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Three cheers for the Greater Boston Evaluation Network! 🎉 Moving to a new city & searching for a new job early in the pandemic was tough. Connecting with other local evaluators made me feel seen & supported. Now, I volunteer for GBEN's membership committee 🌟
Get to know AEA's local affiliates! These professional development groups are a great way to expand your #eval network. eval.org/Community/Local-Aff…
Today I led an evaluation capacity building roundtable for GBEN. During breakout groups, one attendee said something that blew my mind: "Our eval team is responsible for the evaluation, but everyone at the organization is responsible for evaluative thinking." 🤯💯 #evaltwitter
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Want to practice your landscape painting skills? Join a free and fun @BostonParksDept watercolor painting workshop! The workshops are hosted by a local artist each weekend in June. The series is open to Boston residents, but registration is required.
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Highly recommend this blog from @emergencecol. I've been struggling to respond to approaches that are inflexible and siloed under the guise of "rigor." I loved guiding phrases at the end of the post: "It is only rigorous if it is builds partners' capacity & is equitable" 🤯💯
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned this past year: ruminating on mistakes will eat you alive, especially when you work in a shaming & toxic work culture. Acknowledge mistakes & learn from them. Also, get the heck out of that toxic culture! You deserve better.
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Public service announcement: You can’t refute evidence with opinions.
When you disagree with data, you have 3 options:
1. Find better data
2. Identify limitations of the existing data
3. Consider the possibility that you were wrong, and have the humility & integrity to admit it
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To my #publichealth colleagues: we can't talk about #gunviolence as a public health crisis without talking about #policeviolence as a public health crisis, too. They're not mutually exclusive. 95% of the time police kill civilians, they do so with a gun. [everytownresearch.org/report…]
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LAST CALL: Submit your ideas for #AEA365 #DVRTIG week today! Even if your submissions don't make it onto the blog, there's a good chance you'll see your ideas highlighted here on Twitter or in an upcoming newsletter. @aeaweb #eval #EvalTwitter
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A system that is designed to accept its members killing people regularly is not a system in which it is sensible to describe any killing as accidental, regardless of individual intentions.
A successful program evaluation is one in which the end user understands, engages with, and hopefully uses the evaluation findings. Being intentional about our language is a key way we can make #eval accessible.
When you understand something clearly, you can explain it clearly.
Even experts are turned off by unnecessarily technical language. Papers with more jargon in their titles and abstracts get cited less.
Skip specialized terms when familiar ones will do.
nytimes.com/2021/04/09/scien…
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If you punish people for being wrong, they cover up their mistakes. They make excuses and throw blame to justify the past.
If you treat being wrong as a learning opportunity, people admit their errors. They take responsibility for correcting and preventing them in the future.
I love the sleek, minimalist design of this #VOTD for #BlackHistoryMonth #DiversityinData. What a cool way to represent the achievements of Black scientists and inventors. Great work, @menscuriosa!
In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth, dive into this #DiversityinData #VOTD by @menscuriosa to learn about the contributions of Black scientists and inventors throughout history: tabsoft.co/3kcDWAX
My first #DiversityinData viz, & first viz I'm sharing on Twitter. Eeeek!
This viz explores the impact of the #COVID19 #pandemic on #Unemployment rates in the U.S. public.tableau.com/views/Div… via @tableaupublic @DiversityinData
"When working within the system, we are challenged to ask hard questions of ourselves and others about responsibility and integrity, and to acknowledge imperfect or failed efforts to act equitably and build trust" -Kathryn Lowerre shar.es/aoAe3w via @aeaweb
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It's not psychological safety if people can only voice what you want to hear.
The goal is not to be comfortable. It's to create a climate where people can speak up without fear.
Psychological safety begins with admitting our own mistakes and welcoming criticism from others.