Presenter(s): Ed McLain, University of Alaska, Anchorage, afeam1@uaa.alaska.edu Susan Tucker, Evaluation & Development Associates, sutucker1@mac.com
Abstract: Building the capacity of school-based teams and larger networks to use improvement-oriented evaluation methodologies across diverse contexts, while exhorted by funding agencies, is rarely evaluated. The authors have been engaged in network capacity building since 2004 as part of a federally-funded USDE Teacher Quality Enhancement (TQE) grant. Grounded in the context of nine Alaskan high-need urban and rural districts experiencing a crisis in attracting (and holding) quality teachers, this session will focus on demonstrating methods and tools for sustainable data teaming and evaluation use. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of the indicators of successful teaming and network development between university and districts. Finally, we present a network development evaluation matrix.