Robert Markle Email & Phone Number

Baton Rouge, La, Us

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

• Project management. Managed grant initiative with funding from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, Schultz Family Foundation, and others to implement social capital-building strategies in schools and nonprofit programs across the U.S.• Technical assistance. Collaborated with site and intermediary stakeholders to collectively define challenges and goals, develop implementation plans, evaluate progress, and iterate on strategies.• Research and evaluation. Designed surveys and interview protocols, collected data, and collaborativelyanalyzed results to illuminate both promising approaches and challenges to implementation at scale.• Partnerships. Built and maintained mutually beneficial partnerships with intermediary and site-level partners.• Field-building. Published white papers and articles for national education media outlets; deliveredpresentations and webinars aimed at increasing awareness and adoption of social capital building strategies in education settings.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Cultivated partnerships with institutions of higher education to promote diversity in STEM fields. • Oversaw development, testing, and rollout of an innovative mobile app and website designed to match historically underrepresented STEM students with mentors.• Designed and conduct research study investigating effects of mentoring on students’ social networks and career outcomes.• Recruited STEM scholars and professionals to grow mentoring network by over 500%. • Developed, implemented, and evaluated nationwide mentoring network for historically underrepresented STEM students.• Served as lead planner and organizer for annual LS-PAC MODELS Diversity in STEM conference to promote diversity in STEM, attended by over 200 professionals and students. The LS-PAC MODELS Center is one of six Louis Stokes regional centers of excellence funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Our aim is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented in these disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The LS-PAC MODELS Center maintains a major focus on providing mentoring and professional development opportunities to undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral scholars seeking careers in academia. The center is also focused on building networks between Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs by developing partnerships with colleges and universities throughout the southeast U.S. Further, we conduct research to identify social, academic, and personal factors that result in positive outcomes among underrepresented STEM students.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Implemented the Louisiana Teacher Preparation Quality Rating System to ensure that Louisiana’s educator workforce is equipped to successfully navigate the teaching profession.• Maintained strong relationships with university deans and directors of teacher education programs to obtain key insights into how teacher preparation can be improved in the state of Louisiana. • Coordinated the development and rollout of data-based performance profiles containing key metrics for Louisiana’s 28 teacher preparation institutions. • Ensured the review and approval of new teacher preparation programs.

I designed and coordinated large-scale educational evaluation initiatives, including grant writing, developing implementation and evaluation tools and frameworks, devising research designs, collecting and analyzing data, and disseminating findings to stakeholders. • Served as project lead for an evaluation of quality educational programming at seven K-12 charter schools.• Designed comprehensive formative and summative evaluation plans, including logic models and implementation/evaluation tools. • Conducted extensive data collection through surveys, focus groups, interviews and archival data.• Analyzed data and develop formative and summative evaluation reports to inform capacity building efforts.• Collaborated with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Education and the Galapagos Conservancy to develop an overhaul of teacher professional development system in the Galapagos Islands. • Developed practical professional development evaluation tools based on evidence-based practices in professional development literature. • Examined how unique issues in developing countries such as the Galapagos affect the quality of educational initiatives.

I earned my Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology in 2016. I specialize in using implementation science to conduct program evaluations of system-wide initiatives, particularly in the field of education. I research and implement strategies to help organizations plan, monitor, and evaluate their activities and ensure that they achieve their intended goals.

Department Of Alcohol And Other Drug Abuse Services

-Evaluate process and outcomes of a state-wide SAMHSA grant for implementing Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) practices in state drug abuse treatment centers across South Carolina. -Collect and analyze evaluation data from treatment center databases regarding patients and their outcomes. -Develop and present evaluation reports to grant policy steering committee and SAMHSA project officers.-Conduct focus groups and interviews with stakeholders including treatment center directors, health educators, drug abuse counselors, physicians, and drug abuse patients to determine the extent to which SBIRT services are being implemented state-wide and whether SBIRT decreases substance use and prevents relapse.

Richland Two School District

-Assist in implementation and evaluation of district-wide initiative to enhance student engagement through personalized technology.-Design, implement, and evaluate strategic plans for improving professional development.-Develop and administer implementation assessments to evaluate quality of innovation implementation.-Collect and analyze implementation data related to teacher instructional quality. -Disseminate evaluation findings by writing district-level reports as well as creating user-friendly tailored feedback reports for each school.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Clinical-Community Psychology

Bs, Psychology