EJ2 Associates provides clients with innovative project evaluation, performance monitoring, and project management solutions that help ensure the success of any project or initiative.

Accreditation
Evaluation
Design
Survey
Development
Data
Analysis
Data
Collection
Data
Visualization
Technical
Assistance
Project Management

Accreditation.

E2A provides a variety of services supporting and/or managing the teacher preparation program’s quality assurance system.

Support of Quality Assurance System

  • Consult with programs to develop their quality assurance system policies, procedures and handbooks.
  • Collaborate with programs to develop program assessment instruments, including ensuring validity and reliability of those instruments.
  • Consult with institutions on data management systems used to collect data.
  • Prepare periodic data visualizations from institution-collected data to help facilitate discussions on standards progress and continuous improvement.

Management of Quality Assurance System:

  • Develop and manage the program’s quality assurance system.
  • Develop and maintain all data management systems within the quality assurance system.
  • Lead data collection, analysis, and reporting efforts with external stakeholders (e.g., alumni, employers, practitioners, and school and community partners) to collect, analyze, report and provide technical assistance for stakeholder perception data.
  • Collect, analyze, report and provide technical assistance for data on program completer impact, particularly as it relates to program completer impact on P-12 student growth.
  • Provide frequent reports and data visualizations for performance monitoring and continuous program improvement.
  • Develop and facilitate annual evaluation meetings for program faculty, staff, and stakeholders.

Evaluation Design.

E2A evaluators have expertise in all areas of evaluation design including program development, logic modeling, and grant writing.
 

PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

  • What is the client’s overarching goal of the project?
  • What does client see as the problem, causes, and consequences that define the need?
  • What are the categories of strategies and activities the client hopes to use to address the cause of the problem?
  • For each activity, who will be responsible, what will be done, when will it be done, where will it be done, how will it be done?
  • What changes in knowledge, attitudes, skills, awareness, or motivation does the client expect to see?

Program model development is a critical first step in the development of a strong grant proposal and evaluation design. Our process involves addressing five critical questions:

LOGIC MODELING

A logic model creates a graphical depiction of the logical relationships between the resources, activities, outputs, and outcomes of a program. Using information gleaned from the evaluation design meeting, our team of evaluators creates a logic model to guide project develop, implementation, and evaluation. For implementation, the logic model has a built-in feedback loop to provide timely and useful information to stakeholders for informed decision-making on needed changes in program activities. Short-term performance indicators will assess progress toward long-term outcomes. Annual benchmarks are established and embedded in outcomes.

GRANT WRITING

The evaluation section of a proposal describes how the program will be evaluated, how the outcomes and impact will be measured, and how program results will be disseminated. Our team has expertise writing SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound) goals and objectives, evaluation plans aligned to the program design, rigorous impact studies, and detailed evaluator qualifications. E2A assists in the writing of the evaluation section of grant proposals and other stand-alone projects to ensure evaluation activities align to the program design and answer questions most useful to funders and stakeholders.

Project Management.

We understand how to manage the complexities of projects—and allow you to focus on running your organization.

The success of your project is not measured by your ability to conceive a great idea, but rather by your ability to put it into action. Whether managing the initial application process or strategically implementing project services, you’re looking to turn a great idea into a successful reality.

This is where E2A adds considerable value. We have evaluated large grant-funded programs with excellent strategies that have ultimately not had the impact they should have had simply because there was no effective management of the funded project.  We provide innovative, high-quality, start-to-finish program management solutions that help organizations drive change and achieve their proposed impact by providing industry-leading program management consulting services, methods and tools. You can rely on us to help you turn a well-crafted strategy into a well-executed plan.  Our Associate groups provide the innovative solutions our clients need to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control, and close any project.

Project Management Services

Initiating Group Associates: Engage in processes such as assisting in the development of the project application and evaluation plan, identifying stakeholders, and controlling stakeholder engagement.

Planning Group Associates: Engage in everything having to do with planning, such as determining the budget and defining scope.

Executing Group Associates: Engage in processes involved with executing the project plan, including managing communications, conducting procurements, and managing the project team.

Controlling Group Associates: Engage in processes that track and oversee progress, including those that control scope, cost, and quality.

Closing Group Associates: Engage in everything necessary to complete a project, such as closing a project phase, closing procurements and training client’s staff for sustainability.