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This document outlines a SOAR analysis for the GCC Core Program Development focusing on curriculum, community, and family engagement. The Strengths section identifies what the program excels at, like making children feel supported. Opportunities discusses improving curriculum, partnerships, and family events. Aspirations expresses the vision for consistent program goals and staff qualifications. Results explains measuring success through staff/family surveys and assessments twice yearly. The reflection describes using this tool for a leadership presentation on merging departments serving children ages 3-18 to foster connection, curiosity, and courage through structured programs exploring culture, STEM, arts and more.

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Soar Activity 1

This document outlines a SOAR analysis for the GCC Core Program Development focusing on curriculum, community, and family engagement. The Strengths section identifies what the program excels at, like making children feel supported. Opportunities discusses improving curriculum, partnerships, and family events. Aspirations expresses the vision for consistent program goals and staff qualifications. Results explains measuring success through staff/family surveys and assessments twice yearly. The reflection describes using this tool for a leadership presentation on merging departments serving children ages 3-18 to foster connection, curiosity, and courage through structured programs exploring culture, STEM, arts and more.

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SOAR- Analysis

GCC Core Program Development (Curriculum, Community, and family engagement)


Created by: Shantrice Solis
GCC Core Program Development (Curriculum, Community, and family engagement)
Strengths Opportunities

 What do we excel at / are most proud of?  What improvements or changes in curriculum?
 What makes us unique?  What limitations do we see that we could reframe as opportunities?
 What are our values?  What needs and wants are we currently not fulfilling for our students and
 What do we want people to gain, grow, or practice by families?
participating in our programs?  What partnerships would lead to greater success?
 How do we design PURPOSEFUL program to foster  What community events would lead to more family engagement?
connection, curiosity, and courage?
.

Aspirations Results

 What measures will tell us we are on track to achieve success?


 What is our vision for the future, what do we want to achieve?
 How do we know when we’ve achieved our goals?
 How can we make a difference?
 How do we measure impact, change or improvement?
 How can we make sure all staff are trained?
 Making sure assessments are done twice a year?
 How do we maintain learning environments that are nurturing
and support development for all children? (ECE, EAS, MS and
HS)
GCC Core Program Model
ECE, EAS, MS, and HS
The GCC program model will guide program planning, implementations, and evaluation to allow for innovation while maintaining focus and clear purpose.
Our program outcomes: What do we want the children to gain, grow, or practice by participating in our programs?
Programs will foster connection, curiosity, and courage so the children and youth feel empowered to thrive the way they want and while also staying in
compliance with our grants and city regulations.

We foster connection so students We foster curiosity so our children We foster courage so staff, children
can relate, share, receive and care. and youth can dream, aspire, and and youth have pride and trust their
achieve. abilities.
Priority skills:
Priority skills: Priority sills:
 Collaboration
 Compassion  Creative thinking  Resourcefulness
 belonging  Growth mindset  Self-efficacy
 purpose  Self-regulations

Program Guides: Program formats: Programs explore:


 Trauma informed care  Structured time  Culture and identity
 Participant driven  Single session or field trip  Health and fitness
 Justice equity diversity and inclusion  Informal time  STEM
 Strengths and assets focused.  Individualized resources connection  Art, music, dance
 Safe, supportive, engaging learning environments  Events  Math
 Experiential learning: experience, reflect, think,  College and careers
apply
 Connection to the community
Reflection

For this assignment, I needed help deciding on what topic to choose. I made a list of issues

that we are trying to improve or change in my department at work. In my new role as

Director of Youth Careers and Development, I wanted to use this assignment to break down

what changes I could implement in our programs. Once I understood this activity, it got me

thinking about many things. At my job, we have company goals, and this was helpful for me

to figure out a plan for how to improve programming and what we are already doing well.

I decided to focus on program development and what it entails. I started this process by

asking, "Why are we here?" and "What are we doing?" This led me to the statement that we

strengthen lives and secure futures by increasing access to resources, being a safe

community space, and offering enrichment experiences for children of all ages. I know this

activity is geared more toward early childhood education, but I want to find a way to merge

all the departments I work with, as they all have something to do with children from 3-18.

In the Strengths section, I asked questions like, "What are we proud of?" and "What makes

us unique?" To answer these, we are good at making our children feel special, included,

and supported. Another thing is our staff. Everyone in the organization has many different

skills and abilities working towards the same goal. In the Opportunities part, I had questions

about our engagement and partnerships. So, I used this to create a list of all our partners

and resources, what events we've done in the past to bring in families, and how we can

improve. Aspirations: if we consistently implement our program goals and ensure

intentionality in all our children's programs, we could show growth learning and how each

staff member is qualified and has the resources to support children's development. We will

also see where we need to improve when it comes to professional development needs for

our staff. Lastly, in Results, we can start with staff surveys to get an idea of what staff need

to feel successful in their classrooms. We also lead by the voices of the kids we serve so
that we can have families’ complete surveys for the younger children, or we could have

youth evaluations where they share their thoughts on programs and what they would like to

do and need support from our staff and the center.

After completing the SOAR chart, it led me to think about questions and statements like,

"The GCC program model will guide program planning, implementations, and evaluation to

allow for innovation while maintaining focus and clear purpose." Our program outcomes:

What do we want the children to gain, grow, or practice by participating in our programs?

Programs will foster connection, curiosity, and courage. Hence, the children and youth feel

empowered to thrive the way they want while also staying in compliance with our grants

and city regulations. I broke down each of those questions to pinpoint the skills needed to

reach these goals. I also made a list of program outcomes, program format, and program

exploration. I'm going to continue to work on this and use it as my presentation at our senior

leadership meetings. This is a beneficial tool to use. I took a step further on a different

document, and in the Results area, I set dates on when we should do surveys and

assessments to ensure we are meeting our goals. I will also do monthly check-ins with my

staff to see where they are in this process and how I can support them if needed .
Reference Page

Edmondson, A. C. (2019). The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the workplace for

learning, Innovation, and growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Microsoft. Microsoft Support. (n.d.). https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-sharepoint-files-or-

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Goodman's strategic plan and the City of Madison reports were used to complete the activity.

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