Full Day Workshops
Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (CRIE) Workshop
September 26, 2017 9:00am-5:00pm
Presenters:
Fiona Cram, Ph.D., Director, Katoa Ltd, Aotearoa New Zealand
Nicole R. Bowman, Ph.D., President, Bowman Performance Consulting
Brief Workshop Description:
Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluation (CRIE) is an emerging evaluation model that is flexible and has been implemented in multiple Indigenous contexts (international, Reservation, urban, and rural). These diverse Indigenous contexts provide fertile grounds to implement, test, and give insight to the CRIE model. Using case studies and interactive group activities, this workshop will provide the theoretical, methodological, and practical applications of CRIE being implemented in diverse contexts, for diverse projects, and with diverse Indigenous participants and organizations. The interactive workshop content is structured around key questions that help guide workshop participants through the CRIE model: 1. What are the foundations and critical components of CRIE? 2. How can the developmental components of the CRIE model be applied generally to the current evaluation work you do? 3. Where has the CRIE model been tested and what have we learned?
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Foundations of Culturally Responsive Evaluation
September 26, 2017 9:00am-5:00pm
Presenters:
Rodney K. Hopson, Ph. D., Professor, George Mason University
Karen E. Kirkhart, Ph. D., Professor, Syracuse University
Brief Workshop Description:
This workshop addressed theoretical foundations of Culturally Responsive Evaluation (CRE) and the strategies that operationalize it in evaluation practice. This workshops aimed to prepare participants to consider methods that are culturally congruent with their contexts of practice, noting potential strengths and limitations of each.
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Half Day Workshops
8:00am - 12:00pm
Culturally Relevant Evaluation Meets Quantitative Research Methodology: What is the Outcome?
September 26, 2017 8:00am-12:00pm
Presenter:
Toks Fashola, Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Brief Workshop Description:
This workshop addresses the importance of including both qualitative and quantitative research in culturally relevant approaches to social and restorative justice research.
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Translating Contemporary Culturally Responsiveness for Actionable Evaluation Practices for and with Latinx Communities
September 26, 2017 8:00am-12:00pm
Presenters:
Lisa Aponte-Soto, National Program Deputy Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections program at Equal Measure
Leah C. Neubauer, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Brief Workshop Description:
This workshop will focus on translating contemporary culturally responsiveness for actionable evaluation practices for and with Latinx communities. Enacting culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) with diverse multinational, racial, and ethnic Latinx communities demands highly skilled evaluators who can employ evaluation approaches which align and support diverse perspectives in all evaluation phases. The session will begin with a brief history of social justice oriented evaluation theories, CRE, and Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit). This paradigmatic framing will provide a foundation to discuss the nine-step CRE process in action with Latinx communities. Facilitators will highlight synthesized literature and draw on their own indigenous praxis-oriented perspectives. Participants should come prepared to ‘dig deep’ and share their experiences with Latinx-focused evaluation planning and practice.
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1:00pm - 5:00pm
Transformative Mixed Methods Designs in Evaluation for Social Justice
September 26, 2017 1:00pm-5:00pm
Presenter:
Donna Mertens, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Gallaudet University
Brief Workshop Description:
This workshop uses a transformative lens to inform the development of mixed methods designs for evaluations that support changes to strengthen human rights and social justice in marginalized communities.
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Utilization of a Racial Equity Lens to Help Guide Strategic Engagement and Evaluation
September 26, 2017 1:00pm-5:00pm
Presenters:
Paul Elam, Ph.D., and Willard Walker, Public Policy Associates, Inc.
Christopher Dunbar, Ph.D., Professor, University of Illinois
LaShaune Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Creighton University
Brief Workshop Description:
This workshop focuses on the practical use of a racial equity lens when conducting evaluation. The framework argues that culture and race are important considerations when conducting an evaluation because we believe that there are both critical and substantive nuances that are often missed, ignored, and/or misinterpreted when an evaluator is not aware of the culture of those being evaluated.
Participants will be provided with a Template for Analyzing Programs through a Culturally Responsive and Racial Equity Lens, designed to focus deliberately on an evaluation process that takes race, culture, equity, and community context into consideration.
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