Robby Champion

Robby Champion's articles for the JSD emphasize particular strategies for designing effective staff development. The Taking Measure series examines the evaluation of staff development efforts, while the Skill Shop series offers planning and implementation ideas.

Champion has been a national consultant, trainer, and coach in staff development with a focus on results-driven planning, implementation, and evaluation for 15 years.

• Taking Measure: Establish criteria that will raise the bar on big program evaluations, JSD, Fall 2005.
• Taking Measure: Identify the payoffs for investment in better program evaluation, JSD, Summer 2005.
• Taking Measure: Pause to look at the intersections in the data, JSD, Spring 2005.
• Taking Measure: Staff developers must help teachers and principals raise questions about data: An interview with Leslie Wilson, JSD, Winter 2005.
• Taking Measure: 10 questions to help reshape the professional development calendar, JSD,Fall 2004.
• Taking Measure: Frequently asked questions from the evaluator's mailbox, JSD, Summer 2004.
• Taking Measure: Level 0 assessment works out bugs, works in stakeholders, JSD, Spring 2004.
• Taking Measure: A wake-up call about annual reporting, , JSD, Winter 2004.
• Taking Measure: Frank discussion in focus groups can yield useful data , JSD, Fall 2003.
• Taking measure: Start with a plan, pick subjects carefully, train interviewers to listen, JSD, Summer 2003.
• Taking measure: The Innovation Configuration can gauge progress of reform initiatives and take the guesswork out of professional development planning, JSD, Spring 2003.
• Taking measure: The real measure of a professional development program's effectiveness lies in what participants learn, JSD, Winter 2003.
• Taking measure: Map out evaluation goals, JSD, Fall 2002.
• Taking measure: Choose the right data for the job, JSD, Summer 2002.
• Taking measure: What to do when the data are words, JSD, Spring 2002.
• Taking measure: Sampling can produce solid results, JSD, Winter 2002.
• Skill shop: Planning for action, step by step, JSD, Fall 2001.
• Skill shop: Passing along the learning, JSD, Summer 2001.
• Skill shop: Tasty choices, JSD, Spring 2001.
• Skill shop: In just 5 minutes--How to ease a staff development idea into a committee, JSD, Winter 2001.
• Skill shop: Big picture--It's a difficult shot, but the final print is worth it, JSD, Fall 2000.
• Skill Shop: Got a minute? A stairwell talk can turn evaluation into everyday business, JSD, Summer 2000.
• Skill shop: Stretching the clock, JSD, Spring 2000.
• Skill shop: Beyond pencil and paper, JSD, Winter 2000.
• Skill shop: Absolutely alarming--Even I am shocked by the enormous amount of preparation time, JSD, Fall 1999.
• Skill shop: Measure of critical mass--Simple grid determines when enough faculty are committed to change , JSD, Summer 1999.
• Skill shop: Job aids--Tools that help boil it down, JSD, Spring 1999.
• Forum: "Sort of" is not getting us there, JSD, Fall 1998.