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Internal Evaluation TIG Week: Steering Evaluation within a New Organization by Rhonda Williams

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / April 27, 2023

Hello! My name is Rhonda Williams, PhD., and I am the Director of Impact & Evaluation for Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas in Dallas. In this new role, I lead a small team working across the organization, focusing on the impact and evaluation of many programs and various strategic initiatives. As someone still growing in this field, I still search for tips and advice from others to improve my professional knowledge and skills. Here is an older post I developed in my first evaluation role; now, I want to add some tips for a new organization.

Internal Evaluation TIG Week: Why the Beginning of a Meeting Matters by Lenka Berkowitz

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / April 27, 2023

Hi, my name is Lenka Berkowitz (she/her) and I’m an Evaluation Manager for the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a national nonprofit that works with the school community to promote healthy environments for young people. I’d like to talk to you about virtual meetings that we have in our evaluation (and other) work and what I believe can set a good meeting apart from the rest – the beginning. This is not a blog post about how to run a good meeting but about how to use the first 5-10 minutes to connect with the rest of the meeting participants and why that matters.

Internal Evaluation TIG Week: Strengthening Learning Culture and Building Evaluation Capacity Before Measuring Impact by Rafiqah Mustafaa

3 Comments / Internal Evaluation / April 27, 2023

Hello! I’m Rafiqah Mustafaa, PhD., and I serve as the Assistant Director of Learning and Improvement at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). In this blog, I detail how our internal evaluation team (Dr. Ally Skoog-Hoffman, our Senior Director, Research and Learning, and I) has prioritized strengthening our organization’s learning culture and evaluation capacity so we can effectively conduct internal evaluation.

Internal Evaluation TIG Week: Evaluation for an Introspective Organization by Boris Volkov

Leave a Comment / Internal Evaluation / April 27, 2023

Welcome to the AEA365 Internal Evaluation (IE) week! I’m Boris Volkov, the IE TIG Chair, working as the Director of Monitoring & Evaluation at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and a faculty at the Institute for Health Informatics and the School of Public Health of the University of Minnesota. During this week, our evaluation colleagues from around the country will share their tips and lessons learned related to internal evaluation (IE) and beyond.

Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Building Stronger Climate Resilience – One Conversation at a Time by Lisa Yeager

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

I’m Lisa Yeager, a program manager/business person at a leading cancer research center by day, with 10+ years moonlighting as an environmental educator. Recently, I joined forces with colleagues from the Applied Improvisation Network to form the Yes and Nature Collaborative and the Climate Conversations project. The collaborative brings together an interdisciplinary team working on …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Principles in Practice: Using Mixed Methods Measurements for Principles-focused Evaluation in Agroecosystems Research by Greta Landis

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Hey everyone! I’m Greta Landis (she / her), an Evaluation Specialist based in Teejop (Madison, Wisconsin) at the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Program Co-Chair of the Environmental Program Evaluation TIG. My work is informed by Dr. Michael Quinn Patton’s ‘principles-focused evaluation’ approach, which provides a set of strategies to develop …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Ideas for a Sustainable and Eco-Centered Evaluation Practice by Kristi Lekies

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Hello!  I’m Kristi Lekies, Associate Professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University where my position includes teaching, research on human-nature interactions across the life span, and evaluation.  I’ve been an evaluator for over 25 years and have worked on projects focused on early childhood education, afterschool programs, foster …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: The Need for Evaluation in Environmental Public Policy Curriculum by Caitlyn Leary

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Hi, my name is Caitlyn Leary. I am a first-year Master of Public Policy student at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where I am pursuing a degree concentration in Energy and Environmental Policy.  In my experience, the study of public policy focuses heavily on the beginning of the policy cycle developed by Eóin Young and …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Putting Assets-based Approaches into Action in Environmental Education Evaluation by Melanie Giangreco, Megan Ennes, and Rupu Gupta

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Happy Earth Week! We are Dr. Megan Ennes, Assistant Curator of Museum Education at the Florida Museum of Natural History and head of the Museum Education Research Group (MERG); Melanie Giangreco, evaluator, MERG team member, and graduate student at the University of Florida; and Dr. Rupu Gupta, Owner of Rupu Gupta Consulting and Program Chair …

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Environmental Program Evaluation TIG Week: Using Photovoice to Promote Healthy Equity in Environmental Justice by Dawn Valentine

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation / April 10, 2023

Howdy! I’m Dawn Valentine, founder of the Variable Scoop. I would like to share how photovoice can support community-based initiatives for environmental justice with health outcomes. We use tools that empower people who are typically excluded from decision-making processes and education to raise awareness of social and environmental issues. In addressing environmental injustice and environmental …

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