I am Sandra Ayoo, recent graduate of the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. I started practicing program evaluation in 2008, but didn’t know it was a professional field of practice until I discovered my evaluation community of practice at the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) annual spring training in 2012. This became …
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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 …
Greetings from Oregon. My name is Clare Strawn and I am an independent consultant primarily interested in community building of all kinds. I have had the privilege of helping to launch and evaluate multiple Communities of Practice with adult educators, NSF STEM grantees, and international STEM innovators. Hoping to be a good citizen in the …
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My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. The purpose of the Evaluation CoP is to support people within the Cooperative Extension system who are interested in evaluating Extension programs. While the focus of our group is supporting Extension evaluation efforts, the information is …
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My name is David Brewer, Senior Extension Associate for the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University. Professional development isn’t always about listening to a presenter, watching a slide presentation, and asking a few questions. True learning with measurable student impact in mind involves relationship building Lesson Learned: Creating our own Evidence. You don’t have …
Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …
I’m Donna Campbell, Director of Professional Development Capacity Building at the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The Professional Development Leadership Academy (PDLA) is a three-year long curriculum of training and back-home application for school and district teams based on the Learning Forward Professional Learning Standards, derived from research. Lesson Learned: Legislation supports evaluation. I’ve learned …
Hello, I am Barb Goldsby, Interim Director of the Exceptional Student Services Unit and Supervisor of the Secondary Transition Services Team from the Colorado Department of Education. We truly value meaningful evaluations of our training, technical assistance and professional development. With the help of the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), we have taken …
Greetings, we are Anne D’Agostino, of Compass Evaluation and Research, and Jennifer Coyle and June Gothberg representing the National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC). We would like to share tips and lessons learned about building an evaluation community of practice. As part of their agreement with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special …
