Upcoming Conferences

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Past Conferences

 

2022

April 1st - 2nd

2022 Special Topic Meeting, Learning through Play and Imagination. | St. Louis, Missouri,

Parent-Child Language Quantity and Quality During Play and its Relation to Children's Language Development

Authors: Yan Jiang, Alison Wishard Guerra, Shana Cohen, Monica Molgaard, Yoosang Park

Parent use of Decontextualized language during parent-child play interactions in early elementary school: cultural variations and links to expressive language development 

Authors: Alison Wishard Guerra, Monica Molgaard, Shana Cohen, Evelyn Cho, Naomi Lin

April 23rd

AERA Annual Meeting 2022, 8:00am to 9:30am PDT | Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Tower, Ground Level, Pacific Ballroom 19

Supporting District Transformation Through a Research-Practice Partnership in Early Childhood Education: Lessons for the Field

Authors: Alison Wishard Guerra, Amanda Datnow, Shana Cohen, Benjamin C. Kennedy (UCSD) & Matt Doyle (Vista Unified School District) 

 

April 25th

AERA Annual Meeting 2022, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT | Manchester Grand Hyatt, Floor: 3rd Level, Harbor Tower, Mission Beach A

Teacher Sense-Making in an Early Education Research-Practice Partnership

Authors: Amanda Datnow, Alison Wishard Guerra, Shana Cohen, Benjamin C. Kennedy, Joseph Lee (UCSD)

2021

Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD): April 7-9, 2021

Iversen, J., Brown, T. T., Lin, N., Dowling, S., & Parra, H. (2021, April 7-9). Early Childhood Musical Abilities: Associations with Developing Cognitive and Academic Performance and Socioeconomic Status. Paper presented as part of symposium, Longitudinal, Experimental, and Population-Based Studies on the Impact of Arts Engagement on Child Development Paper Symposium. CLICK HERE FOR PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATION

Jackson, C., Jiang, Y., Wishard Guerra, A., & Cohen, S. (2021, April 7-9). Parent scaffolding and child contributions in co-constructed narratives. CLICK HERE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION

Molgaard, M., Kennedy, B., Wishard Guerra, A., Cohen, S., & Chapman, T. (2021, April 7-9). Diverse Educators, Diverse Classrooms: how Teachers’ Experiences With Diversity Impact Their Inclusion and Equity Practices. CLICK HERE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION.

Jiang, Y., Jackson, C., Wishard Guerra, A., & Cohen, S. (2021, April 7-9). Co-constructing narratives: Associations between parent reminiscing style and children’s self-regulation. CLICK HERE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION.

Lin, N., Molgaard, M., Cohen, S., Wishard Guerra, A., & Brown, T. T. (2021, April 7-9). Home Practices during Pre-COVID and COVID Era: Associations with Cognitive Outcomes. CLICK HERE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION. 

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference: April 9-12, 2021

Lin, N., Molgaard, M., Cohen, S., Wishard Guerra, A., & Brown, T. T. (2021, April 9-12). Early Academic and Cognitive Development in Relation to Parental Support and Engagement in Children’s Learning CLICK HERE FOR POSTER PRESENTATION.

 

2020

Flux Virtual Congress Conference, September 9-12, 2020

Lin, N., Dowling, S., Cohen, S., Datnow, A., Doyle, M., Iversen, J., Jernigan, T., Molgaard, M., Orem, M., Trejos,J., Wishard-Guerra, A., & Brown, T. T. Early Childhood Cognitive and Academic Performance: Associations with Developing Singing Abilities and Socioeconomic Status [Poster presentation]. Flux International Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Virtual Congress.

National Research Conference on Early Childhood, November 30 - December 3, 2020 (Originally scheduled for June, 2020, postponed due to COVID)

Wishard Guerra, A., Cohen, S., Brown, T. T., Datnow, A., Jernigan, T., Lin, N., Molgaard, M., & Doyle, M. (2020). Leveraging a Research Practice Partnership to Transform Teaching and Learning in Early Education. [Poster Presentation]. National Research Conference on Early Childhood Biennial Meeting.

 

2019

2018

International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) meeting, September 2018, University of Southern California

Doyle, M., Datnow, A., Jernigan, T., Wishard Guerra, A., Cohen, S., & Brown, T. T. (2018). Symposium: Bridging Knowledge from Education and Neuroscience for Personalized Learning.

Virtual Event Talks & Presentations

Renee Fleming's Music and Mind Live: Conversations with leading artists and scientists

The EARLI Project featured in Episode 19: The Inner Voice. Presentation by John Iversen, Ph.D.

 
 

Music's Harmony on the Developing Brain: Data From the ABCD and EARLI Studies

Iversen, J., & Brown, T. T.

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National Endowment for the Arts & UC San Francisco: Sound Health Network

A clearinghouse of events, facts, and contacts about music and health

Publications in Print

Bridging Education and Neuroscience to Support Transformation in Teaching and Learning: A Design-Based Approach. Wishard Guerra, A., Cohen, S., Datnow, A., Brown, T. T., Jernigan, T., Doyle, M., & Daly, A. (2020). (In Reardon, R. M. & Leonard, J. (Eds.), Alleviating the Educational Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: School-University-Community Collaboration. Current Perspectives on School/ University/ Community Research. Information Age Publishing.)

How Language Can Supercharge the Instructional Core. Matt Doyle, Amanda Datnow, And Alison Wishard Guerra. iCERP. Nextgenlearning.org

Publications In Progress

Diverse educators, diverse classrooms: How teachers’ experiences with diversity impact their inclusion and equity practices. Monica Molgaard, Benjamin Kennedy, Alison Wishard Guerra, and Shana Cohen.

Early Childhood Singing Abilities: Associations with Developing Cognitive and Academic Performance and Socioeconomic Status. Naomi Lin, Hilda Parra, John Iversen, Timothy Brown.