Feedback from
Beating the Odds Conference 2018
Follow us:
The best thing about the conference was ... |
Collaborating with others. Hearing things being done in other buildings. More options for 6-12, though you can adapt. |
Seeing districts have success in changing the culture and climate of their building to help students success! |
Having time to listen to other leaders, their methods, challenges and input. |
Idea sharing, meeting colleagues, different strategies and viewpoints, getting out of the building and networking with others |
Interacting with school administrators and seeing what works in their buildings. |
The break out sessions where we heard from building leaders in charge of schools that are moving forward. |
Collaboration |
The mash-up, hash-out. It was great to hear the successes and challenges being faced by colleagues throughout the state. |
Clear presentation of data with identifiable steps that can move students |
The opportunity to discuss the impact of poverty with other "like" districts. Sharing ideas with others. |
I enjoyed the topics: DTI/Support strategies which were research based. DLC. |
Having the chance to listen to admins who are making changes in their buildings for ED students. |
The opportunity to collaborate with other leaders and teachers from other districts |
Meeting like-minded folks … "I found my people." Learning from their collective wisdom. Meeting. |
Meeting new people, learning new ideas, learning that what I have been thinking about is being taught by others. |
A variety of presentation choices |
Hearing how schools are addressing the issues of poverty in the school community. Also, how creating a culture of caring and support and data-driven target goals makes a difference |
Opportunity to experience presented research on academic progress and poverty, opportunity to participate and listen to relevant break-out sessions. Opportunity to share with afternoon breakout group. |
I can take information back to district and implement it right away! |
Hearing all the great work being done in rough poverty districts, good pace of content, active learning of content, building communities with other educators. |
Opportunity to collaborate with colleagues. Poverty and student achievement data example of schools that succeed despite economic disadvantages. |
Collaboration with many different levels of educators on strategies to improve instruction for students in poverty |
Hearing and learning from change makers that turned their school districts around. |
It was a nice change from other PD to meet with people from across the state and hear what other people are going through (struggles, successes, projects, etc.) |
Hearing the innovated things happening on the K-12 level to prepare the students for accademic success. |
Collaborating with other administrators. |
Sharing of ideas and struggles, passion of the educators. |
Networking with other districts |
Leaving with tangible ideas that I can immediately use to enhance student instruction at my school. |
The real school/district perspectives and activities that were shared. Time to talk to districts that are not in the same BOCES. |
Flow of day from small group to large. |
Nice breakout sessions |
For future conferences, I suggest ... |
More time to talk with others about their experiences. |
Focus on mental health/mindfulness, climate-building buy-in, Balancing student centered community with taking care of staff. |
Shorter lunch |
More workshop opportunities - Q&A with those principals. |
Continued statewide Data on more specifics |
Be more explicit about the daily agenda - I know it was emailed but it was not included in the conference handouts. |
A wider variety of sessions - maybe 3 rotations and not so much time doing the small group table talk. |
More breakout/mash-up sessions where people can collaborate |
Perhaps a High School Student to talk about the impact of their experiences/success. Student voice. |
More time for Q&A in breakouts |
Continued opportunities to hear from schools who are experiencing success around initiatives to improve student achievement. |
A little warmer :) |
more practical strategies for improving student academic/achievement outcomes |
More time with presenters and presentation for Q&A at the end of the conference. |
Possibly a longer day so you could get to more sessions or all presentations sent out to everyone via email so you could get the info that you missed. |
I would love to hear about some High School strategies and innovation for students in poverty. |
Invite/make available secondary presenters. |
Changing culture of "they can't"; courageous conversations; more on best practices ELL |
H.S. Focus - more on secondary. |
More unstructured time to share ideas with a facilitator to guide the conversation in a positive direction. |
Strategic sessions for urban vs. Rural populations. |
1 additional small session after lunch before whole session. |
Continue with breakout sessions but allow more time for questions or discussion with those attending. |
My thoughts on the format of breakouts and Mash-up/Hash-out sessions are ... |
I thought they worked well. |
Useful |
Nice variety of presenters/topics |
Enjoyed the breakout formats. Would enjoy visiting all of the presenters. |
Very productive to learn from other educators and not be talked at |
I think the sessions could be even more open-ended allowing the participants to define the topics for discussion. |
Break-outs were effective and well presented |
Thank you for your organization and hard work, Manya! |
I loved the format. |
I enjoyed the opportunity to talk to like-minded educators. |
I enjoyed talking with these professionals; I learned so much from the round-table discussions and casual conversations. |
I really enjoyed the breakouts as they were intimate and easy to converse and share ideas. |
I really enjoyed the layout of the day. I found the break-out sessions engaging. |
Good! Digestiable. Enjoyed mash-up, hash-out. |
The format of breakouts was beautiful - hearing from others in the field. |
I liked the discussions on the five identified topics pertaining to how to assist students of poverty |
Very well organized! Thank you! |
Thought they were good to hear what other people are doing. How do we get powerpoints from them all? |
I thought the format was great. |
Well designed. |
Great conversation, the conversation was valuable and ideas flowed easily. |
Excellent. More like this is important. |
I like the ability to choose the topics that will be most beneficial. |
Good - an agenda with time schedule would be helpful. |
Good, a very focused on a central topic. |
Went well |
Download the powerpoint from Manya’s Keynote Presentation here