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

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 8, 2014 July 5, 2014

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

1 Comment / Uncategorized / July 7, 2014 July 5, 2014

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

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 6, 2014 July 8, 2014

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!

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / July 5, 2014 July 5, 2014

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

2 Comments / Uncategorized / July 2, 2014 June 29, 2014

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

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / June 21, 2014 June 20, 2014

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

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 14, 2014 June 14, 2014

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

1 Comment / Uncategorized / June 12, 2014 June 13, 2014

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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Jordan Slice on LucidChart for Free Flow Chart Construction

2 Comments / Uncategorized / June 8, 2014 June 7, 2014

Hi everyone! I’m Jordan Slice – a Research Specialist with Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. Not long ago I wrote an aea365 post about how being a creator informs being an evaluator. As my original post may have made obvious, I’m a very visual person. That being said, I have …

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