FISCAL RECOVERY AND LONG –TERM

SUSTAINABILITY TASKFORCE
SESSION #2: VALUING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
JULY 2, 2020

Facilitators: Deborah Harrington, Ed.D, Dean of Student Success &

Jessica Cristo, Ed.D, Associate Dean of Student Success
Welcome back
Reflection videos

 In looking at the videos, where do you see evidence of:

personal connection/meaning, skills & behavior, culture, and systems?

https://ilearn.laccd.edu/courses/125458/discussion_topics/1336489
 What is Appreciative Inquiry (AI)?

 Appreciative Inquiry is the study and

exploration of what gives life to human
systems when they function at their best.

 This approach to personal change and

organization change is based on the
assumption that questions and dialogue
about strengths, successes, values, hopes,
and dreams are themselves
transformational.
(from The Power of Appreciative Inquiry by
Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom)
A Positive View of Organizations

“Organizations are, first and foremost, centers of human

relatedness and relationships come alive where there is an
appreciative eye, when people see the best in one another
and the whole, when they share their dreams and ultimate
concerns in affirming ways, and when they are connected in
full voice to create not just new worlds, but better worlds.
By making it possible for every voice to be heard, a life
giving process is enacted.”

(from The Appreciative Organization by Harlene

Anderson, David Cooperrider, et. al.)
Appreciative Inquiry - Simply Put…

If we continue to search for problems,

we will continue to find problems

If we look for what is

best and learn from it,
we can magnify and
multiply our success
Break & short reading

 Amarillo College AtD 2019

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/5tdr1e
bvobtkc25/2019lma_amarillocolle
ge.pdf?dl=0
 
Text talk: Amarillo College

• How is the centralization of the student experience evident in the

model? I.E. How did focusing on the student experience inform
their institutional transformations?

• Focus on a compelling aspect of Amarillo’s model: What is

something you’d like to similarly explore in the context of
addressing the student experience at LASC?---Put in google doc

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X_omL7USNekSZPiWXLlk2w
9hD3wxCvcl-6lWlKC3DWE/edit?usp=sharing
Loss Momentum Framework
Group work

 Using the google doc, work with your group to fill out the
Loss Momentum Framework: think about how to leverage
and scale LASC’s existing high impact practices as well as
incorporating other high impact practices at scale

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X_omL7USNekSZPiW
XLlk2w9hD3wxCvcl-6lWlKC3DWE/edit?usp=sharing
Share w/another group

 Share what you appreciate about the momentum strategies your

partner group has proposed
 Discuss and describe synergies between you and your partner
group’s momentum strategies for students
Whole group share outs

What are some synergies that your groups want to

focus on together?
Homework & Next Steps

 1. Mapping Change to help us with our design

 2. Completion experience (Amarillo Video to watch)
 3. Logic Model examples-Theory of Change (ToC) models