Additional Learning Opportunities

Eleventh Annual Dialogue on Learning

Building a Strengths-based Campus for Engagement and Excellence

Enjoy the luxury of a time spent with colleagues sharing ideas to improve learning for our students and ourselves

March 27-28, 2008
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Dryden, NY

Sponsored by the TC3 Baker Center for Learning, TC3 College Teaching Center, and The Gallup Organization. Partially funded by a grant under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act administered by the New York State Education Department.

“Extraordinary individuals are distinguished less by their impressive ‘raw power’ than by their ability to identify their strengths and then
to exploit them.” Howard Gardner

Imagine a campus where everyone is engaged in significant discussion of their natural talents
and the conscious and deliberate development of those talents into strengths that can be used to achieve excellence in academics, careers, and when facing the challenges we know life will bring.
Decades of research by The Gallup Organization, including interviews with more than two million people identified as “the best of the best” in virtually every profession, career, and field of achievement, yielded simple, yet profound findings:

Top achievers

Join us as we explore use of Gallup’s StrengthsQuest™ program to create a strengths-based campus, including
• student academic development and engagement
• student personal development
• advising
• residence life programming
• career exploration
• learning assistance and tutor training
• leadership development
• staff and faculty development

Keynote Speaker: Mark Pogue, The Gallup Organization
“We did strengths . . . now what?” Developing a Culture of Strengths

Mark Pogue is the Vice President of the Higher Education Division of The Gallup Organization. His mission is to create a world where all students of any age lead successful and self-directed lives, empowered with the knowledge of their talents and how to apply them. For the past eight years, Pogue has been a consultant and speaker to higher education institutions and K-12 school districts on building strengths-based organizations.

Pogue participated in the design and creation of StrengthsQuest and continues to direct the project worldwide. Since its inception, more than 300,000 students have participated in StrengthsQuest programs in a wide range of settings on more than 400 campuses. Pogue has shared his message of moving from strengths to thousands of educators and students at more than 250 campuses. He works with public and private, secular and non-secular community colleges and universities across the country.

All participants will receive a code to complete the StrengthFinder® inventory before the conference. Be sure to let us know your Top Five Signature Strengths as soon as you know!

We will be reenergized as we

• learn how other institutions are using strengths-based philosophy and the StrengthsQuest TM program in student and staff/faculty development,
• explore the research foundations of strengths-based development, and
• increase understanding and application of our own strengths.

Who should attend?
Anyone interested in improving student learning, including

• classroom faculty in all disciplines
• learning assistance personnel
• student services personnel
• professional development and organizational development staff
• academic affairs and student affairs administrators
  
  

Program
agenda details

Thursday, March 27

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Registration

10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (lunch included)
This is an optional session for participants new to StrengthsQuest.
Introduction to strengths-based development and the use of StrengthsQuest for personal and student development.

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Registration

4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (dinner included)
Main conference plenary session and Keynote address by Mark Pogue,
“ We did strengths . . . now what?” Developing a Culture of Strengths.

Friday, March 28

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (lunch included)

On Thursday evening and Friday, in large and small group sessions, the program will deepen our understanding of our strengths and their application - for ourselves, our students, and our colleagues. We'll hear from fellow educators about “best practices” and their strategies for using StrengthsQuest and a strengths philosophy on campus.

Where?

TC3
170 North Street
(NYS Rte. 13)
Dryden, NY 13053
607-844-8211

Driving directions and hotel/B&B information can be found at www.DialogueOnLearning.TC3.edu/workshops/travelinfo

Cost

$100.00 Includes meals, access code for StrengthsFinder inventory, a notebook of resources, and a copy of one of these Gallup Press books:
Teach With Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Their Students OR
How Full Is Your Bucket?: Positive Strategies for Work and Life

Checks should be made out to TC3 and mailed to TC3 Baker Center for Learning, 170 North Street, Dryden, NY 13053

Register by Tuesday, March 18

call 607-844-8211 Ext. 4415, or
e-mail wunderk@TC3.edu (Khaki Wunderlich)
with your name, title and institution, phone, e-mail, Top 5 Signature Strengths (if you've already taken the inventory), which parts of the program you plan to attend, and which book you would like to receive.

Contact Khaki Wunderlich at wunderk@TC3.edu with any questions.

TC3 is an accessible campus. If you have a need for a specific disability-related accommodation or auxiliary aid, please contact Khaki Wunderlich by March 15.

More information on StrengthsQuest can be found at www.StrengthsQuest.com. Gallup, StrengthsFinder, and StrengthsQuest are trademarks of The Gallup Organization, Princeton, NJ.