CIES 2018 Annual Meeting

RTI enjoyed participating in the 2018 CIES Annual Conference March 25-29 in Mexico City, Mexico. The theme of this year’s conference was “Re-Mapping Global Education: South-North Dialogue.” More than 3,200 educators, policymakers and practitioners in international education from 117 countries attended the conference; the largest CIES to date.

RTI technical experts and project staff participated in more than 35 sessions ranging from improving reading instruction for learners with special needs, to assessing social and emotional learning in young children, to strengthening early grade math instruction. 

Our experts' presentations from the conference are now available to view and download on SharEd, RTI's online resource for international education professionals. Please see below for a list of the presentations available for download.

Downloadable Presentations

Monday, March 26

Session: I don't know how to do that using mathematics

Presentation: How problem solving is being implemented by RAMP trained teachers

Presenter: Aarnout Brombacher

Session: ICT4D and Teacher Professional Development

Presentation: Mobile resources to promote teacher efficacy in teaching children with disabilities in Ethiopia

Presenter: Carmen Strigel

Session: Using Data for Language in Education Decisions: Part 2: Programming in the Multilingual Context

Presentation: Linguistic differences in mother tongue reading performance in Uganda

Presenter: Rachel Jordan

Session: Using Data for Language in Education Decisions: Part 2: Programming in the Multilingual Context

Presentation: Experience implementing non-mother tongue reading: Tusome in Kenya

Presenter: Dunston Kwayumba

Session: The Equity Initiative: Equity in the Social-Emotional Learning in the Wake of Adversity and Crisis

Presentation: The intersection of violence and SEL competencies: Implications for Equity

Presenter: Liz Randolph

Session: Implementing a Large Scale ECD Program in a Decentralized Context: The Impact and Policy Environment of Kenya's Tayari Program

Presentation: Tayari's Longitudinal Endline Results: Program Impact and Implementation Decisions

Presenter: Ben Piper

Session: Implementing a Large Scale ECD Program in a Decentralized Context: The Impact and Policy Environment of Kenya's Tayari Program

Presentation: Implementing ECDE in response to policy change and research evidence in Kenya

Presenter: Sam Ngaruiya

Tuesday, March 27

Session: Learning about what promotes learning: lessons from Pakistan, Jordan, and Bangladesh

Presentation: Jordan RAMP initiative midline survey

Presenter: Aarnout Brombacher

Session: Better "M" for "E": Advancing Local Ownership of Monitoring Solutions

Presentation: National level monitoring: the impact of Kenya Tusome on learning outcomes and accountability

Presenter: Ben Piper

Session: The Equity Initiative: Creating an Environment for Gender Equity

Presentation: Attitudes on gender norms in the school and home in Uganda

Presenter: Liz Randolph

Session: Data Transparency and Utilization: Re-thinking North-South Dialogue on Learning Outcomes Measurement and SDG Reporting

Presentation: The Early Grade Reading Barometer: Increasing access to and use of data on learning outcomes

Presenters: Amber Gove, Helen Jang

Session: Partnering with the Global South: Why Early Numeracy Skills Deserve an Equal Role in Early Grade Literacy Interventions- Part I

Presentation: Letting go of the gradual release model in literacy instruction in Kenya

Presenters: Jessica Mejia, Ben Piper

Session: Partnering with the Global South: Why Early Numeracy Skills Deserve an Equal Role in Early Grade Literacy Interventions- Part I

Presentation: Instructional models in early mathematics: Can the "I do, we do, you do" model support the development of mathematical thinking?

Presenter: Yasmin Sitabkhan

Session: Setting up Sustainable Systems for ECD in Low-Resource Contexts

Presentation: System sustainability for quality early chidlhood development and education in Kenya

Presenter: Sam Ngaruiya

Session: Early Grade Literacy Instruction and Local Language Literacy

Presentation: The role of language instruction in schools as a tool among marginalized groups in Kenya

Presenter: Ben Piper, Salome Ong'ele

Wednesday, March 28

Session: Measuring the Difficult to Measure: School Culture and Social and Emotional Learning

Presentation: Assessing social and emotional learning in young children in Tanzania

Presenter: Matthew Jukes

Session: Measuring the Difficult to Measure: School Culture and Social and Emotional Learning

Presentation: Insights about how cultural differences condition student response on a survey of student perception of school climate

Presenter: Peter Muyingo

Session: Ready for School? Persistence and Fadeout of Preschool Effects in the Global South

Presentation: Persistence of pre-primary programs in Kenya: Evaluating how Tayari's program impacts change over time and into primary school

Presenters: Ben Piper, Salome Ong'ele

Session: Ready for School? Persistence and Fadeout of Preschool Effects in the Global South

Presentation: Persistence and fadeout of preschool participation effects on early reading skills in low- and middle-income countries

Presenter: Amber Gove

Session: Influencing ECE Policy Around the World: Four Country Case Studies of Civil Society Engagement to Promote Early Childhood Education

Presentation: How civil societies influence ECE policies: experiences with data-driven decision making in Jordan

Presenter: Katherine Merseth

Session: The Future of Research and Evaluation Methods in International Education

Presentation: The illusory quest for rigour and certainty: Improving decision-making from messy data

Presenter: Matthew Jukes

Session: Constructing Global Metrics of Learning: Are they relevant, fit for purpose, and sustainable?

Presentation: Can learning be measured universally?

Presenter: Luis Crouch

Session: Establishing Schools that Model Kindness and Nurture Social and Emotional Development: A Crucial Addition to Academic Programming

Presentation: Shifting the school norm in Uganda: The Journeys Initiative

Presenter: Geri Burkholder

Session: Best Practices for Material Development to Support Early Grade Reading

Presentation: How scripted is too scripted? A mixed-methods analysis of literacy teachers' guides

Presenter: Jessica Mejia, Ben Piper, Yasmin Sitabkhan

Thursday, March 29

Session: Partnering with the Global South: Why Early Numeracy Skills Deserve an Equal Role in Early Grade Literacy Interventions- Part II

Presentation: Linking literacy and numeracy in Tayari

Presenter: Ben Piper

Session: Can Rigorous Research Inform the Implementation of the Scale-Up of Literacy Programs? Evidence from South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya

Presentation: Large-scale reading reform in Uganda: the importance of linguistic differences, implementation, and socio-economic factors in explaining impacts in 12 languages

Presenter: Rehemah Nabacwa

Session: Can Rigorous Research Inform the Implementation of the Scale-Up of Literacy Programs? Evidence from South Africa, Uganda, and Kenya

Presentation: Understanding whether and how the Tusome program worked: Evidence from the national scale-up of a tested literacy program in Kenya

Presenter: Ben Piper

Session: Expanding Access to Quality Pre-Primary Education Opportunities: Using Data and Research to Document Inequity

Presentation: Understanding pre-primary quality in Tanzania: Data from the MELQO study

Presenter: Tara Weatherholt

Session: Examining a Sustainability Framework for Early Grade Reading

Presentation: Enhancing pre-service teacher education in Uganda to sustain early grade reading initiatives

Presenter: Scholastica Tiguryera

Session: Examining a Sustainability Framework for Early Grade Reading

Presentation: An early grade reading sustainability framework

Presenter: Hank Healey

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