What is Calibrated Outcomes?
Calibrated Outcomes helps students identify their individual goals, strategies, and next steps to be leaders in their own behavior change.
Not another online module to click through.
Not a reflection paper for artificial intelligence to write.
Calibrated Outcomes are synchronous, interactive, face-to-face group workshops for students who need focused education on how to do and be good in college.
Calibrated Outcomes guide students toward an understanding and goal-development in topics like restorative action, academic integrity, intentional decision-making, and more.
Facilitated by experienced an student affairs educator, Calibrated Outcomes will actively engage college students to participate in the workshop and document their own reflections and goals.
We’ll provide colleges and university with a summary of your students’ participation, and your students will provide you with their documented learning and reflection.
Register as a student
If your school assigned you to complete a Calibrated Outcomes workshop, your first step is to register with us and schedule your attendance. Be sure you know which workshop(s) you need to complete. Below are specific workshop descriptions and links to schedule for a specific workshop.
Register for Deciding on Purpose
Register for Designing Academic Integrity
Register for Doing “Sorry” Like You Mean It
Register for Your Conflict Compass
Register for You ARE One of Us
Register for an individual Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning workshop.
Register as an institution
Institutional registration is free and provides your office with template descriptions for outcome letters, the ability to pre-purchase workshop slots at a discount for your students, and a preview of completion and participation reports. Annually, all registered institutions will receive a report on Calibrated Outcomes.
Read workshop descriptions
You can learn more about the workshop options through Calibrated Outcomes and view the schedule of upcoming workshops.
Deciding on purpose:
Aligning your decisions with your values
Deciding on Purpose guides students to clarify their values and examine their decision-making patterns, including how to integrate intent, ethics, and impact as they execute decisions.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
Practice key elements of effective decision making.
Understand and critique ethical frameworks and apply those to their decision-making.
Compare their individual values and priorities to their action, including reformulating their actions for improved alignment.
Differentiate between effective and ineffective partners in decision-making.
Design a plan for implementing effective decision-making strategies in the immediate future.
Designing academic integrity: Creating habits and understanding
Designing Academic Integrity helps students identify resources, time management strategies, and values to cultivate their plan for academic success.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
Understand general principles of academic integrity, comparing their pre-existing understanding to these concepts.
Apply ethical analysis to their past and future use of generative artificial intelligence, focused on academic settings.
Develop a comprehensive strategy for improving four components of academic integrity, including selecting one action step for the immediate future.
Develop specific strategies to improve their understanding of and commitment to academic integrity, time management, and communication with faculty.
Identify institutional and global resources to manage their academic integrity.
Doing “sorry” like you mean it: Identifying and repairing harm
Doing “Sorry” Like You Mean It engages students in the challenging work of understanding how harm is experienced, its multi-faceted impacts, and strategies for repairing that harm.
Key Learning Outcomes:
Participants will:
Understand and describe harm, its forms, and possibilities for repair.
Differentiate reactions to accusations of harm, including how those can increase harm.
Identify six categories of harm and elements of effective harm repair for each.
Formulate an action plan they could offer to repair harm a specific harm.
Understand the limits of harm repair, including that harmed parties are not required to accept offers of repair.
Your conflict compass: Navigating how you disagree
Your Conflict Compass helps students identify their conflict style and how they can use it to communicate effectively during conflict conversations.
Key learning outcomes
Participants will:
Understand and discuss conflict as a potentially positive force in their interactions.
Describe their typical conflict strategy and differentiate it from other strategies, including when their typical approach is most/least effective.
Apply basic conflict management strategies to their past and future experiences with conflict, including analyzing the benefits and detriments of approaches they use in specific incidents.
Appraise how they can engage deliberative determination which conflict strategies are most effective in different situations.
(a) retell a specific past conflict, incorporating how it would have changed if they had adjusted their strategies, and (b) generate a specific and actionable plan for how they will approach an anticipated conflict in the coming week.
You ARE one of us: Welcoming new members to your organization
You ARE One of Us focuses student leaders on positive ways to welcome new students to their organization and how to interrupt harmful approaches to new member processes.
Key learning outcomes
Participants will:
Identify elements of a welcoming and inclusive process based on their own experience and research findings.
Analyze the purpose of the organization and apply that analysis to elements of their organization’s welcome process.
Analyze their organization’s approach to structure, transparency, routines, and equity and the impact of those approaches on new members.
Design at least four strategies to improve their organization’s practices of welcoming new members.
Understand what hazing is, the forms it can take, its impact, and resources on campus and globally to support anti-hazing leadership and practices.
Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning
(Individual session)
For this one-on-one session, students first complete the Intercultural Development Inventory. Analyzing those results will lead to their personal intercultural development profile, which we will use to collaboratively develop a plan that will align with their personal interests while also helping grow their intercultural competence. This service is also available to professionals and to teams and organizations. More information about those options and these sessions is available on our website.
Key learning outcomes
Participants will:
Understand the benefits of intercultural competence for the academics, work, and personal interactions.
Distinguish intercultural competence from other skills and capacities.
Categorize their current level of intercultural competence and interpret how that impacts their experiences.
Investigate possibilities for their future intercultural development.
Create a specific plan for their future intercultural development, aligned with their profile, interests, and goals.
Understand how to continue intercultural reflections and growth after the session.
Calibrated Outcomes: Frequently Asked Questions:
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I want to pay a specific percentage or dollar amount of my students’ registration. Can you help me?
What makes this better than a reflection paper or a workshop on our own campus?
So any student from a registered institution can sign up for any workshop?
Will you tell me if my student(s) didn't attend the workshop?
What if only one student registers. Will you cancel the workshop?
What happens if Calibrated Educational Consulting cancels a workshop?
Will you provide a workshop specifically for our students (either in person on our campus)?
I wish Calibrated Outcomes offered a workshop on a new topic. How can I get you to develop that?
I want to pay a specific percentage of my students’ registration. Can you help me?
Absolutely. Please email info@calibrateducational.com. Please include the number of registrations you’d like to pay and the cost-sharing breakdown you’d like to set up.
What makes this better than a reflection paper or a workshop on our own campus?
For communities that have the staffing and the volume to host similar workshops in-person on your campus, I think that’s an ideal situation. Do that.
Lots of schools don’t have the staffing or the critical mass of student participants to make those workshops the interactive learning experience that they’d like.
Reflection papers are a great tool when they work. They are not adaptive to learning styles and needs the way a synchronous workshop can be and, increasingly, I worry students use artificial intelligence for their reflection papers.
Calibrated Outcomes workshops provide students with an interactive, synchronous, engaging learning experience that helps them reflect, build new habits, and be leaders in their own development. Every single workshop includes moments of tracked engagement, documented reflection and goal development, and a follow-up with participants to check-in on how they are meeting or struggling with their goals.
So any student from a registered institution can sign up for any workshop?
Yes. Calibrated Outcomes workshops are open to any student from any registered institution. We’ll confirm they have an @[registered institution].edu email address so we can send you the correct attendance and participation report. The Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning sessions are individualized or conducted for an existing group.
Who pays for the workshop?
That’s up to you. Any registered educational institution can pre-pay for workshop registrations at 10% discount for their students and then distribute registration codes as they see fit. You can also have students register without a code and pay directly at a cost of $40/student*. You can choose different approaches for different students. If you want to arrange a custom payment (for example, your institution wants to pay half the registration cost), email info@calibrateducational.com and I can set that up for you.
*$40 per student is the cost for all our workshops except the Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning. Because that is an individual workshop designed for each unique participant, the cost is $266 per student. The 10% discount still applies if you purchase 10 registration codes for that workshop.
What forms of payment do you accept?
The online payment system accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and Google Pay.
Individuals who need to arrange alternative payments (e.g., Zelle or Venmo) can email info@calibrateducational.com. Once payment is confirmed, you will receive a registration code that will allow you to bypass the online payment system.
Institutions who wish to pay for advance registration codes via purchase order, bank transfer, check, or similar can email info@calibrateducational.com to request an invoice and arrange payment.
How long are the workshops?
All the workshops are structured to last slightly less than one hour, allowing some time for interaction and preserving students’ attention span. The exception is the Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning session, which is individually tailored for each student and last 1.5-2 hours. If you’re looking for a more in-depth learning experience, please reach out to me!
What's in the attendance and participation report I receive after my students participate in the workshop?
After each workshop, I send a report to each institution that had any students attend::
Names and email addresses of attending students
A brief summary of participation opportunities and whether or not they engaged at those moments
I also reserve the right to notify institutions of any concerns that arise with their students during the session.
During the session, students will complete an individual reflection, and they will have a copy they can provide to you directly. The reflection system I use does record their responses, so I am happy to provide those if the authoring student requests I do so.
For the Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning sessions, I will submit a different report verifying their good faith participation. The students can provide you with the plan they develop during the workshop. I will not share their individual results with you.
Do students have to turn on their cameras?
They don’t. Too many students have privacy needs, variable internet, disability accommodations, and other circumstances that make on-camera participation a barrier. While I encourage students to turn on their cameras, I don’t rely on that approach for participation or engagement.
Can you guarantee disability accommodations?
I strive to make the workshops an inclusive and welcoming space that readily adapts to the needs of learners; that’s one of the advantages of synchronous learning taught by an experienced educator. That said, I can’t guarantee every disability accommodation. The following are part of every workshop: (a) additional time to finish reflections; (b) closed-captions; (c) allowing participation verbally, in-writing, or not at all; (d) allowing participants to have their camera on or off; and (e) not relying on visual cues. When students register, I invite them to identify any disability accommodations, and I’ll work to meet those to the best of my ability. As one example, I have a standing relationship with multiple ASL interpreters. If your institution has determined the student has a reasonable accommodation that I can’t meet, I’ll refund any registration fees they’ve incurred.
What student information does our school need to provide?
Nothing! No need for a FERPA waiver or confidentiality agreement. Students do the registration themselves, disclosing only their own information (which is directory information). If a student or your institution has concerns about any disclosure, please let me know.
Will you tell me if my student(s) didn't attend the workshop?
Because I don’t gather identifying student information from institutions, but directly from students, I won’t typically notify you if a student doesn’t attend. That said, if you want to confirm attendance or ask about it, feel free to reach me at info@calibrateducational.com
I have a student that has a conflict with all the scheduled options. Will you offer a workshop just for them?
We try to offer the workshops at a range of times that are likely to work for students across several time zones. That said, I can’t guarantee times that will work for every student. However, if a student is having trouble scheduling, they should contact me directly at info@calibrateducational.com. I may be able to rearrange an open workshop that allows them to attend.
The Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning session is scheduled online for each individual. They must schedule at least three weeks ahead to allow them to complete the inventory and for me to develop their individual content and planning framework.
What if only one student registers. Will you cancel the workshop?
Nope! While the learning experience is designed for a group, the workshop is fine for one student. We will go ahead with just one student.
If a workshop has no registered students, it may be canceled or rescheduled at any time.
The Intercultural Development Inventory and Planning sessions are scheduled by each individual, and are designed for only one student. They are available in group format as well. To learn more about that, please begin by completing this form or read more about the options for that session.
What happens if Calibrated Educational Consulting cancels a workshop?
If I have to cancel a workshop, I will (a) arrange a workshop that accommodates their schedule within the next three weeks or (b) provide them with a refund. In both cases, I’ll be happy to verify their efforts to participate.
Will you provide a workshop specifically for our students (either in person on our campus)?
I’m happy to do that! That format for workshops is great for orientation and pro-active student leader development, as well as a conduct outcome assigned to a student organization. To start that planning, send me some information through this form.
In addition to using this as a conduct sanction, can we use this with student leaders and new students?
Absolutely! While my professional origin story is grounded in student accountability processes, I’ve designed these workshops to be a positive experience for any student to be a leader in their own development.
I wish Calibrated Outcomes offered a workshop on a new topic. How can I get you to develop that?
Cool! I love new ideas. With each annual report, I’ll invite registered institutions to suggest new ideas. You can email those any time at info@calibrateducational.com
How do you assess the workshops?
Students complete a brief pre- and post-workshop survey. I also review their reflection responses for assessment purposes. Finally, I follow-up with students approximately a week after their participation to check in on how they’re doing with their habits and goals set during the workshop. This assessment information will be included in the annual report.
When will you post the schedule for the next academic term?
I’m glad you’re looking forward to it!
The schedule for January-May will go live by January 2.
The schedule for May-August will go live by April 1.
The schedule for August-December will go live by July 1.
If you have questions about the schedule, please email info@calibrateducational.com
What is your refund policy?
If I cancel a workshop, I will provide a reschedule option and offer a refund if that reschedule option does not work. I don’t otherwise guarantee refunds.
If a student has an extraordinary circumstance that they believe merits a refund or a reschedule without cost, they can email info@calibrateducational.com. I know that life happens.
If a student simply misses the workshop, they’re welcome to register to attend another at their own cost or your institution can provide them with another pre-purchased registration code.
If, prior to attending their originally scheduled workshop, a student needs to re-register for a different workshop, they should email info@calibrateducational.com to arrange for a credit they can use towards the re-registration. Taking this step avoids them receiving a refund 5-10 days later, minus a processing fee.
If your question isn’t answered above, please email it to info@calibrateducational.com