The document outlines a strategic plan for learning, research, and evaluation at the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. It discusses creating a context that supports learning, building evaluation capacity within the Trust and among grantees, developing a research agenda, and using strategic learning and evaluation to inform grantmaking. The plan aims to foster a community of learners and make evaluation an integral part of the Trust's work.
EDUCARNIVAL 2014 at IIT Delhi- Shared leadership explore, empower, excel by ...Eduexcellence
This document discusses the benefits of shared leadership in schools. It argues that traditionally, leadership has been confined to the principal, but shared leadership empowers teachers to take on both formal and informal leadership roles. This can cultivate leadership skills in teachers and provide opportunities for professional growth without having to leave the classroom. When teachers are given leadership responsibilities and authority, it leads to benefits like improved collaboration, accountability, and student outcomes. The document outlines various ways schools can identify potential teacher leaders and create structures to promote shared leadership.
The document discusses the shift in a leader's role from boss to partner and coach. It describes four leadership styles that vary in direction and support provided: directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating. Coaching is characterized by high direction and support, where the leader explains decisions, solicits input, provides feedback, and directs tasks while considering the individual's input.
1. The document discusses using action learning to develop shared leadership skills. It describes action learning as working in groups to address real organizational problems while developing leadership competencies through reflective questioning.
2. Key elements of action learning that build shared leadership include focusing on complex problems requiring diverse perspectives, group sizes that allow full participation, and reflective questioning that emphasizes listening to others.
3. Studies found that action learning projects helped organizations generate solutions, direction, and commitment around complex issues by developing capabilities like engaging across boundaries and understanding the organization systemically.
Principal and-teacher-evaluation-key-ideas-your-role-and-your-school's-leadin...Winnie de Leon
This document provides an overview of principal and teacher evaluation processes in Mississippi, including:
- The Mississippi Principal Evaluation System (MPES) uses student achievement goals, organizational goals, and staff surveys to evaluate principals.
- Teacher evaluations incorporate classroom observations, student growth objectives, and professional growth goals. Non-tested teachers use student learning objectives to measure student growth.
- Principal and teacher evaluations are interconnected, as principals and teachers must work together to achieve schoolwide student growth.
- "Leading indicators" and "lagging indicators" help define goals and measure progress, with leading indicators more easily influenced during the school year.
- Counselors can support the new evaluation processes by fostering
Joint headships.time to think.2013.10.2AHDScotland
The document discusses joint headship (leadership) between two schools. It notes that joint headship requires a collaborative approach and balancing leadership responsibilities across both schools. Some benefits mentioned include opportunities for staff development, management experience, and collaboration between colleagues at the two schools. However, challenges also exist such as feeling isolated, increased workload, and ensuring clear leadership in any "crisis" situations. The document emphasizes the importance of trust, managing tensions, using flexible leadership styles, and constantly nurturing the collaboration process for shared/joint headships to be successful.
Education thought leader Peter DeWitt presented this February 2017 webinar titled, "Leading and Learning: Collaborative Leadership for K-12 Education.” The presentation offered insights on research-based influences that matter most for collaborative leadership.
The webinar covered strategies for developing a collaborative mindset, authentic versus compliant engagement, and a collaborative leadership philosophy that works for leaders, teachers and students. Successful methods for flipping leadership, and the importance of family engagement were also discussed.
EDUCARNIVAL 2014 at IIT Delhi- Shared leadership explore, empower, excel by ...Eduexcellence
This document discusses the benefits of shared leadership in schools. It argues that traditionally, leadership has been confined to the principal, but shared leadership empowers teachers to take on both formal and informal leadership roles. This can cultivate leadership skills in teachers and provide opportunities for professional growth without having to leave the classroom. When teachers are given leadership responsibilities and authority, it leads to benefits like improved collaboration, accountability, and student outcomes. The document outlines various ways schools can identify potential teacher leaders and create structures to promote shared leadership.
The document discusses the shift in a leader's role from boss to partner and coach. It describes four leadership styles that vary in direction and support provided: directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating. Coaching is characterized by high direction and support, where the leader explains decisions, solicits input, provides feedback, and directs tasks while considering the individual's input.
1. The document discusses using action learning to develop shared leadership skills. It describes action learning as working in groups to address real organizational problems while developing leadership competencies through reflective questioning.
2. Key elements of action learning that build shared leadership include focusing on complex problems requiring diverse perspectives, group sizes that allow full participation, and reflective questioning that emphasizes listening to others.
3. Studies found that action learning projects helped organizations generate solutions, direction, and commitment around complex issues by developing capabilities like engaging across boundaries and understanding the organization systemically.
Principal and-teacher-evaluation-key-ideas-your-role-and-your-school's-leadin...Winnie de Leon
This document provides an overview of principal and teacher evaluation processes in Mississippi, including:
- The Mississippi Principal Evaluation System (MPES) uses student achievement goals, organizational goals, and staff surveys to evaluate principals.
- Teacher evaluations incorporate classroom observations, student growth objectives, and professional growth goals. Non-tested teachers use student learning objectives to measure student growth.
- Principal and teacher evaluations are interconnected, as principals and teachers must work together to achieve schoolwide student growth.
- "Leading indicators" and "lagging indicators" help define goals and measure progress, with leading indicators more easily influenced during the school year.
- Counselors can support the new evaluation processes by fostering
Joint headships.time to think.2013.10.2AHDScotland
The document discusses joint headship (leadership) between two schools. It notes that joint headship requires a collaborative approach and balancing leadership responsibilities across both schools. Some benefits mentioned include opportunities for staff development, management experience, and collaboration between colleagues at the two schools. However, challenges also exist such as feeling isolated, increased workload, and ensuring clear leadership in any "crisis" situations. The document emphasizes the importance of trust, managing tensions, using flexible leadership styles, and constantly nurturing the collaboration process for shared/joint headships to be successful.
Education thought leader Peter DeWitt presented this February 2017 webinar titled, "Leading and Learning: Collaborative Leadership for K-12 Education.” The presentation offered insights on research-based influences that matter most for collaborative leadership.
The webinar covered strategies for developing a collaborative mindset, authentic versus compliant engagement, and a collaborative leadership philosophy that works for leaders, teachers and students. Successful methods for flipping leadership, and the importance of family engagement were also discussed.
This document provides an agenda and materials for Module One Day One of a Positive Behavior Support training. It includes an outline of the day's topics, which are an overview of PBS, effective team-building, strategies for gaining faculty involvement, using data to make decisions, and establishing universal strategies like school-wide expectations. The agenda also lists the day's objectives, expectations for participants, and activities. Materials provided include slides, handouts, and items for table discussions. The accomplishments teams should achieve by the end of the three-day module are also outlined.
Shared leadership relies on interdependent relationships, creativity, and a variety of approaches. It values passion, deference to others' knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, and partnerships. Recognition and rewards are provided through positive reinforcement and empowerment within a safe environment without "turfism." Problems are the responsibility of all team members, who have opportunities to share, participate, and take ownership. Shared leadership develops a culture of trust, respect, and cooperation through open conversation and seeking employee opinions. It moves away from "command and control" towards distributing knowledge and power to build relationships and develop ethical principles for individual and professional growth. The pitfalls of shared leadership include a lack of focus on outcomes, laziness, loss of innovation, and
Individual and Group-group and intergroup dynamics; managing group in an organization- intragroup behavior and intergroup behavior; self-change- resistance to change- nature of the change-transactional analysis
Advising Student Leaders to Build Better OrganizationsDaniel Schwartz
The document outlines tips for advising student leaders to build better organizations. It discusses the roles of an advisor in mentoring and supporting students. The presentation teaches advisors to name advising styles and identify stages of group development using Tuckman's model. It emphasizes that success is not defined by outcomes alone, and advisors should help students reinvent their approaches when goals are not met. The document provides discussion questions and references for advisors to effectively guide student groups.
Recent Training Techniques: Team Building and Group Dynamicskunguma selvan
The document discusses techniques for effective team building and group dynamics. It outlines principles of team building such as having a clear purpose and objective, involving the team in agenda creation, and providing feedback. Team building exercises like scavenger hunts and desert survival scenarios are mentioned as improving skills like communication, problem solving, and decision making. Key aspects of group dynamics include size, tasks, leadership, development, norms, and cohesiveness. Theories discussed include balance theory and social exchange theory. Stages of group formation and improving dynamics through clear expectations and effective communication are also outlined.
1. Data teams use data from student work and assessments to analyze teaching practices, monitor student progress, and make instructional changes to ensure student success.
2. The document outlines the 5 step process for data teams: collect and chart data, analyze strengths and weaknesses, set goals, select instructional strategies, and determine results indicators.
3. Effective data teams include teachers, administrators, and other staff who collaborate regularly to examine data, identify effective teaching practices, and continuously improve instruction and student achievement.
Mentoring Builds Leadership Skills and Teacher Effectiveness
June 27, 3:15 – 4:15pm, Room: Union B
Mentoring can build skills for 21st century leadership. The new evaluation structure, the need to retain new teachers, and the necessary focus on collaboration are among the challenges that can be positively impacted with an effective mentoring program. Participants of this session will be provided with information and activities to assist with implementing a mentoring system. Come and learn how mentoring can increase teacher effectiveness.
Main Presenter: Robert Rayburn, Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical School
This document discusses strategies for motivating students to follow through on referrals to campus resources based on theories of student involvement and engagement. It provides background on Heather Luth and an overview of Alexander Astin's theory of involvement. Data is presented on student usage of academic resources, career centers, and advising. Reasons why students may not follow through on referrals are explored. The document advocates reframing advising as helping connect students to campus partners, using positive psychology approaches, and addressing perceptions of what constitutes success.
Impact of Leadership in Action Course Kings/UCL April 2018JeremyMead2
The document summarizes a three-day leadership development course called Leadership in Action (LiA) for early career academics. It discusses how the 36 participants worked in groups, received coaching, and assessed their leadership skills before and after the program. Overall, participants grew an average of 21% in resilient leadership qualities like awareness, decision-making, clarity of direction, and presence. Individual growth profiles showed development across these areas. The document highlights examples of a typical, transformational, and reinforced participant to illustrate the program's impact.
For young professionals, having a mentor is often encouraged and touted; however, knowing how to find and effectively engage in such relationships is not necessarily easy or intuitive. This panel draws on primary and secondary research funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the expertise of an employee engagement expert, and a public relations professional with experience in both corporate and agency settings to help attendees better understand and navigate mentoring relationships. Panelists will share both personal experiences and research insights derived from a survey of more than 400 millennial PR professionals; interviews with 50+ PR professionals and students across five countries; and a review of nearly 200 mentoring studies and articles. Specific topics include best organizational and interpersonal mentoring practices, mentoring’s role in growing diverse organizations and mentoring’s connection to leadership development.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Define what research tells us about mentorship’s value to PR practitioners in both the U.S. and abroad, and its link to PR leadership.
• Reflect on the different kinds of mentors (personal, academic, professional) and will learn about the importance of mentorship in growing diverse, inclusive workplaces.
• Analyze the 10 best organizational and interpersonal mentoring practices and will receive practical tips and advice for building and fostering them.
Features public relations professionals:
- Keith Burton, principle, Grayson Emmett Partners
- Dr. Diana Martinelli, professor and administrator, West Virginia University
- Alicia Thompson, managing director, Porter Novelli
The document describes Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership model. It includes a self-assessment to determine a leader's preferred leadership style based on their responses to different leadership situations. The model proposes that leadership style should depend on the readiness and competence of followers. There are four leadership styles that range from directing/telling followers with low readiness to delegating to followers with high readiness. Effective leaders adapt their style based on where followers fall on the readiness continuum.
Relational Leadership: Building Politically Effective Relationships with Stak...sondramilkie
This document summarizes a presentation on building politically effective relationships with stakeholders for Cooperative Extension. It discusses the importance of having responsive educational programs, strong relationships with key decision makers, effective communication strategies, and awareness of fiscal and political issues. The presentation covers defining political effectiveness, assessing current practices, developing communications strategies, and mapping an organization's circle of influence. Participants discuss challenges and how to improve Cooperative Extension's political effectiveness. The goal is to develop an action plan and identify further training needs.
This document provides guidance for early childhood centers on conducting self-reviews to evaluate their programs and make improvements. It outlines a process that involves gathering information from various sources, preparing by identifying what will be reviewed, reflecting on what is working well and what can be improved, deciding on actions to take, and documenting progress to make sense of findings and determine future goals.
This document outlines leadership in an SJA Adult Unit setting. It defines leadership as creating values within a unit and enlisting support to accomplish goals. Good leadership sets goals and direction, inspires action, and develops capabilities, while management focuses on processes. Followers want approachable, consultative leaders who empower them and focus on the team. The blueprint discusses motivating members through praise and recognition, setting standards for behavior, embracing change, and advocating for the unit and members. It also covers key unit management functions.
Group work involves helping or accomplishing tasks in a group setting. It aims to help group members reach personal, interpersonal, or task-related goals. Effective group work requires leaders to apply group theory and dynamics to specific situations. Leaders must be well-trained and competent to guide groups through typical stages of formation, control/transition, work/action, and termination/completion. Key therapeutic factors that can promote change include instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, and interpersonal learning.
The document provides an overview of mentoring new teachers, including the goals and responsibilities of mentor teachers. It discusses qualities of effective mentors, such as being an outstanding teacher, willing to coach, and maintaining confidentiality. Research shows mentoring programs help significantly increase retention rates for new teachers. The roles of mentors include supporting new teachers' professional and personal development, sharing strategies, and participating in observations to collect data and provide feedback.
The document discusses leadership and defines it as inspiring people to commit to organizational goals. It identifies characteristics of good leaders such as balancing people and work, setting a positive example, strong communication skills, influence, persuasiveness, and coaching ability. The document also discusses different leadership styles like autocratic, democratic, participative, and situational leadership. It argues that while some leaders are born, others can develop skills through training and effort to become good leaders who motivate followers and build trust within an organization.
This document discusses key elements in managing strategic change, including diagnosis, leading and managing change, levers for change, and managing change programs. It identifies different types and contexts of strategic change and different styles of leading and managing change. Forcefield analysis and situational leadership are presented as frameworks for understanding resistance and approaches to change. Levers for change include building a case for change, challenging norms, and political processes. Revolutionary, evolutionary, turnaround and failed change strategies are examined. Context, leadership, involvement, and addressing resistance are highlighted as important to successfully managing strategic change.
This document provides an overview of program theory and the theory-driven approach to evaluation. It discusses key concepts in program theory including the process and impact models. The document also examines how to use program theory to design evaluations, including theory-driven process, outcome, and integrated process-outcome evaluations. References are provided for further reading on program theory and theory-driven evaluation.
The document summarizes the final products report from Jeffrey A. Sheldon regarding his 10 week, 400 hour internship working with the psycho-social support team and counseling staff at Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS Care Centre. It describes 7 projects that were started and developed including an ongoing counseling pilot study, an ART patient training assessment pilot study, and situational analyses of McCord Hospital's counseling program and Sinikithemba's counseling program. For each project, it provides the purpose and utility going forward. It recommends the projects and studies be reviewed collectively by staff to determine next steps and implementation in order to benefit multiple areas of Sinikithemba and McCord Hospital.
This document provides an agenda and materials for Module One Day One of a Positive Behavior Support training. It includes an outline of the day's topics, which are an overview of PBS, effective team-building, strategies for gaining faculty involvement, using data to make decisions, and establishing universal strategies like school-wide expectations. The agenda also lists the day's objectives, expectations for participants, and activities. Materials provided include slides, handouts, and items for table discussions. The accomplishments teams should achieve by the end of the three-day module are also outlined.
Shared leadership relies on interdependent relationships, creativity, and a variety of approaches. It values passion, deference to others' knowledge and skills, resourcefulness, and partnerships. Recognition and rewards are provided through positive reinforcement and empowerment within a safe environment without "turfism." Problems are the responsibility of all team members, who have opportunities to share, participate, and take ownership. Shared leadership develops a culture of trust, respect, and cooperation through open conversation and seeking employee opinions. It moves away from "command and control" towards distributing knowledge and power to build relationships and develop ethical principles for individual and professional growth. The pitfalls of shared leadership include a lack of focus on outcomes, laziness, loss of innovation, and
Individual and Group-group and intergroup dynamics; managing group in an organization- intragroup behavior and intergroup behavior; self-change- resistance to change- nature of the change-transactional analysis
Advising Student Leaders to Build Better OrganizationsDaniel Schwartz
The document outlines tips for advising student leaders to build better organizations. It discusses the roles of an advisor in mentoring and supporting students. The presentation teaches advisors to name advising styles and identify stages of group development using Tuckman's model. It emphasizes that success is not defined by outcomes alone, and advisors should help students reinvent their approaches when goals are not met. The document provides discussion questions and references for advisors to effectively guide student groups.
Recent Training Techniques: Team Building and Group Dynamicskunguma selvan
The document discusses techniques for effective team building and group dynamics. It outlines principles of team building such as having a clear purpose and objective, involving the team in agenda creation, and providing feedback. Team building exercises like scavenger hunts and desert survival scenarios are mentioned as improving skills like communication, problem solving, and decision making. Key aspects of group dynamics include size, tasks, leadership, development, norms, and cohesiveness. Theories discussed include balance theory and social exchange theory. Stages of group formation and improving dynamics through clear expectations and effective communication are also outlined.
1. Data teams use data from student work and assessments to analyze teaching practices, monitor student progress, and make instructional changes to ensure student success.
2. The document outlines the 5 step process for data teams: collect and chart data, analyze strengths and weaknesses, set goals, select instructional strategies, and determine results indicators.
3. Effective data teams include teachers, administrators, and other staff who collaborate regularly to examine data, identify effective teaching practices, and continuously improve instruction and student achievement.
Mentoring Builds Leadership Skills and Teacher Effectiveness
June 27, 3:15 – 4:15pm, Room: Union B
Mentoring can build skills for 21st century leadership. The new evaluation structure, the need to retain new teachers, and the necessary focus on collaboration are among the challenges that can be positively impacted with an effective mentoring program. Participants of this session will be provided with information and activities to assist with implementing a mentoring system. Come and learn how mentoring can increase teacher effectiveness.
Main Presenter: Robert Rayburn, Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical School
This document discusses strategies for motivating students to follow through on referrals to campus resources based on theories of student involvement and engagement. It provides background on Heather Luth and an overview of Alexander Astin's theory of involvement. Data is presented on student usage of academic resources, career centers, and advising. Reasons why students may not follow through on referrals are explored. The document advocates reframing advising as helping connect students to campus partners, using positive psychology approaches, and addressing perceptions of what constitutes success.
Impact of Leadership in Action Course Kings/UCL April 2018JeremyMead2
The document summarizes a three-day leadership development course called Leadership in Action (LiA) for early career academics. It discusses how the 36 participants worked in groups, received coaching, and assessed their leadership skills before and after the program. Overall, participants grew an average of 21% in resilient leadership qualities like awareness, decision-making, clarity of direction, and presence. Individual growth profiles showed development across these areas. The document highlights examples of a typical, transformational, and reinforced participant to illustrate the program's impact.
For young professionals, having a mentor is often encouraged and touted; however, knowing how to find and effectively engage in such relationships is not necessarily easy or intuitive. This panel draws on primary and secondary research funded by the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations, the expertise of an employee engagement expert, and a public relations professional with experience in both corporate and agency settings to help attendees better understand and navigate mentoring relationships. Panelists will share both personal experiences and research insights derived from a survey of more than 400 millennial PR professionals; interviews with 50+ PR professionals and students across five countries; and a review of nearly 200 mentoring studies and articles. Specific topics include best organizational and interpersonal mentoring practices, mentoring’s role in growing diverse organizations and mentoring’s connection to leadership development.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
• Define what research tells us about mentorship’s value to PR practitioners in both the U.S. and abroad, and its link to PR leadership.
• Reflect on the different kinds of mentors (personal, academic, professional) and will learn about the importance of mentorship in growing diverse, inclusive workplaces.
• Analyze the 10 best organizational and interpersonal mentoring practices and will receive practical tips and advice for building and fostering them.
Features public relations professionals:
- Keith Burton, principle, Grayson Emmett Partners
- Dr. Diana Martinelli, professor and administrator, West Virginia University
- Alicia Thompson, managing director, Porter Novelli
The document describes Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership model. It includes a self-assessment to determine a leader's preferred leadership style based on their responses to different leadership situations. The model proposes that leadership style should depend on the readiness and competence of followers. There are four leadership styles that range from directing/telling followers with low readiness to delegating to followers with high readiness. Effective leaders adapt their style based on where followers fall on the readiness continuum.
Relational Leadership: Building Politically Effective Relationships with Stak...sondramilkie
This document summarizes a presentation on building politically effective relationships with stakeholders for Cooperative Extension. It discusses the importance of having responsive educational programs, strong relationships with key decision makers, effective communication strategies, and awareness of fiscal and political issues. The presentation covers defining political effectiveness, assessing current practices, developing communications strategies, and mapping an organization's circle of influence. Participants discuss challenges and how to improve Cooperative Extension's political effectiveness. The goal is to develop an action plan and identify further training needs.
This document provides guidance for early childhood centers on conducting self-reviews to evaluate their programs and make improvements. It outlines a process that involves gathering information from various sources, preparing by identifying what will be reviewed, reflecting on what is working well and what can be improved, deciding on actions to take, and documenting progress to make sense of findings and determine future goals.
This document outlines leadership in an SJA Adult Unit setting. It defines leadership as creating values within a unit and enlisting support to accomplish goals. Good leadership sets goals and direction, inspires action, and develops capabilities, while management focuses on processes. Followers want approachable, consultative leaders who empower them and focus on the team. The blueprint discusses motivating members through praise and recognition, setting standards for behavior, embracing change, and advocating for the unit and members. It also covers key unit management functions.
Group work involves helping or accomplishing tasks in a group setting. It aims to help group members reach personal, interpersonal, or task-related goals. Effective group work requires leaders to apply group theory and dynamics to specific situations. Leaders must be well-trained and competent to guide groups through typical stages of formation, control/transition, work/action, and termination/completion. Key therapeutic factors that can promote change include instillation of hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, and interpersonal learning.
The document provides an overview of mentoring new teachers, including the goals and responsibilities of mentor teachers. It discusses qualities of effective mentors, such as being an outstanding teacher, willing to coach, and maintaining confidentiality. Research shows mentoring programs help significantly increase retention rates for new teachers. The roles of mentors include supporting new teachers' professional and personal development, sharing strategies, and participating in observations to collect data and provide feedback.
The document discusses leadership and defines it as inspiring people to commit to organizational goals. It identifies characteristics of good leaders such as balancing people and work, setting a positive example, strong communication skills, influence, persuasiveness, and coaching ability. The document also discusses different leadership styles like autocratic, democratic, participative, and situational leadership. It argues that while some leaders are born, others can develop skills through training and effort to become good leaders who motivate followers and build trust within an organization.
This document discusses key elements in managing strategic change, including diagnosis, leading and managing change, levers for change, and managing change programs. It identifies different types and contexts of strategic change and different styles of leading and managing change. Forcefield analysis and situational leadership are presented as frameworks for understanding resistance and approaches to change. Levers for change include building a case for change, challenging norms, and political processes. Revolutionary, evolutionary, turnaround and failed change strategies are examined. Context, leadership, involvement, and addressing resistance are highlighted as important to successfully managing strategic change.
This document provides an overview of program theory and the theory-driven approach to evaluation. It discusses key concepts in program theory including the process and impact models. The document also examines how to use program theory to design evaluations, including theory-driven process, outcome, and integrated process-outcome evaluations. References are provided for further reading on program theory and theory-driven evaluation.
The document summarizes the final products report from Jeffrey A. Sheldon regarding his 10 week, 400 hour internship working with the psycho-social support team and counseling staff at Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS Care Centre. It describes 7 projects that were started and developed including an ongoing counseling pilot study, an ART patient training assessment pilot study, and situational analyses of McCord Hospital's counseling program and Sinikithemba's counseling program. For each project, it provides the purpose and utility going forward. It recommends the projects and studies be reviewed collectively by staff to determine next steps and implementation in order to benefit multiple areas of Sinikithemba and McCord Hospital.
This document summarizes an evaluation conducted by proxy of patient satisfaction with psychological services at a private hospital in Durban, South Africa. The evaluation encountered significant challenges due to being conducted remotely, including limited communication, lack of oversight during implementation, and small sample size. While some positive results were found, such as patients generally perceiving the psychological services positively, most evaluation questions went unanswered. The document concludes distance evaluations may be possible but require extensive planning and controls to ensure quality.
This document outlines an adolescent HIV prevention program for schools in Geita district, Tanzania. It describes conducting a 4-year intervention rolling out to all 33 wards and schools. The intervention has two components: a classroom curriculum and a social support network for females. The classroom uses knowledge building, skills training, and self-efficacy approaches. The social support network is designed to provide instrumental, companionship, and emotional support. The research design is quasi-experimental, using pre- and post-testing to evaluate the intervention's effects on knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors over time.
This document summarizes a dissertation that studied the effects of empowerment evaluation practice and principles on psychological empowerment and self-determination outcomes. The study surveyed evaluation practitioners to examine the extent to which empowerment evaluation models and principles were adhered to in practice and their impact on individual and organizational empowerment and self-determination. The study aimed to address gaps in the research on empowerment evaluation and provide empirical evidence for its claims. It used descriptive statistics to analyze adherence to models and principles, and regression analysis to examine relationships between various factors and empowerment/self-determination outcomes. The results and implications could help strengthen empowerment evaluation theory and practice.
This document summarizes the final products from Jeffrey Sheldon's internship at Sinikithemba HIV/Aids Care Centre. It describes several projects started during the internship, including an ongoing counselling pilot study, an ART patient training assessment pilot study, and situational analyses of McCord Hospital's counselling program and Sinikithemba's counselling programme. It provides overviews of these projects, including their purpose and utility. The document also mentions additions made to Trak Health's psycho-social screening tool, and evaluations of Sinikithemba's forms and training materials.
Evélio Leon immigrated to the United States from Cuba in 1962 as part of Operation Pedro Pan at the age of 9. He was resettled first in Indiana and then reunited with his mother in Los Angeles in 1966. The document analyzes Evélio's journey and acculturation process through interviews with him. It finds that factors such as supportive host families, high expectations from family and teachers, resilience, and a focus on education helped Evélio successfully adapt and achieve academic success despite difficulties with resettlement and separation from his mother.
The document discusses the transformation of the Democratic Republic of Congo's national education system. It outlines the goals of increasing access, equity, literacy, and addressing HIV/AIDS through the education system. A participatory evaluation approach is recommended to evaluate the transformation which involves stakeholders at all levels and gives voice to beneficiaries. Key aspects involve developing appropriate methodology, maximizing feedback, building local capacity, and forming partnerships.
This document discusses developing leadership capacity to promote organizational self-evaluation. It proposes coaching, advising, training and consulting organizational leaders to internalize evaluation principles and advocate for self-evaluation. The goal is to engender facilitative leadership that values self-monitoring and improvement. An internal evaluator can build evaluation skills and positive attitudes among leaders and employees to establish a self-evaluating organizational culture.
Challenges and opportunities of integrating technology in education in TanzaniaAyoub Kafyulilo
The document summarizes the development of ICT in education in Tanzania. It outlines that ICT introduction began in 1997, but many schools have yet to integrate technology. Barriers to integration include inadequate resources, limited teacher knowledge, curriculum issues, attitudes, lack of electricity, and internet access. Opportunities exist as well, such as supportive policies, motivated teachers, TPACK development, collaboration, growing mobile phone and internet access. Overall, addressing teachers' technological skills remains a key priority to enable effective technology integration in Tanzanian schools.
This document provides 5 tips for improving professional practice as a teacher or leader:
1. Be ready and able to inquire into your own practice through preparation and positioning yourself and others for growth.
2. Use action research with a systematic process of collecting and analyzing data, researching best practices, planning actions, and reflecting on results to gain evidence to support changes or affirm existing practices.
3. Implement structures like clear expectations, professional staff meetings, in-class support, and appraisal goals to support teacher/leader inquiry.
4. Seek evidence of learning and effectiveness such as improved achievement and reaction to student/staff voice to determine if goals were achieved.
5. Take action by implementing changes
Supervision training for volunteers and novis supervisorsImke WoodT&C
Mostly visual backdrop to define best practise Clinical Supervision for novises in the filed, peer supervision, new supervisees, rethinking best practise in clinical supervision. This applied tyraining in a youth charity.
This document discusses improving board governance and behaviors. It focuses on establishing a strong organizational culture, ensuring board values are reflected in strategy, and the importance of the board working as an effective team. Specific topics covered include defining organizational culture, balancing constructive challenge with support, managing relationships and trust, and utilizing frameworks like the GRPI model and Johari window to enhance team dynamics and self-awareness. The goal is to provide charities with practical guidance and best practices for enhancing board governance and performance.
1) There is a need for improved learning and evaluation in philanthropy to support adaptive strategies and decision-making, but evaluators face challenges keeping up with evolving demands due to limited resources.
2) Evaluators play an important role in articulating theories of change, gathering diverse data, synthesizing lessons, and facilitating learning conversations between foundations and grantees.
3) The article discusses five root causes that inhibit evaluation from having more influence: lack of professional development for evaluators, separation of evaluation from strategy development, single user focus of most evaluations, equity and diversity as a work in progress, and lack of spaces for shared learning across the field.
ORGANIZATION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES-1.pptKeyaArere
Organization behavior & group dynamics focuses on studying the structure, functioning, and performance of organizations. It looks at individual, group, and organizational behavior within organizations. Key characteristics include being multidisciplinary, performance-oriented, and applications-oriented to improve organizational effectiveness. Group dynamics examines how groups form and develop over various stages from forming to performing. Organizational structures like functional, matrix, and service line structures determine how work is coordinated and managed within health care organizations. A referral system is important for ensuring continuity of care as patients move between different levels of the health care system.
Organizational culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence how employees behave and make decisions. It is shaped by factors like stories, rituals, symbols, and language unique to the organization. A strong culture promotes functional behaviors and commitment to organizational goals. It is established through socialization of new employees and maintained via communication of core values. Managing culture involves understanding factors that impact it like change, leadership styles, and decision making processes. Leaders must consider how culture affects managerial functions and guide cultural evolution to support organizational strategy.
Strategic Health Leadership (SHELDR) Consulting Group MasterDouglas Anderson
The document introduces the Strategic Health Leadership (SHELDR) Consulting Group, which helps health leaders develop strategic competencies. It describes a model with 17 competencies organized in 4 components: integrating needs, encouraging innovative thinking, informing and inspiring, and promoting professionalism. Services include leader development programs, executive coaching, and facilitation. The goal is to develop more strategic leaders at all levels through a research-based competency system.
Integrating Assessment and Faculty Developmentwmiller824
This document discusses how faculty development and institutional research can work together to align institutional and individual goals through assessment. By integrating their knowledge and collaborating on common goals, these areas can help both faculty and the institution succeed. The key is using institutional research data to inform faculty development in a way that supports innovation, assesses outcomes, and blends improvement and accountability paradigms. This allows assessment data to help faculty teach, students learn, and the institution document progress, achieving alignment between individual and organizational success.
Services of the Guidance Office:
1. Individual Inventory
2. Information
3. Counseling
4. Assessment and Appraisal
5. Referral
6. Follow-up
7. Consultation
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Virginia G. Piper Trust Presentation - Dr. Jeff Sheldon - January 4, 2016
1. STRATEGIC LEARNING, RESEARCHAND EVALUATIONAT
THEVIRGINIAG. PIPER CHARITABLETRUST
Jeffrey A. Sheldon, Ph.D.
4 January 2016
Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust
2. Overview
• Global Vision for Strategic Learning, Research, and Evaluation
• Creating and Supporting a Context for Learning and Knowledge Management
• Approaching and Assessing the Impact of Investments
• Planning and Refining Grant-making
• Work Approach 1: Fostering Empowerment
• Work Approach 2: Fostering Self-Determination
• Projected Collaborative Accomplishments
• Facing Challenges
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3. GlobalVision for Strategic Learning,Research,and Evaluation
• A supportive context for learning and evaluation (i.e., culture, leadership, systems and structures,
communications, and teams) is created and sustained.
• Learning across the Trust is in real-time, is communicatively grounded, and based on Adult Learning Theory.
• Everyone within the Trust is involved in learning such that the Trust becomes a community of learners.
• Generating knowledge for learning:
• Through evaluation and research.
• Gathered from individuals within and without the Trust.
• Gathered through the Trust’s “collective wisdom.”
• Gathered from grantees.
• Gathered from external sources (e.g., peer reviewed and gray literature, and from other similarly engaged
philanthropic and human service organizations).
• Evaluation capacity is built within the Trust so that everyone understands its inherent importance, everyone
becomes better consumers of evaluation, everyone can contribute within their specific role(s), everyone can
teach others about evaluation, and everyone can contribute to organizational learning.
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4. GlobalVision for Strategic Learning,Research,and Evaluation
• Grantees evaluation capacity is built so they become integral to the overall research, evaluation, and learning
enterprise by being better consumers and producers of evaluative knowledge.
• A community of learners is created within each initiative so grantees can learn from each other and the Trust
can learn from them.
• A rigorous research agenda is developed within each initiative, there is publishing in peer reviewed journals
and other media as appropriate, and presentations are made at conferences (e.g., American Evaluation
Association).
• Strategic learning, research, and evaluation are integral in a complex ecological system of interrelated parts.
• Strategic learning, research, and evaluation informs the planning and refinement of the Trust’s grant-making
endeavors.
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5. • Organizational learning is the best way to address critical issues facing organizations today because they must
be ready to receive and act upon new information for change to occur (Bowen, Rose, & Ware, 2006).
• Contextual factors influence how and to what extent learning will occur in an organization (Cousins &
Leithwood, 1986; Cousins & Shulha, 2002).
• Culture, leadership, communication, teamwork, and systems/structures are considered to be the elements of
organizational context necessary for organizational learning (Shulha & Cousins, 1997).
• Transformational leadership, supportive structure, and culture are the key factors promoting the learning
process (Lam & Pang, 2003).
• Evaluation contributes to individual, group, and organizational learning (Preskill & Torres, 1999; Russ-Eft,
Atwood, & Egherman, 2002).
• An organization’s culture and context influence the extent to which evaluation occurs in support of learning
and decision-making (Preskill & Torres, 2000).
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Creatingand Supporting a Context for Learningand Knowledge Management
• Is the Trust’s culture supportive?
• Examples of collaboration and problem-solving behaviors:
– There is respect for different perspectives and opinions.
– Staff is continuously looking for ways to improve processes and initiatives.
– Opportunities are provided to think about and reflect on work.
– There is more concern about how work contributes to the success of the Trust rather than on individual
success.
– Problems or issues are generally viewed as opportunities to learn.
• Examples of risk-taking behaviors:
– Mistakes are viewed as opportunities for learning.
– There is continuous questioning abut how the Trust is doing, what it can do better, and what is
working.
– There is a willingness to take risks in the course of doing the Trust’s work.
– There is a commitment to being innovative and forward looking.
– There is confidence that mistakes or failures will not have a negative consequences.
• Examples of participatory decision-making behaviors:
– Individuals trust themselves and each other.
– Individual capacity to learn is the Trust’s greatest resource.
– Data/information is used to inform decision-making.
– Asking questions and raising issues about the Trust’s work is encouraged.
– Offering dissenting opinions and alternative viewpoints is encouraged.
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• Is the Trust’s leadership transformational by supporting learning and knowledge management?
• Officers believe that the Trust’s success depends upon learning from daily practices.
• Officers support the sharing of knowledge and skills among staff members.
• Officers provide the necessary time and support for systemic, long-term change.
• Officers use data/information to inform decision-making.
• Officers take on the role of coaching, mentoring and facilitating learning.
• Officers help staff understand the value of experimentation and the learning that can result from such
endeavors.
• Officers admit when they don’t know the answer to a question.
• Officers make realistic commitments for staff (e.g. time, resources, and workload).
• Officers understand that staff has different learning styles and learning needs.
• Officers are more concerned with serving the Trust than with seeking personal power or gain.
• Officers are open to constructive feedback from others.
• Officers model the importance of learning through their own efforts to learn.
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• Does the Trust have systems and structures in place that will support learning and knowledge management?
• Examples of an open and accessible work environment:
– There is little bureaucratic red tape when trying to do something new or different.
– The Trust is designed to allow for easy and frequent communication amongst staff.
– There are few boundaries that keep staff from working together.
– All staff are available to participate in meetings.
• Examples of rewards and recognitions system and practices:
– There is recognition or rewards for learning new knowledge and skills.
– Staff are recognized or rewarded for helping solve Trust problems.
– The current reward/appraisal system recognizes, in some way, team learning and performance.
– Staff are recognized or rewarded for helping others learn.
– Staff are recognized or rewarded for experimenting with new ideas.
• Examples of the relationship between the Trust’s work to its goals:
– Staff understands how its work relates to the goals and mission of the Trust.
– Staff performance goals are clearly aligned with the Trust’s strategic goals.
– Staff meets work deadlines.
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• Do the Trust’s communications support learning and knowledge management?
• Examples of availability:
– Information is gathered from staff, grantees, board members, community partners or other stakeholders
to gauge how well the Trust is doing.
– Currently available information tells the Trust what it needs to know about the effectiveness of
initiatives.
– There are adequate records of past change efforts and what happened as a result.
• Examples of dissemination:
– There are existing systems to manage and disseminate information for those who need and can use it.
– Staff is cross-trained to perform various job functions.
– Officers and staff have access to the information needed to make work-related decisions.
– Technologies are used to communicate with one another.
– When new information that would be helpful to others is learned or discovered it gets disseminated to
those individuals.
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• Does the Trust perform work in teams?
• The Trust operates via, or is transitioning towards, a team-based structure.
• Work at the Trust is sometimes conducted as part of a working group that is or could be identified as a
“team.”
• Teams are an effective way to meet Trust goals.
• Training is provided on how to work as a team member.
• Is The Trust engaged in evaluation?
• The integration of evaluation activities into the Trust’s work has enhanced the quality of decision-making.
• It has been worthwhile to integrate evaluation activities into the Trust’s daily work practices.
• There would be support if the Trust tried to do more evaluation work.
• Evaluation helps the Trust provide better initiatives.
• Doing more evaluation would make it easier to convince Trust staff of needed changes.
• This would be a good time to begin, renew or intensify efforts to conduct evaluations.
• There are evaluation processes in place enabling the Trust to review how well changes it makes are
working.
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11. Approaching andAssessing the Impact of Investments
• Each of the Trust’s funded programs is unique therefore evaluation design needs a theory-driven approach
based on two models:
• Action Model Theory-driven process evaluation - It is prescriptive in that it explains the action that is
required to solve a social problem by highlighting the components and activities program designers and
key stakeholders see as necessary for program success.
• Change Model Theory-driven outcome evaluation - It is descriptive in that it explains why the
problem will respond to the action by highlighting the assumptions about causal processes through which
an intervention is supposed to work.
• Action Model + Change Model Integrated Theory-driven process/outcome evaluation.
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12. • Action Model (Process)
• Intervention and service delivery protocols.
• Implementing organization: assess, enhance, and ensure its capacity.
• Program implementers: recruit, train and maintain both competency and commitment.
• Associate organizations/community partners: establishing collaborations.
• Ecological context: seek its support at micro and macro levels.
• Target population: identify, recruit, screen, serve.
• Change Model (Outcomes)
• Intervention/treatment
• Determinants
– Mediators
– Moderators
• Goals/outcomes:
– Distal
– Intermediate
– Proximal
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Approaching andAssessing the Impact of Investments
13. WWK
Principal
Project
Manager
PTO/PTA
Officers
Computer
Instructor
Parents
Effects intrinsic
motivation
leading to use
Teachers
Students
Champs
Positive
Letter
Negative
Letter
Incentive
Letter
Phone
E - Mail
Personal
Follow-up
Follow-up
Letter
Internet training
No effect on
intrinsic
motivation
leading to non-
use
Direct influence/communication:
Direct action:
Two-way influence/communication:
Example of an
Action Model
Or
Recruitment
Program
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14. Example of a
Change Model
Safer children
Reduce
Reluctance
Reduce
Ignorance
Reduce
Denial
Reduce
Embarrassment
Reduce
Time
Wired With Wisdom
Parent Recruitment Program
(Letters
Phone calls
E - mails
Personal contact)
Increase
Experience
Increase
Concern
Successful
recruitment =
use of
Wired With
Wisdom
Well managed
family internet
environment &
safety plan
Reduce Risk
Increase
Expectations
Increase Mental
Readiness
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15. Approaching andAssessing the Impact of Investments
• Effective Evaluations Using the Theory - Driven Approach:
• Future action directedness
– Useful to stakeholders.
– Assessing merit, worth, or value is a means rather than an end.
– Provides useful information for stakeholders to improve current or future programs.
• Scientific and stakeholder credibility
– Follow scientific methods and principles to optimize validity and reliability.
– Responds to stakeholders’values, views, concerns, and needs.
• Holistic Approach
– Intrinsic value.
– Considers program context.
• Compels evaluator to be thoughtful before acting because she thoroughly understands the program.
• Helps tailor evaluations to answer the most important questions (i.e., parsimony) and informs methodological
choices.
• Heightens evaluation sensitivity and validity.
• Helps evaluator meet American Evaluation Association professional evaluation standards – Utility,
Feasibility, Propriety, Accuracy.
• Fosters cumulative wisdom.
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16. Approaching andAssessing the Impact of Investments
• Face-to-face meetings with stakeholders (working group or intensive interview).
• Develop a systematic understanding of stakeholder views, needs, and values.
• Facilitate conceptualization of a program:
• Stakeholders reflectively examine what they are doing.
• Stakeholders identify elements that are essential for achieving program goals.
• Stakeholders articulate causal relationships.
• Theorizing methods – backward reasoning (start with intended outcomes) to inputs, forward reasoning, or
both.
• Increases stakeholders’buy-in and support for evaluation.
• Work with stakeholders to focus the evaluation design (e.g., questions, data, methods, analysis, etc.).
• Gather credible evidence using rigorous methods based on contingency (e.g., qual., quant., or mixed).
• Work with stakeholders to examine data and justify conclusions.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure utilization and lessons learned are widely disseminated.
• Utilization of the evaluation can include:
• Conceptual (knowledge produced used for understanding/education).
• Instrumental (knowledge produced used for decision-support).
• Process (making use of the logic of the evaluation).
• Symbolic (knowledge used to justify a priori decisions).
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17. Planningand Refining Grant-making
• Identify the issues/problems that need to be solved based in part on previous grant-making experience and
criteria internal to the Trust.
• Articulate assumptions about how the problems can be addressed with available resources:
• Existing knowledge of the issue.
• The activities of others in the field.
• Previous grant-making experience.
• How the Trust’s support can address the problem and achieve desired results.
• Develop theoretical action and change models or logic models to express assumptions; these are updated
throughout the planning/refinement process.
• Scan the field to assess needs and identify gaps by taking stock of the social, political, and economic
context—where it is currently and where it may be heading.
• Goal: Identify areas or strategies where additional resources can have significant impact.
• Methods: Secondary research, discussions, gathering and convening, surveys, and network mapping.
• Topics: Populations of concern, community needs, context, key players, strategies, other funders,
successful strategies/what works, and gaps.
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18. Planningand Refining Grant-making
• Take stock of internal capacity through a frank and thorough assessment.
• Develop a clear understanding of the Trust’s capabilities so that it can align what is needed with what it
can realistically contribute.
• Internal capacity includes: Finances, human assets, intellectual capital, social capital, comparative
advantage/influence.
• Validate assumptions through a "quality review" with other stakeholders to ensure that the logic is sound,
assumptions are accurate, and relevant influential factors are accounted for.
• Implement, evaluate, and plan again as an ongoing, iterative process.
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19. WorkApproach 1: FosteringEmpowerment
• A long-term process individuals, organizations, and communities undertake for themselves rather than
something done to or for them (Lather, 1991, 1992; Claridge, 1996)
• Empowered outcomes: individuals or aggregate bodies of individuals engaging in behaviors that permit
effective pursuit of planned social change, for example, working with others, managing resources, learning
decision-making skills, influencing policy, accessing government, sharing leadership, obtaining needed
resources, being networked to others, etc. (Schulz et al., 1995; Zimmerman, 2000).
• Three interrelated components (Zimmerman, Israel, Schulz, & Checkoway, 1992).
• Interactional: Developing knowledge, skills, and strategies to become leaders/advocates for
change.
• Intrapersonal: Appraisal/critical awareness of, and the motivation and agency to change one’s
life circumstances (i.e., self-efficacy).
• Behavioral: Individual-level actions requiring leadership that benefits individuals and
communities by influencing social policy.
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20. WorkApproach 2: FosteringSelf-Determination
• A general, organismic theory of human motivation explaining the relationship between three sets of
motivational processes—intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivational —and self-determined behaviors (Ryan &
Connell, 1989).
• To be self-determined, experience well–being, and have optimal health (e.g., self-esteem, self-actualization,
vitality, positive affect, and work engagement) people have to satisfy three basic psychological needs
endowed by nature (Koestner, Ryan, Bernieri, & Holt, 1984):
• Competence: efficacious performance of behaviors based on positive feedback and communication.
• Autonomy: choice in how to perform a task is provided, the task is recognized as being important, and
feelings about the task are acknowledged.
• Relatedness: meaningful connections to others and a sense of belonging; the opposite is alienation and
inauthenticity.
• The collective research on SDT suggests that when basic psychological needs are supported, intrinsic
motivation and integrated extrinsic motivation are most likely to be evident.
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21. Projected CollaborativeAccomplishmentsWithin 3 – 6 Months
• Contextual assessment conducted with internal Trust team to determine readiness for organizational learning and
evaluative inquiry using quantitative (e.g., the ROLE) and qualitative (e.g., observation and content analysis)
methods.
• Qualitative research methods will be used to determine knowledge needs and ascertain knowledge, skills,
experiences, and attitudes about evaluation by group (see below) and across the Trust:
• Interviews/focus groups of recent grantees within each initiative (random sample).
• Interviews with all current grantees (full census)/formulate action and change models and evaluation plans.
• Interviews with board of trustee members (full census, n = 8).
• Interviews with outside board committee members (full census, n = 4).
• Interviews with officers (full census, n = 3).
• Interviews with staff (full census, n = 13).
• Information gathered through quantitative and qualitative research will be collaboratively analyzed to make
meaning of the data, synthesized, and reported back to each group along with a cross-group report.
• Will have canvassed other charitable trusts/foundations with similar initiatives to inform the Trust’s best practices in
research, evaluation, and strategic learning.
• A framework for evaluation, research, and strategic learning that maps onto the Trust’s strategic plan as informed
by data and input from Trust leadership, staff et al. is at or near completion.
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22. OvercomingChallenges using the GettingTo Outcomes Model
• Focus: The problem related to pediatric vision we’re trying to solve or unmet need to be fulfilled based on
secondary or external data.
• Target: Identify goals, target population, and desired outcomes of a pediatric vision screening and follow-up
care initiative.
• Adopt: Find existing programs and best practices regarding pediatric vision screening and follow-up care
worth adopting (must be evidence-based or a promising practice based on preliminary research).
• Adapt: Modify the program or best practice to fit children’s vision screening and follow-up care needs.
• Resources: Assess capacity (e.g., staff, financing, etc.) to implement the initiative.
• Plan: Make a plan for getting started by developing action and change theoretical models, and formulating
and prioritizing evaluation questions.
• Monitor: Track planning and implementation process.
• Evaluate: Evaluate initiative’s success in achieving desired results by using rigorous scientific methods to
answer evaluation questions.
• Improve: Make a plan for continuous quality improvement from the results of evaluative inquiry.
• Sustain: Consider how to keep the initiative going if it is successful.
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