Education Agencies
The Center for Research Strategies has worked successfully with education agencies to utilize evaluation resources to maximize student outcomes. We recognize that education agencies provide services to an increasingly diverse population; with our bilingual and bicultural staff, we can ensure that the services we provide are culturally appropriate. We can partner with you to develop grant proposals, evaluate the effectiveness of new curricula, develop and implement evaluation plans and assist in other ways, as described in the services provided section below.
The Center for Research Strategies understands that education agencies often need to break their evaluation into smaller components that fit within their budgetary constraints and therefore, we offer a menu of services from which you can choose. Whether you need someone to facilitate your strategic planning efforts, develop an evaluation, or synthesize your data into a useable report detailing results, lessons learned, and recommendations, we provide the services you can leverage to maximize student outcomes and demonstrate your success to obtain additional funding.
Services We Provide
- Evaluation planning, design, implementation, and technical assistance
- Organizational Development
- Strategic Planning
- Research planning, design, implementation, and technical assistance
- Adapt existing databases or create customized student tracking systems to track students, manage programs, and produce program reports
- Quantitative or qualitative analysis of existing program data
- Grant proposal development
- In depth technical reports of evaluation or research process and outcomes that include lessons learned and future recommendations
- Concise executive summaries tailored to a variety of audiences as requested by clients
- Client requested presentations to professional audiences and key stakeholder groups
Selected Current and Former Education Clients
- Over the past five years, CRS has served as the evaluator for the Coordinated School Health Initiative, a CDC funded demonstration that entails a collaboration between the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Building on the learnings from the past five years, CRS is now helping to construct a state-level surveillance system that will enable schools to track their progress related to nutrition and physical activity which in turn will help Colorado in its fight against obesity. Two of the most referenced products CRS recently produced for the initiative are review of evidence-based School Health research and a Summary of Findings from the Colorado School Health Profiles Survey.
- CRS is working with Pueblo City Schools as the local evaluator for the district's Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative. CRS is ensuring that evaluation findings compiled over the course of this project help to ensure the sustainability of efforts to promote safe and healthy school environments for Pueblo's students.
- The Denver Public School District received a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education to design and implement a new history curriculum in elementary, middle, and high schools to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history. CRS is assessing the extent to which teachers are learning new history content as well as new instructional strategies to teach their students to think critically.
