Research

Select Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

Hesson, S. (2021, April). “Language Policy Considerations From Bilingual Adolescent Latinx Youth,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, virtual format.

Hesson, S. (2021, April). Invited to join panel discussion, “A Praxis of Translanguaging: Centering Children’s Language Practices in/and/with Community,” at Praxis of UE2021 series at the Urban Education Program at Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY.

Hesson, S. & Toncelli, R. (2019, March). “Envisioning Dual Language Bilingual Education in New England”. Keynote speaker at Pre-Conference Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Multistate Association for Bilingual Education, Providence, RI.

Hesson, S. (2018, October). Invited by Congressman Jim Langevin to join panel discussion “Improving educational outcomes for Rhode Island’s English Learners,” at Rhode Island College, Providence, RI.

Hesson, S. (2018, April). “Making sense of the intersections of languaging and racialization with bilingual Latinx middle schoolers,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Hesson, S. (2018, March). “From ‘Language as Resource’ to ‘Language as Lived Reality’: A Theoretical Shift Towards Bilingual Communities,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Bilingual Education, Albuquerque, NM.

Hesson, S. (2016, November). “From “language as resource” towards “language as lived reality”: Centering the experiences of bilingual Latino middle schoolers,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Seattle, WA.

Ascenzi-Moreno, L., Hesson, S., & Menken, K. (2015, April). “School leadership along the trajectory from monolingual to multilingual,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

Hesson, S. (2015, March). “Making lemonade from lemons: Social justice test prep,” at the Annual Meeting of the New York Collective of Radical Educators, New York, NY.

Hesson, S. (2015, March). “Documenting language ideologies of administrators and educators of emergent bilinguals using a new framework,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education, White Plains, NY.

Hesson, S. (2014, November). “Tell me what you really think: Documenting language ideologies in administrators and educators of emergent bilinguals,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Toronto, Canada.

Ascenzi-Moreno, L. & Hesson, S. (2014, April). “Transforming Leadership Through Language Policy: Translanguaging Pedagogies and Shifts in Discourse,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Ebe, A., Hesson, S., & Kleyn, T. (2013, February). “Supporting Multilingual Ecologies in Schools: The CUNY-New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Bilingual Education, Orlando, FL.