Invited Lectures

Citizen Science Curricula and Pedagogy: A C-STEM Model for Teacher Education. Invited Session, C-STEM Conference, University of California, Davis (November 2019)

The Intersections of Poverty and Educational Inequality in Kern County. Invited Lecture, Kern Leadership Academy (October 2019)

Our Community, Our Choice: Creating Civically Empowering Classrooms. Invited Lecture, The Power of Equity Symposium, Kern County Superintendent of Schools (October 2019)

The Story of Science: Oral History and Citizenship in the STEM Classroom.Plenary Session, Culturally Responsive Teaching in the San Joaquin Valley, Bakersfield College, Delano Campus (March 2019)

Controversial to Whom? Teaching the Taboo in K-12 and Higher Education. Invited Colloquium, Kegley Institute of Ethics Colloquia Series, California State University, Bakersfield (March 2019)

Teaching to End Tragedy: Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools. Invited Lecture, Quality of Life Center, California State University, Bakersfield (November 2018)

The Ethics of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Elementary School. Invited Lecture, Kegley Institute of Ethics, California State University, Bakersfield (September 2018)

Pluralism, Post-Truth, and P-12 Schooling: Creating Classrooms for a Thriving Democracy. Invited one-day professional development workshop for the Kern Rural Teacher Residency Program; California State University, Bakersfield (April 2018)

Recent Conference Presentations

Beck, B. Burroughs, M. (June 2019). Democratizing Social-Emotional Learning. Paper presented at the 2019 bi-annual meeting of the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization, Rollins College, Florida.

Beck, B. (April 2019). “I suffered until the end of class”: The minoritization of teacher candidates of color.” Paper presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.

Beck, B. (February 2019). Re-imagining the underpinnings: Clinical coaching of social-emotional, ethics, and democratic education. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Beck, B. (February 2019). Citizen Science: Teacher education at the boundaries of scientific literacy and civic engagement. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Beck, B. (February 2019). Gun reform and teacher education. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Beck, B. (November, 2018). What if our children become more powerful than our politicians?: Gun Reform, Teacher Education, and Students of Color. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Memphis, TN.

Evans-Santiago, B., Reinking, A. Beck, B. (November 2018). How many more ‘til we break the silence? The Inclusion (or not) of LGBTQ+ Children and Families in Elementary Classrooms. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Multicultural Education. Memphis, TN.

Beck, B. (April 2018). Towards liminality in teacher education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, NY.

Beck, B. (February, 2018). Creating liminal spaces: Design-thinking as democratic pedagogy in teacher education. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

Beck, B. (February, 2018). Dismembered identities: Stories of intersectional minoritization in teacher education. Paper presented at the Association of Teacher Educations Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

Beck, B. (November, 2017). The minoritization of teacher candidates. Paper presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.

Currin, E. Beck, B., Noble, K. (November 2017). The pedagogical power of protocols in a post-truth era. Paper presented at the History of Education Society Conference, Little Rock, AK.

Beck, B. (2017, April). Multidimensional justice praxis in teacher education. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Beck, B. (2017, April). The calm and the fury: The symbolic violence of teacher education scholarship, 1950-1980. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Beck, B. (2017, February). Race and a university-school partnership. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL.

Beck, B. (2017, February). The minoritization of teacher candidates. Paper presented at the meeting of the Association of Teacher Educators, Orlando, FL.

Beck, B., Funderburke, J. (2016, December). Human centered design as an interdisciplinary leadership principle. Paper presented at the Leadership Educators Institute, Long Beach, CA.

Beck, B., Vescio, V. (2016, November). From workshop to institutional stance: Queering a college of education. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Educators, Cleveland, OH.

Beck, B. (2016, November). Kill the minority, save the educator: The symbolic violence of teacher education scholarship, 1950-1980. Paper to be presented at the meeting of the History of Education Society. Providence, Rhode Island.

Bondy, E., Beck, B., Hambacher,E. (2016, November). The theory and practice of justice in teacher education. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Association of Multicultural Educators, Cleveland, OH.

Beck, B. (2016, April). Quiet Activism: Phyllis Meek and the University of Florida Committee on Sexism and Homophobia, 1982-1995. In R.W. Evans (Chair), Activism in Higher Education. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the American Education Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Beck, B. Bondy, E., Schroeder, S., Curcio, R., Worlds, M. (2016, April). Critical teacher education: Insights from a social justice community of practice. In R. Ayers (Chair), Communities of Praxis and Social Justice in Preservice Teacher Education. Roundtable conducted at the meeting of the American Education Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Ross, D., Beck, B., Miracolo, R. (April 2016). Effective higher education pedagogy: Intentionality as an instructional design principle. In J. Grimm (Chair), Evidence-Based Pedagogy. Roundtable conducted at the American Education Research Association, Washington, D.C.

Beck, B. Bondy, E., Schroeder, S., Curcio, R., Worlds, M. (2016, February). Learning to Teach Critically: The Experience of Novice Teacher Educators. Paper Session conducted at the Association of Teacher Educators Conference, Chicago, IL.

Beck, B. (2015, November). Better learned than legislated: Increasing queer institutional power at the University of Florida, 1982-1995. In K. Graves (Chair), Activism in Higher Education. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the History of Education Society, St. Louis, MO.

Beck, B. (2015, October). Queering pre-service teacher education: Past achievement and current dilemmas. Paper presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators, New Orleans, LA.

Beck, B. Bondy, E. Schroeder, S., Curcio, S. (2015, October). Teacher education for justice. Paper presented at the National Association of Multicultural Educators, New Orleans, LA.

Beck, B., Bondy, B. Hannahs, L., Munro, M., Vescio, V. (November, 2014). Queering education Workshops with preservice teachers: Lessons for teacher educators. Paper presented at National Association of Multi-Cultural Education, Tucson, AZ.