Career Dreams Educational Foundation

EVALUATION

TEACHERS AND STAFF SEMINAR

Hagerman School District
(teachers and staff)

Hagerman, New Mexico

August, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker:    

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average 9.6

10, 10, 10, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 10, 10, 9, 10, 9, 8, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10

Comments:

• Very patient and firm. His background matched with what he is standing here saying & doing. He is inspirational and breathtaking.
  
  
• Great in the morning. Did learn from activities but wanted more info on what other successful programs are doing.
  
  
• Very energetic / Great motivator.
  
  
• Very energetic & motivating.
  
  
• Excellent, encouraged to think more openly.

Evaluation of the Content and Organization of the Program:    

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average 9.3

10, 10, 10, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 8, 10, 9, 10, 10, 6, 10, 7, 8, 8, 10, 8, 10, 10

Comments:

• Very motivational; seems to hit on all the crisis points with a tone that is optimistic with a positive outlook; it helped me personally

• Very motivational!
  
  
• Helped me to focus on the meat and motivate me to be creative and prepare my attitude in loving my students.
  
  
• It has helped me realize that nothing is impossible and to have a more positive attitude toward trying to reach my dreams & goals.
  
  
• Encouraged and supported vision.
  
  
• Showed me not to be afraid to have dreams.
  
  
• I’m not really sure. I would have to think about it.
  
  
• Helped me to interact with my peers.
  
  
• Helped me realize I can get or have whatever I want if I’ll just do it!
  
  
• Confidence.
  
  
• It was inspirational.
  
  
• Realizing that most dreams are achievable (perfect schools).
  
  
• It helped me by being able to dream big, (no limits) & go after what you want.
  
  
• It has given me a sense of hope – We isolate ourselves in our classrooms and forget that there are others with the same hopes and dreams.
  
  
• It has shown me that I can have dreams and feel free to share them.
  
  
• Makes you think.
  
  
• It makes me think that dreams are much easier to achieve than what most people believe.
  
  
• Helped me expand my possibility thinking.
  
  
• Identify talent.
  
  
• Courage to step out & dream. Provided motivation.
  
  
• Shown me a different way to educate children.
  
  
• Had fun – it made me think about how I felt when I started teaching – before all the no’s.
  
  
• Helped me think anything is possible.

How do you feel the CDI program has impacted your team, group, and/or organization?

• I think this will be beneficial – a follow-up would be great.
  
  
• More positive & inspired.
  
  
• I think it has given us all a more positive attitude.
  
  
• I will pass on encourage and support.
  
  
• It has helped us to share ideas no matter what they are.
  
  
• It feels much better when you get together and share your ideas together.
  
  
• It promoted team work.
  
  
• Helped us to be more positive with our attitudes.
  
  
• Enthusiasm that will be passed on to students.
  
  
• Brought us closer together as a team.
  
  
• Hopefully motivated staff to make positive changes.
  
  
• Broader view.
  
  
• I feel that it made us think twice about a “perfect school” and how close we are to it.
  
  
• Will cause us to continue to look for solutions.
  
  
• Motivation to do a better job.
  
  
• It will help us to work together as a team.
  
  
• Made us think more.
  
  
• We feel hopeful about the future!

Do you feel that continuing the CDI programs will impact your team, group, and/or organization? If yes, what do you believe the impact will be?

• I’m hoping we won’t be negative & that we can believe & act on the belief that the sky is the limit!!
  
  
• YES: learn how to make our dreams a reality! They can.
  
  
• Yes, because it will encourage us to keep dreaming.
  
  
• Yes. More everything.
  
  
• Yes.
  
  
• I think so.
  
  
• Create a school of the future where we really turn out productive citizens.
  
  
• Yes, believing in dreams!
  
  
• Keep us more focused.
  
  
• Yes! Changing the negative attitude. Thank You!!
  
  
• Not sure.
  
  
• Yes, reaching our dreams of the perfect school & motivating the school to work towards it.
  
  
• This would benefit the students & empower them to take charge of their life.
  
  
• Yes. The impact will be the staff working together.
  
  
• Maybe.
  
  
• Yes, a positive one – esp. if we see results

Participants were asked to create with no limits or negatives, the best educational programs and ideas they would have for their School District.

Group 1:

• Complete science labs w/supplies, materials, equipment.
  
  
• A TV & VCR in each room – video camera in each classroom.
  
  
• A computer at each desk.
  
  
• Smaller teacher/student ratio.
  
  
• Larger rooms & desks – more personal space.
  
  
• More extensive music department – band department.
  
  
• Reading center in each class.
  
  
• 2 classrooms sharing one bathroom.
  
  
• Swimming pool for community, school, (PE, athletics, etc.)
  
  
• Renovate athletic facilities, including football stadium.
  
  
• Two-way intercom, phone in each room.
  
  
• Retired professional athletes for coaches.
  
  
• All staff extensively trained in technology.
  
  
• Modern technological equipment.
  
  
• Vocational training programs.
  
  
• Support staff.
  
  
• All parents actively involved & supportive of child educators.
  
  
• High tech furniture.
  
  
• Lap top computer for each teacher with printers.
  
  
• New buses & school vehicles.
  
  
• Lots of field trips anywhere.
  
  
• All students taught according to dominant intelligence or learning style.
  
  
• Individualized programs for each student & the staff & materials needed to carry out.
  
  
• College classes offered on-site.
  
  
• Make grounds prettier (flowers, trees, etc.).
  
  
• More elective choices.
  
  
• Laminating machine, die-cuts at middle school.
  
  
• Special educational teachers, aids, bilingual teachers.
  
  
• Alternative school.
  
  
• Video library (extensive).
  
  
• Playground & playground equipment.
  
  
• After – school programs.
  
  
• Daycare/nursery center for students with children.
  
  
• DECA/BPA program.
  
  
• More teacher/staff pay.
  
  
• All benefits paid 100% for all employees.
  
  
• Tax exemption for teachers.
  
  
• Teachers/educators design schools & classrooms.
  
  
• Extensive teacher training/workshops.
  
  
• Specialty teacher training.
  
  
• Experiencing & travel for cultural experiences.
  
  
• Sister schools in other towns, states, or countries

Group 2:

• Every child has a lap-top.
  
  
• No more than 15 in a class.
  
  
• Unlimited reading specialists.
  
  
• Unlimited incentives for teachers.
  
  
• Teachers would be paid more than pro – football players.
  
  
• Latest multimedia equipment.
  
  
• Unlimited access to educational travel & field trips.
  
  
• Alternative schooling.
  
  
• 4-day week.
  
  
• Scheduled services before and after school.
  
  
• More career oriented classes in HS.
  
  
• Creative educational programs: teaching, professional, medical etc.
  
  
• Paid professional mentors for first year teachers.
  
  
• Unlimited resources: books, etc.
  
  
• K-1 Exploration – 2,3,4, language arts, basic skills.
  
  
• Unlimited to visit parents after school in the home, etc.

Group 3:

• All major reading programs w/the resources.
  
  
• Public & school library (full range) w/inter library loans.
  
  
• Classroom library.
  
  
• Computers for students on their desks.
  
  
• Laptops for every teacher.
  
  
• Internet services.
  
  
• Students learn through distance learning.
  
  
• Provide services for all students w/physical & mental disabilities.
  
  
• Have two teacher aids for every teacher.
  
  
• Larger classrooms.
  
  
• Smaller class size 12 to 15 students per teacher.
  
  
• Different class to teach life skills – Civics Class to learn for Gov. workers or jobs, Computer design, Culinary classes.
  
  
• Teachers teach in their favorite or strongest subject areas (not set classes for teachers).
  
  
• Teachers are paid to travel to other countries to learn that countries’ culture & language, etc.
  
  
• Omit paperwork for everything.
  
  
• Eliminate testing.
  
  
• Have students visit state capitals & nations capitals as a class project.
  
  
• Have student run businesses.
  
  
• Have levels, not grades.

Group 4:

• Elementary building: adequate bathroom facilities, adequate drinking fountains.
  
  
• All grade levels together including High School w/ workroom – copier, laminator – resource room.
  
  
• RC for district – supplies for each grade level – posters, pencils, rewards…. – die cut machine.
  
  
• Intercom system where teacher can call talk to office or other teachers – phones in classrooms.
  
  
• Aid for every 10 students in Elementary school.
  
  
• Educational aid for every classroom – HS.
  
  
• 3 aids for every HS dept. to run copies, etc.
  
  
• TV in every room for news 101.
  
  
• Laptop computers for all students.
  
  
• VCR for all rooms.
  
  
• Playground equipment – up-to-date.
  
  
• Grass & trees – garden area
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• Garden area for each class.
  
  
• Built-in closets for every room.
  
  
• Provide T-shirts for all students & teachers for game days – include elem. In HS events.
  
  
• Have ambassadors come over from HS to inform elem. Of HS events.
  
  
• HS – bigger office for secretaries. Office for elem. Principal in the middle of the school (Diagram showing spokes with office in the center).
  
  
• HS departments have all supplies & equipment needed for projects – i.e. sewing machines & supplies, science project & supplies, math-rulers, protractors etc.
  
  
• Library needs a quiet area for reading – comfortable chairs & couches.
  
  
• Area for students to do research projects & some one to help only in this area.
  
  
• More books and magazines.
  
  
• 2 more school vehicles.
  
  
• Activity bus w/ac & bathroom facilities – TV etc.
  
  
• Landscaping w/flowers and trees – person to do gardening only.
  
  
• Field trips out of state, out of country.
  
  
• Have a IMAX here.
  
  
• Swimming pool, tennis courts – a complete fitness center – have football field & track on campus.
  
  
• Band instruments for all students – Band rooms for all grades – chorus supplies – risers available.
  
  
• Golf course – a professional coach for every sport.
  
  
• Auditorium w/modern technology comfortable seats, correct lighting – big enough to seat 1,000 – stage.
  
  
• Nice gym with stadium seats for everyone.
  
  
• Multi purpose room w/ carpet – all types of games – activity center.
  
  
• Principal’s aide.
  

Group 5:

• Secretary and aid for every teacher.
  
  
• 5 students / teacher (except for large group activities).
  
  
• Unlimited equipment, supplies, travel funding.
  
  
• Laptop for every student w/internet access.
  
  
• Motivational counselor for every 5 students (or advisor).
  
  
• Night school for parents (up to bachelors degree).
  
  
• Special needs resource centers for any mental, physical, or educational need.
  
  
• Developmental daycare for pregnant teens of working moms.
  
  
• Vocational training developed on school campus.
  
  
• Culinary interests developed in school cafe.
  
  
• Regular workshop presentations by working professionals at the top of their field.
  
  
• Biannual field trips to other countries to gain insight into other cultures.
  
  
• Limited term cost of living supplements granted for any age student 16 or over.
  
  
• 1 year sabbatical for instructors every 5 years.
  
  
• Full bathroom & kitchen facilities for every faculty member.
  
  
• Cell phones, laptops, & beepers for every instructor
  
  
• Positive rewards, such as cruises, SUV’s, CD’s ($) for superior instructional performance.
  
  
• Motivational training circle reinforcement at all levels (teacher –students –other students – parents – students – teachers etc.).
  
  
• ITV connections to Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, & UCLA.
  
  
• Comparable lawyer/doctor pay scale.
  
  
• 3 year teacher mentoring program (buddy teaching).
  
  
• Health club & spa for faculty.
  
  
• Multi-level representative organization to continually develop program options.
  
  
• Culinary arts More added as needed.
  
  
• Health sciences.
  
  
• Social Sciences.
  
  
• Linguistics.
  
  
• Arts.
  
  
• Work-study.
  
  
• Business.
  
  
• Sports & fitness.
  
  
• Hands on vocation.
  
  
• Mathematics

Group 6:

• New buildings every year – no cracks.
  
  
• Plenty of supplies.
  
  
• New furniture.
  
  
• Low student/teacher ratio.
  
  
• Computer per child in classrooms (software).
  
  
• Field trips that provide learning experiences.
  
  
• No fundraisers!
  
  
• Teachers are paid more.
  
  
• Unlimited books and teacher resources.
  
  
• State of the art playground.
  
  
• Fulltime employees – art, music, band, nurse, counselors, drama.
  
  
• Separate buildings (K-1) (2,3) (4,5) (6,7) (8,9) (10,11,12)
  
  
• School with lots of pride.
  
  
• Motivated staff & students.
  
  
• Parent participation.
  
  
• New busses.
  
  
• Team player – staff more communications & support.
  
  
• Smiles from everyone.
  
  
• Faculty shirts for Friday.
  
  
• Afternoon snacks.
  
  
• Govt. officials who support education – no cuts!!
  
  
• Less test and more verbal communication between students & teachers, more hands on learning experiences.
  
  
• Less hand outs, less sending students off to their desk and making them read silently to themselves.
  
  
• Teachers will have more group reading and more student participation and involvement.