At the recent annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Sarah Hansen received the 1st Place Proposal Award at the Division D (Measurement and Research Methodology) In-Progress Research Gala. Sarah’s award-winning proposal featured ethnographic research that illuminated the discourse models informing Indian immigrant parents’ school engagement experiences. As a recipient of the award, she will give an invited paper at the 2011 AERA Annual Meeting. Sarah is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction’s culture and teaching track (Bic Ngo and Thom Swiss, co-advisers).