About Us

An organization chart showing the relationship of the three entities. DODEA is the parent organization of Partnership, which is in turn the parent organization of ETAC

The Department of Defense Education Activity

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is a field activity of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. DoDEA's mission is to plan, direct, coordinate, and manage the education programs for eligible dependents of U.S. military personnel and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense. DoDEA provides an exemplary education that inspires and prepares all students for success in a dynamic, global environment. DoDEA schools provide students with a uniform curriculum and standards that mitigate the stress of frequent moves and a parent's deployment. The Department of Defense also provides resources to non-DoDEA schools to help them deal with the challenges faced by military dependents.

The DoDEA Educational Partnership Program

The DoDEA Educational Partnership Branch is dedicated to every military child's right to a quality education regardless of their location or how often their family moves. DoDEA has more than 60 years of experience supporting military students around the world. Today force structure changes have created an urgent and ongoing need to enrich and expand partnerships with military-connected communities throughout the nation. Through the Educational Partnership, DoDEA is committed to ensuring that the thousands of students being relocated throughout the nation because of these actions receive the best possible educational opportunities.

The Evaluation Technical Assistance Center

DoDEA has contracted Synergy Enterprises, Inc. (SEI) to provide the DoDEA Partnership Grant Program with technical assistance in grant monitoring and program evaluation. Based on this contract, SEI created the Evaluation Technical Assistance Center (ETAC), a technical assistance resource center dedicated to building DoDEA grantees’ evaluation capacity.

ETAC's Mission

DoDEA’s charge to ETAC is to determine the overall effect of the DoDEA grant program by:

Building the evaluation capacity of project directors and evaluators
Monitoring grantees’ evaluation activities
Facilitating the collection, management, and reporting of evaluation data

ETAC will:

Serve as a critical friend
Design an environment for evaluation capacity building
Provide professional development to increase the awareness, and use of, evaluation
Offer resources to conduct quality evaluations
Create opportunities for DoDEA staff and grantees to share lessons learned