TalkingTree Creative

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

The Summit School provides the only non-public special education program specifically for children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities in Anne Arundel County. Founded in 1989, The Summit School was established in response to a need in the greater Annapolis/Baltimore/Southern Maryland community. Our model program is a mission-driven school devoted to helping every child reach their full potential.

Our outcomes are impressive; our national benchmark assessment tool, AIMSWeb+ shows that our students tend to improve at a greater rate of improvement than the national norms for all children, let alone children with learning differences/disabilities. We are incredibly proud of the more than 500 students who have graduated from our school.

With 98% of our alumni successfully completing high school – above the national average for all students at 83.2% and well above students who have been classified as demonstrating a specific learning disability in the public-school system - 70.8%. The Summit School experience is nothing short of life changing.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire TalkingTree Creative, and what were your goals?

Talking Tree was hired to help us create an engaging and interactive virtual national two day conference featuring authors and experts on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Our goal was to offer many opportunities for participants to learn more about building a community of cultural and racial competence. Talking Tree helped us to offer 20 different workshops (zoom breakouts) and 3 Keynote speakers.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We selected Talking Tree based on the services they offered. Talking Tree not only lived up to our expectation but exceeded them. We are grateful to have worked with this company to produce a successful event.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Talking Tree helped to design an interactive event website to host our 2 day conference. The site had custom backgrounds that fit well into our event theme. They created a functional, live help desk and a visually appealing website that was easy to access and use.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We worked closely with Talking Tree's Production Manager Jason Liu who helped design the event platform as well as Devyn Hoy, Director of Photography and Multimedia artist who assisted in the live Keynote portions of the event.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We were able to launch registration on time because the event registration page was completed early on. We also were able to effectively communicate with all registered attendees that registered through Talking Tree's platform.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We had weekly meetings to discuss action items and desired outcomes. Talking Tree utilized a timeline/calendar that sent us reminders about any tasks we needed to complete in order to meet deadlines.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The execution of the event was wonderful, we really enjoyed working with Talking Tree. Any challenge that came up was addressed in a timely manner and all content put out to the public was professional.