Tri- Rivers Career Center EVALUATION RESPONSES

“RECRUIT & RETAIN” WORKSHOP with Kordell Norton, Synergy Solutions

SEPT 20, 2006  

What did we do today that helped?  What insights will help you get better results and improve?

• Kordell helped me to think about how to get the students involved in the success of our program.
• Simple realization – TRCC is a defacto voucher school
• You were interesting, fun and informative.  Team Work!
• Info about the “kid” network very important.  Kids talking about program make or break enrollment.  They are the customers.
• Use students to market program.  We can have fun AND learn at the same time.
• Organized our enlightenment – what we need to do, driven by what we already know, but we didn’t know we knew.
• Helped by bringing to light the importance that we all need to work together towards a common goal.  Work Together = Success.
• Switched groups to get a new dynamic.  Heightened awareness of what a valuable tool our students are.
• It helped to realize that the students are our best marketing people.
• Got me thinking – reinforced my marketing background.
• Learned that recruiting will improve your school.  Use your students to inform people about your school.
• Your models were excellent!  You delivery easy to understand.
• Personalized information and commitment to customers.  Kordell did his homework regarding Tri-Rivers prior to his presentation.  Focused on meeting customer’s needs.
• Looking at how society changes.  What our students expect:  experience.
• Give the student’s an experience.
• Discussed the needs of our customer base and the basics of recruiting.
• Emphasized that money talks.
• Just reinforced what I do – I don’t sell my program, my students Do!
• Good, but I feel it was directed toward VoEd teachers and not the academic teachers.
• Emphasized college as need for career-tech students.  Focus on developing a DRASTIC experience.
• Humor – best starter & for intermission.  Stories.
• I thought the idea that our students are looking for an “experience” was quite interesting.
• Top teacher qualities.
• Brainstorming was really good.
• Laughed – changed tables.  Audience intersection.
• To treat students as future workers and taxpayers.  To realize we are the people to create workers.
• Remember students that are sociable – may be best sellers of school, leaders.
• I liked the graphics and the paper on the table.
• Great ideas for recruit and retention of students.  Make your classroom an “experience”.
• Higher standards all around, esp. when it comes to entrance to the school, will give us better results (like the schools in our area – EHOVE and Pioneer.
• The experience concept was helpful.  What makes up an experience was insightful.
• Great sense of humor.  Experiences.  Use stories.
• Brainstorming about favorite teachers reminded me of qualities I need to enhance.
• Defined what makes a good teacher by having us remember what we liked about our favorite teacher – puts us in the students place.
• Reminded us about recruiting students – rehash of what we already knew but in an entertaining, enjoyable atmosphere.
• New ideas on recruitment, a new point of view is good.
• The insight about desiring an experience was eye opening.  It puts together some of the ideas I have heard at conferences.
• Not much – we’ve heard similar things before.  Insights as to why we get the ‘dumped’ kids from the home schools instead of the ‘promising’ and motivated kids.  Use students as your “marketing team”.
• My current students do the presentations and sell the program.

What do you wish you had gotten more information on?  Do you have any thoughts for Kordell?

• How an Academic teacher at a career center can help bring more students to TRCC.  I want to help, but how can I.
• I’ve had current students sell our program for years, but I don’t get many new students who can think for themselves.  They seem to think my program is just fun.  I would like to get sincere students who want to be in my class.  Sometimes I feel my class is just a “PR” program.  I want more interested students.
• We know how to be “better educators” but with the kids we get, we’re more “disciplinarians” than “educators” anymore!  It’s very frustrating to be a teacher here at TRCC!  How do we influence the home schools to help us help their kids.
• Handouts with team performance models.
• More concrete information
• More specific methods for recruiting and retaining students.
• He was interesting and entertaining.
• Helping students with specific needs to have great experiences.  Helping students enjoy the class while struggling with skills they feel they don’t have.
• More examples how to make experiences.
• Nothing comes to mind for recruitment, but ideas on retention need to be touched upon.
• Thanks for being entertaining.
• A plan of attack.  We can talk about the pieces and parts… We need a plan with an end in mind with statistics.
• His presentation was very valuable.
• Specifics on how to prepare students for recruitment purposes.
• C.A.S.E.
• Get more students to graduation.
• Begin by telling us purpose.
• Are there specifics that students nationally/in Ohio are drawn to that create retention in Career Centers:  proven strategies, techniques, etc.
• How to use the students in my class to recruit new students into our school.
• How to create the experience.
• Great presentation!  
• Your humor is great.
• Continue on retention ideas.
• I like this guy
• How to get every student involved.  Students think having fun is doing everything their way.
• How to get everyone to buy in to teamwork.
• Keep going – let’s go to the next step!  The engine’s started… put the trany in gear.
• How to use academic strengths to influence career/lab recruitment?
• How about some practical ideas from other schools?
• Storming and performing
• Nice work!
• Strategies to facilitate these ideas.
• More on making an ‘experience’.
• Tilt more towards what academics can do in light of OGT forcing from Applied Material.
• I am the Interim Director of the Preschool/Daycare.  I am very interested in raising the morale and enthusiasm in the department.  My only tool right now is “leading by example”.  Any ideas for me would be appreciated.