Our Hacia: Toward the University team just returned from a three day conference at CoolSpeak's ENGAGE: Youth Engagement Seminar, a training and professional development seminar that focuses on student engagement best practices and researched techniques.
At the conference, the Hacia team learned, experienced, and practiced some of the most effective strategies to cultivate motivation, improve emotional intelligence, and enhance critical thinking skills. They also learned new techniques to improve their facilitation skills and brainstormed different ways the HACIA team can improve our project to successfully engage more Albuquerque youth and their families.