Nikhit D&#039;Sa https://iei.nd.edu/ en GC-DWC Faculty and Save the Children Co-Develop New Assessment to Support Improvement Science in Emergencies https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/gc-dwc-faculty-and-save-the <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--news.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">GC-DWC Faculty and Save the Children Co-Develop New Assessment to Support Improvement Science in Emergencies</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--news.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/59" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">igilfoil@nd.edu</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--news.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Fri, 03/15/2024 - 13:36</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-image-media--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <a href="/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/gc-dwc-faculty-and-save-the"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/2024-03/GC-DWC_Kenya.jpg?itok=c7wezEcw" width="600" height="600" alt="Image of a child in Kenya looking off at something out of frame to the left" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-content-image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-author--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-author.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-author.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Brooke Parker</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-body--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-body.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-body.html.twig x field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-news-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><span><span><span><strong><span><span>March 14, 2024</span></span></strong></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>–</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/people/nikhit-dsa"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nikhit D’Sa</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>, assistant professor and director for research at the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), recently co-developed a measurement tool—the Holistic Assessment of Learning and Development Outcomes (HALDO)—alongside Allyson Krupar and colleagues at </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.savethechildren.org/?cid=Paid_Search:Google_Paid:LP_Homepage:Brand:123199&amp;s_kwcid=AL!9048!3!614519097776!e!!g!!save%20the%20children&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAk9itBhASEiwA1my_6-2WublmWO3kQ-_tZvsBfhgCNUsXoH3rfqgE1j1W8MyS2OGaxCQwOhoCeGwQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Save the Children</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span> that has been utilized across humanitarian programming to understand the diverse learning and development needs of children who have been forcibly displaced. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>In speaking about the development of HALDO, D’Sa noted, “In emergencies, practitioners have to quickly develop an education response for children who speak different languages, have dramatically different academic backgrounds, and are often in need of psychosocial support. We need rapid, adaptable, feasible, and practical assessments of children’s learning and development so that we can design or adapt programs that are fit for purpose. HALDO was developed for exactly this purpose.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>D’Sa and Krupar co-developed the tool and examined the internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, concurrent validity, and construct validity of HALDO’s scores. Their peer-reviewed article provides evidence of the psychometric properties of HALDO when used in emergency responses in Kenya, Lebanon, and Uganda. They find that in the three contexts, HALDO is a rigorous, multi-dimensional, and feasible instrument to rapidly measure the literacy, numeracy, social &amp; emotional learning (SEL), and executive functioning (EF) skills of children between 4-12 years of age. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Krupar highlights that “HALDO was designed to understand children’s learning needs in the immediate onset of displacement but has also been expanded to support non-formal program evaluation in protracted emergencies, particularly with refugees. Since we tested the tools’ psychometric properties, Save the Children and partners have adapted HALDO to evaluate and pre-position programming in Burkina Faso, Colombia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Somaliland, and Syria.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Without identifying what children already know in the immediate aftermath of forced displacement, education practitioners are often unable to address the gaps and challenges learners face; this new tool aims to change that. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>“We hope that this publication drives more efforts in the education in the emergency sector to better understand children's learning and development needs before we plan interventions,” said D’Sa.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>To read the journal article and learn more about HALDO, please visit </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666374024000025"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266637402400002</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-tags--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/308" hreflang="en">Nikhit D&#039;Sa</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-initiative--news.html.twig * field--node--field-initiative.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-initiative.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-initiative field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/25" hreflang="en">Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:36:46 +0000 igilfoil@nd.edu 1763 at https://iei.nd.edu Using intervention science, Notre Dame researchers are creating proven pathways out of adversity for the world’s most vulnerable children https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/gc-dwc/news/using-intervention-science <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--news.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Using intervention science, Notre Dame researchers are creating proven pathways out of adversity for the world’s most vulnerable children</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--news.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/59" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">igilfoil@nd.edu</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--news.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Thu, 02/29/2024 - 16:50</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-image-media--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <a href="/initiatives/gc-dwc/news/using-intervention-science"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/2024-02/gcdwc_india_2.jpg?itok=jryjbF2V" width="600" height="600" alt="Image of a teacher (left) showing a student (right) a picture of a tree" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-content-image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-author--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-author.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-author.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Brett Beasley</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-body--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-body.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-body.html.twig x field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-news-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>This story was originally published by Brett Beasley from Notre Dame Research. <a href="https://research.nd.edu/news-and-events/featured-stories/intervention-science/">Click here to view the original story</a>.</em></p> <hr /><p>Neil Boothby has observed some of the most tragic events of the last 40 years, including war, genocide, and natural disasters. He has seen them not as an eyewitness but through the eyes of the children whose lives they have affected.</p> <p>Boothby, a child psychologist, began studying children’s reactions to adversity in the 1980s when, as a graduate student, he traveled to Cambodia to conduct fieldwork. He was struck by the experiences of children who had been traumatized by the Cambodian genocide, during which the Khmer Rouge government had murdered a quarter of the country’s population. Most of the children were orphaned by the genocide. Many had witnessed atrocities. Some had even been forced to participate in the violence themselves as child soldiers.</p> <p>Boothby was disturbed not just by the challenges these children faced but also by the uncertainty of the groups—government agencies, humanitarian organizations, and local communities—attempting to help them. Each group was armed with good intentions to help these children forge healthy relationships, find direction, and grow into thriving adults. But as they acted, most followed their intuitions rather than evidence.</p> <p>“At the time, there was no established science of what a pathway out of adversity looked like,” Boothby explains, “And there was little to no data to support one set of practices over another for helping children find it.”</p> <p>Boothby wanted to illuminate the path. So he forged connections with the children and tracked their progress. Boothby soon had other opportunities to work with children facing adversity—including 100 boys ages six to 16 who had been forced to be soldiers in the East African nation of Mozambique.</p> <p>Boothby remains in contact with many of these children today, and he says that while many of their stories had harrowing beginnings, they can also provide hope.</p> <p>“Violence does not always or inevitably beget violence,” Boothby says. He says that instead of perpetuating a cycle of violence, many adults who experienced adversity as children become kind and even altruistic, especially when they go on to become parents themselves. “They say, ‘I didn't get this as a child, and I want to make sure my son or daughter has it,’” Boothby explains.</p> <p>"It is similar to the way a pearl is formed,” he says. “It starts off as sand and an irritant in a clam, and there's a reaction around that and whatnot, but it eventually comes out as something of high value. I've seen that in some of these children that have gone through a crisis."</p> <img alt="Image of three students in India" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b4908632-e732-4b26-acc2-b520bcb66fe0" height="330" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/gcdwc_india_1.jpg" width="792" class="align-center" loading="lazy" /><h3> </h3> <h3><strong>Developing a Research-to-Learning Cycle</strong></h3> <p>Boothby would go on to win several awards for his work with child soldiers, including the Red Cross International Humanitarian of the Year Award and the United Nations’ Golden Achievement Award for Social Services. The publications that resulted from his studies in Cambodia, Mozambique, and other countries would help create a new methodology in development known as “intervention science.” Boothby would refine his approach as a faculty member at Duke University and later at Columbia University while working with organizations such as the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and Save the Children.</p> <p>In 2019, Boothby joined the University of Notre Dame as the founding director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC). The GC-DWC is housed within the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives and integrates implementation science into all of its work. The GC-DWC manages one of the fastest-growing research portfolios on campus, with $70 million in external research funding to support development programs in 25 countries that reach more than 500,000 children annually.</p> <p>Some of the children the GC-DWC works with have experienced violent and traumatic events like the children Boothby worked with in Cambodia and Mozambique. Some have been affected by natural disasters, and some are members of marginalized groups. The common underlying source of adversity that underlies all of the others, however, is poverty.</p> <p>What distinguishes the GC-DWC’s approach from other approaches to studying poverty, Boothby says, is how it integrates research and practice—learning and doing—on purpose and from the beginning.</p> <p>“Poverty is extremely complex,” Boothby explains, “and it interacts with and exacerbates other kinds of adversity. To make a difference in alleviating it, you have to think beyond one-off research projects.” Applauding the University’s recent launch of the <a href="https://strategicframework.nd.edu/initiatives/poverty-initiative/">Notre Dame Poverty Initiative</a>, Boothby says the GC-DWC’s experience with intervention science can play a key role in the larger, University-wide effort to fight poverty.</p> <p>“Often as a researcher, it is tempting to engage in a kind of academic tourism,” Boothby says. “Researchers might want to stop and be satisfied when they have defined a problem or developed a solution. But for us, the cycle doesn’t stop when a program is delivered. In fact, it is just the beginning of a new process of research, learning, and refinement.”</p> <p>The team’s recent publications share with scholars what they have learned about <a href="https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.proxy.library.nd.edu/doi/full/10.1086/728393">reading programs</a>, <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2024.1342424/full?&amp;utm_source=Email_to_authors_&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&amp;utm_campaign=Email_publication&amp;field=&amp;journalName=Frontiers_in_Education&amp;id=1342424">play-based learning</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0883035523000496?dgcid=author">teacher well-being</a>, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035522001641?dgcid=author">parents’ role in social and emotional learning</a>, and many other topics.</p> <p>To ensure their findings have an impact beyond academia, the GC-DWC develops and disseminates free tools and guides for schools, teachers, and parents. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the GC-DWC partnered with several other organizations to use <a href="https://iei.nd.edu/gc-dwc/strong-beginnings-radio">radio programs</a> to provide distance learning suitable for Haiti’s low-tech environment. The partnership resulted in a literacy program, a reading hour program, and a pre-K social and emotional learning program.</p> <img alt="Image of students in Haiti" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7a68af99-46ae-4624-b04c-595c3f1d21b6" height="343" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/gdcwc_haiti_2.jpg" width="824" class="align-center" loading="lazy" /><h3> </h3> <h3><strong>The Power of Staying Put</strong></h3> <p>The GC-DWC’s approaches to helping children in crisis tend to have similar core elements.</p> <p>“We think a lot in terms of ‘education plus,’” Boothby says. “We often work with schools, and education is always necessary but never sufficient. So we think about what support children get at home or at their places of worship and what nutrition they receive, and then we build extra support around education.”</p> <p>Still, Boothby admits, “To some extent, we're always experimenting.” What works for a child in the context of the Catholic parish system in Haiti may not work for a child who is a member of the Dalit minority at one of the residential schools the GC-DWC works with in India.</p> <p>All of this experimentation means, as Boothby puts it, “we are in it for the long haul.” The GC-DWC works iteratively and maintains longitudinal data to show long-term progress.</p> <p>Their commitment to staying put allows GC-DWC researchers not only to build and maintain relationships; it transforms the way they approach knowledge itself.</p> <p>“We draw upon neuroscience, health research, and work on social-emotional learning, and we conduct broad efficacy studies, qualitative studies, and even randomized controlled trials,” Boothby says, “but we also pair that knowledge with knowledge that comes from within the communities where we work.”</p> <p>Boothby says this approach fosters a more respectful attitude toward communities participating in research. “Rather than seeing participants as people who need our help, we see participants as partners who also invest a lot and have a lot to contribute to what we are learning,” he says.</p> <img alt="Students in Haiti reading books under a tree" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a80e5ca6-618d-4037-9059-2b100019e634" height="344" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/gcdwc_haiti_1.jpg" width="826" class="align-center" loading="lazy" /><h3> </h3> <h3><strong>Incubate. Implement. Improve.</strong></h3> <p>Nikhit D'Sa, assistant professor and director for research at the GC-DWC, says that a significant benefit of the GC-DWC’s approach to intervention science is that it allows for rapid, iterative improvements.</p> <p>“The iterative approach frees us from having to ‘solve’ a problem. Instead, it encourages us to incubate an idea with community partners and, after launching it, test out the components of it to see what is working. Then we can invest in what works and gradually develop its depth and scale.”</p> <p>“At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,” he explains, “we heard from mothers in the north of Haiti about their need for community. They felt very isolated. We ended up establishing what we call the Mothers’ Empowerment Initiative. It centered around phone calls. We called each week just to see how they were doing, to offer some conversation and connection."</p> <p>To see if the program was effective, researchers at the GC-DWC compared survey data two months in with survey data collected before it began. Much to their surprise, they found the intervention was not working as expected: mothers’ levels of stress were going up rather than coming down.</p> <p>“We went back and interviewed the mothers,” D’Sa says, “And we found that they enjoyed the relational component of phone calls, but that wasn’t enough. They wanted more connection. We heard mothers saying, ‘We need more resources in our community. I talk about problems, but I don't have anywhere to go after that.’”</p> <p>“Those conversations led us to create a parent ambassador program and a broader parent training initiative. We used it first in five communities in the north of Haiti. Then we improved it, and used it in 12 other communities in the south of Haiti. And now we have used what we have learned from these two rounds of implementation to deepen the content, improve the approach, and are using it in 15 different communities in the north” D’Sa says. “That's the iterative change process we work on. And we are trying to do it in a way that respects the communities that we work with and is also rapid enough for us to be flexible and make necessary changes. We have academic rigor to our work. We understand the science behind what might work. And we pair that with knowledge that comes from within the communities. This combination allows us to develop evidence-based approaches that are contextually appropriate”</p> <h3><strong>Seeing the Whole Child</strong></h3> <p>Last year, Boothby co-wrote <em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Invest-our-Youth-Conversations-Faith-based/dp/B0BZ2R6FBC/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">Invest in Our Youth</a></em> with Holy Cross priest Fr. Lou DelFra, C.S.C.. The book shares insights on child development and connects them to theology, particularly Catholic Social Teaching. Through the book, Boothby and DelFra aim to equip parents and others to draw on both their faith and on science-backed practices during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life.</p> <p>“Faith is an anchor point for parents raising kids in a Christian context,” Boothby says. “It can be very powerful to connect science to faith to help parents and others find ways to make it actionable.” In Haiti, for example, the GC-DWC works with local parish priests to integrate early childhood education materials into baptismal training.</p> <p>Combining faith with science in this way is emblematic of the approach the GC-DWC takes worldwide.</p> <p>“To create lasting change, you have to think about multiple levels at once.” He provides an example: improving a child’s work in school.</p> <p>“You can’t talk about improving academic performance without discussing how parents parent and how teachers teach. And those are both affected by the priests and parishes that serve the families and provide education. And all are affected by changes in policy by the government of the country. You have to look at the whole picture,” he says.</p> <p>For Boothby, Notre Dame provides an ideal vantage point for understanding and shaping that picture. “Notre Dame is at the nexus between academic rigor, service, and partnership,” he says, “That means researchers here are uniquely well positioned to close the gap between learning and doing. Intervention science is one of the best ways to bring the University to help the world solve big problems. We have the opportunity—and the responsibility—to show what it looks like to do it well.”</p> <hr /><p><strong>Contact</strong></p> <p>Brett Beasley / Writer and Editorial Program Manager<br /> Notre Dame Research / University of Notre Dame<br /> bbeasle1@nd.edu / +1 574-631-8183<br /> research.nd.edu / @UNDResearch</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-tags--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/187" hreflang="en">Neil Boothby</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/308" hreflang="en">Nikhit D&#039;Sa</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-initiative--news.html.twig * field--node--field-initiative.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-initiative.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-initiative field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/25" hreflang="en">Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:50:59 +0000 igilfoil@nd.edu 1753 at https://iei.nd.edu Advance Copy: Nikhit D'Sa https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/advance-copy-nikhit-dsa <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--news.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Advance Copy: Nikhit D&#039;Sa</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--news.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/59" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">igilfoil@nd.edu</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--news.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Tue, 08/22/2023 - 14:08</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-image-media--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <a href="/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/advance-copy-nikhit-dsa"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/2022-11/Nikhit%20D%27Sa.JPG?itok=TZcox3QD" width="600" height="600" alt="Nikhit D&#039;Sa" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-content-image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-author--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-author.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-author.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Audrey Scott</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-body--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-body.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-body.html.twig x field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-news-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Welcome to Advance Copy, a look at the people, perspectives, and scholarship of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, home to the University of Notre Dame’s initiatives advancing its long-standing commitment to the future of K-12 schools.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Meet: </span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nikhit D’Sa</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Just Launched:</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The LEGO Foundation has introduced the Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY) toolkit and the Teacher RePlay tool. These tools have been developed to support the use of play-based learning strategies in educators’ classrooms. Supported by the LEGO Foundation, Nikhit and the Global Center developed the Teacher RePlay tool in partnership with FHI 360, the Universidad de Los Andes School of Education in Colombia, the Institute for Informatics and Development in Bangladesh, and the Luigi Giussani Institute for Higher Education in Uganda. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Check out the tools here: </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://learningthroughplay.com/measuring-learning-through-play"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>https://learningthroughplay.com/measuring-learning-through-play</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Hails from:</span></span><strong><span><span> </span></span></strong></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Mumbai, India</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Notre Dame Initiative:</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Assistant Professor and Senior Associate Director For Research, Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Education: </span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University; M.Ed. and Ph.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Favorite place on Notre Dame’s campus: </span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>One place that has always struck me, and I try to visit it every time I come to campus, is the Log Chapel. I like the humility it invokes. It's good to have the reminder that we all start from very humble beginnings, and how, with all the people and support systems around us, we can grow into something amazing, a grand university like Notre Dame.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>What drew you to Notre Dame (for work)?</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>It felt like the perfect mix of doing practice and applied research within the backing and rigor of academia. So I really do feel sometimes like I sit at the nexus of practice and academic research. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Let’s jump into that nexus. Please tell us more about the project and website you just launched.</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Yes, but maybe a little history. For over three decades in the majority world—I use the term majority world to reference low- and middle-income countries in the global South—the focus has been on enrollment: getting children into primary schools. So there was a big push on building primary schools, tuition-free enrollment, learning materials, and ensuring there were sufficient teachers. And by and large, that was fairly successful; children have been able to access primary schools in large numbers. But slowly, as that has happened, what we've realized is we've been seeing children enroll for primary school, but a lot of them don't show up and a lot of them don't stay in primary school. And even if they stay, children aren’t learning some of the foundational skills. This has resulted in a conversation about how to move from access to quality education in the majority world. What does that actually mean for a child sitting in the classroom? </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>One area of focus has been on the use of play in classrooms to help children learn. The majority of classroom instruction in the majority world is still didactic, a lecture-based format. And it is an efficient mode of instruction in a context where a teacher is faced with 100-200 children in front of them. But as we move to talking more about the quality of education for children, there has been more focus on how children learn. Play has been one way to think of children being able to learn in environments that are socially interactive, where the material that they're learning is meaningful to them, where the act of learning is fun, and where the children are actively engaged in iterative tasks. Children need to try things, try them again, learn from their failures, and be actively engaged in this learning process. Play-based learning allows us to meet these five characteristics: joy, actively engaging, socially interactive, iterative, and meaningful.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>But once we start focusing on learning through play in the classroom, the questions we often get from teachers, from practitioners in the majority world, is how do we do it? In a context where we have very little training for teachers, where teachers are faced with large class sizes, and limited resources, how do we support teachers to use play-based learning strategies in their classrooms? This project was really born out of our consortium thinking about how we develop something that is not a prescriptive intervention or an evaluation of teachers' skills. We wanted to build a formative, reflective tool that teachers can use in the classroom to improve their learning through play practices. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Sounds like so much thoughtful work went into this. How will educators best use it? </span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>There is a paper-based and a digital app, and you can </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://learningthroughplay.com/measuring-learning-through-play/teacher-replay"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>find the app here</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>. But It's a formative app for teachers to reflect on their own practices of play in the classroom and get feedback and coaching tips on how to improve that.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>We also wanted to make sure that in doing all of this, we don't forget the voice of children and their role in the classroom. There is also a small, very quick focus group protocol that uses photos of the classroom where children get to reflect on the activity that the teacher facilitated. Did they have fun? Did they feel like it actually helped them to work with others, or they'd like to work alone? Were they able to connect it to some previous activity that they did or something in their lived experience? So teachers don't only get their own observations, but also children's reflections on the activity. The hope is that it becomes a reflective and enriching experience for teachers to use learning through play through this process.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span><span>You mentioned this project was really born out of a consortium. Please tell me a bit more about that.</span></span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>We worked with wonderful people in this international research consortium led by FHI 360. We also had partners Dr. Angela Pyle from the University of Toronto and Dr. Jennifer Zosh from the University of Pennsylvania Brandywine. Then we had partners in three of the countries where we pilot tested this work. We tested out the paper-based and app format iteratively over two pilots with teachers in Bangladesh, Uganda, and Columbia. Our partner in Bangladesh was the Institute for Informatics and Development. The partner in Uganda was the Luigi Giussani Institute for Higher Education, and the partner in Columbia was Universidad de Los Andes.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Who is the audience for this?</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>This formative tool or app can be used anywhere. It was primarily designed and developed for teachers in low-resource contexts in the majority world, in preschools and in primary schools, who are using learning through play. But it could be used by teachers in Canada and the U.S., as well. It's better if it is used along with a program or an approach that encourages teachers to use playful learning methodologies in their classrooms. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>What is your hope for this going forward?</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>My hope is that we develop more things like this that aren't evaluative of teachers. This was a major hurdle that we had to work through, especially at the start of this project. We've gotten into such an environment of evaluating teachers and trying to hold teachers responsible for every little thing, rather than how do we better support teachers. I'd like to see more things like this that can help support teachers rather than just evaluate them. The end goal is not getting data that we then use to figure out how teachers in a certain school of a certain country are doing, but rather, are our teachers finding this helpful to improve their practice?</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>Very cool! I like that. In visiting the site, there is so much to investigate… I like that there's an app people can download… I have one other question. Do you hear feedback from the teachers that have been using it?</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Overall, teachers have been very, very positive about being able to use this in their classrooms. We continue to monitor feedback through each iteration based on what is working for the educators in their classrooms.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>This sounds very hopeful. I’m looking forward to spending more time on the site, but I'm sure this is a giant step forward. Thank you so much for all you are doing!</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p> </p> <p><span><span><span><span><em><span>The LEGO Foundation’s Teacher RePlay tool project work was done in close collaboration with Hannah Chandler, Associate Director of Programs, GC-DWC and Shwetha Parvathy, Research and Learning Advisor, GC-DWC.</span></em></span></span></span></span></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-tags--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/308" hreflang="en">Nikhit D&#039;Sa</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-initiative--news.html.twig * field--node--field-initiative.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-initiative.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-initiative field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/25" hreflang="en">Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/178" hreflang="en">Institute for Educational Initiatives</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:08:37 +0000 igilfoil@nd.edu 1661 at https://iei.nd.edu Think. Pair. Share. with Nikhit D'Sa https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/think-pair-share-with-nikhit <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--news.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Think. Pair. Share. with Nikhit D&#039;Sa</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--uid--news.html.twig x field--node--uid.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--uid.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'username' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> <span lang="" about="/user/40" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">smcclure@nd.edu</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/user/username.html.twig' --> </span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--uid.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--created--news.html.twig x field--node--created.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field--created.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">Wed, 03/30/2022 - 12:44</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--node--created.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-image-media--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-image-media.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> <a href="/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/news/think-pair-share-with-nikhit"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image_style' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/content_image/public/2022-03/Nikhit%20D%27Sa_Headshot_2.jpg?itok=N7t9c_FM" width="600" height="600" alt="Nikhit D&#039;Sa_Headshot" typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-content-image" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-style.html.twig' --> </a> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/image-formatter.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-author--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-author.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-author.html.twig * field--string.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Audrey Scott</div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-body--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-body.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-body.html.twig x field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-news-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>From St. Patrick and his feast day to five-day cricket extravaganzas and adopting a human-centered approach to research application in the lived experience of children and teachers</em></p> <p><strong>Nikhit D’Sa</strong>, Assistant Professor and Senior Associate Director for Research at the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child discusses social emotional learning, teacher wellbeing, and the role of play in low-resource and fragile contexts, as well as, corned beef and cabbage, four-leaf clovers, and the Emerald Isle.</p> <p><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="232" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/5H9wfnZlnumHTjRWKc354u?utm_source=generator&amp;theme=0" style="border-radius:12px" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p class="text-align-center"><strong><a class="button btn btn-primary" href="https://iei.nd.edu/initiatives/global-center-for-the-development-of-the-whole-child/think-pair-share-transcript-with-0" target="_blank"><strong>Read the Transcript</strong></a></strong></p> <p class="text-align-center"> </p> <p><b>Notable Quotes</b></p> <ul><li> <p><em><strong>“That's what drew me to the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child. When the Center was first being set up, Neil Boothby, the director of the Center, approached me about it and we had this long conversation. What I saw was that he reflected those very same things that I was working towards. And so it became this symbiotic thing where we were working towards the same goals: an academic center that's focused on trying to understand resilience in this whole child development perspective. Academic was seen as synonymous with technical and hard to understand. And for me, that is so telling that we have these different silos. How do we do this work so that it's generative and not extractive? The center being based within the Institute for Educational Initiatives makes so much sense to me because that's the focus of IEI. It's about working with principals and teachers and training them, but also working with them in their careers, working with practitioners to make sense of how this research, how this "academic technical" thing actually works when you're standing in front of 30-odd students trying to teach them math or trying to teach them science, right? And so for me, that's what's meaningful, is being able to do that work and being a researcher trying to do that translation.”</strong></em></p> </li> <li> <p><em><strong>"’You're measuring the wrong thing.’ We were trying to evaluate this program, how children express their future, and we sat down with teachers. They said, "It's not about them knowing who they are. The struggle is figuring out who they will be tomorrow. They really don't know where they can even go and that's affecting where they are right now." And so we changed our way of measuring self-concept based on teachers' reflections that really what we needed to be doing is looking at future orientation. And so really, I think it is about valuing the fact that teachers have a wealth of knowledge, but are we able to incorporate it into the work that we're doing in a way that values and looks at their lived experience as a valuable point of information for these programs or these measures that we're working on.”</strong></em></p> </li> <li> <p><em><strong>“I can't help but be hopeful because of all of the kids that I've worked with, all of the adolescents, even after all that they've been through, they are still hopeful, they are still looking for that future, they're still trying to negotiate and find that future for themselves, so we have to be hopeful, we have to have our hope accompany theirs.”</strong></em></p>   <p> </p> </li> </ul></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field--text-long.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-news-tags--news.html.twig * field--node--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-news-tags.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/308" hreflang="en">Nikhit D&#039;Sa</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-initiative--news.html.twig * field--node--field-initiative.html.twig * field--node--news.html.twig * field--field-initiative.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-initiative field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/25" hreflang="en">Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/178" hreflang="en">Institute for Educational Initiatives</a></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/iei/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:44:05 +0000 smcclure@nd.edu 1347 at https://iei.nd.edu