September 2019

Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning Behind Bars
Where: Bond Adventures in Learning, Lurie, LLP, 2501 Wayzata Blvd, Mpls.
When: September 13, 2019, 11:00AM

August 2019

What: Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Education Behind Bars
Where: Carleton College Bay Area Alumni Club, San Mateo, CA
When: August 4, 2019

April 2019

What: At the End of the Pipeline: The Importance of Literacy Education Behind Bars
Where: American Education Research Association Annual Meeting: Toronto, Ontario
When: April 6, 2019

February 2019

What: Reading the World, Critical Reading: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World
Where: Teachers College, Columbia University: New York, NY
When: February 28, 2019

What: Gender is Like an Ocean: Adolescents and Teachers Grappling with All-Gender Identity and Inclusion
Where: Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA
When: February 22-23, 2019

What: Words No Bars Can Hold: Rewriting the Narratives of the Incarcerated through Literacy Education
Where: Ethnography in Education Research Forum, University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA
When: February 22-23, 2019

November 2018

What: Literacy as Liberatory Practice: Reflections on Incarceration and Transformative Education with Community Partners
Where: Literacy Research Association 68th Annual Conference: Indian Wells, California
When: November 30, 2018

What: Raising Feminist Voices in Literature and Life: Of Juliet, Daisy, Beyoncé, and #MeToo
Where: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE: Houston, Texas
When: November 17, 2018

What: Raising the Voices of Incarcerated Students: Teaching to Disrupt the School-to-Prison Nexus
Where: Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE: Houston, Texas
When: November 17, 2018

What: Teaching Literary Theory to High School Students
Where: Cristo Rey High School (In Service for Teachers)
When: November 7, 2018

What: Teaching Literary Theory to High School Students
Where: Augsburg University: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 6, 2018

October 2018

What: Teaching Literary Theory to High School Students
Where: University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: October 22, 2018

March 2018

What: Disrupting the School to Prison Pipeline: What Educators Can do
Where: ASCD Empower 18: Boston, Mass
When: March 25, 2018

December 2017

What: “Can the liberal arts liberate the incarcerated? Communities of practice behind bars”
Where: University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: December 8, 2017

November 2017

What: Challenging Deficit Perspectives: Reading and Writing behind Bars
Where: National Council of Teachers of English: St. Louis, Missouri
When: November 18, 2017

What: Fake It ‘Til You Make It: Rhetoric in the Era of Fake News
Where: National Council of Teachers of English: St. Louis, Missouri
When: November 18, 2017

What: Expanding Meaningfulness Behind Bars: Rewriting the Narratives of the Incarcerated
Where: Literacy Research Association: Tampa Bay, Florida
When: November 30, 2017

October 2017

What: Stanford University: “Liberal Education behind Bars: Praxis, Problems and Possibilities”
Where: Stanford, California
When: October 23, 2017

What: Stanford University “Reading the Word and the World-Contemporary Literary Theory and High School English”
Where: Stanford, California
When: October 24, 2017

September 2017

What: MCF-Stillwater- Poetry Reading “I am Offering You this Poem”
Where: Bayport, Minnesota
When: September 15, 2017

What: University of Minnesota – “Critical Theory in High School English”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: September 25, 2017

April 2017

What: American Education Research Association Annual Meeting – “Achieving the Promise of Educational Opportunities for the Incarcerated”
Where: San Antonio, Texas
When: April, 2017

March 2017

What: Teachers College, Columbia University – “Literacy, Equity and Imagination Behind Bars: The Power of Creative Writing in Prison”
Where: New York, New York
When: March 1, 2017

What: Teachers College, Columbia University – “Critical Reading: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: New York, New York
When: March 2, 2017

February 2017

What: Carleton College, Reflections: What Matters to me and Why? – “Liberatory Education Behind Bars: Teaching and Learning with the Incarcerated”
Where: Northfield, Minnesota
When: February 14, 2017

What: The Big Read
Where: LaCrosse, Wisconsin
When: February, 2017

December 2016

What: Literacy Research Association Annual Conference – “On the Evolution of Teaching Argumentative Writing Across an Academic Year in High School English Language Arts Classrooms”
Where: Nashville, Tennessee
When: December 3, 2016

What: University of California, Irvine – “Learning to Love Nonfiction: Lessons from a Literature Teacher’s Playbook”
Where: Irvine, California
When: December 13, 2016

November 2016

What: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention – “Remembering Arthur Applebee: A Tribute”
Where: Atlanta, Georgia
When: November 19, 2016

What: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention – “Rethinking Literacy Education in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Literacy Educators and the Dismantling of The School-To-Prison Pipeline”
Where: Atlanta, Georgia
When: November 19, 2016

What: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention – “The Art of Language Behind Bars: Advocacy with and for the Incarcerated”
Where: Atlanta, Georgia
When: November 20, 2016

What: Literacy Research Association Annual Conference – “Can Practice-Based Adolescent Literacies Research Mobilize Social Transformation?”
Where: Nashville, Tennessee
When: November 30, 2016

October 2016

What: Augsburg College
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: October 25, 2016

What: Host, Book Launch for Ezekiel Caligiuri’s memoir, This is Where I Am
Where: Open Book, Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: October 24, 2016

What: Twin Cities Social Justice Education Fair, Author Panel Facilitator, From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: October 21, 2016

July 2016

What: The International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature – “Critical Encounters in the High School Classroom”
Where: Chicago, Illinois
When: July 7, 2016

March 2016

What: Teachers College, Columbia University – “Critical Encounters – Reading the Word and the World”
Where: New York, New York
When: March 2, 2016

December 2015

What: Augsburg College – “Literary Theory and Non-fiction”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: December 1, 2015

What: Hamline University – “Looking Through Lenses: Critical Theory and Adolescents”
Where: St. Paul, Minnesota
When: December 3, 2015

What: Literacy Research Association Annual Conference – “Presentation, Literacy, Equity, and Imagination Behind Bars: The Power of Creative Writing in Prison”
Where: Carlsbad, California
When: December 5, 2015

November 2015

What: University of Notre Dame – “Can the Liberal Arts Liberate the Incarcerated?: Writing From the Inside Out”
Where: South Bend, Indiana
When: November 17, 2015

What: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention – “Critical Encounters with Non-fiction: A Literature Lover’s Approach” and “Real World Reading: Interrogating Words, Images, and Justice”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 21, 2015

What: University of Minnesota – “Critical Encounters in High School English: Reading the Word and the World”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 23, 2015

February 2015

What: Minnesota Association of Independent Schools – “Critical Reading: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: February 13, 2015

What: Teachers College, Columbia University – “Critical Reading: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: New York, New York
When: February 25, 2015

December 2014

What: University of California, Irvine – “Uncommon Core: Challenging the Authors of the Common Core Standards with Best Practice” and “Reading the Word and the World: Literary Theory and Non-Fiction”
Where: Irvine, California
When: December, 2014

November 2014

What: Forest Lake High School – “Incorporating Non-Fiction into Literature Classrooms”
Where: Forest Lake, Minnesota
When: November 3, 2014

What: Augsburg College – “Reading the Word and the World: Critical Encounters with Adolescents”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 5, 2014

What: University of Minnesota – “Looking Through Lenses: Critical Theory in Secondary Classrooms”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 10, 2014

What: University of Wisconsin – “What We Teach and Why: Literary Theory in the Secondary Classroom”
Where: Madison, Wisconsin
When: November 14, 2014

What: National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention – “Uncommon Core: Where the Authors of the Common Core State Standards Go Wrong About Instruction–and How to Get It Right”
Where: Washington, DC
When: November 21, 2014

October 2014

What: Engaged Scholarship Series – “Inside-Out Prison Engagement Models for Teaching and Learning”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: October 20, 2014

August 2014

What: University of Minnesota – “Critical Encounters with Literary Theory: What We Teach and Why”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: August 20, 2014

April 2014

What: AERA Annual Meeting – “Innovation Behind Bars: The Power of Creative Writing in Prison”
Where: Philadelphia, PA
When: April 4, 2014

March 2014

What: Teachers College – “Critical Reading: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: New York, NY
When: March 12, 2104

What:Ontario Institute for Studies in Education – “From the Inside Out: The Power of Literacy for the Incarcerated” and “Critical Literacy through Critical Encounters: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: Toronto, Ontario
When: March 26-27, 2014

February 2014

What: Writing Research Across Borders – “Voices in the 21st Century and the Development of Today’s Young Learners”
Where: Paris, France
When: February 18-22, 2014

January 2014

What: St. Paul’s School – “Critical Encounters with Literary Theory: Helping Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: Concord, New Hampshire
When: January 28, 2014

November 2013

What: NCTE Annual Convention – “‘Re-Inventing’ the Literature Classroom: Literary Theory as Curriculum Reform”
Where: Boston, MA
When: November 23, 2013

What: NCTE Annual Convention – “Talking Back to Achieve the Common Core Standards: Where David Coleman is Wrong and Why It Matters”
Where: Boston, MA
When: November 22, 2013

What: NCTE Annual Convention – “Dystopia is Our Future: Using Dystopian Literature and Social Theory in the English Classroom”
Where: Boston, MA
When: November 22, 2013

What: University of Minnesota – “Critical Encounters: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 11, 2013

What: Augsburg College – “Critical Encounters: Teaching Adolescents to Read the Word and the World”
Where: Minneapolis, Minnesota
When: November 6, 2013

August 2013

What: “I Write Because I Can’t Fly: Creative Writing Behind Bars”
Where: Minneapolis, MN
When: August 2, 2013