Career Dreams Educational Foundation

EVALUATION

TEACHER & STAFF SEMINAR

Loving School District
(teachers & staff)

Loving, New Mexico

September, 2000

Evaluation of Speaker:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.6

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Comments:

• I found Greg to be very inspiring & very motivated. Made me feel very good about myself.
  
  
• Very motivational & fun to listen too.
  
  
• Very dynamic! I liked the way he inspired us to use our talents.
  
  
• Loved the enthusiasm & perspective.
  
  
• Good pace, to the point.
  
  
• I enjoyed this very much, was very interesting.
  
  
• Best, most inspiring I’ve seen in the two years I‘ve been here.
  
  
• He is excellent, he encouraged me to continue with my dreams.
  
  
• Great job!!
  
  
• Very encouraging & well given.
  
  
• Enjoyed his motivation and energy he expressed.
  
  
• Very motivated.
  
  
• Great presentation.
  

Evaluation of the Content and Organization of the Program:

1=Poor to 10=Excellent: Average = 9.6

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Comments:

• Great program.
  
  
• Great program – makes you feel "more" good about yourself. It was fun!
  
  
• I enjoyed the part about "no limits" and thinking about the perfect school. But how realistic is this? We live in a world that sets limits on us.
  
  
• Had an excellent time & rejuvenated my thinking.
  
  
• Good information & ideas.
  
  
• Nice fast pace, no dead time.
  
  
• Great!!
  
  
• Inspiring – Good information to implement.
  
  
• Very well organized, provided written, visual & spoken information.
  
  
• Evaluation of content & organization was excellent

How do you feel the CDI program has helped you personally?

• To have fun with the students – To listen to the students interest – To observe the students strength & see their uniqueness.
  
  
• It was a very positive workshop. All the staff wants the best for our students.
  
  
• It made me more aware of my ideas and opinions. That there not something to keep to myself, but to share.
  
  
• It has reminded me to be more positive with myself and with others. It has made me feel good about myself.
  
  
• It has helped me to think about encouraging the students to pursue their dreams. It also helped me to look at teaching differently.
  
  
• Reminds me to think differently, rather than bogging down in "this is how it is/has to be."
  
  
• Being positive and being more outgoing.
  
  
• It was great. We learned to trust and believe in each other and it showed us a lot of new ideas and ways and how to work with our children.
  
  
• A chance to brainstorm with all staff in all levels. Help improve my performance.
  
  
• It helped me to see and understand the needs and desires of others, for the betterment of all.
  
  
• Look for talent, that I might not recognize I have. How to get respect – to express to right people.
  
  
• It helped me to communicate with other people, and also enjoyed the workshop as well. Come in the future to have more of your workshops.
  
  
• I am encouraged. I want to go back into my class and inspire kids.
  
  
• Has made me feel that I am not the only Dreamer and am not only in what was I feel is right & fair.
  
  
• Even if you don’t have a degree you are still somebody.
  
  
• To be learning.
  
  
• Help me to bring out the positive and strengths of all students.
  
  
• I fell so happy because I know that every dream that I have can be a reality and I can help others too.
  
  
• Opened new ideas – given me courage.
  
  
• I will now be more aware of student’s dreams. Ask what their dreams are?
  
  
• To realize that I am more talented in some areas than I thought and ways to work on weak areas.
  
  
• I think it has made me realize to take risks.
  
  
• Re-focus my success and no negatives & no limits.
  
  
• I feel that I can speak out more now. I also feel that I will not be as tense.
  
  
• I love to be around people & visit & get new ideas – would like a more detailed version of your course.
  
  
• Has reminded me what my passions & talents are – (Too easy to over look them).
  
  
• It gave me a different way to look at what can happen in years to come.
  
  
• Use the 7 steps.
  
  
• Helped to open my mind more on the wants & needs of our students and to show that I am headed in the right direction.
  
  
• I will use the seven steps.
  
  
• See myself as someone important.
  
  
• A lot.
  
  
• Yes – eliminate negativity in my life.
  
  
• How to motivate others.

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

• In a positive way. This is a positive workshop and sends a strong statement.
  
  
• There was a sense of creativity and trust.
  
  
• I think its opened everyone up so that he or she feels that they have a voice in what goes on in their school.
  
  
• It has been great interacting with my groups & getting to know them better. I think all of us came out with a more success oriented point of view.
  
  
• I hope we all se how we can work together.
  
  
• Helps us realize many of us have the same dreams & together we can achieve them.
  
  
• Learn a lot about achieving.
  
  
• Yes. It will make us stronger and we will learn to work as a group and give us new ideas and show us the new ways and times that our children will face.
  
  
• Improved morale & enthusiasm. Good brainstorming of ideas and possible solutions.
  
  
• Everyone felt comfortable expressing their opinion.
  
  
• Think what improvements are needed in steps of recognizing.
  
  
• I feel that it has helped them in becoming a better organization and to become more involved with each other. Make it a better community.
  
  
• It opens up possibilities.
  
  
• Made us feel we are important and as valuable as the other.
  
  
• Yes.
  
  
• OK.
  
  
• Helped to bring all involved in the school together.
  
  
• It was so efficient for all the teams, groups or organizations because now we can be together and make something important happen for our school.
  
  
• I want this program to be open to my staff to believe we can do it!! Whatever it may be.
  
  
• The communication gap hopefully is filled in all areas.
  
  
• I have ideas to use in the classroom & with parents.
  
  
• I feel that it will help our program be less negative.
  
  
• Hopefully in a very positive manner.
  
  
• I feel we will be less negative and take more risks.
  
  
• Working together with staff you normally don’t get the chance to do.
  
  
• Has provided us with an important concept of what our talents are & how we can pull together for the students.
  
  
• Positive thoughts.
  
  
• To bring us closer together.
  
  
• Positive thoughts – shared ideas.
  
  
• Made us respect one another's views.
  
  
• It has impacted us in every way.
  
  
• More open communication / respect.
  
  
• It has given us better knowledge in educating our students.

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?

• Yes, we as staff are sometimes side-tracked (Rules – reg.) that we forget to smile and have fun with the kids!
  
  
• I think the staff needs these kind of workshops where it makes them feel like they are important.
  
  
• Yes. More open-mindedness, more teamwork so that everything runs more smoothly.
  
  
• Yes, it would help make the students have a positive outlook on life. I would like my jr. high daughter to go through the program. It will benefit the staff to encourage the students & peers around them.
  
  
• Yes, I would like for all of our staff and students to go through the program. We can all see the importance of using our talents.
  
  
• Yes, to keep our thinking fresh & open – like an immunization booster prolongs protection against negativity.
  
  
• Yes. More positive.
  
  
• Yes, good and great.
  
  
• Yes. Improvement comes from change. Change is essential to continue success.
  
  
• Yes, it is very positive.
  
  
• Communication.
  
  
• Yes, because the impact would be that it will improve our community and also our schools.
  
  
• Yes. So many kids here don’t know much outside this little community. This program has the potential to get kids to explore.
  
  
• To reach the main goal; It is the future of our children who are the future.
  
  
• Yes.
  
  
• Importance, leaders & skills.
  
  
• Yes, a more productive school system.
  
  
• It will change our school, and any day we can have our school in the way we want.
  
  
• Yes, give us a good base to stand on and believe in.
  
  
• Yes, the program will hopefully impact the students & staff communication.
  
  
• Yes, a more positive work environment with staff & students.
  
  
• Yes, to help serve our families better.
  
  
• Yes, a more community oriented goal.
  
  
• I think it will impact us on taking risks.
  
  
• We definitely need this program in our district – It might have an impact & get rid of all our separated status now.
  
  
• Successful for our students.
  
  
• Yes, I believe CDI programs will impact our team, group & any other organization.
  
  
• Continue your ideas with outside programs.
  
  
• Yes. To help open other people’s minds.
  
  
• Yes, to help us incorporate programs from the outside into the schools.
  
  
• Yes, closeness.
  
  
• I believe if we continue we can accomplish a lot about and beyond anything we could ever think or imagine.
  
  
• The impact will be the immense amount of ideas shared and accomplished the next few years. I hope we can have this program.
  
  
• Yes, make dreams come true.