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¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Week: Lessons in Culturally Responsive Evaluation from the Executive Board by Nicole Robinson, Emily Connors, Kate Westaby, Tiffine Cobb, Regina Lowery, and Elise Ahn

Hi! We are Nicole Robinson, Emily Connors, Kate Westaby, Tiffine Cobb, Regina Lowery, and Elise Ahn and we’re board members of ¡Milwaukee Evaluation! Inc., the Wisconsin statewide AEA affiliate. As an affiliate and professional development collaborative of Wisconsin-based evaluators, we have three goals: To promote the science of evaluation Provide networking and capacity building opportunities …

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Labor Day Week: Is the concept of diversity obscuring your evaluation? By Salima Bhimani

Hello community of evaluators. I’m Salima Bhimani, Founder and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Relational. Relational offers research and evaluation and consulting and education services to organizations, companies and institutions. My focus as an evaluator and researcher over the last two decades have been on addressing bias, discrimination and barriers faced by marginalized …

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CP TIG Week: Community Psychology & Evaluations of Programs Serving Marginalized Groups by Ann Smith Pruitt

Aloha! I am Anna Smith Pruitt, a community and cultural psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa. I currently work with Dr. Jack Barile and his Ecological Determinants Lab evaluating community mental health and housing programs that serve people experiencing severe mental illness and homelessness on O‘ahu. These program participants are medically …

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Is the concept of diversity obscuring your evaluation? by Salima Bhimani

Hello community of evaluators. I’m Salima Bhimani, Founder and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Relational. Relational offers research and evaluation and consulting and education services to organizations, companies and institutions. My focus as an evaluator and researcher over the last two decades have been on addressing bias, discrimination and barriers faced by marginalized …

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LA RED TIG Week: Polycephaly and the Evaluator of Color by Wanda Casillas

My name is Wanda Casillas, and I am an evaluator with Deloitte Consulting, LLC. I am a member of LA RED, the MIE TIG, and an alum of AEA’s GEDI Program. I have been privileged to be under the care of AEA’s community since I was born into the evaluation world. I have been mentored, …

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LA RED TIG Week: Latinx Evaluator Presence and Leadership by Lisa Aponte-Soto

¡Saludos! I am Lisa Aponte-Soto co-chair of the Latina/o Responsive Evaluation Discourse (LA RED) TIG, AEA GEDI alumni, and National Program Deputy Director of RWJF New Connections at Equal Measure. This week LA RED highlights ways to advance the presence and leadership of Latinx evaluators and researchers in AEA to foster culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) …

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THE WISCONSIN IDEA IN ACTION: Building a university-based evaluation community of practice

I am Amy Hilgendorf, Associate Director for Engaged Research at the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the past three years, I have had the pleasure of convening a community of practice of evaluation practitioners here on our campus. What started with two graduate students and their interest in …

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Exploring a New Handbook for the “Quiet Revolution” by Sheila B Robinson

Hello All! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a great offer on a (literally!) huge new resource! Lesson Learned: The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research was a favorite grad school text. This blog article’s titular phrase “quiet revolution” comes from Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln’s preface to my 2nd edition (c. …

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CREATE Week: It is Time to Call Out Alternative-Facts-Based Evaluation Practice by John Fischetti

This is John Fischetti, Dean of Education/Head of School, at the University of Newcastle in Australia. We are one of Australia’s largest providers of new teachers and postgraduate degrees for current educators. We are committed to equity and social justice as pillars of practice, particularly in evaluation and assessment. Hot Tips: We are in a climate …

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CREATE Week: Introduction of CREATE Week and Tips for Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Educational Evaluation by Jim Van Haneghan

My name is Jim Van Haneghan.  I am a Professor in the Department of Professional Studies at the University of South Alabama and Past President of the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teaching Effectiveness (CREATE).  CREATE is an organization focused on both educational assessment and educational program evaluation in the service of effective …

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