Essays and field notes.

On organizational learning, community-rooted strategy, and what it means to build institutions that make wiser decisions because they know how to gather evidence, listen carefully, and learn in public.

Essay

Data Should Deepen Judgment, Not Replace It

Five disciplines for research, evaluation, and learning inside community institutions. Why data is most useful when it deepens human judgment, not when it replaces it. Draws on two decades of practice at ParentChild+ and builds on the work of Beth Kanter, Bridgespan, and the Equitable Evaluation Initiative.

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