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Systems Week: Aimee Sickels on Collaborative Leadership in Systems Work

My name is Aimee Sickels and I am the Principal Evaluator and owner of Custom Evaluation Services, an independent evaluation consulting business. I am also currently working on a Ph.D. in Social Work at the University of South Carolina. I am studying about systems approaches to solving some of our most complex social problems. What I’ve learned …

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Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio on Collaborative Inquiry

Hello, we are Katherine Tibbetts and Wendy Kekahio, and both program evaluators doing work within the field of education in Hawai`i. Our work involves using indigenous ways of teaching and learning to inform culturally relevant and responsive ways of conducting research and evaluation studies. One of our recent projects involved working with Hawaiian-focused charter schools …

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Deshonna Collier-Goubil on Evaluator-Practitioner Collaboration

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Graduate Student and New Evaluators / August 12, 2010 July 19, 2010

My name is Deshonna Collier-Goubil and I am a young scholar (newly minted PhD) who has had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with seasoned evaluators and practitioners throughout my graduate education. Most recently I collaborated with a group of practitioners and evaluators to contribute a chapter in a newly released volume specifically written for young …

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CAP Week: Kirsten Rewey on Developing a Research Design With College Access Programs

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, College Access Programs / July 20, 2010 July 27, 2010

My name is Kirsten Rewey and I am a Senior Research and Evaluation Associate at ACET, Inc. Two years ago ACET was selected to provide evaluation services for a federally-funded Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) implemented by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE). As part of the services, OHE …

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Cheri Hoffman on Youth-Led Evaluation

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 14, 2010 December 21, 2011

I’m Cheri Hoffman, a program evaluator with Centerstone Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, evaluating two System of Care grants for children’s mental health. The values of a System of Care demand that the entire process, including the evaluation, be youth-guided. We recently trained selected members of the program’s youth council in research and program evaluation …

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Sally Honeycutt on Developing Logic Models

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 12, 2010 June 29, 2010

My name is Sally Honeycutt, and I am the Evaluation Team Lead for the Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC). The EPRC primarily works in rural Southwest Georgia and focuses on strategies to make rural home and neighborhood environments more supportive of cancer prevention behaviors, including physical activity and healthy eating. We also provide technical assistance …

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Beverly Parsons on Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice (CLIPs)

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 1, 2010 May 27, 2010

My name is Beverly Parsons and I’m the executive director of InSites, a non-profit research, evaluation, and planning organization. We use a systems orientation and conduct evaluations related to education, social services, community change, and health. I’m an AEA board member. I have a tip about how to build evaluation capacity through a type of …

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Cassandra O’Neill on Collaboration and Mental Models

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 30, 2010 April 28, 2010

My name is Cassandra O’Neill and I’ve been a consultant for the past 10 years. I’m a member of a network of consultants and coaches called Wholonomy Consulting. I’m also the President-Elect for the Arizona Evaluation Network and a member of the AEA Local Affiliate Council. A theme in my work is using effective engagement …

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David Fetterman on Google

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 18, 2010 April 29, 2010

Hi. I am David Fetterman, President and CEO of Fetterman & Associates (with 25 years of experience at Stanford University). I work in many areas of evaluation including as you may know – empowerment evaluation. One of my primary concerns is fostering collaboration in evaluation. My Hot Tip and Cool Trick both spring from the …

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Cassandra O’Neill on 7 Norms of Collaboration

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / March 11, 2010 April 29, 2010

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