I am Dr. Rebekah Davis, a research associate at the Friday Institute (FI) for Educational Innovation. I was a teacher in public schools in North Carolina for almost twenty years before becoming a full-time member of the Program Evaluation and Education Research (PEER) group at the FI in 2021. I love that I have been …
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Hi Everyone! I am Cassandra Backman, the Eval4Action representative for the Eval4Action North America Hub and a EvalYouth North America Board Member. The Eval4Action North America Hub in collaboration with EvalYouth North America has been working to engage those in evaluation roles to involve youth and young emerging evaluators in their work. We strive to …
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We are Jenna Sethi, Ph.D., and Clare Eisenberg, M.Ed. of Informed Change. Informed Change is a consulting firm that helps youth-serving organizations tell their story of impact and use data for innovation. In our work, we use creative and participatory evaluation strategies that center youth voice. Hot Tips Our approach to qualitative research involves learning …
Hello! I’m Marcia M. Zorrilla, DrPH, MCHES and the Director of Positive Youth Development at the Stanford REACH Lab, Stanford School of Medicine. My years of experience in youth board development come from my work as a clinical health educator at a school-based health center where I established a Youth Advisory Board from the ground …
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Greetings! This is Monica Coleman at the Center for Research Evaluation (CERE) and doctoral student in Counselor Education and Supervision at the University of Mississippi. I am joined by my colleagues Shannon Sharp and Moira Ragan, evaluation associates at CERE. We are sharing our thoughts on using empathy—the ability to understand and share another person’s …
Hello! I am Hannah Patterson, the Evaluation Manager at Camp Fire National Headquarters. Camp Fire National Headquarters has embarked on an initiative with the goal of ensuring that all youth participating in overnight camp feel welcome, emotionally affirmed and physically comfortable. Our evaluations for this project centered on empowering youth to share their own program …
Hi, I’m Sarah Jonson (Technical Advisor for Youth Agency and Engagement, IYF). At IYF, engaging young people across the project life cycle, from activity design to measurement, evaluation, research and learning (MERL), is one way we practice inclusion and honor our commitment to youth engagement and youth-led evaluation. To ensure youth participation is meaningful, we …
Greetings. We’re Susan Igras (Senior Technical Advisor at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health and occasional Consultant) and Ousséni Kinda (Monitoring and Evaluation Manager at the Norwegian Refugee Council in Nigeria). These past few years, we have teamed up to promote youth-led participatory evaluation in West and Central Africa, drawing from our own experiences supporting …
Hello Evaluators! Hello Evaluators! Our names are Christina Koumoutsidis and Charlotte Schwass and we are two research assistants part of a group of educational evaluators. We are writing to share our experiences collaborating with youth on a school-community mental health and well-being (MHWB) inquiry. For the past three years, we have been involved in an …
We are Deacon Dzierzawski (President) and Mary Ann Wojton (VP of Research) from Epiphany Community Services. We have worked with Sandy Rayhons (Director), Allies for Substance Abuse Prevention (ASAP) in Hancock County, Iowa, on an annual Youth Summit for eight years. We would like to share some tips on organizing and implementing this youth summit. …
