Data: Need to Know or Need to Show? Workshop

Join us for this brush-up workshop on designing surveys and basic evaluation plans to tell your data story and prove your impact.
About this Event

Hosted by Texas Rural Arts & Culture Organization Network

With the support of Still Water Foundation, MINDPOP is excited to continue our series of convenings to connect and support rural arts and cultural organizations. During bi-monthly virtual convenings we feature speakers and facilitate conversations to share resources, increase visibility, and amplify arts and culture work across rural Texas.

Data: Need to Know or Need to Show?

Virtual Workshop

Join us for this brush-up workshop on designing surveys and basic evaluation plans to tell your data story and prove your impact.

Facilitated by Dr. Brent Hasty | MINDPOP Executive Director

Dr. Brent Hasty serves as the founding executive director of MINDPOP, a nationally recognized organization dedicated to expanding the arts creative learning in classrooms, schools and communities. MINDPOP manages Austin’s Creative Learning Initiative and consults with arts and education leaders in more than a dozen communities across the country to develop sustainable systems that increase access to the arts and improves rigorous instruction. MINDPOP also conducts large-scale, statewide research studies on the impacts of the arts on student achievement and graduation rates; students access to arts instruction; and examines the state of rural Arts and Cultural non-profit organizations across Texas. Dr. Hasty received the 2024 Exceptional Grassroots Arts Advocate award from Texans for Arts and serves on the National Advisory Council of the Arts Education Partnership.

About

MINDPOP designs and implements creative learning systems nationwide. We use a collective impact model to bring equity and access to quality arts education in schools and communities, and to build the instructional tools of teachers to lead creative classrooms.

We are the backbone organization of Austin’s Creative Learning Initiative. In its 10th year, CLI is embedded in 97 schools, serving more than 5,000 teachers and 60,000 students. Nationally, MINDPOP shares its knowledge and experience with learning systems leaders through various consulting engagements and convenings of national communities of practice. We work with rural, urban, and suburban communities.