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Date: 11 July 2025

Presentor: Lieutenant Bryant R Giorgi

Advancing the Watch

Instructional Design and Evaluation Solutions for the U.S. Coast Guard

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Greetings

My name is Bryant Giorgi

I am a Training Manager in the USCG.

Training experience on:

Navy Submarines

National Security Cutters

Icebreakers

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Goals & Objectives

  • Showcase two training projects.
  • Demonstrate the application of systematic and systemic processes to conduct an evaluation and develop instructional solutions that address real-world Coast Guard training and performance challenges.
  • Connect instructional design and evaluation practices to relevant theories and evidence.

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Instructional Design: Escorting a merchant in a tight turn

Client: US Coast Guard District Nine The Great Lakes Region

Need: Remedy for mild winters

Audience: Certified Shipdrivers

Instructors: Experienced icebreaking officers

Tools: ADDIE & Gagne’s Nine Events

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Evaluation: Coxswain Core Course

Client: US Coast Guard Boat Forces

Need: Summative evaluation of a new course

Stakeholders: students, instructors, course managers, operational unit personnel, waterborne American citizens

Tools: 10-Step Evaluation Method, Success Case Method

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Working Systemically

Working to address performance issues by understanding and intervening in the entire system—not just isolated parts or symptoms.

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Working Systemically�Coxswain Core Course Evaluation

Chyung’s 10-Step Methodology: Systems Thinking

Stakeholder Analysis

Identify Org. Goals and Program Purpose

Data Sources:

Critical Multiplism

Data Sources:

Triangulation

Program Logic Model

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Working Systematically

Following a structured, step-by-step process grounded in evidence and guided by established models and methods to diagnose performance problems.

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Working Systematically�Icebreaking Instructional Design

Using AI to Accelerate ID

Jerry Sullivan

President, Dynacom

Apply structured process to AI integration in ID

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Evidence Based Practice and Professional Theories

Coxswain Core Course Eval

Icebreaking Instr. Design

  • Chyung’s 10-Steps
  • Brinkerhoff’s Success Case
  • 4 Levels of Analysis
  • Kellogs Program Logic Model
  • ADDIE
  • LeaPs
  • Dynacom’s AI ID Integration
  • Gagne’s Nine Events
  • USCG Instructional Material standards

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Lessons Learned

Follow the process

Planning phases are really valuable

The Data exists:

find it

Systems thinking

Nothing exists in a vacuum

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Questions?