This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I admit: I didn’t think it was that hard to get a survey translated. Over the past few weeks, I learned just how wrong I was — and ate a big piece of humble pie in the process. With colleagues, I’m working on […]
Lifting Up All Families’ Voices Around School Reopening
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. It’s easy to feel discouraged and upset when you turn on the news these days. So much is happening to progress the fight for racial equity and justice in this country that even a global pandemic seems to have taken the backseat. The […]
We have to do better.
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I still remember how scared I was during the 2015 riots/uprising in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray. I understood the pain and outrage in the black community over the death of a young, black man in police custody, but looking back, […]
Evidence for Engagement
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. It’s funny how things work out sometimes. Tamara Hamai and I have been sowing the seeds for our new program, Evidence for Engagement, for months. Our partnership happened so organically – a meeting of the minds for two evaluators who have experience with […]
The COVID Slide
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. Last week, I watched a powerful webinar from Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center about health inequity and COVID-19. One of the first speakers, Dr. Nwando Olayiwola, started to talk about vulnerable populations but quickly corrected herself. She called them, “populations that have been […]
What Will Be Your Story?
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. It’s not always easy to measure the impact of family and community engagement efforts. Some aspects of education — like test scores or report card grades — (notwithstanding the wide variety of controversies around their use) are pretty straightforward to measure. They’re already […]
How COVID-19 is Bringing Inequality to the Forefront
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. For the past few weeks, one image has been recurring in my mind. I keep picturing the living conditions of a student whose home I visited a few times when I was working as a community school coordinator in Baltimore. This student had […]
Adapting for Improvement in Light of COVID-19
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I naively said to my family a few weeks ago that I was lucky that my business wouldn’t be affected in the way that so many restaurants and other small businesses are by the pandemic. I couldn’t see then, but it has become […]
How Muay Thai Helped Me Re-Think Evaluation
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I’ve been training in Muay Thai (kickboxing) for a few years. I am always learning something new and being pushed outside of my comfort zone … and I love it. However, I am and have always been a perfectionist. It’s something I’ve struggled […]
Resolving Data Fears in Education
This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at engagewithdata.com. I had some great conversations this week with colleagues about establishing a culture of data in organizations and training organizations who are new to evaluation and data. These conversations reminded me about one of my favorite old blog posts, that I originally wrote […]