Black Male Collaborative
Four organizations and four leaders come together to provide culturally relevant and responsive evaluation services.
Who are we?
What assets do we bring?
John Eason, Ph.D., Associate Professor and ED of Justice Labs of America
● Unmatched Scholar with vast numbers of quality publications
● Justice informed mindset and global network
● Grounded in family history and ethnography
Dawayne Whittington, CEO of Strategic Evaluations
● Award winning tool development and data guru
● P-post-graduate pipeline expertise
● Over two decades of program evaluation experience
Jason Coleman, Project Syncere-ED
● Non-Profit Founder
● High Level Executive Leadership and Training
● Community Based Program Development and Execution
Duane Davis, Ph.D. President of Raising Expectations LLC
● Storyteller, Moderator, Teacher Whisperer, Systems Thinker
● Almost three decades of P-20 and Post Graduate Teaching and Leadership Experience
● Mission and Vision and Connection Expertise
Our Process for this work
We would describe our approach as mixed methods, but more importantly we look at evaluation as storytelling. It is an opportunity to hear and collect the stories of an organization or program.
● Collaborative
● Asset Based
● Client Centered
● Human Centered
Storytelling
Why Storytelling?
Evaluation in the education, scholarly and non-profit space is often reduced to large data sets OR an approach that reduces “the camps” to either you “do data” or you do “stories”.
Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Reductive
Dominant Culture Centered
Not Community Based
Parent Choice Survey Work
Charter Network
Community Centered
Mikva Challenge Work
Multi-City
Multi-Stakeholder
Brilliant Resilience Camp
Community Based
Project Management