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WERA 2024 Annual Conference
Keynote Presenters
Thursday Keynote: Dr. Caryn S. Ward
Creating Enabling Conditions for Innovation & Implementation Teaching and learning keep evolving and changing to meet the needs of new student generations. As our practice evolves, the systems and processes supporting them need to evolve and change as well. However, our systems often lag in change. How can we as leaders create the enabling conditions and systemic change needed to support our educators evolving practice to obtain equitable outcomes for our students? We will strive to answer this question using the sciences of innovation and implementation and provide practical actions leaders can apply to support innovation within their local context.
 Dr. Caryn Sabourin Ward is a scientist-practitioner with more than 15 years of leadership in implementation and scaling of evidence-based practices in K-12 education. Dr. Ward has expertise in the field of implementation science and successfully applied the practices and principles to K-12 education as well as other fields including early learning, child welfare, and public health. Much of Dr. Ward’s work in recent years has been applied implementation practice and research to support the use and scaling of evidence to improve outcomes for students experiencing poverty, Black students, Latino/a students, English Learners, and Students with Disabilities. As Director for the National Implementation Research Network, Dr. Ward served as the Principal Investigator for federally funded national technical assistance centers and mixed methods experimental implementation studies. Currently, Dr. Ward is a director of the Implementation Science Research and Practice program at RTI, International. Friday Keynote: Kristina Ishmael
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