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This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Looking for an evaluation related cartoon for your next presentation or blog post? Well, over the last decade I’ve drawn hundreds. In this post, I’m sharing 111 of my evaluation cartoons, including a lot of community favorites. Please feel free to save to […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. So I received a little constructive feedback after last week’s post. Just be mindful of the voices you aren’t hearing. For some with ill family members, homeschooling small children, navigating aging parents in place, on top of maintaining stable income — finding time […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. This post is my plea to you. Please start blogging. As conferences cancel… It doesn’t take too many clicks to see that COVID-19 is impacting our field’s ability to communicate with one another. All you really have to do is visit Better Evaluation’s […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. If only we had known we were vastly underprepared for a global pandemic… I say that tongue-in-cheek. Of course we knew. President after president was briefed with data and evidence showing the potential devastation a pandemic could have on our global society. In […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. There are all sorts of purposeful goal-driven people and organizations. Intent on following a path towards a destination that is clear in their minds. They might have even put the destination down on paper, charting the course and knowing the way forward. But […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. In 2018, 87 years after it was completed, Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon was released to the public. Reading the book today the story of Cudjo Lewis feels completely relevant to our contemporary times. It is heartbreaking, illuminating, and honest. In the way she […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Methods and frameworks are how we turn our professional actions and philosophies into practical strategies. Once formed, they can be shared and shaped by other hands. They can evolve and grow. They can sometimes take on a life of their own. Methods and […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. This post is a day late as recent events hit me with blogger’s block. I didn’t want to just write another post, seemingly oblivious to the very real global pandemic that is on everyone’s mind. But I didn’t just want to add to […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. “Let’s take a shortcut back to the car.” I was 19 and hiking through the woods with one my best friends. We were both eagle scouts, and had spent much of our young lives wandering through the woods. The area we were exploring […]

This is an Eval Central archive copy, find the original at freshspectrum.com. Describing how a process works is valuable for two reasons. It forces you to make sure you know how it works. Then it forces you to take the reader through the same sequence of ideas and deductions that made the process clear to […]