Workshop Series

The Chicago Education Workshop, which meets weekly throughout the year, brings together students, faculty and other interested colleagues to discuss cutting edge research on education being conducted locally and around the nation. Its purpose is to create a lively forum in which scholars from a range of disciplines can scrutinize the empirical claims made by presenters. Presenters include locally or nationally distinguished scholars as well as Chicago PhD students. Sessions frequently focus on the logic of an argument, the relevance of the methodology, empirical findings, and potential alternative explanations. Each presenter is allocated 80 minutes for presentation, questioning, and discussion; the norm is for the format to be interactive, with key issues raised as they arise. Open discussion through individual or small group meetings with the speaker is encouraged after each workshop.

For additional information on the Workshop on Education Lecture Series, to be added to the distribution list, or if you are a person with disabilities who may need assistance, please contact one of our Workshop Coordinators: Peyton Cunningham (cpcunningham@uchicago.edu), Della Cox (della@uchicago.edu), Emma Heidorn (eheidorn@uchicago.edu), or Jake Nicoll (jwnicoll@uchicago.edu).

The location of the Autumn Quarter Workshop is Kent Chem Lab - Room 102 (1020 E 58th St).

2025-26 Workshop Schedule

Workshop on Education Lecture Series

October 2: Geoffrey Wodtke, University of Chicago
Workshop: Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-dimensional Model of Place-based Disparities in Academic Achievement

November 6: Nora Gordon, Georgetown University
Workshop: "Why Is It Like This?" Compliance and Discretion in a Large School District

November 20: Eos Trinidad, University of California, Berkeley
Workshop: Subtle Webs: How Local Organizations Shape US Education 

December 4: Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan
Workshop: The Bilingual Reading Brain: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Child Literacy
 

Student Centered Sessions
 

October 9: Marshall Jean, University of Chicago
Workshop: Primer on Education Jargon

October 16: Alizé Hill, Crown
Workshop: Accessing Whiteness: The Process Through Which Black-White Multiracial Youth and Their Parents Navigate the Education System

October 23: Alizé Hill, Daniela Juarez, Grace Li, and Jake Nicoll
Workshop: Navigating Education Research: Perspectives from Current PhD Students

October 30: Linyun Fu, Crown
Workshop: The Effects of a Culturally Sensitive Social and Emotional Learning Program on Rural Chinese Children: Evidence from a Matched-Pair Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

November 13: Ana Vasan, CHD
Workshop: Carceral Care: The Intimacies of Antiblackness in Chicago High Schools

January 15: TBD

January 29: TBD

February 12: TBD

February 26: TBD

April 2: TBD

April 16: Terri Sabol, Northwestern University
Workshop: TBD

April 30:  TBD

May 14:  TBD