Centering cultural responsiveness in research, evaluation, and education practice.
Ja'Dell Davis, Ph.D., incorporates
community-based values, sociological scholarship, and critical consciousness throughout her scholarship, evaluation, and capacity-building work to support organizations in taking action toward greater equity.
The Through-Line
Scholar – Evaluator – Educator – Collaborator
I believe achieving meaningful outcomes for students, families, and educators requires centering cultural responsiveness, critical consciousness, and racial equity. My work moves fluidly across research, strategy, facilitation, and design to help values become shared, actionable structures—cultivating both critical consciousness and joy in the pursuit of educational equity.
The Ways I Practice
These principles guide the projects that I collaborate on:
Community Engaged
Multi-method research and evaluation rooted in values of community knowledge and liberatory practices.
Culturally Responsive
Culture as core to meaning-making, learning, analysis, and interpretation of systemic inquiry.
Joyfully Rigorous
Making space for our collective humanity within our collective growth.
My Work
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Prism Learning Group, LLC
The Prism Learning Group, LLC (The PL(u)G) is an education consulting firm that partners with organizations to implement capacity-building.
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BLESS Collective
Liberating Black students in education and throughout society, to disseminate liberatory insights, and effectively support Black student educators.
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Rubric For Racial Equity
The Racial Equity Rubric is a tool to support researchers, evaluators, youth, and community members engaged in knowledge production.
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Evaluation And Research
Researcher and Evaluator at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), where I lead and support a range of evaluation projects.
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Ecosystem of Engagements
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Write-ups (multiple formats) of scholarship, evaluation findings, and other disseminated work -- solo-authored by Ja’Dell Davis, and in collaboration with other scholars
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Scholarship and projects shared publicly and in conversation with education practitioners, evaluators, scholars, and community stakeholders.
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