Coffee Breaks are offered exclusively to AEA members for free. These 30 minute presentations provide insights into niche topics impacting evaluation practice. 

What We're Looking For

Thank you for your interest in presenting a coffee break! We are looking for content that enhances the evaluation skillset(s) of membersThe ideal coffee break shares tangible skills, frameworks, and resources for utilization in the field and practice by member attendees. Coffee breaks should have clear objectives and learning outcomes. Demonstrations, generally, should be accessible for all levels. While some demonstrations may require foundational knowledge, they need not indicate that explicitly in the description. If more advanced knowledge of the subject matter or the content foundations are necessary, it should be indicated in the description by the presenter, and the audience should be clear.

While case studies and evaluations completed by the presenter are welcome, the evaluation itself should not be the focus of the demonstration.  It should, instead, be used to demonstrate how the stated learning outcomes and skills were implemented in the completion of the evaluation. 

AEA will host up to 24 total coffee breaks (approximately 2 per month) in a calendar year, with a minimum of 6. Coffee breaks are uncompensated but are, however, an opportunity to participate in knowledge exchange, strengthen the evaluation capacity of your peer members, and facilitate enriching peer-to-peer dialogue. Many coffee break proposers elevate to opportunites to offer compenstated estudies. This is not a sales or marketing presentation/promotion.

Additionally;

• Format: Each presentation is 20 minutes in length within a 10-minute webinar. The full 30 minutes is divided into 2 minutes of intro from a staff moderator, 20 minutes of presentation, and 8 minutes of questions posed by the moderator based on questions typed in from attendees.
• Each presentation needs to be concrete and visually-rich, showing at a minimum a high-quality slide deck (check out p2i resources), but potentially supplemented by online resources, etc.
• The speaker should be 100% prepared for a trial run and plan to give the presentation as they intend to do during the final run. We’ll check for length, ensure that the facilitator is comfortable with the technology, and coach a bit around focus, ensuring that the content and timing work well.

Take a moment to review our archive of past coffee breaks (Members Only).