What You'll Learn
This course is designed to help collaborative groups move from shared aspirations to measurable outcomes. You'll learn how defining clear results creates a shared “north star” that guides decision making and makes it possible to know whether collective efforts are truly making a difference. You’ll also explore tools to track how different demographics are able to reach outcomes. Grounded in the Community Learning Model, Results-Based Accountability (RBA), and Targeted Universalism, the course emphasizes focusing on conditions of well-being for whole communities while keeping equity at the center of the work.
You’ll learn how to develop a shared language around results, indicators, and performance measures, select meaningful data to track progress, and avoid common pitfalls like focusing on activities before outcomes. The course also introduces Turn the Curve thinking, a facilitated, data-informed process that helps groups understand the story behind the data, identify root causes, engage the right partners, and create actionable plans. By the end of the course, you’ll be better equipped to use data as a shared learning tool—one that supports collaboration, clarity, and progress toward results that matter.
How to define clear, shared results
Learn to articulate aspirational, yet accessible results that describe conditions of well-being for whole populations and give collaborative groups a clear “north star.”
How to distinguish between results, indicators, and performance measures
Build an understanding of shared language that allows partners with varying levels of data knowledge to communicate progress toward your end goals and the means you use to get there.
How to lead a group through data-driven action planning
Discover how to facilitate the Turn the Curve process to interpret trend data, uncover root causes, identify partners, select strategies, and create actionable plans that can be revisited and refined over time.
What's Included in the Course
This course allows you to access the material at your own pace, online. Each module will provide you with an instructional video and tell you how long that module will take you to complete. Some modules include tasks or toolkits that encourage you to pause and apply your learning to a scenario you are currently working on. At the end of the modules, you’ll get access to the slides from the course. Then, we’ll ask you to submit your feedback on the course.
Workshop Modules
Meet Your Instructor
Morgan Schmehl
Collaboration Manager
Morgan balances head, heart, and hands in their work to create inclusive, engaging spaces for collaboration. They plan gatherings, organize logistics, and support projects. They do this by thinking strategically, learning from communities, telling stories, and authentically showing up as their true self. Grounded in emergent principles of anti-racism, trauma-informed practice, and consent, their work at the Civic Canopy seeks to honor difference and foster opportunities for people to come together to build a more nourishing reality. They bring experience in education, nonprofit operations, food justice, activism, and place-based engagement. Morgan’s contribution today reflects a long lineage of change-makers of the past, and their visions reach generations into the future.
