Sarah Evangelista

Energy and attitude go hand in hand in our daily lives. Both of these are influential to us. It is very important to have positive attitude and energy especially in a professional setting as our energy and attitude impact it. 

1. You energy comes down to choice
2. Your attitude is infectious and can impact those around you positively or negatively. 

My scores show on the assessment and attitude that they are pretty high, especially with energy where I'm working on increasing my energy more to do new things or shake up my routine.

Having a positive attitude can boost your mental health as well as have a good impact on your colleagues and students. It also impacts students' performance and can have a good impact on creating a student centered environment at your campus. 

Active listening is important and it helps in our communication skills.  There are great tools that can help us in being better listeners and to enhance our skills to better our listening skills to better help others. 

Listening with your eyes, ears, and heart allows to get into the other person's head and heart. You are listening to understand. 

Great listeners make listening active rather than passive and give you their full attention. They show that they care. 

-Past, present, future sequencing is a great way for the receiver to see the issue from varying perspectives and identify potential solutions

Talk less, listen more is a great skill to show that the receiver is being understood and bonded with you.

I have learned that both open ended and close ended questions can be used to effectively communicate with students.

This was honestly a good course. I have learned very little of VAWA and Clery and some familiarity of Title IX. After going through this course, I feel that students, school employees, and staff should have some training and education on each of these.

I feel it is important for students, staff, and faculty to be educated on these topics such as dating violence, stalking, etc., and safety measures that the school is taking on these measures. While consent can be withdrawn at anytime, the definition of consent is still evolving which should be revised and reviewed. 

Victims should be encouraged to report the crime to the police.

An investigation by the coordinator should be conducted regardless if it was reported to the police or not.

Schools should consider what interim measures to take while the investigation and the disciplinary proceeding is pending. The Title IX Coordinator should minimize the burden on the complainant when taking interim measures.