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Mark your calendar for the 2021 Online H-PEA Conference
Sept. 20 - Sept. 24, 2021
Registration Coming Soon!
Visionary Evaluation for a Sustainable, Equitable Future
Keynote: Beverly Parsons
We are living in the Anthropocene - a time in which humanity is exerting its influence on all of the earth's ecosystems. At the same time, humans are more interconnected than at any other time. The significance, impact, and pace of change is unprecedented, leading us to new evolutions in our social and natural world.
Learn how you can contribute to a sustainable, equitable future as a user and/or practitioner of evaluation in both your personal and professional daily actions and lives.
Learn about six principles of living as a "Visionary Evaluative". The principles highlight a commitment to equity and the sustainability of nature as core values. They emphasize an orientation of humility, compassion, and transparency when engaging in a world of living, entangled systems with obvious and hidden intersectionalities. The principles also address engaging in deep praxis—mindful and challenging reflection on what is being learned through the intersection of values, iterative action and inquiry, theory, outcomes, and vision.
Beverly Parsons Biography:
Beverly Parsons is President and Executive Director of InSites, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization. InSites works through inquiry-based evaluation, planning, and research to support learning, growth, and change in formal and informal social systems. InSites pays particular attention to how social systems attend to environmental sustainability, social justice, economic well-being, and community development. Beverly served as president of the American Evaluation Association in 2014. She is a member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in Educational Research and Evaluation (University of Colorado) and a B.S. in Medical Technology (University of Wisconsin). She has certificates in Sustainable Business, Human Systems Dynamics, and Appreciative Inquiry facilitation. While at InSites, Beverly has worked with initiatives in education, health, social services, and environmental fields. She has been a consultant to several foundations, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Center for the Study of Social Policy. She has served as a consultant to foundations in Brazil and the South African Department of Education; conducted evaluations in China and Japan; and assisted teams in 12 countries in Central and Eastern Europe in program evaluation and redesign of curriculum. She has been the principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants. She specializes in evaluation designs for multi-site, multi-level, large-scale initiatives and using systems thinking and systems theories in research and evaluation. She has written and presented extensively on these topics. She has a strong background in quantitative and qualitative research methods. Prior to InSites, Beverly was at the Education Commission of the States, a national interstate compact that assists governors, legislators, and state education and business leaders to improve education through leadership and policy. Previously she was at Education Northwest (Portland, OR) as Director of the Assessment and Measurement Program; worked on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota; held university adjunct teaching positions; and was a physiological chemistry laboratory instructor (University of Wisconsin medical school). Beverly lives with her husband in Hansville, WA and enjoys hiking and organic gardening.
http://insites.org/staff/beverly-parsons/
Join us for a H-PEA Online Workshop
Logic Model Basics
Genevieve Manset PhD
Literacy Services: Education Research & Program Evaluation
https://genevievemanset.wordpress.com/about/
Thursday, January 28, 2021 4:00-5:30 pm HST
This workshop will be followed by a H-PEA online Social, 5:30-6:00 pm HST
For event registration - Click here!
Registration deadline: January 25, 2021, 11:59pm, HST
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Tools like logic models can guide program managers in the design, implementation, and evaluation of their program. Logic models can also support communication about program elements, process, and outcomes. This workshop will include a basic overview of logic model design and use, followed by a hands-on activity where participants will practice designing a logic model, and concluding with a discussion about applications to participants’ programs. While all are welcome, this workshop will be designed specifically for practitioners who are new to logic models, using examples of application to relatively small, community-based programs.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
1. have a better understand of how logic models can be used to guide design, implementation, and evaluation of their program;
2. have defined the elements of a simple logic model;
3. designed a simple logic model based on the community-based program and;
4. identified next steps for designing a logic model for their own program
This workshop will be offered virtually through ZOOM. A ZOOM link will be sent with a reminder email prior to the event.
For more information, contact the H-PEA Webinar Committee Chair, Genevieve Manset, at genevieve.manset@gmail.com
