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Events and Conferences (2019)
Location: Online
Date: Oct 30, 2019 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Developing Culturally Responsive Educators in Pre-Service Programs
This webinar will explore how best to prepare educators to implement culturally responsive pedagogy, including and exploration of how programs train future teachers and school administrators and what changes programs may need to consider to effectively prepare these educators.
Location: Online
Date: Oct 15, 2019 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Implementing District and School Policies and Practices to Support Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
This webinar will explore how a school and district have approached the challenge of implementing culturally responsive practice. It will elaborate on programs, policies, and practices that were implemented to support efforts to achieve equity and use culturally responsive pedagogy.
Location: Online
Date: Oct 02, 2019 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Research and Practice in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and How to Sustain Systemic Changes
This webinar will explore research on culturally responsive pedagogy and what is known about its effectiveness.
Location: Washington, DC
Date: Oct 01, 2019 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Data for Evidence-Based Policymaking
While many industries have increasingly turned to data science to make informed business decisions, social service organizations and government agencies have been slower to fully embrace the potential of current and emerging data science methods. The challenges are real.
Location: Online
Date: Sep 17, 2019 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A Framework for Educational Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
This webinar defined educational inequity and discussed its implications. It included a brief introduction to culturally responsive pedagogy and what broader systemic changes may be necessary to implement equity and culturally responsive pedagogy.
Location: Washington, DC, and Online
Date: Jul 11, 2019 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Progress Together: Becoming Data Driven
Mathematica brought together leaders from a variety of sectors to discuss the challenges of becoming data driven and offer action-oriented, accessible advice on how organizations can take their first steps, or their next steps, to progress together.
Location: Washington, DC, and Online
Date: Jun 12, 2019 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Understanding the Power of Long-Term Impact Evaluations
International development programs are designed to make lasting and positive improvements in the health, education, and income of disadvantaged people around the world.
Location: Online
Date: Jun 05, 2019 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
In the past two decades, many federal and state Medicaid initiatives have been designed to rebalance the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system by increasing access to home and community-based services (HCBS) in order to reduce the use of expensive institutional care.
Location: Online
Date: May 16, 2019 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Webinar: Preparing Leaders to Make a Difference for Students and Schools
Recognizing that school leaders play a critical role in school performance, states and districts are rethinking how they prepare principals. But this retooling of preparation programs raises a number of important questions: What skills do new principals need? How can we identify aspiring principals with the potential to develop those competencies? And how can we use these insights to improve the training of leaders at all levels of the system, from teacher leaders to principal supervisors?
Location: Online
Date: May 13, 2019 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
REL Webinar: Using Teacher Feedback in School Leader Evaluations
The goal of the webinar is to expand local and state leaders’ knowledge of teacher survey instruments to enhance the evaluation of school leaders.
Location: Online
Date: Apr 24, 2019 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Webinar: Strengthening Principal Preparation Through On-the-Job Training
A key challenge for policymakers is creating a pipeline of principals who are prepared to serve as instructional leaders. Districts often use the assistant principal position as a training ground for new principals. Yet little is known about how to design and implement on-the-job training opportunities that prepare assistant principals to serve as principals.
Location: Online
Date: Apr 17, 2019 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Learn about the work of six Children’s Bureau grantees who seek to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults with child welfare histories – the Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grantees.
Featured speakers included:
• Catherine Heath from the Children’s Bureau
• Cay Bradley from Mathematica
• Andrew Burwick from Mathematica
Location: Online
Date: Apr 11, 2019 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
In selected states, youth ages 14 to 16 who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and their families could take advantage of innovative services and improved service coordination through the Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE) demonstration. Early findings on the implementation of PROMISE and its impacts on youth and families during the first 18 months after enrollment provide interesting insights for federal and state partners seeking to help youth with disabilities transition successfully to adulthood.
PROMISE is a cross-agency effort led by the U.S. Department of Education that includes the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Labor. Six PROMISE programs operating in 11 states implemented unique models that included agency-level partnerships, case management, benefits counseling, financial literacy training, career- and work-based learning experiences, and parent training and information. Learn more about the evaluation of PROMISE by visiting the project webpage.
Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy hosted a webinar on Thursday, April 11, 2019, from noon to 1:30 p.m., to discuss insights from the PROMISE evaluation. Topics included the following:
• The landscape of transition services for youth with disabilities and the challenges that youth and families face in accessing those services
• Different approaches used by the PROMISE programs to address service-system challenges and improve transition outcomes
• Findings from the 18-month PROMISE impact evaluation
• Perspectives on evaluation findings from the U.S. Department of Education and the Social Security Administration
Speakers will include the following:
• Gina Livermore, Mathematica (moderator)
• Todd Honeycutt, Mathematica
• Jackie Kauff, Mathematica
• Arif Mamun, Mathematica
• David Emenheiser, U.S. Department of Education (discussant)
• Joyanne Cobb, Social Security Administration (discussant)
Location: Online
Date: Mar 14, 2019 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Single parents are required to cooperate with child support enforcement activities to be eligible for some public assistance programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Medicaid. But for other assistance programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, states have the flexibility to design policies that best meet the needs of their residents. Given renewed interest in expanding mandatory cooperation requirements, Mathematica and the National Conference of State Legislatures hosted a webinar on March 14, 2019, from 2 to 3 p.m. focused on using research and lessons from the field to better inform policy considerations about this topic.
Throughout this discussion, webinar attendees (1) heard directly from state legislators, (2) gained a better understanding of the key policy features of child support cooperation requirements, (3) learned about existing research and new research called for in the recently passed 2018 farm bill, and (4) reviewed challenges states face in implementing cooperation requirements.
Our expert presenters included the following:
• Lauren Antelo, Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (moderator)
• Meghan McCann, senior policy specialist, NCSL
• Rebekah Selekman, researcher at Mathematica
• Erin Frisch, Title IV-D director for Michigan and director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child Support
• Representative Peggy Webb, Montana State Legislature
Location: Online
Date: Feb 07, 2019 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 changed several aspects of the law concerning access to health insurance that were particularly salient for people with disabilities. These changes included removing limits on preexisting conditions, extending parent’s health insurance coverage of young adults until the age of 26, expanding Medicaid to more adults with low incomes, and making it easier to obtain affordable coverage outside the traditional employer-sponsored benefit system.