Data & Evaluation
WHAT WE DO
Since 2015, our evaluation learning community has helped more than 20 partners build capacity in order to develop a common language around evaluation and meet an important tenet of collective impact as a community serving a common mission. We set out to share the collective Newark arts education story, increase organizational evaluation capacity, demonstrate impact, and inform individual work.
Beginning in 2016, we developed an evaluation committee, identified our partners’ unifying questions and common goals, hosted workshops and brainstorming sessions to build evaluation capacity, developed common tools to measure impact and connected data with partners’ stories. We began virtual Help Desks but changed them to Evaluation Conversations sessions open to all partners. This is all while we facilitated an iterative process – with new areas of learning added as requested.
Workshop topics include some of the following:
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Creating Logic Models
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Survey Creation
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Survey Analysis 101 & 102
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Focus Groups
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Early Childhood Evaluation Part I & II
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Telling Your Story

EVALUATION PARTNERS
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Arts Horizons
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Arts for Kids
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Butterfly Dreamz
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Educational Arts Team
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Express Newark
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GlassRoots
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Institute of Music for Children
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Jazz House Kids
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Keys 2 Success
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Montclair Art Museum
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New Jersey Performing Arts CenterNew Jersey Symphony
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Newark Board of Education
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Newark Museum of Art
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Newark School of the Arts
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Newark Symphony Hall
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Save The Music Foundation
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Wharton Arts
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Yendor Productions
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YMCA
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Young Audiences NJ & Eastern PA

OUR GOALS
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Set the table for collective thinking
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Inform our individual work
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Tell the collective Newark story
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Demonstrate impact
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Increase organizational evaluation
capacity
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Community inclusion
WHY THIS WORK MATTERS
Arts Ed Newark partner organizations have collected evaluation data through common tools to measure the impact of their programming on students, teachers and families in our community. We have collected and analyzed data from over 30,000 surveys completed by students in our community over the last 8 years. We now hold a deeper understanding as individual organizations and as a collective of the impact our arts programming has on youth. Our partners have more organizational and staff capacity to complete evaluation work. Collectively, we have taken something that is really complex and often overwhelming and made it accessible and transparent for our community of partners.
MEET OUR EVALUATION TEAM

Rosie Grant (2023 & 2024)
A2 Facilitator
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Executive Director of the Paterson Education Fund

Wendy Liscow (2023 & 2024)
A2 Panelist
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Executive Director of Arts Ed New Jersey
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AEN Engagemement Committee Member