Super-Teams Aren’t Born, They’re Built.
Pre-College
Educators: Assemble! We all have our own unique strengths, resources, and knowledge. We are heroes to our students, but we cannot win these battles alone. It is especially important to work together and ensure our students have the resources to achieve their collegiate goals during these challenging times. Luckily, each of our TRiO programs works within schools and communities that allow endless opportunities for collaboration. Exchanging our resources and utilizing each other’s superpowers will help us all achieve our common goal – our students’ success in obtaining a college degree. This presentation will introduce some partnership strategies utilized by the David T. Kearns Center’s Upward Bound and Talent Search programs. Whether you are seeking out your superhero partners or looking to strengthen your existing super-team, you will leave this workshop with tools and strategies for in-person and virtual collaboration initiatives.
Leveraging Campus Partnerships to Implement Innovative Curriculum: Pandemic Edition
Building strong partnerships on our campuses is essential to the success of any TRiO program; however, in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, building and sustaining these partnerships have become increasingly challenging. In an effort to align with the conference theme, this session will focus on the partnerships created at the University of Rochester between the David T. Kearns Center and the University’s curriculum committee and how this partnership led to the creation of a credit-bearing seminar course that can be implemented in SSS or McNair Programs. We will also explore the curriculum of this course, including pedagogy and course components.
Envisioning the Future- Creating Possibility With Students
Envisioning a range of future opportunities can be incredibly challenging for TRiO students due to the structural barriers they face. As TRiO professionals, there are a range of tools and processes that may be employed to facilitate a widening of options for our students, based on their individual values, interests, talents, and goals. In this fun, interactive session, we will practice three of these processes: values inventory assessment, personal story-telling, and future visioning, in order to build our professional knowledge and skills together.
Are we all frauds? Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome
Opting into STEM
Building strong partnerships on our campuses is essential to the success of any TRiO program; however, in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, building and sustaining these partnerships have become increasingly challenging. In an effort to align with the conference theme, this session will focus on the partnerships created at the University of Rochester between the David T. Kearns Center and the University’s curriculum committee and how this partnership led to the creation of a credit-bearing seminar course that can be implemented in SSS or McNair Programs. We will also explore the curriculum of this course, including pedagogy and course components.
Dr. Mitchem on Leadership
Dr. Arnold Mitchem, President Emeritus of the Council for Opportunity in Education, has been a voice for low-income, first-generation students and individuals with disabilities his entire career. Thanks to his work, the federally funded TRIO Programs have expanded by nearly 400% and now serve more than an estimated 790,000 students at 1,000 colleges and universities. Join us as we watch clips from Dr. Mitchem, as he challenges leaders, old and new, to reflect on their goals and strategies. What leader will you become?
Activating and sustaining your Joy #Happyvism
The intentional and conscious practice of sustaining Joy is an essential element to our holistic health and wellbeing. Come to this interactive session to reflect, connect, and engage with practical tools to sustain your Joy. There will be a DJ, music, meditation, writing, co-collaborative learning, and sharing to inspire you throughout the week, month, and year! #Happyvism.