Empowering Teachers and the Community through Expectations of Success
Educational reform will be a random walk of failed bromides until we embrace what is at the heart of Finlands success: the adult expectations for childrens' success have more impact than any environmental limitation the students might have. In our communities, our mission must start where Finland IS: all...
Lesson from the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit
I am constantly struck by how destructive blame is to the ability to achieve impact and how terribly hard it is to banish blame from our most basic human interactions.
What's the collective difference being made by outcome measurement?
I wonder. Have we have been hoodwinked. co-opted, and led to the altar of a false god – or at the very least, an imperfect one?
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #1 – Welcome and Opening provides an overview of the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop and identifies the “burning questions” that it will explore. The framework for establishing a Learning Community amongst participants is also introduced.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #2 – Understanding Community Change & Outcomes from the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop explores the complex nature of community change; how patterns of community behavior can be changed; and, dominant pathways for how this change occurs.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
Module #3 – Developing a Framework for Community Change from the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop introduces participants to the Theory of Change framework using tools and case studies.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #4 – A New Orientation to Evaluation, participants at the 2013 Evaluating Community Impact Workshop are introduced to the concept of evaluative thinking, common biases that interfere with evaluation.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #5 –Evaluating Population Level Change, The case for why population level outcomes and indicators are important is made and methodologies and resources to support such evaluations are shared.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #6 - Shared Measurement, participants at the 2013 Evaluating Community Change Workshop were given an overview of performance measurement systems and asked to consider shared impact through a collective impact lens.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #7 – Understanding and Measuring Policy Change, participants of Tamarack’s 2013 Evaluating Community Change workshop learn about approaches to measuring policy change.
Resource Type: ECI 2013 Presentation | Author: Tamarack
In Module #9 – Attribution and Contribution Analysis, participants of Tamarack’s 2013 Evaluating Community Change workshop learn about how to attribute observed changes to specific interventions and/or factors.
Resources from this 2013 Learning Event now available online!
Evaluating Community Impact 2013, a full-to-capacity Learning Event held in Calgary Alberta, hosted 120 leaders involved in community change efforts in a three-day workshop to build their capacity to better understand and evaluate the outcomes of these efforts.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speaker: Jamie Gamble
This podcast explores the results of the first phase of evaluation for the 12 communities across Canada, known as Trail Builders, who were involved with Vibrant Communities.
