Summit Ideas

1. Community based focus

1.1. * Merge with children at risk and/or HISD transformative Summit

1.2. * [This is an idea that came out near the end of our conversation]

2. Parents and students engage with CM

2.1. * Have parents come learn about

2.2. * Have CMs brings a parent and/or student

3. Engage community organizations

3.1. * Staff and/or CM volunteer at community organizations Dearing the Spring to build relationship and increase investment of the community organizations working with us

3.2. * Series of volunteering event with community organizations leading up to the summit to increase engagement from both side

3.3. * Community organizations will give sessions on current develop minutes happening in their area and how children might be affected by these outcomes

3.4. * Find ways school should partner with community organization (a forum for both parties)

4. Donors

4.1. * Donors and board members lead sessions based on their career

4.2. * Capitalize on external networks for promotions and session building (alumni, district leaders, principles, etc.)

4.3. * Invite all donors; both individual and corporate

5. Summit for students

5.1. * The college fair run by CM/staff promoting their universities for students/parents [x2]

5.2. * What if we focus on student development instead of CM development?

6. Miscellaneous Idea

6.1. * Invite 2013 CMs

6.2. * Invite students who went to college but did not continue to do a panel

6.3. * Fold second-year summit (could be part of the morning)

6.4. * Get out superlative awards to CM throughout the day

6.5. * Trade-off - everyone bring something to barter/trade

6.6. * Opening is breakfast with students and CM speakers

6.7. * Do we need a new thematic structure or is the fourth question theme transferable to a new event

6.8. * CM movie - video that highlights the huge differences and challenges among corps members as the opening

7. Pre-engagement (via our current network)

7.1. * Ongoing focus group. CM meetings to provide input leading up to something

7.2. * CM and school leaders extend formal invitation to other guests (alumni, community organizations, etc.)

7.3. * Earlier communication (save the date, team level input, etc.)

8. Tell Houston "stories"

8.1. * SL nominees present their vision, steps they took throughout the year, etc.

8.2. * TED talk style event; TEDx

8.3. * Student and parents share stories

9. Small groups

9.1. * Small group decrease in between sessions with CM, alumni, principles

9.2. * Small groups with CM, alumni, principal, etc. move together throughout the day

9.3. * Alumni lead sessions for small groups

10. All tech (no paper)

10.1. * all supporting materials / content is digital

11. Diversity

11.1. * What if we focus the entire day on diversity? (Culturally relevant teaching, affinity groups, bring in authors/speakers)

12. New location

12.1. * Have summit somewhere other than a campus

12.2. * What if we did six separate community-based Summit) like Sunnyside education Summit)

13. No [traditional] sessions

13.1. * Less content sessions and more big picture session

13.2. * MTLDs lead no sessions so we can learn too

13.3. * Session that is strictly role-playing different concepts

14. Optional time blocks

14.1. * Make parts of the day entirely optional (ex. CM forgoes session #2 and instead opts for work time, connecting with alumni, MTLD support, etc.)

14.2. * Will make day feel shorter

15. Culture

15.1. * "Things" for guests

15.2. * MTLD competition

15.3. * End of year CM celebration

16. Problem Solving Protocol

16.1. Unconference

16.2. * Four members collaborate to create a tangible plan and schedule for meaningfully impacting their community

16.3. * Solutions based activity

16.4. * Problem-solving protocol by communities (CM, alumni, school leaders, community leaders, etc.)