Call for Proposals

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Association of College Educators—Deaf and Hard of Hearing International Conference

Recover, Reconnect, Reinvent

Strengthening Future Deaf Education Practices through Change

Menger Hotel in San Antonio, TX

How do people connect with each other to recover, reconnect, and reinvent future

practices after experiencing many changes in the Deaf Education field? It takes critical

thinking, social skills, problem solving, collaboration and identifying new pedagogical

approaches. These approaches need to be embedded with social justice education and

consider the social emotional well-being of our students.

This is why our conference theme focuses on recovering, reconnecting and reinventing

new dialogue. It is imperative for education stakeholders to come together and engage

in the dialogue of ideas, methods and innovative approaches. This conference will have

three strands:

● Recovering: Addressing Challenges Facing the Deaf Education Field

● Reconnecting: Focusing on Democratic Education and Social Emotional

   Collaborative Practices

● Reinventing: Preparing Educators to Teach Now and in the Future

We encourage submission of proposals from graduate students, teacher preparation

programs, subject matter experts, teachers, scholars, and community stakeholders who

are invested in the improvement of deaf and hard of hearing education and

acknowledges the need for innovative research which responds to the changes set

forward in the future. Additional consideration will be given to proposals that incorporate

the conference themes through

1. Showing research and practice to increase teacher productivity and decrease

teacher burnout through the use of innovative pedagogical and social practices.

This includes understanding interpreter education, teacher education and

communities of practice through new lens.

2. Collaboration between teacher preparation programs and educational

administrators of deaf and hard of hearing programs through out the United

States to generate ideas for future teacher professional development.

3. Commitment to diversity, inclusion and equity and nurturing environments in all

areas of education to enhance positive outcomes.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee in a blind review format.

The criteria upon which proposals will be reviewed includes the importance and

relevance for this topic to teacher education, methodology, outcomes, rationale,

and relationship to the theme.