Talk:Education/News/November 2017/A Proposal for Education Team endorsement criteria

Questions that complement the Rubric

This set of questions is complementary to the Rubric, and intends to help clarify the criteria presented in the Rubric.

Alignment

• With Education Program Logic model
  • Does it make sense for the Education Team to chime in? The team would usually focus on the portions of the grant request that focus on education
    • Is the plan logical?
    • Is the theory of change readily accessible?
    • Is the proposal for education coherent in itself?
    • Is the proposal for education coherent with the rest of the project?
    • Does it consider Best practices? (Which are those? Where are they published?)

Strategy alignment (2030 Strategic Direction)

• Does the program respond explicitly to the 2030 strategy, or at least to specific prompts in the strategy?

Context reading / awareness / analysis

• The education program proposal acknowledges the social context in which it is slanted to operate in
  • Organizers have a good knowledge of how the educational systems of the country/region they operate in
  • Organizers use their knowledge of the context to articulate their theory of change and plan of action

Program leader’s/Program team’s Expertise

• Experience
  • Does this Affiliate have demonstrated experience in the field of education?
  • This relates to Program size criteria

Community membership

• Learning from other Wikipedia Education Programs’ experiences
• Experience in outreach with the education sphere

Program size

• Should consider
  • Volunteer support available to organizers (as trainers, content reviewers, …)
  • Progressiveness: building on success
    • Experience has shown that it is preferable to grow from small to big, instead of launching too large a project at once.
    • Does the current proposal have a sense of trajectory that considers current size, future evolutions?

Internal organization

• Is the proposed program planned considering the number of volunteers that are needed?
• How will the team be organized?
• Have connections previously been established with the institutions that are being planned to work with?
• Materials:
  • Are all the materials needed at hand (including translations when needed?)

Problems to solve / Risks management

• The program designers have identified risks and problems to solve and are considering action to be taken to manage the risks/solve potential problems.

Advocacy (Outreach potential)

• Has the program considered desirable social impacts it wants to achieve? (people, institutions, communities)

Outcomes (Clarity of goals / outcome metrics)

• Follow up potential
  • How will feedback from the execution of the program be obtained?
  • How will feedback to improve your program/event participation in the future be used?
  • Is the program leader/teal able to take on the follow-up tasks after the program’s realization?
• How will networking opportunities the program will provide be used to maximize impact?

Learning outcomes

• Student outcomes
  • How will impact of the program on the students be measured?
• Teacher learning outcomes
  • How will impact of the program on the teachers be measured?

Wikipedia Education Impact (how will the program benefit the community?)

• Sharing during and afterwards (visibility)
  • Communications of the program (Newsletter, Facebook group, tweets)
  • Sharing on Commons (pictures, resources)
  • Learning patterns
  • Case studies
  • Summarizing the learning from other conference sessions & reporting back (ie. Learning Days, Wikimania, Regional events …)
• Connection with the larger community
  • Does the project consider connecting with other education program leader?

Wiki Community impact

• Have the impact of publishing in the language that the program will be working with been considered?
• Has the program leader/team reached out to the community to explain what it is attempting to do?

Focus on educators

• Are educators (including administrators) clearly identified as key partners for the project? How will relationships be built?