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Hi, I'm Elena Coman. For over 20 years I have worked on computing and civic education in the Romanian nonprofit sector: designing programs, building teams, and helping organisations learn from how their work plays out in practice.

My current focus is teacher development, curriculum and lesson design, and program evaluation, with a through-line of computational and critical thinking.

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What I work on

My work spans computing and civic education. I work with organisations and educators to turn learning goals into lessons, methods, and classroom practices for computational and critical thinking. More recently this includes AI literacy.

I lead program and partnership development at Asociația Techsoup, working on new program ideas, funder and partner relationships, and learning from practice to inform decisions.

As an independent consultant, I also evaluate educator-focused programs for other nonprofits.

I am based in Berlin and currently completing a professional master's in Monitoring and Evaluation in Germany.

Currently

I am working on evaluations of two education pilots in Romania: an informatics pilot for grade 5 students, and a civic education pilot for seventh-grade students.

Both run during the 2025–2026 school year.

How I work

I stay close to practice, paying attention to how programs function in real settings rather than how they are described on paper.

My approach to evaluation draws on realist and utilization-focused traditions. I am interested in how organisations use evidence in judgment and decision-making.

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