Evaluating and encouraging innovation, creativity, and adaptability: Lessons from a theatre company
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The purpose of this presentation is to share an evaluation process that informs development and improvement while encouraging innovation, creativity, and adaptability; and to propose applications of this process to educational evaluation. Charter Theatre is a small professional theatre in Washington, DC. Its mission is to develop and produce new plays—Charter seeks out new plays, works with the playwrights to clarify their aesthetic intention, develops the play into the strongest script it can be, and then produces those plays. The issue of “how do you evaluate a play without sucking all the life from it,” is a common issue all evaluators face. This presentation will describe Charter Theatre’s evaluation process, and how it can be applied in educational settings where innovation, creativity, and adaptability are too often sacrificed in the name of evaluation and accountability. This presentation reinforces the conference theme, evaluation and learning, as it focuses on evaluation for learning, discovery, and growth.
