Professional Development

Liz Zadnik on Balancing plates: Finding a space for evaluation among everything else I have to do (A Practitioner’s Story)

Hi there, Liz Zadnik here, new(ish) member of the aea365 curating team and sometimes Saturday poster. Last year Sheila posed the question What is it that YOU would like to read about on this blog? One of the responses resonated with me, as it represented my relationship with evaluation as a professional: I would love to …

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MNEA Week: Leah Goldstein Moses on How Our Team Evaluated the Value of the AEA Conference

My name is Leah Goldstein Moses, founder and CEO of the Improve Group. As a lifelong learner and cheerleader for evaluation, I was completely geeked out when I learned that the 2012 AEA conference was going to be right in my city. And as the leader of a growing team of evaluators, I knew I …

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Chad Green on Context -Specific Evaluation of School-wide Initiatives

I’m Chad Green, Program Analyst at Loudoun County Public Schools in Ashburn, VA. For over seven years I’ve served as an internal evaluator of instructional initiatives sponsored by central office administrators. Do you have an interest in understanding school-based professional development from a sociocultural learning perspective?  Read on! Years ago I evaluated two school-wide improvement …

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Cheryl Poth on Building Capacity for Mixed Methods Evaluation

I’m Cheryl Poth and I am an assistant professor at the Centre for Applied Studies in Measurement and Evaluation in the department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. My area of research is focused on how developmental evaluators build evaluation capacity within their organizations. My use of …

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PD CoP Week: David Brewer on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 5: Student Learning Outcomes

My name is David Brewer, Senior Extension Associate for the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University. Professional development isn’t always about listening to a presenter, watching a slide presentation, and asking a few questions.  True learning with measurable student impact in mind involves relationship building Lesson Learned: Creating our own Evidence. You don’t have …

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PD CoP Week: Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 4 – Participant’s Use Of New Knowledge And Skills

Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …

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PD CoP Week: Donna Campell on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 3 – Organizational Support and Learning

I’m Donna Campbell, Director of Professional Development Capacity Building at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The Professional Development Leadership Academy (PDLA) is a three-year long curriculum of training and back-home application for school and district teams based on the Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards, derived from research. Lesson Learned: Legislation supports evaluation. I’ve learned …

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PD CoP Week: Barb Goldsby on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 2 – Participant Learning

Hello, I am Barb Goldsby, Interim Director of the Exceptional Student Services Unit and Supervisor of the Secondary Transition Services Team from the Colorado Department of Education. We truly value meaningful evaluations of our training, technical assistance and professional development.  With the help of the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), we have taken …

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PD CoP Week: Rashell Bowerman on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level One: Participant Reactions

Hello, I am Rashell Bowerman, Educational Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education. I formally worked as a doctoral associate for the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) and continue to participate in NSTTAC’s Evaluating Professional Development Community of Practice. NSTTAC is committed to data-based decision making and views evaluation as a tool for …

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