RTI at vCIES 2021: Social Responsibility Within Changing Contexts
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A leader in the field, RTI's international education team of over 550 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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RTI Experts at vCIES
Find out where RTI experts will be presenting and leading discussions throughout vCIES below. Our presentations will be available for download after the conference has concluded.
11:30am - 2:30pm EST (8:30 to 11:30am PDT)
- Leveraging Evidence-Based Smart Buys Note for Country-Based Transformational Education Reforms | Zoom Room 119
- Benjamin Piper
9:15 - 10:45am EST (6:15 to 7:45am PDT)
- Global COVID-19 Influences on Education | Zoom Room 113
- Benjamin Piper, Joseph Destefano, Jonathan Stern, Chris Cummiskey
11:00am - 12:30pm EST (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
- Beyond Effect Size: Leveraging RCTs for Policy and Programming | Zoom Room 103
- Simon King, Maitri Punjabi
- Innovations, Successes, and Lessons Learned in the Book Supply Chain | Zoom Room 136
- Brenda Anjuri, Benjamin Piper, Jessica Mejia
- Beyond Student Outcomes in Early Grade Mathematics: Expanding Opportunities for Measurement | Zoom Room 137
- Yasmin Sitabkhan, Adema Zholdoshbekova
- COVID-19 Related School Disruptions: Socially Responsible Interventions that Monitor and Redress Learning Loss Exacerbated Inequities | Zoom Room 128
- Joseph Destefano, Olivia Byler, Mitchell H. Rakusin, Mariel Gulla
- Moving Beyond Early Grade Reading: Teaching Content Area Literacy in the Upper Primary Grades | Zoom Room 124
- Sarah Koko, Patience A. Sowa
8:30 - 10:00pm EST (5:30 to 7:00pm PDT)
- Open Education Resources and Technology for Education | Zoom Room 110-B
- Lebah Bingo
9:15 - 10:45am EST (6:15 to 7:45am PDT)
- Assessing Student Outcomes to Inform Effectiveness, Estimate Typical Learning Gains and the Impact of High-Stakes Testing | Zoom Room 109
- Chris Cummiskey, Jonathan Stern
2:45 - 4:15pm EST (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
- Learning from Research on Implementation at Scale: Implementing Large Scale Instructional Improvement Programs in Low and Middle-Income Countries | Zoom Room 130
- Benjamin Piper, Jonathan Stern, Matthew Jukes
4:45 - 6:15pm EST (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
- Gender Considerations for Social Responsibility in Education Interventions: Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Tanzania | Zoom Room 117
- Jovina Tibenda
6:30 - 8:00pm EST (3:30 to 5:00pm PDT)
- Pre-Primary Education Gaps, Implementation Solutions and System Implications | Zoom Room 106
- Luis Crouch
10:15 - 11:45pm EST (7:15 to 8:45pm PDT)
9:15 - 10:45am EST (6:15 to 7:45am PDT)
- Adapting Instruction to Context: Global Case Studies on how Language and Culture Shape the Teaching of Reading | Zoom Room 114
- Sarah Pouezevara
- Fostering a Better Enabling Environment for Youth Skill-Building through Strong Multi-Stakeholder Engagement | Zoom Room 132
- Joyce Wafula
10:15 - 10:45am EST (6:15 to 7:45am PDT)
- Mind the Gap: Understanding Education Inequality in Developing Countries | Zoom Room 133
- Timothy Slade, Luis Crouch
10:15 - 11:45am EST (7:15 to 8:45pm PDT)
- Early Child Development across Two Continents – from Theory to Practice | Zoom Room 115
- Tabitha Kilonzo Nduku, Benjamin Piper, Katherine King, Michael Willoughby
11:00am - 12:30pm EST (8:00 - 9:30am PDT)
- Social Responsibility through Collaboration, Innovation, and Partnership in the Malawi National Reading Program | Zoom Room 125
- Barbara Greenwood
2:45 - 4:15pm EST (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
- Measuring Learning through Play in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Innovations across Contexts | Zoom Room 129
- Matthew Jukes, Jonathan Stern, Benjamin Piper
- Education, Migration and Economic Opportunity in the Northern Triangle | Zoom Room 124
- Amber Gove
4:45 - 6:15pm EST (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
- Best Practices on Effective Social-Emotional Learning and Soft Skills Interventions through Distance Learning | Zoom Room 124
- Elizabeth Randolph
9:15 - 10:35am EST (6:15 to 7:45am PDT)
- Alternative Models for Effective Instructional Coaching: Learning in the Time of Coronavirus, Cost-Awareness, and Social Responsibility | Zoom Room 112
- Patrick Karnley
- Learning Lessons from Positive Cases: Examining Enabling Conditions and Supports for Early-Grade Reading in Nepal | Zoom 114
- Narayan Shrestha, Gayatree Timsina, Sagar Neupane, Wendi Ralaingita, Tara Nath Poudel, Yogendra Gandhari
10:00 - 11:30am EST (8:00 to 9:30am PDT)
- We Say Teachers are Central. Are We Centering their Voices? | Zoom Room 118
- Wendi Ralaingita, Yasmin Sitabkhan, Karon Harden, Timothy Slade
12:00 - 1:30pm EST (10:00 to 11:30am PDT)
- Publicizing Public Goods in Education: New Evidence and Tools to Improve the Sector | Zoom Room 120
- Benjamin Piper, Jessica Mejia, Wendi Ralaingita, Julianne Norman
- The Present and Future of Technology-Supported Teacher Coaching | Zoom Room 118
- Matt Finholt-Daniel, Carmen Strigel
1:45 - 4:15pm EST (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT)
- Innovation in Research Methods to Study Education Systems | Zoom Room 114
- Matthew Jukes, Benjamin Piper, Jonathan Stern
4:45 - 6:15pm EST (1:45 to 3:15pm PDT)
- Training and Technology: Successful Use of Technology-Based Teacher Training Models | Zoom Room 107
- Jovina Tibenda, Elizabeth Long, Patience Sowa
- Effective use of Technology to Improve Data Collection and Reporting in Low Connectivity Countries | Zoom Room 117
- Bidemi Carrol, Mitchell H. Rakusin, Ana Robledo
- Practical and Useful Tools: Collecting Sensitive Data, Measuring Resilience, and Visualizing Your Data | Zoom Room 113
- Maitri Punjabi, Julianne Norman, Lauren Edwards