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MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis Week: Welcome to the Revolution! MN IBPOC in Evaluation Community of Praxis by co-founders Tia Bastian, Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Anne Gomez, and Vidhya Shanker

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 23, 2021

Hello! We are Tia Bastian, Carolina De La Rosa Mateo, Anne Gomez, and Vidhya Shanker. Minnesota is home to: some of the largest numbers of  foundations, nonprofits, and evaluators—including two of the most influential—per capita; some of the largest urban indigenous populations and some of the largest refugee populations; and some of the worst racial …

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Overcoming underrepresentation of women in remote data collection by Jess Littman

1 Comment / Uncategorized / May 15, 2021

Hi! I’m Jess Littman, MSc in M&E candidate at American University and Evaluation Associate at Educate!, a social enterprise which works to prepare youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We’re running a series of internal evaluations of our new distance learning models. These were piloted in Uganda, initially in response …

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gLOCAL Evaluation Week: Connecting People, Places, and Ideas by Shaha Zehra & Leonardo Lemes

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / May 15, 2021

We are Shaha Zehra, Evaluation Consultant and Leonardo Lemes, Senior Operations Officer, both writing from the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group and affiliated with the Global Evaluation Initiative (GEI). In June 2019, our partner, the CLEAR Initiative launched gLOCAL Evaluation Week with an aim to reach more people in more places by fostering local, regional, and global knowledge …

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PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Evaluative Thinking in Teacher Mentoring by Leigh M. Tolley

6 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 1, 2021

Hi everyone! I’m Leigh M. Tolley, Past Chair of the PreK-12 Educational Evaluation Topical Interest Group (TIG) and Assistant Professor, Secondary Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette). Since 2019, I have been the Program Co-Coordinator of UL Lafayette’s Mentor Teacher Training Program. Through this program, we recruit, train, and support teachers …

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PreK-12 Ed Eval TIG Week: Making the most of evaluation in a virtual space by Sondra LoRe

4 Comments / Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / May 1, 2021

Hello, I’m Sondra LoRe, Ph.D. Since 2014, I have been learning from conducting focus groups, interviews, and observations with educators and students in virtual spaces. The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly amplified the use of virtual spaces for evaluation. Before joining the National Institute for STEM Evaluation & Research (NISER), I worked as an educator evaluator, …

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EPE TIG Week: Environmental Evaluation and Life in a Post-Vaccine World by Dylan Galos

6 Comments / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 17, 2021

Hi I’m Dylan Galos. I’m an evaluator at the Minnesota Department of Health. My work focuses on community health improvement and health equity in COVID-19. A year ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19, illness caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2, a global pandemic. Mitigation measures included closures of non-essential businesses, travel restrictions, and mandates …

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Making the M&E game worth the candle: How Skillful Facilitation of Staff Engagement Can Unlock the Benefits of Systematic Evaluation Practice by Jennifer (Jenny) Cohen & Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / March 28, 2021

We are Jennifer (Jenny) Cohen and Shira Ben-Sasson Furstenberg of the New Israel Fund. Lessons Learned: Like many strategic foundations, NIF continues to invest sustained efforts to create and more systematically use M&E tools for managing well and increasing impact. These are starting to generate observable, positive and meaningful outcomes, which could never have been …

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white antiracism & racial healing: the journey is long by Matteah Spencer Reppart

2 Comments / Uncategorized / March 13, 2021

I am Matteah Spencer Reppart, visionary leader and principal consultant with Proponents LLC.  Connected to my evaluation practice, I engage in work related to values orientations, systems and structures, and creating conditions for greater insight and awareness. As a white person embarking on the never-ending journey of unraveling myself from white-supremacy, I recognize five pivotal …

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FIE TIG Week: Evaluation at a crossroads: Time to choose who we want to be and how we think by Vidhya Shanker

4 Comments / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 12, 2021

Greetings from Vidhya Shanker, an interdependent evaluation scholar and practitioner. With the new year, the inauguration, and the launch of vaccinations, it’s easy to let diverse optics fool us into thinking that we’ve turned a corner and lull us back to business as usual. This liberal narrative of progress—from which evaluation and its surrounding industries …

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FIE TIG Week: Trying out a sex, gender, and intersectionality lens for evaluations by Peter Czerny, Ashley Zelmer and Robert Tkaczyk

1 Comment / Feminist Issues in Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 6, 2021

Hello from Canada! We are Peter Czerny, Ashley Zelmer and Robert Tkaczyk, three federal government evaluators with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and Health Canada. Our evaluation team is in the middle of a journey to incorporate “Sex and Gender-Based Analysis Plus” (SGBA+) into our practice. Since 2015, the Government of Canada has …

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