What would it take for every child to achieve high levels of literacy? What would it take to develop schools where each child actualizes his or her unique potential? And why do so many schools, filled with hard-working, well-intentioned people, fail to meet the learning needs of their students, especially students of color and English language learners? In Becoming the Change, authors Rex Babiera and Hallie Preskill explore the intersection of school reform and organizational development. They present a living history of the Ball Foundation's Education Initiatives team, a small group of people helping school districts become learning organizations in service to literacy achievement for every student. In order to transform educational systems, the Education Initiatives team itself had to become a learning team. This is a book about learning, change, and public schooling in the United States. But it is also a book about people, specifically, members of the Education Initiatives team and the educators with whom they worked from 2006-2008. How they worked together and what they learned along the way illustrates and deepens the ideas presented. Their story reveals what people really experience as they go through the sometimes difficult and ambiguous process of change. By reading this book, you will learn that everyone who works for change in organizations must first change themselves. Whether or not you work in public education, we hope this book will guide and inspire you as you make the journey toward transformational change.

Becoming the Change: What One Organization Working To Transform Educational Systems Learned About Team Learning and Change

Education & Teaching

Preskill, Hallie

Babiera, Rex

Schools & Teaching

The Ball Foundation

From new product launches to large-scale training initiatives, organizations need the tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes, and systems. In Evaluation in Organizations, Darlene Russ-Eft and Hallie Preskill integrate the most current research with practical application to provide the definitive resource on organizational evaluation for managers, human resource professionals, and students and teachers alike. From designing surveys and interviews to analyzing data to communicating results, the authors present a systematic and rigorous approach to conducting evaluations and using them to foster learning and enhance performance at all levels.

Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change

Business & Money

Russ-Eft, Darlene

Management & Leadership

Basic Books

How does evaluative inquiry contribute to organizational learning? How can we practice evaluative inquiry in ways that maximize individual and team learning? This book provides a data-based approach to organizational learning and change and focuses on the use of evaluative inquiry processes with organizations rather than across large-scale, multi-site programs. It contains four illustrative case studies, interview extracts, strategy plans and flow charts, diagrams and advice boxes that consultants can use for implementing their own training and development sessions.

Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations

Torres, Rosalie T.

Sage Publications, Inc.

Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (Soldier Creek Music Series; 4)

Human Resource Development Review: Research and Implications

Designed to inform, stimulate and influence research and practice in human resource development (HRD), this book reviews exemplary studies in the field and discusses their practical implications. Topics discussed include: the importance of variety in behavioural models to improve training; methods for enhancing human performance; integrative and accelerated learning; the advantages of structured versus unstructured on-the-job training; team performance; why some teams learn and others do not; interventions that improve team processes and performance; the role of managers in organizational learning; how research on organizational learning might affect the role of HRD; and how HRD professionals can facilitate organizational l

Sleezer, Catherine M.

Human Resources

Building Evaluation Capacity provides 72 activities for learning how to design and conduct evaluation studies. These activities address the entire evaluation process. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, time estimates, materials needed, handouts, and procedures for effectively using the activity, whether there are a few participants or an unlimited number in small groups. To help the reader locate specific kinds of activities, the book includes a chart that names the activity, the time needed to implement the activity, and whether background information or knowledge is required prior to implementing the activity. The book also includes several strategies for forming groups and a glossary of instructional strategies.

Building Evaluation Capacity: 72 Activities for Teaching and Training

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations

What communicating and reporting strategies best serve individual and organizational learning? How can these strategies be implemented? This book answers these questions by providing a model for doing evaluation in a way that helps individuals and organizations grow and improve. It will be invaluable to evaluators in facilitating individual, team and organizational learning by communicating and reporting more effectively. As well as illustrating the steps to improving communication through all phases of an evaluation - from planning to the final report and follow-up - the book also provides practical tips and useful examples.

Piontek, Mary E.

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry is the first book to introduce the application of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), an approach for organizational development and change, to the practice of evaluation. Authors Hallie Preskill and Tessie Tzavaras Catsambas lay out the theoretical foundation of AI and build a bridge between the theory and practice of applying AI to evaluation.

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry

Catsambas, Anastasia (Tessie) Tzavaras

The Second Edition of Building Evaluation Capacity provides 89 highly structured activities which require minimal instructor preparation and encourage application-based learning of how to design and conduct evaluation studies. Ideal for use in program evaluation courses, professional development workshops, and organization stakeholder trainings, authors Hallie Preskill and Darlene Russ-Eft cover the entire process of evaluation, including: understanding what evaluation is; the politics and ethics; the influence of culture; various models, approaches and designs; data collection and analysis methods; communicating and reporting progress and findings; and building and sustaining support. Each activity includes an overview, instructional objectives, minimum and maximum number of participants, range of time required, materials needed, primary instructional method, and procedures for facilitators to help learners in the most common evaluation practices.

Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training

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Becoming the Change: What One Organization Working To Transform Educational Systems Learned About Team Learning and Change

Evaluation in Organizations: A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change

Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations

Evaluative Inquiry for Learning in Organizations (Soldier Creek Music Series; 4)

Human Resource Development Review: Research and Implications

Human Resource Development Review: Research and Implications

Building Evaluation Capacity: 72 Activities for Teaching and Training

Evaluation Strategies for Communicating and Reporting: Enhancing Learning in Organizations

Reframing Evaluation Through Appreciative Inquiry

Building Evaluation Capacity: Activities for Teaching and Training