2025 Program

2025 Program

Georgia Southern University

Presentation Materials Available

Disrupting the Syllabus: Co-Creation as Liberation

Matthew Thomas-Reid, Appalachian State University
Frannie Varker, Appalachian State University

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Success is a Journey, Not a Destination: The Student Library Assistants of Georgia (SLAGS) at G. W. Carver School in Richmond Hill, Georgia, 1960-1968

Chris Elkins, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

What is Impacting Your Belonging?

LaShunda Morris, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

First-Year College Experience and Student Motivation

Mayra Garcia-Diaz, Georgia Southern University
Meca Williams-Johnson, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Helping Teachers Navigate Georgia’s HB 1084

Angelann Stephens

Room 1

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

How Revised State Social Studies Standards Shape the Inclusion of Women's History in Secondary Education

Amanda Myrick, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

“Math Is…”: Disrupting Deficit Narratives Through Caregivers Voices

Renee Gilbert, Purdue University

Room 2

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Four Generations of Women

Fabienne Payoute, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

I Heard It on TV: A Content Discourse Analysis of Educational Changes Influenced by Television and Politics

Ericka Reid, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Linguistic insecurity and doctoral persistence: A mixed method study of the impact of metapragmatic discourses on the persistence of multilingual doctoral students

Germaine Tondji, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Room 1

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Moral Outrage, Trolls, and a Political Realignment

Tara VanBuskirk, Georgia Southern University

Disruptive/Disrupting Technology – Student Union Lunch Session

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Search, Copy, Paste: How Students' Reliance on Smartphones Influences Learning

Daniel Chapman, Georgia Southern University

Disruptive/Disrupting Technology – Student Union Lunch Session

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Distraction

Marla Morris, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Ghosts of the American South: What Can the Haunting Tell Us?

Amanda Harper, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

The Robot Apocalypse is Already Here: The AI Disruption in Curriculum and Instruction

Jazmin Corbell, Georgia Southern University
Alana Dyson, Georgia Southern University
Kortlyn McPeek, Georgia Southern University
Robert Lake, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Connection Before Content: Enacting a Relational Curriculum to Enhance Student Learning

Evan Small, Elon University
Frannie Varker, Appalachian State University

Room 2

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Innovative Disruptions: Black Feminist Geographies, Storywork, and Social Justice Research in the U.S. South

Alicia Bannerman, Mercer University
Amy Comarda, Georgia Southern University
Ambah Kioko, Georgia Southern University
Lakisha Mitchell, Georgia Southern University
Sharifa Ned, Georgia Southern University
Robert Lake, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Reimagining Equity and Empowerment: The Role of Montessori in the Public Sector

Jazmin Corbell, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

10:15 AM - 11:45 AM

Inequitable Narratives, and Speculating Otherwise: Nontraditional Dissertations as Disruption

Khristian Cooper, Georgia Southern University
Andrea Cramsey, Georgia Southern University
Thomas Weeks, Georgia Southern University

Room 2

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Parallels, Grief, and Creative Intellectual Development in the Search for Meaning

Roymieco A. Carter, North Carolina A&T
Leila E. Villaverde, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Room 1

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Testimonios and Narratives: A Cross-cultural Inquiry into Identity and Experiences

Mayra Garcia-Diaz, Georgia Southern University
Bahar Mentch, Georgia Southern University

Room 1

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM