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Arizona Evaluation Network (AZENet) Spring 2016 Conference and Workshop

Start
April 28, 2016
End
April 29, 2016
Schedule
2 sessions
#1.
April 28, 2016, 9:00 AM 4:00 PM (MST)
#2.
April 29, 2016, 9:00 AM 4:00 PM (MST)
Location
Tucson, AZ
Spaces left
85

Registration

01. Current Member: Thurs 4/28 Conference Only – $90.00
02. Current Member: Fri 4/29 Workshop Only – $90.00
03. Current Member: Conference (4/28) & Workshop (4/29) – $160.00
04. Joining/Renewing Member: Thurs 4/28 Conference Only (includes AZENet Membership Fee) – $125.00
05. Joining/Renewing Member: Fri 4/29 Workshop Only (includes AZENet Membership Fee) – $125.00
06. Joining/Renewing Member: Conference (4/28) & Workshop (4/29) (includes AZENet Membership Fee) – $195.00
07. Current Student Member: Thurs 4/28 Conference Only – $50.00
08. Current Student Member: Fri 4/29 Workshop Only – $50.00
09. Current Student Member: Conference (4/28) & Workshop (4/29)Days – $90.00
10. Joining/Renewing Student Member: Thurs 4/28 Conference Only (includes AZENet Student Membership Fee) – $65.00
11. Joining/Renewing Student Member: Fri 4/29 Workshop Only (includes AZENet Student Membership Fee) – $65.00
12. Joining/Renewing Student Member: Conference (4/28) & Workshop (4/29) (includes AZENet Student Membership Fee) – $105.00
13. Non-member: Thurs 4/28 Conference Only – $130.00
14. Non-member: Fri 4/29 Workshop Only – $130.00
15. Non-member: Conference (4/28) & Workshop (4/29) – $205.00

Registration is open to the public. Register for both days to receive a discounted rate.

AZENet members receive an additional discounted rate. Renew your membership or join AZENet today to receive membership rates.

Registration is closed

AZENet Presents

Conference and Workshop Speaker

E. Jane Davidson, Ph.D.

Jane is an internationally recognized author and speaker, best known for developing evaluation rubrics as a practical methodology for synthesizing evidence to answer important questions. She is also co-founder of The Learner First (Seattle, WA), which blends powerful educational, whole-systems change, and evaluative know-how to transform education systems, states, districts, and schools. Jane is former Associate Director of the internationally recognized Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University, where she launched and directed the world’s first fully Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation. She was 2005 recipient of the American Evaluation Association’s Marcia Guttentag Award and has keynoted conferences around the world.

When: Thursday, April 28 & Friday, April 29

9:00am - 4:00pm

Where: YWCA of Southern Arizona
525 N. Bonita Ave, Tucson, AZ
Click for directions to the YWCA

Conference Topics

Thursday AM Session: Evaluation-Driven Deep System Change: A powerful case example from education

This session provides a case study on how evaluative thinking and real-time evaluative monitoring are system change levers. This case study demonstrates how applied and practical evaluation strategies document systems change and its impact on the future of young people. This session is of particular interest to evaluators and those in the field of educational leadership.

Thursday PM Session: The Rubric Revolution: How to ask the right questions and answer them evaluatively

This session is based on the idea that evaluation is all about asking and answering explicitly evaluative questions about "what" are the results, "how good" are they, and how do we know. This session will lead the audience in how to write a killer set of high-level questions to drive and frame your entire evaluation. We will also review how and why rubrics are such a great tool to answer those questions. This session will be an interactive demonstration with questions answered throughout.

Registration for Thursday includes breakfast and lunch

Workshop Topic

Friday All-Day Workshop: Deeper Evaluative Know-How: Practical essentials for your projects

Key topics will include:

Actionable evaluation: a super-simple but powerful framework to guide your evaluation projects
Going deeper into the theory, methodology, and practical realities of creating and using evaluative rubrics for different purposes
Hands-on practice to create rubrics for participants' projects, with plenty of Q&A and discussion opportunity
Pulling back to the big picture: How a whole evaluation report comes together with all of these pieces
Using evaluation to design and drive (not just track/evaluate) change (includes theory-based needs assessment and real-time evaluative monitoring with cool data viz ideas)

Registration for Friday includes lunch

Click here for the conference flyer to share with others!

Nearby Hotels

Hampton Inn Tucson - North

1375 W. Grant Road

(520) 206-0602

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Tucson

564 W. Grant Road

(520) 624-3200

Hotel Tucson City Center

475 N Granada Ave

(520) 622-3000

Comfort Inn

1560 W. Grant Road

(520) 547-1755