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Examining a Sustainability Framework for Early Grade Reading

Thu, March 29, 1:15 to 2:45pm, Hilton Reforma, Floor: 2nd Floor, Don Diego 4 Section A

Group Submission Type: Panel Session

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With so many evidence-based Early Grade Reading (EGR) programs going to scale, it is important to consider how best to approach sustainability. While many EGR scale-up programs are addressing the issue, we maintain that those efforts are insufficient. As important as training, effecting 2-3 policy changes, ensuring that various EGR program materials are adopted by the government, and working through government systems may be, they are not enough. To better understand what might be needed to sustain (and to help scale-up) EGR initiatives, a framework is needed to inform practitioners what to do. This panel will present an EGR sustainability framework and the practical and theoretical bases upon which it is founded. Then this framework will be examined by a panel participants who will draw upon their experiences working first-hand on EGR scale-up and sustainability efforts in various countries. This panel will contribute to the scale-up and sustainability knowledge base by presenting and critiquing an early grade reading sustainability framework that we believe can guide scale-up and sustainability efforts in many countries.

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