R.T. Fisher Educational Enterprises was contracted by the College Board’s Western Regional office to develop and implement a two-day educational conference to bring together educational and community leaders to address the critical issues in the education of African American students.
The inaugural Dream Deferred Conference was an immense success and participants have returned to subsequent Dream Deferred Conferences to continue to discuss the issues and explore options to help resolve these critical issues.
R.T. Fisher has assisted College Board in the planning, development and implementation of each Dream Deferred conference by providing pre-conference and on-site management services including developing workshop content, securing presenters, developing conference support materials, facilitating pre-conference and conference session, and assisting with on-site registration and conference management for over 1500 educators .
Subsequently the true power of leverage was exemplified when R.T. Fisher Educational Enterprises was retained to train the consultant staff of the College Board. The ultimate objective in this endeavor was to help the organization achieve its goal of providing comprehensive training to over 500 high school teachers so that they each could be armed with a more concrete understanding of the exam and thereby empowered to efficiently train their students using proven test-taking strategies.
The RTF approach required understanding the learning challenges of the end users (the students), the skills and needs of intermediate client (the teachers), and the abilities and time limitations of our primary client (College Board consultants). R.T. Fisher designed course materials and delivery strategies that provided the tools that the College Board consultants needed to help high school teachers be more effective with their students. Best of all, the high school teachers were given a curriculum that was integrated with the state standards, which included test-taking strategies that could improve student achievement in many testing situations.
