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ICCE TIG Week: Conducting Evaluations in a Foreign Language: Tips for Effective Interlingual Communication by Jessie Tannenbaum

I’m Jessie Tannenbaum, Advisor in the Research, Evaluation, and Learning Office at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative*, here to share tips and ideas for conducting evaluation work in foreign languages. First Things First: Budget Having a good interpreter is as important as having a good evaluator, and interpretation (verbal) and translation (written) …

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Sheila B Robinson on a Great FREE Tool for Learning a New Idioma, Langue, Teanga or Lingvo!

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a fabulous learning opportunity for evaluators who work with linguistically diverse stakeholders (and I’ll bet that’s most of us!), and are concerned with cultural competence in our evaluation work. Duolingo is a crowdsourced, engaging, gamified, free language learning platform whose “ultimate goal is to give …

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BLP TIG Week: Carla Forrest on Using Appreciative Approaches to Drive Workplace Performance

Greetings! I am Carla Forrest, a staff member and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. My professional work involves configuration management of scientific and engineering knowledge and information. My passion, however, lies in using appreciative approaches to improve workplace performance. Rad Resource Recently I read “The 5 Languages of …

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