 metrics outcomes metrics outcomes behind the scenes when it comes to measuring the success of your organization program s what are the top metrics and outcomes that you look for i m constantly seeking to improve this for our organization because it directly impacts our ability to share the story of solid and our vision with donors to raise funds swolfe wed 8142019 2118 education metrics by talia on thu 8222019 1406 hi steven here are a few of our top metrics we are looking at students level of confidence growth mindset selfefficacy eg students who believe they can spend time studying do well in school enjoy skateboarding learn new skateboard tricks make mistakes and learn from them of students who feel safe at skateistan community members perceive skateistan as a positive environment of students who have a role model at skateistan they can trust of students who make new friends from a background unique from their own at skateistan each year students believe they can improve their grades students believe they can get good at difficult subjects students who believe they can graduate from high school we check these using questionnaires throughout the year happy to discuss more talia theory literature research by kim butter on tue 8272019 1857 hey steven talia and others i am currently developing a way to collect data and a way to measure impact of our pilot program women skate the world amsterdam do you guys have any relevant literature existing theories or scientific research on using skateboarding or sports in general for a bigger purpose greater social impact love kim butter sport and development programs research and evaluation by talia on thu 9052019 823 hi kim great questions here are a few relevant articles i found let me know if i m on the right track they aren t skate specific i believe concrete jungle foundation is working on something directly linked to a skate curriculum  how to monitor and evaluate sport for development projects 2009  youth sport programs an avenue to foster positive youth development 2005  move learn training manual for nonformal education through sport and physical activities with young people 2013  talia and another resource by talia on thu 9052019 1305 we heard from southampton skate at the pb conference and jamie mentioned they d used the warwickedinburgh mental wellbeing scales there can be a lot of benefit to using a verified researchbased scale apparently this one has a short version which makes it suitable for use with kids  https warwickacuk fac sci med research platform wemwbs using talia a few resources by rhianon on mon 9092019 1450 if you haven t seen our goodpush monitoring evaluation and learning toolkit yet on this site  take a look here  it has an example participant survey for skate projects as well as external resources such as the sport and development toolkit  kim as far as research goes there are plenty of academic articles out there looking at the effectiveness of sport for youth development though not really much on skateboarding specifically yet if you re interested i wrote this  paper last year about traumainformed skateboarding programs  for my masters and some of the references cited at the end could be interesting for you to look into thanks talia and rhianon it by kim butter on thu 9122019 2130 thanks talia and rhianon it will be super interesting to read these in the meantime our pilot program started but i can definitely use it in the future i have indeed seen the goodpush mel toolkit it was super helpful thanks good luck by talia on tue 9172019 909 sounds great kim let us know how it goes talia wstw fmsb m e resources training by ambermayormaynot on sun 9222019 1244 hi all i wanted to put an m e resource pack together based on what i ve developed for wstw and free movement over the past year the m e slides go through the different ways we measure collect and analyse data why it s important and why we do it the way that we do it then i ve provided some examples blank documents that you can look at use feel free to use all any of it but be aware that you won t be able to edit the original this is just so we don t end up with multiple people trying to edit the same file what you need to do is select make a copy and edit this version to fit your project organisation also in true m e fashion if you could give me some feedback i d really appreciate it m e training slides blank register handover example template example progress report presentation template session debrief template incident report form template i hope you find these useful and feel free to get in touch with any questions my info is at the end of the m e training slides amber thanks for sharing these by talia on mon 9232019 1303 thanks for sharing these amber  