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Showcase: Rural Readiness, Near and Far

-Interesting concept to host regional events for a future iteration of the grant...that could gather people who are not centralized around resources.

-I had never seen the concurrent enrollment resources on LEARN.

Discussion Lab: The Balancing Act Between Personal and Professional Life

-I liked the concept of juggling balls and while the "work" ball can bounce back, others, like the "relationships" ball can break if you don't tend to them.

-We discussed balancing news intake and keeping a pulse on what is happening in the world, but not letting what we cannot control dominate our mental health.

-Having a strong balance in personal life (e.g. dimensions of wellness) can enhance work productivity.

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Keynote:

Ask your self...

1 - What puts you in flow?

2 - How do you want to start your mornings?

Consider...

3 - Shifting your relationship with devices.

4 - The disease to please (saying "no" to set a boundary on over-commitment)

I think I am doing #3 best and I've gotten pretty good at #4. I need to keep working on #1. I need to reimagine #2.

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Professional vs. Personal Life

Great ideas and vulnerability among attendees.

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Showcase: Dressing for Success - Empowering Students with Career Clothing and Opportunities

School did a modeling showcase on the appropriate attire for different careers. Partnered with different businesses in the community that were involved in donations of professional attire, and they also had the students engage their families with donations. They partnered with the technical and cosmology schools to help with attire and hair and the culinary with their uniform and equipment.

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Thursday Keynote

-Reconnect to your why

You were called to do this work (your role in change agency)

-Beware the Disease to Please

-Stillness is the Key

-Practice Detachment

Peace and Joy begin with you

This was a great reminder on the value of self-management and the "fill your own cup" or "put on your oxygen mask" first mentalities.

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GU Nurturing a College-Going Culture

I chose this session to keep in mind CCGC as I am coaching my teachers. I want to continue to encourage my teachers to be a shining example of positive energy in reference to CCGC.

frequent messages

many staff involved (not just the counselor)

The culture impacts aspirations, motivation, healthy peer networks, engagement, belonging, and learning.

Problems with nurturing

The school population should all be involved in GEAR UP!

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Catalyzing Change: Middle School Math

I loved hearing from the president of NCTM. She connected the NCTM series of Catalyzing Change to how we can transform how we reach students in the math classroom and any area. Relevance and support for students allow students to reach higher heights.

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Manage your energy!

Your morning sets your day!

Selective device time!

No is a full sentence!

Stillness is the key!

Practice detachment: Become the calmest person in the room!

Choose your battles!

Shift your mindset: Peace and joy begins with you.

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The session started by discussing the history of higher education and how it was not for everyone. I want to go back and watch the whole video, but she only had time to show a "trailer."

Also, language is important in how we communicate with people. How this nation used/still uses negative and racist language to separate. One term, "at-risk," is one that is used in education and has a negative effect.

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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On April 26, 2022, Harvard President Larry Bacow released the Report of the Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, accepted the committee's recommendations in full, and announced a historic commitment of $100 million to fund their implementation.

The first phase of the initiative's work was to uncover the truth of Harvard's ties to slavery through deep research guided by a committee of distinguished faculty drawn from across the University. This research provides a strong foundation for our next phase: the process of reckoning and repair.

Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery

The report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery documents the University's ties to slavery-direct, financial, and intellectual-and offers seven recommendations that will guide the work of reckoning and repair now beginning.

A Legacy of Leadership

Early African American alumni of Harvard and Radcliffe

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Walking Tour Experience

Explore Harvard University's entanglements with the institution of slavery and the history of Black leadership through a 10-stop walking tour in Cambridge, MA.

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Film

This short film offers an introduction to the first phase of the initiative's work-the history-which undergirds the presidential committee's seven recommendations for action.

Telling the Truth about All This: Reckoning with Slavery and Its Legacies at Harvard and Beyond

Over the past two decades, universities around the world have begun to engage with their legacies related to slavery. With this history uncovered, we now ask: What must institutions of higher education do? What types of repair work can and should we undertake? We explore these questions through discussions about a range of topics, including engagement with descendant communities, legacies of slavery in libraries and museums, and novel public engagement and educational opportunities.

Stay Connected

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Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

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Ask the Communications Expert: Social Media Q&A

How do you determine the best platforms for each audience?

Instagram and LinkedIn

Look at the analytics for the age group and region; check in often as demographics change

How do you navigate the changing policies of established social media?

How do you reach teachers, students, parents?

Shout out to Canva

Digital newsletters

Visually appealing

How do you promote a GU event more broadly when it's intended for only a specific section of a cohort?

-be specific about your audience; use your website to send people out to other events

Use templates for communication

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The middle school session was a good conversation of how we can address the needs of a variety of types of M.S. students and help them see how they fit into GEAR UP. The Action Plan for students was a good idea.

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Discussion Lab: What Do Middle School Students Need? Loved this session. Interactive breakout rooms gave practical applications to ways in which we can engage middle schoolers. Not being a parent, I found this stat they cited to be very eye-opening. Middle schoolers development is changing as rapidly as development in 0-2 year olds. Holy cow, no wonder they are so hard to teach. #wranglingcats

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Showcase: Sharing Strategic Tools & Best Practices:

Presenters discussed the Fishbone Diagram and SMART goals. The fishbone diagram helps outline potential causes connected to a problem with smaller related causes under each. This could be a useful graphic representation, while working with a team (on GUMS PD, perhaps when considering systems we use for communicating to schools, or even organizing our own collaborative work). SMART goals felt like a nice continuation of session 1 about organizing; while Gantt charts break things into smaller steps, perhaps SMART goals could complement that.

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Supporting Our College Students: A Research-Based Toolkit

If we don't take time to diagnose the problem, it makes finding a solution much more difficult.

Looking at what is "bottlenecking" or hindering student attendance/success.

Looking at the Know, Feel, Do (the how, how they feel, plan to act).

They had us in the first half, got into the weeds in the second half, literally went over how to write an email to students...

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Session 2: My session was about planting college knowledge and cultivating buy-in. It was similar to the concept of building a college-going culture in schools and getting school leaders on board with working with GEAR UP. Our partnership grant format lends to that buy-in from schools naturally, but we know that leadership changes can impact school participation levels.

One useful idea they had was regarding how they are contacting students once they leave high school during their freshman year of college. They suggested social media platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn with dedicated GEAR UP pages where students can receive info and communicate after high school.

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PS School toolkit: https://www.mdrc.org/work/publications/tools-postsecondary-schools-toolkit

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Tools for Postsecondary Schools Toolkit | MDRC

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The Tools for Postsecondary Schools interactive toolkit is designed to help staff members and administrators at two- and four-year colleges use evidence-based practices to support students. It draws on over 20 years of MDRC research and technical assistance and can help practitioners at any stage in the program-development process.

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Wed., Feb 5 KEYNOTE this was fairly new territory for me. I don't think essays were a thing (back in the days when I applied) except for private schools. Do any of the OK public universities require essays. I could see how this would be applicable for scholarships too. I liked her quote "write about your passion instead of your pain".

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Keynote - sharing stories for admission essays. I have thought about this a lot lately. Jackson is approaching college applications and I know the essay is important. I like the lens she shared from the students reliving this trauma and those reading the submissions.

I know there are programs out there ($$$$) that help students through the application and admissions process. How can we support students throughout this process? I know some grants have better structures for this. How does our grant/center work towards doing more for students in these areas?

I am curious... how many of our students don't get into a college because of their essays?

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Reflection Questions you might consider as you reflect. 

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What is something you learned?

How does what you learned apply to your role or inform what you do as a ________ on the GU grant?

What can you take back to share with others you work with? Did something stick out that might impact the work another team member or support staff team does?

Is there something a grant is doing that is different or similar to our grant?

If different, how might that service/program/strategy influence the work we do if implemented?

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Session 2: CTE Session

Great discussion, talked about 3 aspects. 1. Barriers. 2. Raising awareness/positives. 3. Successes of implementing and helping with CTE/GEAR UP collaboration. Having a background in CTE, it was interesting to hear about it from the other side and to describe things that I had done.

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Session 2: UGH, horrible. Digital Storytelling through your Phone Camera. Wish I would've gone to the immigration session. Far too basic, not interactive, didn't state objectives, scattered in her thoughts.

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CTE session

Google doc notes from the session:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xeYMXRJJOkCes0NHbyI3XGi3mSWWRWELMv2biFXRZ68/edit?tab=t.0

Resource shared by facilitator:

https://www.acteonline.org/state-fact-sheets/

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Connecting GEAR UP to Career and Technical Education Discussion Lab Notes

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A resource to know rights as a person with ICE: https://iamerica.org/know-your-rights/

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Know your rights with iAmerica. Access essential information on your legal rights as an immigrant, including workplace protections, legal support, and how to handle encounters with law enforcement.

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I had never heard of the term immigration spectrum. I like this term

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Session 1: Discussion Lab: Creating Meaningful Partnerships our breakout room talked about the need for relationship building first before asking someone, or organization, to become a partner.

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Keynote session: I think we need to remember him when it rolls around to ideas for ILI keynote speakers. I feel like we do a great job creating sense of belonging when they are in HS but my question is how do we sustain or create that when they go off to pursue their PSE path?

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Ending the Accepted! event with participants finishing the statement, "I wish my (blank) knew about me". It could be an advisor, professor, family, future roommate, etc.

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Bradley and Kelsey shared Goblin.tool for breaking down large tasks

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Teresa and I were the facilitator and scribe for our group. The most difficult issue for the folks in our group was violence in their communities. It made me grateful that most of our 24 schools seem very safe.

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It was so cool to hear that GEAR UP has been having such an awesome impact on college enrollment.

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Discussion Lab: Creating Meaningful Partnerships

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I felt like a Diamond Dog, discussing partnerships with people from all over that were having the same issues.

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Adding 25% onto time allotment when planning schedule makes sense.

I tend to want to do marathon work. Taking breaks would be a very good habit.

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Howdy, y'all! Whoops it's me, Teresa!

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I need to start taking breaks! I need to delete emails too. I was the only one with more than 1K unread emails in their inbox!

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The Scholar Budget Company in the Exhibit Hall has a cool video. I wish we could be more intentional with our programs and provide these on-site workshops for students and parents. Check out the vendor's site to learn more! They have a podcast too! https://www.youtube.com/@TheScholarBudget

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