Isaac Castillo
@isaac-outcomes.bsky.social
Senior Advisor - Learning and #Evaluation at KABOOM!
Past President of Eastern Evaluation and Research Society (EERS).
Lives in Hyattsville, MD. Born in El Paso, TX. Syracuse alumni.
Past President of Eastern Evaluation and Research Society (EERS).
Lives in Hyattsville, MD. Born in El Paso, TX. Syracuse alumni.
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Hi everyone. I’m Isaac and I run the Learning and Evaluation department at KABOOM! I will have a lot of #data and #evaluation content. With some soccer / futbol and cat pictures thrown in.
Two people are visiting your home for the holidays.You leave them bagels for breakfast.
They only want half a bagel (which is fine) - cutting the bagel in half and leaving other half for someone else.
Which of these below is the correct way to leave half a bagel and which is violence?
They only want half a bagel (which is fine) - cutting the bagel in half and leaving other half for someone else.
Which of these below is the correct way to leave half a bagel and which is violence?
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Two people are visiting your home for the holidays.You leave them bagels for breakfast.
They only want half a bagel (which is fine) - cutting the bagel in half and leaving other half for someone else.
Which of these below is the correct way to leave half a bagel and which is violence?
They only want half a bagel (which is fine) - cutting the bagel in half and leaving other half for someone else.
Which of these below is the correct way to leave half a bagel and which is violence?
Even if Haiti and Curaçao leave the World Cup with zero points, they earned direct qualification and that in itself is an amazing achievement.
It's over!
🇵🇦 Panama returns to the World Cup after
🇨🇼 Curacao makes its first-ever World Cup to become the smallest nation ever to make the tournament
🇭🇹 Haiti returns for the first time since 1974 despite not being able to play at home.
🇯🇲🇸🇷 to the playoff!
🇵🇦 Panama returns to the World Cup after
🇨🇼 Curacao makes its first-ever World Cup to become the smallest nation ever to make the tournament
🇭🇹 Haiti returns for the first time since 1974 despite not being able to play at home.
🇯🇲🇸🇷 to the playoff!
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Even if Haiti and Curaçao leave the World Cup with zero points, they earned direct qualification and that in itself is an amazing achievement.
This past week I was part of a 12 person team of @kaboom-play.bsky.social staff that worked across the state of Minnesota to identify playgrounds in need of replacement on or near tribal and indigenous lands.
Saw amazing playgrounds and ones that were probably older than me.
Saw amazing playgrounds and ones that were probably older than me.
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This past week I was part of a 12 person team of @kaboom-play.bsky.social staff that worked across the state of Minnesota to identify playgrounds in need of replacement on or near tribal and indigenous lands.
Saw amazing playgrounds and ones that were probably older than me.
Saw amazing playgrounds and ones that were probably older than me.
As a former LAYC employee (which is where I met my wife!) and a @washingtonspirit.com season ticket holder, this one is special to me.
But I can’t make this game! My som has his game at the exact same time. Need to figure out a workaround to get these shirts!
But I can’t make this game! My som has his game at the exact same time. Need to figure out a workaround to get these shirts!
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As a former LAYC employee (which is where I met my wife!) and a @washingtonspirit.com season ticket holder, this one is special to me.
But I can’t make this game! My som has his game at the exact same time. Need to figure out a workaround to get these shirts!
But I can’t make this game! My som has his game at the exact same time. Need to figure out a workaround to get these shirts!
Presenting at the #NRPA2025 annual conference later today on our work to measure playground visitors.
Going to thread our major findings here.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
#data #evaluation #play
Going to thread our major findings here.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
#data #evaluation #play
#nrpa2025 | Isaac Castillo
Hello #NRPA2025! If you are staying until the end of the conference today, please join me at 2:30 pm in Room W208.
Bridget Stesney and I will talk about how KABOOM! and M-NCPPC, Department of Parks ...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Presenting at the #NRPA2025 annual conference later today on our work to measure playground visitors.
Going to thread our major findings here.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
#data #evaluation #play
Going to thread our major findings here.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
#data #evaluation #play
Hello #stats, #math, and #evaluation friends. Anyone have good examples of how to describe / talk about statistical significance to non-technical audiences?
Presenting next week and sharing important findings, and need audience to understand statistical significance to appreciate findings.
Presenting next week and sharing important findings, and need audience to understand statistical significance to appreciate findings.
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Hello #stats, #math, and #evaluation friends. Anyone have good examples of how to describe / talk about statistical significance to non-technical audiences?
Presenting next week and sharing important findings, and need audience to understand statistical significance to appreciate findings.
Presenting next week and sharing important findings, and need audience to understand statistical significance to appreciate findings.
This Pumas v Necaxa game in Liga Mx is being played in a driving rainstorm. With puddles on the field stopping the ball. Great watch as a neutral.
August 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This Pumas v Necaxa game in Liga Mx is being played in a driving rainstorm. With puddles on the field stopping the ball. Great watch as a neutral.
With the state of the pitch, and the playing out the back adventures, this Spirit - Gotham game should just go to Goalie Warz between Kingsbury and AKB.
August 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
With the state of the pitch, and the playing out the back adventures, this Spirit - Gotham game should just go to Goalie Warz between Kingsbury and AKB.
Extremely important cookie related research here. Especially since I have already declared my love for Bergers cookies.
Which way does the (Baltimore) cookie crumble?
Otterbein’s vs. Berger: Which is the Baltimore cookie?
Both cookies are easy to find in grocery stores around Baltimore, but can be harder to find anywhere else.
buff.ly
August 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Extremely important cookie related research here. Especially since I have already declared my love for Bergers cookies.
July 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We recently bought a dill plant for the garden, and before planting it noticed a large caterpillar. We kept the plant in a pot so as to not disturb our new friend, and yesterday it made a grand appearance.
#butterfly #nature
#butterfly #nature
July 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We recently bought a dill plant for the garden, and before planting it noticed a large caterpillar. We kept the plant in a pot so as to not disturb our new friend, and yesterday it made a grand appearance.
#butterfly #nature
#butterfly #nature
Good morning #stateofthemapus !
I hope you join me at 11 am today so we can talk about playgrounds, equity, and #maps.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
@osmus.bsky.social
I hope you join me at 11 am today so we can talk about playgrounds, equity, and #maps.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
@osmus.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good morning #stateofthemapus !
I hope you join me at 11 am today so we can talk about playgrounds, equity, and #maps.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
@osmus.bsky.social
I hope you join me at 11 am today so we can talk about playgrounds, equity, and #maps.
@kaboom-play.bsky.social
@osmus.bsky.social
Sharing another blog post about our work at @kaboom-play.bsky.social using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use.
#evaluation #data #nonprofits #NGOs
aea365.org/blog/nonprof...
#evaluation #data #nonprofits #NGOs
aea365.org/blog/nonprof...
Nonprofit and Foundation TIG Week: Counting Play: Using Crowdsourced Mobile GPS Data to Measure Playground Use by Isaac D. Castillo – AEA365
aea365.org
June 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Sharing another blog post about our work at @kaboom-play.bsky.social using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use.
#evaluation #data #nonprofits #NGOs
aea365.org/blog/nonprof...
#evaluation #data #nonprofits #NGOs
aea365.org/blog/nonprof...
Excited to share that I have a new article about @kaboom-play.bsky.social and our work using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use. It is published in the June issue of @nrpa-news.bsky.social Parks and Recreation Magazine.
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ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRe...
June 2025 – Parks & Recreation
Experience our interactive, profoundly engaging digital publication!
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May 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Excited to share that I have a new article about @kaboom-play.bsky.social and our work using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use. It is published in the June issue of @nrpa-news.bsky.social Parks and Recreation Magazine.
ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRe...
ezine.nrpa.org/nrpa/ParksRe...
Name a comfort food that you eat today that you did NOT eat when you were younger.
For whatever reason: your tastes are different now, you did not have access to it as a kid. Etc.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Maryland after grad school, so mine is Bergers Cookies.
For whatever reason: your tastes are different now, you did not have access to it as a kid. Etc.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Maryland after grad school, so mine is Bergers Cookies.
May 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Name a comfort food that you eat today that you did NOT eat when you were younger.
For whatever reason: your tastes are different now, you did not have access to it as a kid. Etc.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Maryland after grad school, so mine is Bergers Cookies.
For whatever reason: your tastes are different now, you did not have access to it as a kid. Etc.
I grew up in Texas, and moved to Maryland after grad school, so mine is Bergers Cookies.
Reposted by Isaac Castillo
A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors
A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors
After-school programs, seen as key to pandemic recovery, face a grim future with the end of pandemic relief dollars and other federal cutbacks.
hechingerreport.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors
We know that the #evaluation and #research fields are in crisis right now. That's why we dropped the registration cost for the @easterneval.bsky.social virtual conference to $10.
Come join us on May 1-2 so we can support and learn from each other.
www.eers.org/conference-r...
Come join us on May 1-2 so we can support and learn from each other.
www.eers.org/conference-r...
Annual Conference Registration | EERS
www.eers.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
We know that the #evaluation and #research fields are in crisis right now. That's why we dropped the registration cost for the @easterneval.bsky.social virtual conference to $10.
Come join us on May 1-2 so we can support and learn from each other.
www.eers.org/conference-r...
Come join us on May 1-2 so we can support and learn from each other.
www.eers.org/conference-r...
Excited to share new @kaboom-play.bsky.social blog post highlighting my work on using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use.
#evaluation #research #data #play #GIS
kaboom.org/all-stories/...
#evaluation #research #data #play #GIS
kaboom.org/all-stories/...
Counting Play: How KABOOM! Uses Crowdsourced Mobile GPS Data to Understand Playground Use - KABOOM!
Playgrounds are more than just places for kids to have fun—they are critical community spaces that contribute to health, well-being, and social connection. Decision-makers need…
kaboom.org
March 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Excited to share new @kaboom-play.bsky.social blog post highlighting my work on using mobile GPS data to estimate playground use.
#evaluation #research #data #play #GIS
kaboom.org/all-stories/...
#evaluation #research #data #play #GIS
kaboom.org/all-stories/...
Given what has happened in the #evaluation and #research professional space during the past few weeks, @easterneval.bsky.social has dropped the registration fee for our annual virtual conference to $10 for everyone this year.
More information here:
www.eers.org/conference-r...
More information here:
www.eers.org/conference-r...
March 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Given what has happened in the #evaluation and #research professional space during the past few weeks, @easterneval.bsky.social has dropped the registration fee for our annual virtual conference to $10 for everyone this year.
More information here:
www.eers.org/conference-r...
More information here:
www.eers.org/conference-r...
Me: Dear cat Echo - look at this tribute we built for you!
Echo the cat: Who let this foul abomination into my home?!?!
Echo the cat: Who let this foul abomination into my home?!?!
March 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Me: Dear cat Echo - look at this tribute we built for you!
Echo the cat: Who let this foul abomination into my home?!?!
Echo the cat: Who let this foul abomination into my home?!?!
Reposted by Isaac Castillo
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute
Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
Reposted by Isaac Castillo
Ya know who uses Medicaid? CHILDREN. 40 million kids are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. That’s half of the kids in this country. Children don’t contribute to the workforce or buy goods or vote… so no one cares.
House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.
They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.
This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.
They own this.
They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.
This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.
They own this.
February 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Ya know who uses Medicaid? CHILDREN. 40 million kids are enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. That’s half of the kids in this country. Children don’t contribute to the workforce or buy goods or vote… so no one cares.
Good news everybody.
After nearly 15 years of dialogue, I finally convinced my mother in law that the most honorable way to eat half a bagel is on the left, and NOT the right.
She had insisted on eating top half only and leaving the bottom for others.
After nearly 15 years of dialogue, I finally convinced my mother in law that the most honorable way to eat half a bagel is on the left, and NOT the right.
She had insisted on eating top half only and leaving the bottom for others.
February 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Good news everybody.
After nearly 15 years of dialogue, I finally convinced my mother in law that the most honorable way to eat half a bagel is on the left, and NOT the right.
She had insisted on eating top half only and leaving the bottom for others.
After nearly 15 years of dialogue, I finally convinced my mother in law that the most honorable way to eat half a bagel is on the left, and NOT the right.
She had insisted on eating top half only and leaving the bottom for others.
Reposted by Isaac Castillo
In my latest substack post I ask the question, when under existential threat, will the nonprofit sector fight back?
open.substack.com/pub/uprising...
open.substack.com/pub/uprising...
Are Nonprofits Finally Ready to Fight back?
Will the nonprofit sector push back against those trying to destroy it?
open.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In my latest substack post I ask the question, when under existential threat, will the nonprofit sector fight back?
open.substack.com/pub/uprising...
open.substack.com/pub/uprising...