PRESENTATIONS

A drawing of a lively scene crisscrossed by colorful yarn, anchored to a tree branch on one side and pinned to a board on the other. People stand amidst the yarn, interacting with poems hung from the yarn and with one another. A table in the background holds supplies to spark poetry writing.

International Society
of the Learning Sciences

Irvine, CA • June 2026

What does your research mean to you? What feelings, images, memories call you to your work? What in your work are you grappling with?

We will invite attendees at the ISLS annual meeting to explore these questions using poetry, via an interactive poetry installation.

A photograph of a table with socks, googly eyes, pipe cleaners, and other supplies for making sock puppets

Play Make Learn

Madison, WI • August 2025

We screened our short film, Why Aren't You in Class?, fielded questions from the audience, and encouraged conference attendees to make their own puppets.

A sock puppet with pink hair and heart-shaped glasses

Two sock puppets, one with a big yellow mustache and another with a mop of fuzzy gray hair

A shy sock puppet with red hair, pink glasses, and a striped sweater

A cheerful blue sock puppet with a shock of bright green hair

A flyer for a talk titled "A Feast to Feed Thousands," with pictures of Nicole, Chundou, and Violet (Chundou's dog)

A screenshot of a slide with the question, "What would it be like to treat building racial justice in math education as if it could only be done with and by marginalized students and families?"

Vanderbilt University

A screenshot of a slide titled "Auntie and Cousin Ontologies," with four interlocking puzzle pieces forming a heart and four bullet points: protecting shared past, present, and future; building capacity, place, and purpose; believing in our dreams and potential; creating realities that challenge the reality of white supremacy

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PRESENTATIONS

International Society of the Learning Sciences

Play Make Learn

Vanderbilt University

Contact: Nicole Louie, nlouie@wisc.edu

International Society
of the Learning Sciences