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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

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / August 21, 2012 August 22, 2012

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

3 Comments / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / August 20, 2012 August 22, 2012

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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PD CoP Week: Anne D’Agostino, Jennifer Coyle, and June Gothberg on Building a Cross-Community Collaborative Evaluation Community of Practice

Leave a Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 19, 2012 August 20, 2012

Greetings, we are Anne D’Agostino, of Compass Evaluation and Research, and Jennifer Coyle and June Gothberg representing the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC). We would like to share tips and lessons learned about building an evaluation community of practice. As part of their agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special …

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Jane Eppard on the Importance of Reporting Evaluation Results

2 Comments / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Nonprofits and Foundations Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / August 2, 2012 July 30, 2012

Greetings, I am Jane Eppard, Vice-Chair of the Family Hope Foundation. We founded FHF in 2009 with a mission to invest in children with special needs through family support, engaging community experts, advocacy through collaboration, and financial assistance to provide access to therapies. In a very short amount of time we have gained community support …

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CC Week: Karen Anderson on Integrating Cultural Competency into Organizations

1 Comment / Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, International and Cross-cultural Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 4, 2012 May 27, 2013

I’m Karen Anderson, AEA’s Diversity Coordinator Intern, and in this role I support AEA’s diversity programs, TIGs, and the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group. The baton has been passed from the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Task Force, the Statement developers, to the Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group …

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IE Week: Ann Emery on Why I love Internal Evaluation

1 Comment / Internal Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 24, 2012 May 25, 2012

Greetings aea365 community! I’m Ann Emery and I’ve been both an external evaluator and an internal evaluator. Today I’d like to share a few of the reasons why I absolutely love internal evaluation. Lessons Learned: Internal evaluation is a great career option for fans of utilization-focused evaluation. It gives me opportunities to: Meet regularly with Chief Operating Officers and Executive …

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Ryan Watkins on Staying Current

1 Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 20, 2012 June 17, 2012

I’m Ryan Watkins and I am an associate professor at George Washington University. Among other things, I maintain the needs assessment resource website Gap In Results. My topic today is how I remain current with research and practice in the many fields associated with needs assessment. Hot Tips: Start a Virtual Book Club. Book clubs help me …

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Allison Titcomb and Lenay Dunn on Evaluation Book Clubs

Leave a Comment / Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 17, 2012 May 25, 2012

We’re Allison Titcomb, President of ALTA Consulting in Tucson, and Lenay Dunn, Associate Director for Research and Evaluation, University Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness, Arizona State University Maybe, like us, you’ve thought about joining a book club, but there never seems to be enough time. How about if you combined an engaging and fun …

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AZENet Week: Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch on Lessons from the Trenches: Designing an Evaluation Website

1 Comment / Extension Education Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 14, 2012 May 25, 2012

We’re Amy Schaller and Bryna Koch, Evaluation Specialists at the University of Arizona, Cooperative Extension Services. How do you support an inaugural cross-site evaluation with a national initiative while incorporating technology and building grantee capacity? This was the charge of the CYFERnet (Children, Youth, and Families Evaluation & Research Network) Evaluation Team at the University …

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