National Board for Education Sciences
October 5, 2012 Meeting Agenda
October 5, 2012 Meeting Agenda
Location:
Institute of Education Sciences Board Room
80 F Street NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20001
For further information, please contact Monica Herk at (202) 208-3491 or Monica.Herk@ed.gov
| Friday, October 5, 2012 | |
| 8:30 a.m. –8:45 a.m. | Call to Order, Approval of Agenda, Chair Remarks Bridget Terry Long, National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) Chair |
| 8:45 a.m. –9:00 a.m. | Swearing-in of NBES members, Larry Hedges and Susanna Loeb |
| 9:00 a.m. –9:45 a.m. | Update: Recent Developments at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), including the Centers for Evaluation (NCEE), for Research (NCER), for Special Education Research (NCSER), and for Statistics (NCES) John Q. Easton, IES Director Introduction of Ruth Neild, Newly-Appointed Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation IES Commissioners Elizabeth Albro (Acting), Deborah Speece, and Jack Buckley |
| 9:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. | Peer Review Process: Follow-up to 6/20/12 Board discussion Anne Ricciuti, IES Deputy Director for Science |
| 10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Communications/Dissemination: Increasing Research Supply through the What Works Clearinghouse and Increasing Research Demand through the Regional Educational Labs Ruth Neild, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Evaluation Steve Fleischman, Deputy Executive Officer, Education Northwest |
| 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. | Box Lunch |
| 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | Design-Based Implementation Research Barbara Means, Director, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International Thomas M. Smith, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Vanderbilt University and Director, National Center for Scaling Up Effective Schools |
| 2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | A New IES Research Program John Q. Easton, IES Director |
| 3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. | Policy and Legislative Update Sue Betka, IES Deputy Director for Administration and Policy |
| 3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. | Discussion of Board Leadership for 2013 Roundtable discussion by the Board |
| 4:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks, including Next Steps John Q. Easton, IES Director Bridget Terry Long, NBES Chair |
| 4:30 p.m. | Adjourn |