February 14, 2013
From early grade reading in Rwanda to Muslim education in West Africa to models of technology in low-resource countries, EDC is presenting more than a dozen panels at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Conference in New Orleans. The theme of this year’s conference is “Educational Quality: Global Imperatives and Contested Visions.”
EDC staff are participating in the following sessions and workshops. For more information, visit: http://www.cies.us/2013/program.html
Monday March, 11
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Moving the needle on learning: Case studies in establishing performance standards in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
- Mark Hamilton, “Standard setting: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo”
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Classroom dynamics in Africa
- Aude Diarra, Youssouf Haidara, and Rebecca Rhodes, “Why Some Students Shouldn’t Learn about Whales: Systemic Quality Imperatives and Parent/Teacher Desires in the Case of Selected Malian Schools”
Teaching, Learning and Working: Models of Technology Innovation and Support in Low Resource Communities
- Chair: Mary Burns
- Discussant: Helen Boyle
- Scott Isbrandt, “Mobile Learning Innovations for Out-of-School Youth in Mali”
- Susan Ross, “Live from Jakarta—It’s Coaching Live!”
- Munir Mahomar, “Using Technology to Disseminate Project Results and Improve Decision-Making”
- Emily Morris and Musa Sanoe, “Assessing Literacy of Out-of-School Youth: Findings from Liberia and Rwanda”
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Education and Conflict: A Review of Research, Innovations, and New Directions
- Cornelia Janke, “South Sudan: Examining the intersection of international development assistance, a fragile conflicted-affected new nation, and pressing education needs”
Tuesday March, 12
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Language issues and schooling
- Chair: Katharine Yasin
- Kerry White and Katharine Yasin, “English for Latin America: Bridging ICT, English as a Foreign Language, and Workforce Development Sectors to Bring Youth Enhanced Livelihoods”
Wednesday March, 13
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Developing a systematic early grade reading program: Lessons learned from Rwanda
- Nancy Clark-Chiarelli, “Building blocks of a systemic early grade reading program
- Norma Anne Evans and Chantal Uwiragiye, “Using SynPhony to building weekly teacher read aloud stories and student decodable stories”
- Helen Boyle, “Promoting local production of stories – Turning teachers into authors”
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Local Visions: Muslim Modernity and Quality Education in West Africa
- Helen Boyle, “Between Secular Public Schools and Private Qur’anic Schools: The Medersas of Mali”
Thursday March, 14
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Training and Coaching as an Approach to Prevent Youth Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Nancy Chervin, “Work Readiness Training for Youth-at-Risk in Conflict-Affected Environments”
- Alejandro Paredes, “Preventing Youth Violence through an Innovative Work Readiness Certification Program – Evidence from Honduras”
1:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Making learning stick: Systemic factors that constrain (or promote) learning achievement at scale (Part 1 of 2)
- Thelma Khelghati and Rebecca Rhodes, “Taking reading reform to scale: The case of the Mali/PHARE program”
Perspectives on 1:1 learning in developing countries
- Organizer: Elizabeth Pierson
- Presenter: Mary Burns
- Presenter: Daniel Light
3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
MIDDLE EAST SIG HIGHLIGHTED SESSION: “Quality” Driven: Partnership, Policy, and Privatization Trends in the Education Sector throughout the MENA Region
- Nada Mneimneh (Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon) and Rachel Christina, “Developing standards for teaching quality: “Progress Scale” and teaching standards for Lebanese schools
- Fady Yarak (Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Lebanon) and Rachel Christina, “Using data to improve educational quality in Lebanon: School rehabilitation, laboratory equipment provision, and teacher English training planning under D-RASATI”
Friday March, 15
10:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Governance and policies affecting teachers
- Mark Hamilton, “The shifting authority of knowledge and autonomous teacher development in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
