Call for Proposals ICSEI 2013 Santiago
The 26th annual conference of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement will take place in Santiago, Chile, January 3-6, 2013. Proposals will be accepted from Saturday, June 15th, until midnight (Chilean time), Monday, August 6th 2012. Proposals must be addressed to the conference website.
The Academic Program Committee for ICSEI 2013 invites proposals from education researchers, policy makers and practitioners that address the overall conference theme Educational Systems for School Effectiveness and Improvement: Exploring the Alternatives, and sub-themes as described below. The sub-themes with sample topics include:
1) Systems of educational governance for school effectiveness and improvement (national, state, regional, district; subsidized and non-subsidized private; governance at the school level)
• The role of the State in school effectiveness and improvement
• The role of school system administrators/districts in school improvement
• New school management models and their contribution to school effectiveness
• Educational decentralization processes
• Large-scale educational reforms and their impact on school effectiveness
2) Support and accountability Systems for school effectiveness and improvement (public systems of
support, external providers, networks, etc.)
• Experience and effectiveness of external support strategies for school improvement
• Accountability systems for school effectiveness and improvement
• Supervision and inspection systems and their contribution to the effectiveness of educational systems/units
• School Networks: experiences and evidence of their effectiveness
3) The school as a system: keys for improvement
• Leadership organization and distribution within schools
• School-based accountability practices and use of data for school effectiveness
• Teachers professional learning and community
• School-based innovative practices for school improvement
• Teacher supervision
4) The classroom: expression of systemic changes and main learning scenario for students and teachers
• The classroom as an organizational system for effective instruction
• Curriculum, learning, and instructional effectiveness strategies
• Accountability inside the classroom
• Equity in the classroom: effective and inclusive teaching (gender, race, poverty)
• Technology and educational effectiveness in the classroom
• Student involvement in educational decision-making processes
In keeping with the ICSEI’s mission, we invite proposals associated with the conference themes that address (a) findings from empirical research studies (completed or sufficiently in progress to share preliminary findings); (b) advances in research methods for investigating school effectiveness and improvement; and (c) examples of field-based projects to improve the quality of education linked to existing research on and/or trends in school effectiveness and improvement theory and practice.
Selection of all proposals will be refereed by members of the Academic Program Committee for ICSEI 2013. Notice of acceptance of proposals will be announced by mail by mid-October. The official language of this international conference is English. Proposals must be submitted in English to be considered. For accepted proposals, the conference presentations should be in English. Translation services will be provided for the keynote speeches and for opening and closing ceremonies.
Proposals may include individual and/or multiple authored papers, symposia, or poster presentations.
Submissions should indicate clearly which author or authors will actually take part in the presentations if accepted. Individuals may be involved with more than one proposal, however, a limit of two proposals will be accepted for persons listed as “presenters” of papers or in symposiums, in order to minimize scheduling conflicts and to encourage a broad range of experiences and perspectives in the sessions.
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