Jeanette Joyce

The Program Evaluation Toolkit presents a step-by-step process for conducting your own program evaluation. The Quick Start Guide will help you decide if you are ready to use this toolkit and where to start.

August 12, 2021 Time: 9:00-10:30 a.m. MT Location: Virtual event Description: Roger Goddard, professor in the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University, will share information on how collective efficacy relates to professional learning communities (PLCs). REL Central will then review the goal of the project when it started in September 2020. Next, Statewide System of Support team members will share their progress in evaluating PLC implementation across Wyoming. Finally, R...

Although national assessments for evaluating teacher candidates are available, some state education agencies and education preparation programs have developed their own assessments. These locally developed assessments are based on observations of teaching and other artifacts such as lesson plans and student assignments. However, local assessment developers often lack information about the validity and reliability of data collected with their assessments. The Council for the Accreditation of E...

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm MT Location: Rocky Mountain Early Childhood Conference: Virtual Description: This session is intended to build early childhood educator data-use with a publicly available tool developed by the Colorado Department of Education and the Regional Educational Laboratory Central. Participants will engage with a data use checklist and accompanying resource guide to improve their capacity to use data to inform instructional improvement as well as overall program data use. Partici...

The Early Childhood Data Use Assessment Tool is designed to identify and improve data use skills among early childhood education (ECE) program staff so they can better use data to inform, plan, monitor, and make decisions for instruction and program improvement. Data use is critical in quality ECE programs but can be intimidating for some ECE program staff. This tool supports growth in their data use skills. The tool has three components: (1) a checklist to identify staff skills in using chil...

Time: 8:30-11:00 a.m. CT Location: Virtual event Description: This training will focus on completing a Plan-Do-Study-Act continuous improvement plan for a schoolwide strategy in response to the findings of the Legacy High School flexible-time study (Brodersen et al., 2020). Partnership or Research Alliance: North Dakota Innovative Schools Research Partnership Audience: Legacy High School staff Speakers: Matt Eide, REL Central Mike Siebersma, REL Central Anne Butterworth, REL Central David Ya...