Current Research Projects

Cross-sectional Study of Family and Community Engagement Practices in Classroom Instruction 

Conceptualizing community engagement as a core teaching practice

Sidarous, J. (2025. March 11). Cultivating Cultural Confidence: Teacher Candidate Self-Efficacy Growth with a Culturally Responsive Curriculum. [Emergent Scholar Presentation]. Association of Teacher Educators 2025 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vDNaFyJcjCD3Cb8s8Bf-bDwINy3H9XS-/view?usp=sharing

Sidarous, J., Trackman, N. Fauth, C. Sidarous, J. (2025. March 10). Empowering Teacher Candidates Through Virtual and In-person Communities of Practice. [Roundtable Discussion]. Association of Teacher Educators 2025 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WxH8JPASh3AetkC0n_8SG2-tzQ9hyIjT8X42Gr3eufA/edit?usp=sharing

Sidarous, J., Michalik, M., & Trackman, N. (2024, Nov. 1). Cultivating Collaborative Growth Through Communities of Practice in Teacher Preparation. Illinois Association of Teacher Educators 2024 Fall Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, United States.

Bressman, S., Efron, S., Roh, A., Sidarous, J. Smith-Ray, K., & Winters, J. (2021, Aug 8). Webinar: Off to a Good Start: Supporting the Well-Being of Early Career Teachers. National Louis University National College of Education: Centers and Scholarship [Professional Development]. https://nl.edu/national-college-of-education/centers-and-scholarship/webinars/2021/august-25-2021/

Lorch, J & Sidarous. J. (2021, May 27). Voices from the Field. National Louis University Teacher Preparation [Professional Development]. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zwGXmQvlT7GXPROiBvv7czoouDDD15zLgUQfkGI55KQ/edit?usp=sharing

Sidarous, J. (2021, April 6). Remote Learning as a Catalyst for Candidate Agency in Teacher Preparation. International Cultural and Educational Association (ICEA) [Conference Presentation]. Virtually with Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vjNHftILj3BszZVRrO48PxPuSwvNxfi_/view?usp=sharing

Degener, S., Knauth, S., Ko E., Lorch, J. & Sidarous, J. (2020, June 12).  NLU Spring 2020 Research and Practice Symposium, How Teacher Preparation Centered Around Family and Community Engagement Impacted Pre-service and Inservice Teachers’ Understanding of the Characteristics of their Students’ Communities and their Incorporation of Community Context and Assets in their Instruction [Conference Presentation].  Chicago, IL, United States. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j-7zc89L08uyAzpnBWWqDyI7tPmgTrRq/view?usp=sharing

Lorch, J., Knauth, S., & Sidarous, J., (2019, Feb 24 ). Identifying and Using Core Practices for Engaging Families and Communities [Conference Presentation]. American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Louisville, KY, United States.  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18Or0FR05Zbq4MIX7xpGTT9MZcJqWKazhznZ9hJP6ZmA/present?slide=id.p2

Lorch, J., & Sidarous, J. (2018, May 4). Identifying and Using Core Practices to Prepare Teacher Candidates for edTPA [Conference Presentation]. 2018 Midwest edTPA Conference, Bloomington, IL, United States. https://iltpac.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/8/3/12834173/s18_edtpa_conference_program_final_printer.pdf