Good evaluation starts with asking the right questions. What is working? Where are the challenges? What do educators, students, and families need? And what can we learn to inform the next steps?
Our team helps partners explore these questions through research, data collection, analysis, and evaluation. We take time to understand each organization's goals and circumstances, then develop an approach that provides useful information rather than simply another report.
We work with schools and organizations to identify strengths, challenges, and priorities through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and other information-gathering methods. Findings help inform planning and decisions about where to focus resources and support.
We help partners examine academic, attendance, behavioral, and other relevant data to identify patterns, explore questions, and better understand what's happening across their schools or programs.
We develop surveys and other feedback tools to gather perspectives from educators, students, families, and stakeholders. We also help partners interpret and use what they learn.
We design and conduct evaluations to help organizations understand how their programs are being implemented, assess progress toward goals, and identify opportunities for improvement. Our work may include both quantitative and qualitative methods, depending on the project.
No two evaluation projects are exactly alike. Some partners need help understanding a particular challenge. Others want to know whether a new initiative is being implemented as intended or what they can learn from an existing program.
Our team brings together research and evaluation expertise with firsthand experience working in educational settings. We collaborate with partners to determine what information will be most useful, how to collect it, and how to share findings in ways that support decisions.
Whether you're evaluating an existing program, gathering feedback, or planning something new, we'd welcome a conversation about how our team could help.