The Sprint, The Marathon | EE Pilot Teaching Case Reflections by Mindelyn Anderson

As a recovering academic, I recognize my bias against intellectual exercise and my preference for actionable information that will be applied in the real world. Through that lens, my goal as the EEI Teaching Case (TC) Facilitator is to cultivate a learning, development and action experience that lights a fire in participants to take back to their places of work and move equitable practice forward.

Different from a case study, the TC facilitates activities and discussions that allow participants to dissect details and see themselves on the page. This reflective practice allows us to pay attention to what this reveals about who we are in equitable work, how we partner with others to advance equitable practices, what opportunities exist in our organizations to center equitable work, and how we can lead with community-first in our philanthropic ecosystem. 

In the company of “family and friends,” our early champions in exploring EE Principles, we set forward in earnest.

Disclaimer: this is a pilot to figure out what can be illuminated about all of our orthodoxies and principles through the lens of a real-life case. 

So, after the 4th debrief of the pilot TC session (True story! I can’t help it, it’s the evaluator in me.) my aha moment surfaced in the critical distinction between the tactical and the strategic. 

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Mindelyn Anderson is a past Teaching Case Facilitator for Equitable Evaluation Initiative and Founder + Principal of Mirror Group LLC