[GuidedPathways] GP Retreat Update: 2021 Guided Pathways Retreat Agenda for November 8th & 9th 2021

[Claudine Richardson]

Dear Colleges,
Hello and hope you are doing well. You asked for more facilitated team time for day 2 of the retreat and we listened. Please find more team time incorporated into the agenda. Also, please find the titles of the concurrent sessions for Tuesday, November 9th. So, if you have not yet done so... let's get registered (enthusiastic voice). Remember to check with your GP lead on who from your college team is attending the retreat on Monday, November 8th, and Tuesday, November 9th. You can register yourself at https://bit.ly/3hEm6Hc.

Guided Pathways Retreat

Condensed Agenda

Retreat Dates: November 8-9, 2021



Registration Link: https://bit.ly/3hEm6Hc



College Contact: Vice President of Instruction: Coordinates selection and registration of college team at the respective institution.



SBCTC Leads: Claudine Richardson (crichardson at sbctc.edu<mailto:crichardson at sbcctc.edu>)



Speakers: Dr. Michael Baston, Dr. Mays Imad, E. Phelps, Dr. Jeremiah and Rachel Sims, WA Guided Pathways IDEAL Fellows, and You



Suggested Team Composition: Instruction & Student Services Leadership, Institutional Research Representative, Career & Academic Advisors, and faculty. Teams of 10-12 per college.



Introduction:

Welcome to the first Guided Pathways retreat for 2021-2022. The learning agenda for our collective journey this year has been built on the tremendous lift you have made with the work plans. As such, the focus will be placed on the colleges' shared priorities to move into transformative change for catalyzing your action plans. We will continue to dismantle inequitable policies and practices while engaging in the social justice work of reconstructing our system. As such, the learning outcomes for this retreat focus on the following college priorities: Intake & Onboarding, Placement practices, Engaging Student Voices, and the Structured Exploratory Sequence.



Learning Outcomes:

  *   Discover equity-centered transformative leadership tenets designed to examine ways to transition from crisis to opportunity.
  *   Examine ways to prioritize transformative change within the intake process in alignment with essential practice areas (Intake, Sense of belonging, Structured Exploratory Experiences).
  *   Build knowledge of equity-centered data analysis practices to identify and assess the alignment of college Guided Pathways priorities with enrollment goals.
Location/Room:

  *   Zoom link will be sent before the event and through the Canvas shell for participants.

Closed Captioning:

  *   Live transcription will be available in Zoom sessions.

Pre-attendance Request:

  *   Prior to the arrival of the retreat, please modify Zoom name to show [College | Name | Pronouns].


Schedule: Monday, November 8
Time
Agenda Topic
8:30 - 8:45AM
Care and Check-in
8:45 - 9:20AM
Welcome, Centering & Introductions
9:20 - 9:25AM
Guided Pathway Principles and Mission: Transformative Change
9:30 - 11:00AM
Plenary 1: Where We Go from Here?

*       Dr. Michael Baston, President, Rockland Community College
11:00 - 11:10AM
Break
11:10 - 12:00PM
Facilitated Team Time

*       Individual College Priority Areas review and reflection exercise
12:00 - 1:00PM
Lunch (on your own)
1:00 - 2:00PM
Concurrent Session:

*       1A: President to President: A Conversation about the Future of Higher Education with Dr. Michael Baston, President, Rockland Community College
1:00 - 2:30PM
Concurrent Session:

*       1B Bearing Witness as an Act of Love, Resistance, and Healing with Dr. Mays Imad, Pima Community College
2:30 - 2:40PM
Break
2:40 - 3:30PM
Facilitated Team Time
*       Individual Colleges Priority Areas in Reflection and Connection to Constellations Framework Rezo "Trust and Love in All Spaces" and previous concurrent session.
Discussion and notes will support Day 2 session
3:30 - 3:45PM
Wrap-Up, Reminders for Day 2

Schedule: Tuesday, November 9
Time
Agenda Topic
8:45 - 9:00AM
Care & Check-in
9:00 - 9:30AM
Welcoming: The Constellations Framework Rezo "Trust and Love in All Spaces"
9:30 - 10:30AM
Plenary 2A: Hot & Cold: Understanding Data for Deep Equitable Change

*       E. Phelps, Sociology Faculty Member at Pierce College
10:30 - 10:40AM
Break
10:40 - 11:30AM
Facilitated Team Time
*       Hot & Cold: Understanding Data for Deep Equitable Change
Plan for Breakout Sessions and College Check-in
11:30 - 12:30PM
Lunch
12:30 - 1:30PM
Plenary 2B: Love as Praxis: Guided Pathways IDEAL Program and Fellows
(Student-Centered Practices)

*       Dr. Jeremiah & Rachel Sims and IDEAL scholars
1:35-2:30 PM
Facilitated Team Time
*       Love as Praxis for Centering Student Voices and Belonging
Plan for Breakout Sessions and College Check-in
2:30 - 2:40PM
Break
2:40 - 3:50PM
Concurrent Sessions:
*       Based on Retreat Objectives, College Priorities, Equity, and Constellations Framework "Trust and Love in All Spaces" for Transformative Change
o   Designing Placement as A Student-Centered Learning Experience
o   Mapping is Better with BEdA & Equity
o   Plotting Student Sense of Belonging in the Onboarding and Intake Process
o   Developing Effective Mapping with Concurrent Enrollment in Mind
o   Ethnographies of Work (campuses working on implementation)
3:50 - 4:30PM
Closeout, Reminder, Updates, & Identify 1-3 Action Items for Making Keeping Momentum & Pace

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Respectfully and Humbly,

[signature_198601869]Claudine Richardson, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.A.
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Policy Associate | Student Success Center
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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