Keynote Speaker
Our keynote speaker will be Asao B. Inoue, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has been a past member of the CCCC Executive Committee, and the Executive Board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
Among his many articles and chapters on writing assessment, race, and racism, his article, “Theorizing Failure in U.S. Writing Assessments” in Research in the Teaching of English, won the 2014 CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award. His co-edited collection, Race and Writing Assessment (2012), won the 2014 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for an edited collection. His book, Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing for a Socially Just Future(2015) won the 2017 NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award for a monograph and the 2015 CWPA Outstanding Book Award. More recently he has continued his scholarship in socially just classroom writing assessment through a co-edited collection, Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and The Advancement of Opportunity(2018), and a book, Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom (2019).
The keynote address will take place on Monday, March 2, and the keynote speaker will also lead a workshop on Monday, March 2.
Featured Presenters
Mrs. Delrose Adkinson, M.Ed., is a National Board certified teacher and instructional technology coach, at Newport News Public Schools in Newport News, Virginia. After completing the Career Switcher program at Old Dominion University, Mrs. Adkinson transferred the relationship building and training skills she honed in the corporate world, to create productive relationships with young people that facilitate empowering learning experiences and promote achievement. Having experienced the transformative effect of applying anti-racist behaviors and practices on student growth, a self-proclaimed student success specialist, Delrose actively advocates and leverages anti-racist, student-focused, relationship building competencies, teaching and learning strategies, attitudes, and behaviors in practitioners to cultivate students’ capacity to engineer the future of their dreams.
Dr. Nicole Jennings is the Lead English Teacher at Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia. She has taught in the Newport News Public Schools division for the past 17 years.
For her doctoral research, Nicole used the lens of critical race theory to conduct a qualitative study with a narrative research design to illuminate the educational experiences, practices, and perspectives of Eric Mahmoud, an African-American Male Academy Founder and Chief Executive Officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Jennings is passionate about conducting ethical research that amplifies the voices of African-American males. Her research interests include anti-racist teaching practices, teacher biases and expectations, and the use of African-American Male Academies as a counterspace in response to racial microaggressions. Her research currently serves as a catalyst for educators to think critically about their views, prejudices, and experiences with African-American male students.
The featured presenters will lead a workshop on Tuesday, March 3.
