-paper session on how ideology, culture, and race shape learning and teaching, with studies on facilitator sensemaking about social-emotional learning in a refugee program and a justice-centered genetics unit on racial health disparities. Other papers analyze whiteness in science professional development and the epistemic work of a right-wing education podcast.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · ALP 3600

Humanities, Civics, and Learning

A short-paper session on humanities, civics, and learning, examining ethical sensemaking, informal learning, and political contestation across global contexts. Topics include mobile-phone learning among Jamaican farmers, children's more-than-human ethical reasoning, young activists comparing the Holocaust to current wars, and school change in India.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

4 talks

2:30 PM

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ALP 1100

Invited Panel: Humanizing Institutional Landscapes of Ability Differences and Learning

An invited dialogic panel on how schools, universities, and community spaces construct or challenge ability differences and disability in relation to race, language, and culture. Panelists share artifacts from four participatory design projects spanning bilingual and special education, multi-generational college classrooms with formerly incarcerated students, and research-practice partnerships toward culturally sustaining, asset-based approaches.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy

Long Paper · ALP 1700

Teacher Transformation

Four papers on how teachers become agents of transformation through partnerships, mentoring, and boundary crossing. Cases include a composite counterstory of teacher change, science educators reconciling personal beliefs with official scripts, cohort-based research-practice partnerships, and high-coupling encounters bridging maritime and education communities.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

4 talks

Short Paper · Barclay

Co-Design, Community-based education, sociocultural learning

Six short papers examine co-design and community-engaged education across undergraduate science, minority-owned small businesses, and intergenerational environmental-justice programs. Threads include enacting solidarity in community partnerships, collaborative data co-analysis, and culturally sustaining pedagogy through game redesign.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

6 talks

4:15 PM

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Demo & Interactive · ALP 1700

Demo & Interactive Session

A hands-on demo session showcasing AI-powered learning tools, including GenAI writing platforms, AI tutors for STEM and self-explanation, and teachable agents. Other demos cover collaboration analytics dashboards, agent-based modeling, VR reflection agents, and mobile creative-coding for community contexts.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

23 talks

Social / Networking · ALP 2600

Juneteenth Book Club

A two-day book club commemorating Juneteenth through a study of On Juneteenth and On Tyranny, with a third online discussion planned for July. Discussion connects abolitionist and liberatory themes to the conference theme of partnering with purpose; the first 30 participants receive both books.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy

Poster · Outdoors

ICLS Posters - Thursday Poster Session (In-Person)

An in-person poster session covering wide-ranging learning sciences research, including science and engineering teacher reasoning, AI in classrooms, and equity-oriented design in research-practice partnerships. Topics span heritage-language and algebra apps, urban gardens as educational technology, cognitive presence in MOOCs, and community-engaged research experiences.

Culturally Sustaining & Responsive Pedagogy in a talk

91 talks