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Cultural Competence Week: Asma Ali and Anthony Heard on Beyond the Findings: Reflections on the Culturally Competent Evaluator’s Role

Asma Ali and Anthony Heard, Professional Development Committee co-chairs for the Chicagoland Evaluation Association (CEA), say “Hello!” from the Windy City. CEA’s professional development presentations in 2014 have focused on various strategies employed by professional evaluators to work with their clients and stakeholders. Defining “culture” to include environmental context, attendees agreed that evaluators have a …

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Cultural Competence Week: ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! on Dissemination of Cultural Competence

Hi! We are Nicole Robinson, Laura Pinsoneault, Nicky Bowman, and Emily Connors and we’re founding members of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation!. ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! is located in Wisconsin and is a professional development and field building collaborative of Wisconsin-based evaluators. We are also the statewide AEA affiliate. Our current field building initiatives center on diverse representation among evaluation …

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Cultural Competence Week: Dominica McBride on The Importance of Cultural Competence

Hi, my name is Dominica McBride and I’m a member of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence in Evaluation Dissemination Working Group, along with CEO of Become, Inc., a nonprofit using culturally responsive program evaluation as a tool in realizing social justice. I also teach Diversity at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Lesson …

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Cultural Competence Week: Rupu Gupta and Tamara Bertrand Jones on Cultural Competence Working Group Evaluation

Hello, we are Rupu Gupta and Tamara Bertrand Jones, members of the AEA Public Statement on Cultural Competence Dissemination Working Group (CCWG). We lead the Research and Evaluation subgroup and are developing strategies to understand how the larger working group is achieving its goals. Lesson Learned: Purpose of Research and Evaluation subgroup. We started our work within this subgroup …

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Sheila B Robinson on Fast, Free, User-Friendly Eval Content at Your Fingertips!

Hi! Sheila B Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a few favorite eval sites with a broad range of content and free resources. Due to space limitations, I’ve left out descriptions of the most well known, but I do have them all and more here. Lesson Learned: Start with: AEA, Better Evaluation, Centers for Disease …

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Heather King on Tips for Working With School District Research Review Boards

Hi!  I’m Heather King, an Associate Project Director at Outlier Research & Evaluation at the University of Chicago. I’d like to share some tips for applying to conduct research in school districts. Research review boards (RRBs) and institutional review boards (IRBs) are tasked with ensuring that research and evaluation projects meet the requirements for protecting …

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Dan McDonnell on 4 Recent Social Media Changes You May Have Missed

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager at the American Evaluation Association (AEA). In the fast-paced world of social media, things are always changing. Just as soon as you stop to take a breath, Facebook has tweaked its algorithm again. Or Twitter has updated its design. Recently, there have been a …

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Best of aea365: Sheila B Robinson on Being an AEA365 Sponsored Weeks Archaeologist!

Hello! Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. I originally composed this post in May of 2013, but feel it deserves another go as I’m feverishly queuing up some fabulous sponsored weeks for summer. Keep up with aea365 through weekly Headlines and Resources, the new and improved AEA website, and AEA newsletters. I work …

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Dan McDonnell on Using Buffer to Save Time While Tweeting

Hello, my name is Dan McDonnell and I am a Community Manager for the American Evaluation Association. Twitter, and social media in general, can be quite the rabbit hole, into which minutes and hours have the odd habit of just disappearing. Luckily, there are plenty of social media tools that can help you organize, prioritize and schedule …

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Fred Nickols on Simplified Strategic Planning

Hello, I am Fred Nickols, a consultant, writer, former executive, and currently Managing Partner of Distance Consulting LLC.  I fancy myself a toolmaker to knowledge workers and part of that involves eliminating unnecessary complexity.  Nowhere is that more needed than in strategic planning. The topic of strategic planning is an absolute quagmire of competing and …

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