As a lover of all things art and culture and an amateur painter of Madhubani art form, when an evaluation opportunity to work with the arts came knocking, I simply couldn’t pass it up! Since 2017, MNA has been working with Arts Every Day (AED), a Baltimore-based non-profit arts advocacy organization on their NEA-funded planning grant to improve equity and access in the arts for all the City Schools students. Known as the Baltimore Arts Education Initiative (BAEI), we have been actively engaged …
News and Updates
MNA goes to FL (again)!
MNA is contracted by the Pinellas County Public Schools (FL) to evaluate their new pilot Elevating Excellence gifted and talented program this summer. The work is supported by the Pinellas Education Foundation. This new project will extend our ongoing 5-year evaluation work with the Florida Atlantic University (FAU) and the K-8 Henderson School in Boca Raton (FL) which was funded by the US Department of Education's Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented grant program in 2017. Looking forward to …
Training hats are on for team MNA!
MNA in collaboration with Michelle Lynn Peters, Associate Professor, Research Methods at University of Houston (Clear Lake) will go to Idaho! Well, virtually. We have been invited to conduct a training on quantitative research models and research design, tools and techniques to the staff of the Office of Performance Evaluations (OPE) headed by Mr. Rakesh Mohan in June. We are excited for this training opportunity and will be sure to brush up our online teaching skills in quantitative research …
MNA to conduct a 2-day hands-on grant writing workshop for STEM and social science faculty at Dillard University in fall
MNA extends its portfolio. We have been invited to conduct a 2-day intensive grant / proposal writing workshop for STEM and social sciences faculty at Dillard University (LA) in early fall. We will draw from our vast experience in grant writing assistance as well as completing research and program evaluations of several federally funded programs since 2004. Looking forward to this new opportunity and learning experience. …
Dashboard Developed for Front Range Community College, Fort Collins (CO)
At MNA, we take time to better understand all our clients' needs especially when it comes to communicating evaluation results more effectively to a wider audience. One of our clients, Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, CO, received a USDE-funded Title III Institutional Capacity Grant last fall. MNA was hired as their external evaluators. In order to better assess their 14 program objectives across five years in multiple locations, we have developed a data dashboard to visually …
Sweet 16 goes to Colorado!
MNA adds Colorado to its growing portfolio. We are happy to start work with the Front Range Community College (FRCC) in beautiful Fort Collins to externally evaluate their newly funded U.S. Department of Education's Title III (Strengthening Institutional Capacity) grant over the course of five years. The grant focuses on providing academic and co-curricular supports and opportunities to increase enrollment and enhance student persistence, retention, and completion. This is MNA's second Title III …
An interactive infographic on distribution of Black teachers across the U.S. using Census data
This is our first installment of an interactive infographic that shows the overall distribution (in percentages) of Black teachers across the U.S. This is part of our ongoing data mining and research work on teacher diversity issues in the U.S. with the Black Teacher Collaborative, an Atlanta-based not-for-profit organization. Using the link: https://lnkd.in/dp9s_hN please click on the various regions to see the distribution at the macro-level. (Data source: Public Use Microdata Areas, U.S. …
MNA’s first digital evaluation report is completed!
We are very excited to share our first (of many, hopefully!) digital evaluation report for the Summer Arts Learning Academy (SALA, 2017) project completed for the Young Audiences of Maryland. We sincerely thank YAMD for the opportunity to work on the project. Enjoy! http://mnassociatesinc.com/report/young-audiences-maryland-summer-arts-learning-academy/ …
MNA joins forces to complete a data mining and research project with Altanta-based not-for-profit organization, Black Teacher Collaborative
We are excited to start our new work with the Atlanta-based not-for-profit social entrepreneurship organization, Black Teacher Collaborative (BTC) to complete an intensive data mining and research project on teacher diversity issues in the U.S. classrooms. Stay tuned for data insights, summaries, and some cool infographics. …
Happy Holidays from MNA!
As another year of productive collaboration and collective impact draws to a close, we reflect on what a busy year it has been for MN Associates, Inc. (MNA). We have surpassed the milestone of completing 160+ evaluation reports. Our team continues to grow! We are now a team of six. Our work continued to expand across multiple areas including: STEM education, after-school enrichment, social studies education, literacy, digital education, arts integration, gifted and talented education, leadership …