CIES 2022

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)

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

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

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)

​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