Better outcomes,
engineered together.
Context- and culturally-centered services, offered at the level of involvement your team needs — from subject-matter consultation to full planning, implementation, and reporting. Decades of experience across education and public health programs in U.S. states and territories.
rooted in nature & evidence
What WE can do
Evaluation that answers not just whether a program worked, but how, for whom, and why — designed with your interest-holders from the start and built so the findings actually get used.
- ›Cultural humility — context, culture & community
- ›People with lived experience as partners
- ›Engagement planning & management
- ›Convening planning & facilitation
- ›Process / implementation
- ›Formative — improve while underway
- ›Summative — outcomes & effectiveness
- ›Impact — longer-term effects
- ›Quantitative — admin & secondary data, surveys, statistical, epi & econometric modeling
- ›Qualitative — interviews, focus groups, Appreciative Inquiry
- ›Mixed-methods designs
- ›Institutional Review Board (IRB) review
- ›OMB / Paperwork Reduction Act clearance
- ›Data-sharing agreements
- ›Data collection & cleaning
- ›Analysis & results interpretation
- ›Quality assurance throughout
- ›Interest-holder input on findings
- ›Publications, presentations & infographics
- ›Strategic planning & performance monitoring
- ›Program improvement & policy development
Hands-on support to operationalize a program or study and keep it running well — from the systems that train your staff to the pipelines that turn raw data into usable results. Specific areas of expertise include, but aren't limited to:
- ›Processes & systems for staff training
- ›Technology for program delivery
- ›Pipelines for data collection, cleaning & analysis
- ›Performance monitoring
- ›Results interpretation
- ›Continuous program improvement
- ›Gathering & incorporating stakeholder input
- ›Keeping partners informed & aligned
- ›Publications, presentations & infographics
- ›Choosing the right dissemination channels
Imagine a student citizen-science and civics program where young people and educators study the physical environment of their classrooms, buildings, fields, and playgrounds — and use what they learn to improve the environmental health of their schools and communities.
It becomes a school-wide effort that supports authentic learning across science, math, language arts, world languages, civics, social studies, geography, and health — while improving the school's air and water quality. Services range from a single consultative discussion of the Healthy Students Learn Better (HSLB) Practice Guide Series to continued engagement supporting implementation and evaluation.
- 1Introductory discussion of the practice guides & your program's interest
- 2Assess the utility & fit of the HSLB Practice Guides for your school or district
- 3Planning & interest-holder engagement
- 4Program implementation support
- 5Program evaluation support
- 6Storytelling, engagement & scaling
Support across the full analytics lifecycle — so your data is well-governed, well-managed, and analyzed with the right methods for the questions you're asking. Specific areas of expertise include, but aren't limited to:
- ›Data governance & privacy
- ›Management system design & enhancement
- ›Data identification & availability
- ›Instrument development — surveys, interviews, focus groups
- ›Collection programming — portals & online surveys
- ›Analysis-plan & analytic approach
- ›Descriptive & bivariate statistics
- ›Advanced statistical modeling
Whether you need a full proposal or sharp support on specific sections, I help you build a compelling narrative backed by a credible plan — drawing on decades of writing and reviewing proposals for federal, state, and foundation funders.
- ›Statement of need & significance
- ›Goals, objectives & specific aims
- ›Approach, methods & work plan
- ›Evaluation & data plans
- ›Timeline, budget & justification
- ›Organizational capacity & key personnel
- ›Logic models & theory of change
- ›Alignment to funder priorities & review criteria
- ›Clear, reviewer-friendly writing
Keep your study compliant and on schedule. I help you navigate human-subjects review and federal clearances — preparing strong submissions and coordinating with the right offices so approvals don't become bottlenecks.
Independent review protecting the rights and welfare of human research participants — protocol development, submissions & amendments.
Approval required before federally sponsored data collection from the public — package preparation & agency coordination.
Terms governing the secure, appropriate exchange and use of data between organizations, with privacy safeguards.
Events engineered to be both environmentally sustainable and genuinely accessible — offered à la carte, as a consultant, or as a hands-on contributor, depending on how much support your team needs.
- ›Waste, materials & catering choices
- ›Travel & carbon considerations
- ›Sustainable venue & vendor selection
- ›Physical access & accommodations
- ›Accessible materials, captioning & interpretation
- ›Inclusive program & facilitation design
- ›À la carte advisory input
- ›Consultant on specific elements
- ›Full contributor to planning & delivery
Wellbeing Engineering — because the strongest results are built with you, not just for you.
Taletha Derrington
Decades of evaluation, research, technical assistance, and implementation experience across education and public health programs in U.S. states and territories.
My work centers cultural humility, people with lived experience, and collaborative partnership — and flexes to the level of involvement your team needs, from a single conversation to full planning, implementation, and reporting.
Let's talk about your work.
Tell me what you need and the level of support you're looking for — subject-matter consult, a defined deliverable, or a full engagement. I'll meet you there.