Trinidad State Junior College

1. Trinidad State Junior College WGB Mini Grant Presented by Erin Comden and Laura Gowen

2. What we planned • Project 1: Girls in the Middle (GIM) Conference – GIM will focus on middle-school (7th and 8th Grade) girls and includes hands-on workshops that highlight non-traditional careers. • Project 2: Career in Technical Education (CTE) Workshops – TSJC will organize and host hands-on workshops to introduce middle-school boys and girls to careers in CTE. • Project 3: Her World Conference –TSJC will transport 30 junior and senior girls to Denver at Devry University to explore careers in STEM. • Project 4: Area High School Visits – The Recruitment Specialist will share career earning potential and statistics, as well as video clips of non-traditional gender careers. • Project 5: In-Service Speaker – TSJC will contract a gender equity expert to debase hidden biases faculty, staff, industry and business leaders may have towards students in non-traditional career roles.

3. Project 1: Girls in the Middle • Branson School Online • Branson School • Colorado Connects • Gardner • Hoehne • Holy Trinity Academy • Peakview • Primero • Raton • Trinidad Students represented 10 schools: 

4. Girls in the Middle Conference Middle school girls participated in the following workshops; • Ag Science • Computer Technology • Environmental • Equine Science • Genetics • Geology and Engineering • Nursing • Medical • Veterinary Science • Wildlife Management & Aquaculture • Zookeeping STEMOPOLY

5. Survey Results

6. Survey Results

7. Survey Results After today, would you take more math and science classes?

8. Survey results How many GIM Conferences have you attended?

9. Survey Results Amount of students considering non-traditional careers.

10. Some comments from the day • It was fun. It taught me new stuff and I learned of new careers. • I LOVED IT! • Very fun and educational! • It was an enriching amazing experience. • It got me really thinking about college. • In my experience this was the best in 2 years.  Can’t wait till next year. • Today was the best day EVER seriously  • My first GIM was an exciting journey and I can’t wait till next year. • I had a lot of fun learning about different careers. • BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!

11. Project 2: CTE Day • 23 Students Registered for the event. • Students represented 4 schools • Primero • Trinidad Middle School • Hoehne • Holy Trinity Academy • Frustrations

12. What we learned • Most students signed up for traditional careers. • Middle school girls are more apt to go into non-traditional careers than middle school boys.

13. What we would do Different TIMING! Sub Reimbursements?

14. Project 3: HerWorld Conference Incentives Free Registration Free Transportation to Denver for up to 30 students $100 Sub Reimbursements Breakfast and Dinner for all Students and Adults

15. HerWorld Conference • 30 junior and senior students from 4 different schools in the region • 23 students attend the event

16. Survey QuestionsSome courses in our school are "boy" courses and some are "girls" courses

17. Survey Question:I plan to pursue a nontraditional career

18. Survey QuestionI am good at making decisions The way I feel about my abilities affects my willingness to try new things Pre Post

19. Project 4: Area High School Visits Visited 14 area high schools to speak about non-traditional careers. • Aguilar • Des Moines • Fowler • Hoehne • John Mall • Kim • La Veta • Manzanola • Maxwell • Primero • Raton • Rocky Ford • Rye • Trinidad High School

20. What would we do different? • Take more faculty • Take more non-traditional students in the career • Website assisting

21. Project 5: In-service Speaker • Contacted Courtney Reed-Jenkins from NAPE to speak at our April 1stIn-Service • 60-80 people • Every 3 min there was a time to engage • Very engaged and attentive • Micromessaging • Equity in the classroom • Gender Biases

22. Debriefing • Content and the quality of the conversation was very thoughtful and specific • They don’t have a high level of content about equity in the classroom but they have a high level to learn about equity in the classroom. • People thought “I thought I was doing the right thing but now I realize I need to change my classroom strategies” • She felt as though it was a nice blend on helping them think things through and strategies to implement.

23. Where to we go? 3 Recommendations • 1. To work with the faculty and staff and host an in house book session to discuss and deepen their practice at the local level with not a lot of financial investment on the part of the college • Whistling Vivaldi • Mindset • 2. Pulling together a small group of people (like an equity committee) to charge them with leadership roles and responsibility • Look at webinars on the NAPE website every 2 weeks or once a month • 3. To continue professional development and pull together faculty w/data (who are teaching non-trad classes who are struggling to get numbers for non-trad) for a day long data retreat and summit • A. Use a database continuous improvement model (look at classroom level data) • B. Classroom based research strategies (looking at recruiting or retention) • C. Look at strategies and intervention • D. Creating an action plan

24. Questions?