TPI's Tamez to present at the American Evaluation Association Annual Conference

Hallie Tamez, Senior Program Officer, will present the Lucent Technologies work with school districts at the American Evaluation Association (AEA) annual conference. The conference will be held in Denver, CO November 5-7, 2008.

The session is entitled "Habits of Mind: Promoting Evaluative Thinking" and is part of the Think Tank Session on Wednesday, Novemeber 5th from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM. This session is sponsored by the Pre-K - 12 Educational Evaluation TIG. An abstract of the discussion is below.

Abstract

Billions of dollars spent on K-12 school reform and professional development efforts have not resulted, for the most part, in fundamental changes. Schools and districts are indeed 'over their heads' (Kegan 1994) in trying to make systemic change with familiar strategies. In this think tank, the facilitators will describe an initiative in three school districts that has supported complex, adaptive change through cultivating the organizational and individual habits of mind necessary to improving teaching practice and student learning; habits that enable people to learn and think evaluatively. An embedded evaluation process has been an integral part of this work. Participants will then engage in discussion of questions relevant to this and similar initiatives.

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