SERVICES | K–20 SCIENCE EDUCATION
Senior-level inquiry from start to finish.
Each engagement is shaped around the decisions a team needs to make, not a fixed package or a generic methodology.
WHEN TO INVOLVE SEAN
Bring evaluation and research into the work early.
Support can begin while a proposal is taking shape, during implementation, or when a team needs to interpret and communicate what it has learned.
Developing a proposal
Map project logic, clarify evaluation questions, and build a credible plan for studying the work.
Beginning implementation
Create a shared understanding of what success looks like and how progress will be studied.
While work is underway
Gather formative evidence while there is still time to respond and strengthen implementation.
Planning a study
Shape the study design, instruments, data collection, and analysis around the research questions.
RESEARCH, EVALUATION & PLANNING
What Sean can help a project do.
The engagement may be a full external evaluation, a research partnership, or focused support for planning and interpretation. In every case, the work is shaped around the project and the decisions ahead.
External Evaluation
UNDERSTAND WHAT IS WORKING • LOGIC MODELS • FORMATIVE EVIDENCE • MIXED METHODS
Map project logic and theory of change, co-construct questions to guide evaluation, collect and analyze data to inform decisions.
Evaluation design and logic models
Mixed-methods data collection and analysis
Formative feedback during implementation
Clear reporting for project teams and funders
Research
Partnerships
STUDY THE QUESTIONS THAT MATTER • STUDY DESIGN • INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT • ANALYSIS
Work together to frame research questions, design the study, develop instruments, collect and analyze data, and interpret or publish the findings.
Research questions and study design
Instrument development
Collaborative data collection, interpretation, and publication
Strategic Planning
TURN EVIDENCE INTO DIRECTION • EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS • SENSEMAKING • STRATEGIC PLANNING
Use evidence to inform decisions across complex projects, partnerships, and systems.
Sense-making across complex partnerships
Cross-organizational network analysis
Evidence synthesis and facilitation
Turning findings into practical direction
SENIOR EXPERIENCE
Direct partnership
DIRECT PARTNERSHIP
Work directly with Sean.
Ransom Street is intentionally small. Sean leads the work and remains directly involved from the first conversation through study design, data interpretation, and reporting.
FROM QUESTIONS TO DECISIONS
Start with the decision. Then design the study.
Ransom Street shapes External Evaluation, Research Partnerships, and Strategic Planning around the decisions a project team needs to make, the evidence it needs, and when that evidence will be useful.
DISCUSS THE WORK AHEAD