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CIES 2022

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April 18, 2022 07:00AM - April 22, 2022 01:45PM US/Eastern

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Minneapolis, MN
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A leader in International Education, RTI's division of over 500+ US and international staff uses evidence-based approaches to strengthen education policy, management, and practice at every level—from classrooms to national ministries—to achieve measurable improvement in education quality and, ultimately, learning outcomes.

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Learn more about our recent research publications covering topics including pandemic research and responses, assessment and evaluation, early childhood development, instruction language, policy systems and governance, social and emotional learning, teacher training and professional development, and education technology. 

RTI Experts at CIES

Our presentations are now available for download - click on links below. 

Monday, April 18

7:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: Developing SEL assessments ground-up: Learning from four contextualization initiatives in the global south
    • Presentation: Principles for adapting playful pedagogies to context (Kellie Betts, Matthew Jukes)
  • Session: A comprehensive approach to MTB-MLE: Aligning in-service and pre-service efforts
    • ​Presentation: Collaborating for sustainable teacher development in the early primary grades (Armida Umali-Trinos, Patience Sowa)

8:45 to 10:00am EDT

  • Session: Cultural Specificity of Learning Through Play: Measure Development Across Humanitarian and LMIC Contexts and Validation with Child SEL Outcomes
    • Presentation: Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY) Measurement Tool Development Process (Margaret (Peggy) Dubeck, Matthew Jukes, Jonathan Stern, Kellie Betts)

Tuesday, April 19

6:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: Teacher and Learner Psychosocial Support and Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Pajamas Sessions
    • Presentation: Teacher well-being as a critical element to success of remote learning during the pandemic (Maria Perlita de Leon, Elizabeth Randolph)

7:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: Agent-based Models, Social Network Analysis, and Machine Learning: Exploring Interaction in International Education
    • Presentation: Social Network Analysis Methods for Higher Education Development (Eric Johnson)
    • Presentation: Right-fit EdTech: Leveraging Loquot and other (machine) learning to support foundational learning in LMICs (Timothy Slade)
    • Presentation: Agent-based modeling: Understanding influence of teacher-student interactions on learning and equity (Elizabeth Randolph)
  • Session: Contextualizations of Play: Cultural Understandings of Play and Learning in School in East Africa and Asia
    • Presentation: Principles for adapting playful pedagogies to context (Matthew Jukes)

10:00 to 11:30pm EDT

  • Session: How to turn a multilingual country in Central Asia into an ‘English Speaking Nation’ by 2030? 
    • Presentation: Supporting Uzbek schoolteachers to provide students in grades 1-11 with culturally appropriate English instructional materials: Challenges and Opportunities (Gulnoza Nadjemidinova, Azima Toyirova, Diffuza Karimova)
  • Session: Co-Creating Learning Spaces for the Futures of Education in the Philippines in 2040: Quo Vadis? 
    • Presentation: Creating Learning Spaces for the Future of Filipino Early Grade in 2040:The Past, The Present and the Future (Maricel Fernandez, Elizabeth Randolph)

4:00 to 5:30pm EDT

  • Session: Business Meeting: Global Mathematics Education SIG
    • Wendi Ralaingita, co-chair

6:00 to 7:30pm EDT

  • Session: Business Meeting: Monitoring and Evaluation SIG
    • Christopher Cummiskey, co-chair
    • Simon King, presenter

Wednesday, April 20

7:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: Improving targeted student support: Lessons learned from assessment-informed instruction and “catch-up” studies across countries
    • Presentation: The comprehensive rapid literacy assessment: Experience from the development and implementation of a teacher-led formative assessment in the Philippines (Mitchell Rakusin, Janice Perez)
  • Session: Beyond Averages: Understanding Children's Differential Learning Experiences Using EdTech
    • Presentation: Lessons Learned from Technology-Supported Remote Training: A Case Study from Malawi (Bidemi Carrol)

10:30am to 12:00pm EDT

  • Session: Digital transformation: an opportunity for long-lasting improvement of quality of education service delivery in Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan 
    • Three Presentations linked here.

4:00 to 5:30pm EDT

  • Session: Reframing mathematics: broadening perspectives and pedagogies in lower and middle income countries
    • Wendi Ralaingita, Chair

Thursday, April 21

6:00 to 7:30pm EDT

  • Session: Policy Linking: Building Ministry Capacity, Importance of Feedback and Cost Savings in Assessing Reading
    • Presentation: Nepal: Assessing Early Grade Reading Outcomes the Cost-effective Way (Jodie Fonseca)

7:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: Learnings from Implementing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Technology-Supported Remote Teacher Professional Development
    • Presentation: A Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Framework for Technology-Supported Remote Trainings (Carmen Strigel, Rachel Jordan, Sarah Pouezevara)
  • Session: Session: Early childhood learning - Play, practice and policy.​
    • Presentation: Building Blocks for a Brighter Future: Preparing Liberian Kindergarten Children for School (Patience Suah)

10:00 to 11:30pm EDT

  • Session: Leveraging Lessons from COVID-19 for stronger and more resilient early primary learning in Cambodia
    • Presentation: Findings from a temperature check of teachers’ and students’ needs in Cambodia, to inform school re-opening (Olivia Byler, Sonthara Kong)

10:30am to 12:00pm EDT

  • Session: Studying educational needs, scalability and sustainable benchmarking
    • ​Presentation: Linking EGRA and GALA for Sustainable Benchmarking (Christopher Cummiskey, Jonathan Stern)

4:00 to 5:30pm EDT

  • Session: For the Love of Reading: Working with Community and Systems to Streamline Access to Quality Children’s Literature in Under-Served Languages
    • Presentation: Strengthening MTB-MLE Policy and Capacity in Mother Tongue Supplementary Reading Materials Provisioning in the Philippines (Sally Sanchez, Melissa Borela-Yanga)
    • Presentation: How to Sustain Access to Children’s Books: A Comprehensive Approach in the Kyrgyz Republic (Nazgul Kabylbaeva, Karon Harden)

Friday, April 22

​7:00 to 8:30am EDT

  • Session: A positive disruption: How education systems demonstrated resilience during COVID-19
    • Presentation: Returning to Learning - A Pakistan Case Study (Jordene Hale, Patience Sowa)
  • Session: Learning to support marginalized children: How can we overcome the status quo?
    • Luis Crouch, Discussant 
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Patience Sowa
Patience Adjekai Sowa, PhD Senior Literacy and Language Advisor
Jodie Fonseca
Jodie Fonseca Senior Education Advisor
Christopher Cummiskey
Christopher Cummiskey Senior Statistician; Design Expert
Jonathan Stern
Jonathan Stern Senior Researcher, Education and Evaluation
Carmen Strigel Director, Technology for Education and Training
Rachel Jordan Research Education Analyst
Bidemi Carrol
Bidemi Carrol Senior Research Education Manager
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Medina Korda Poole Director, Program Design and Implementation
WendiRalaingita
Wendi Ralaingita Senior Education Advisor
Elizabeth Randolph
Elizabeth Randolph Senior Education Research Analyst
Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes Fellow, Education and Evaluation
Margaret (Peggy) Dubeck
Margaret (Peggy) Dubeck Senior Literacy Researcher
Eric M. Johnson
Eric M. Johnson Sr. Director, Technical Strategy and Solutions
Simon King Senior Research Education Analyst
Karon Harden
Karon Harden Senior Education Specialist, International Education
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