Contributors and Collaborators

My favorite thing about evaluation is that it creates connection and understanding. These relational aspects bring clarity, shared purpose, and transformative potential. 

Evaluation enables us to know where and how we can improve and grow. 

I love working with organizations to help them articulate their goals and figure out how to measure progress towards these goals. 

My favorite thing about evaluation is co-conspiring for learning, and great inclusion and equity. 

Evaluation helps us think more clearly about the impact we're having and how we improve or enhance our programs. It also helps us reflect on our practices and makes sure that we're meeting our goals, including centering equity in everything we do.

My favorite thing about evaluation is the shift to more culturally responsive evaluation practices that center community and context, and are more collaborative and participatory. As an Indigenous evaluator I am also excited about growing the field of culturally responsive Indigenous evaluation. 

Evaluation is another form of reflection. It's the opportunity to hear from community members, learn from them, and get inspired! 

My favorite thing about evaluation is the continuous learning that comes with the collaboration and community. 

My favorite thing about evaluation is the way that the process makes assumptions and process explicit and transparent. 

My favorite thing about evaluation is sharing the lived experience! 

What I love about evaluation are the surprises, the aha moments, the unexpected insights. Evaluation helps us to see our programs with fresh eyes and perspectives different from our own. Asking questions and gathering information allows us to dig into these insights to create deeper understanding.

My favorite thing about evaluation is working with community partners to improve EE. 

I enjoy working with project partners to figure out what questions we really want to ask about a specific program or initiative. I love the evaluation process forces you to dig deep into what your goals are and what it would look like to achieve them. 

My favorite things about evaluation are that it truly is for everyone (now, it hasn't been implemented in this way, but it is for all of us) and that it can be a great accountability tool that drives improving relationships we have with partner communities, the research, and ourselves. 

My favorite thing about evaluation is the opportunity to bring positive change in a manner that authentically engages collaborators and addresses issues of power, privilege, and equity. 

I love how evaluation empowers us in making informed decisions to improve our practice. We're passionate about what we do, and evaluation helps us do it better!

I love learning, collaboration and leaning into my growing edges, especially when it comes to cultural humility, equity, and inclusion. Evaluation is all about continuous learning, curiosity, collaboration, and authentic engagement across cultural contexts. My favorite thing about evaluation is witnessing positive social change happen on so many levels- personally, programmatically, organizationally, systemically, and beyond. Evaluation is where it's at! 

Evaluation gives me a window into creative and inspiring EE programs. I enjoy teaching and learning from others when we reflect on data together. 

Evaluation is another engaging, interactive, learning strategy. What can be better than that?

My favorite thing about evaluation is the story it tells about the incredible ways that environmental education is powering up learning and sparking engagement in the places we live, play, work, and learn. 

My favorite part of evaluation is that provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations to systemically learn about what works and what needs improvement. 

I love it when evaluation can bring the perspectives of youth into program design and improvement that reflects youth priorities and needs. 

Evaluation is an opportunity for making change apparent to and participatory for educators, learners, and beyond-as individuals and as groups. That opportunity is my favorite thing, in addition to embedded assessments that flow within a learning opportunity.

My favorite part of evaluation is the data review process. I love reading through participant responses and trying to understand patterns in the data. 

I love using evaluation to help organizations to think creatively about improving their programs based on real evidence. 

Evaluation gives us all a way to get to learn about each other, our passions for this field, and how our work can make the world better. I love getting to know organizations, the people that run them, and the things that feed their passion. 

My favorite part of evaluation is data analysis. Specifically that moment when you come across something that surprises you and taking that surprising finding, sharing it out, and applying it to improve practice. Then-measuring again!

My favorite thing about evaluation is working collaboratively to understand people's experiences and perspectives more deeply.

My favorite part of evaluation is learning with and from community partners. 

I love that evaluation, especially evaluation done with an equitable and culturally-responsive approach, is about self-awareness & positionality, curiosity, and reciprocity & accountability to each other and our communities. 

I love that evaluation gives us the information to tell the story of our work and how e can better the work for lasting impact. 

My favorite thing about evaluation is that it prompts us to be reflective and ask questions of ourselves. 

I love helping partners improve their programming through data-informed decision-making. I hope to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable world through this work. 

Evaluative thinking is a way of evidence-based learning that helps our programs and us as individuals to be the best we can be, both of which are essential to addressing the complex sustainability and education challenges facing us. 

I love working with organizations to evaluate their programs. Evaluation helps organizations understand their constituents, develop more focused programs, and ultimately better serve their community. What's not to love?