Washington, D.C. — February 29, 2016 — Results for Development is excited to take part in the 60th annual CIES Conference for 2016. Bringing together over 2,500 education professionals and academics for over 500 sessions, this year’s special focus is “Six Decades of Comparative and International Education: Taking Stock and Looking Forward.”
The CIES conference is a unique forum for practical exchange, debate and networking. We hope you will connect with our experts at the sessions below.
Follow @results4dev or #CIES2016 for updates.
Monday, March 7
How Learning through Play is Creating Systemic Change in South Africa
Room 561: 11:30 AM – 1:00pm
R4D Experts: Vidya Putcha, Kimberly Josephson
Last barrier: Facts and consequences of education inequality
Cracked Ice Lounge: 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
R4D experts: Milan Thomas, Nicholas Burnett
Tuesday, March 8
Spotlight on Innovation Reception (hosted by R4D’s Center for Education Innovations)
Port Hardy Room: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Wednesday, March 9
Strategic planning in the Global Partnership for Education: Lessons learned, future directions
Pavilion Ballroom C: 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM
R4D expert: Nicholas Burnett
Whither UNESCO and education? A (continuing) dialogue on issues raised in UNESCO’s origins, achievements, by Raymond Wanner
Grand Ballroom BC: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
R4D expert: Nicholas Burnett
Books for every child: The Global Book Fund Part III of III: Bringing it all together: Recommendations from the feasibility study to transform book development
Galiano: 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
R4D experts: Shubha Jayaram, Nicholas Burnett
Thursday, March 10
World Cafe: New ways of generating evidence and learning about promising innovations
Parksville: 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
R4D experts: Mark Roland, Christina Synowiec, Daniel Plaut
Role playing workshop: If you build it, will they come? How to effectively share evidence so it can truly inform practice
Parksville : 9:45 AM – 11:15 AM
R4D expert: Allison Rosenberg
Fishbowl Discussion: Lessons from the Field: Strategies to promote scale up and diffusion of promising models
Parksville: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
R4D expert: Daniel Plaut
Building a love of reading early, using mobile phones: the case of Mobile Reading to Children (mR2C) in India
Finback: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
R4D expert: Molly Jamieson Eberhardt
From an Individual “Habit” to a “Culture” of Reading
Gulf Islands A: 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM
R4D expert: Molly Jamieson Eberhardt
