developing students: 2016 bonner new directors meeting

Developing Students

Tools for Education, Training, Reflection, and Development

What We’ll Cover

• Student Development Frameworks • Key Strategy • Training and Enrichment Meetings • Creating a Roadmap • Year by Year (Cornerstones) • Bonner Curriculum • BWBRS

Frameworks for Student Development

Expectation

Exploration

Experience

Example

Expertise

The Five E’s

Student Development Frameworks

• Result of network-wide input, program design, innovation, decades of experimentation, & research

• Common Commitments

• Skills

• Knowledge

Common CommitmentsCommunity Building

Diversity

International Perspective

Social Justice

Spiritual Exploration

Civic Engagement

Skills and CapacitiesPersonal• Active listening • Balance &

boundaries • Communication • Decision making • Organization • Planning • Time

management • Goal setting

Professional

•Budgeting • Event planning • Fundraising •Grant writing •Marketing •Mediation •Networking • Public education and advocacy •Volunteer management • Research

Leadership

• Conflict resolution • Delegation • Planning • Public speaking • Running a meeting • Teamwork • Working with diverse groups

Knowledge AreasPlace

Politics and Public PolicyPower &and Privilege

Poverty and Economic DevelopmentIssues

Time management Goal setting

Volunteer recruitment

Event planning

Facilitation

Volunteer management

Skills and Knowledge AreasDiscuss how you would sequence these

7 Skills and Knowledge Areas

Organization & professionalism

Key Strategy: Begin with the end in mind

Four years of intense, developmental engagement

What will I do by the time I graduate?

Really imagine…

Experience

Expertise

Example

Exploration

Natalia Nannen Neuroscience Major

Natalia founded Fit Kids’ Club, a community based project in collaboration with the Meadville Medical

Center Community Care Network, First District Elementary School, and Allegheny College. Her faculty

advisor was in Environmental Studies.

Jonathan Franklin Journalism and African

American Studies

Jonathan completed two formal capstones (as we as a third honors project). For one, he analyzed and

presented recommendations about how to improve the experiences of Black students at PWIs. For another, he

compared the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Lives Matter movement, using investigative journalism.

Lauren Kinser Communications and Pre-Med

Lauren’s capstone internship was spent in Rumania where she worked at the Diaconia Clinic and Home of Hope with children and dentists to provide education

and care. Her culminating paper was shared with deans, administrators, students, and Bonners.

Elvis Diaz Business Major

Elvis’ capstone involved taking on significant leadership on and off campus. As Campus Outreach & Visibility

Intern he developed collaborations across campus, with the Volunteer Service Office, and to support greater

college access pipelines for local youth.

Kelly Behrend Peace and Conflict Studies

Kelly’s capstone “The Refugee Ex-Factor: A Framework Toward the Understanding of Excluded People,” focused on effective rehabilitation strategies for resettled refugees. This built on

four years of engagement in Richmond, Spain, and Ireland with immigrant and refugee populations.

Signature Work

“The LEAP Challenge calls for all college students to pursue their own “signature work,”

integrating and applying their learning to complex problems and projects that are

important to the student and important to society.”~ AAC&U

My Signature Work… could beProgram evaluations Needs assessment

Policy research Scientific research projects

Curriculum design GIS mapping

Oral histories and storytelling Community theater and arts projects

Launching a nonprofit program or social enterprise Economic development

and more…

Your rolesupports this through intentionality

• training & meetings • course connections • cornerstones • advising • reflection

• How can you build repeated exposure and conversations with students about their four-year development into the program?

Exercise

Meetings

Why are meetings important?• Bonner Student Impact and

Alumni Survey demonstrates strongest contributors for program effectiveness are:

• dialogue across difference

• mentors (staff, peers, site supervisors, & faculty)

• structured reflection and education magnifies impact

Download findings and articles from the Student Impact Survey

Bonner Wiki: Assessment

Meetings also:• Build skills (i.e., project

management) and knowledge (i.e., diversity) needed

• Build community—Bonner Love

• Promote accountability

• Foster campus-wide and community connections

• Promote retention and success in college

Class Meetings - at least every other week Cohort-based meetings for each class year (or two, if small program)

What kinds of meetings?

All Bonner Meetings - every month Engage Common Commitments, partners, and issues

Cornerstone or Project Meetings - occasionally Trips, campus-wide events, Bonner Congress, Bonner Leadership Team

Other kinds of meetings...Site Meetings by issue, team, or cluster - every other week or monthly — engage students (& leaders) in planning, project management, & problem solving

How Cornerstones build the foundation

First Year Trip - new context for service & learning (i.e., poverty in campus and distant place)

Orientation - pre-college immersion provides a sense of community and a foundation for success

Second Year Exchange - the sense of a national movement and connections across campuses

Third Year Leadership - an opportunity to apply initiative on a project (i.e., international trip, campus-wide event, community event)

Capstones and Senior Presentations- an opportunity to integrative thinking and doing - at a site and often connected to student’s coursework

Other kinds of meetings...Campus-wide or National Events Speaker series, IMPACT Conference, Power Shift, national conferences... flavor not main ingredient

Course-based Meetings - can be used for Cohort or projects Link training with credit-bearing options, such as a first year experience course or community based research (CBR)

Engage others in providing education

Student-led Faculty-led Partner-led

Semester ROTATION OF MEETINGS DIVERSE LEADERSHIPSummer Orientation Led by Staff & Students, Partners attendWeek 1 Monthly rotation:

Meeting - by Class Meeting - by Site

Meeting - by Class All Bonner Meeting

Led by staffWeek 2 Led by Site CoordinatorsWeek 3 Led by Faculty guestWeek 4 Featuring PartnersWeek 5 Monthly rotation:



Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9 Monthly rotation:



Week 10Week 11Week 12Week 13 Reflection SessionsWeek 15 End-semester Celebration

Have a mix of meetings each semester...

Advising & One-to-One Meetings

• Do every semester (at least 2 times per year)

• Revisit the developmental framework

• Many campuses use a form or written questions for this

Training and Reflection Meetings

• Hold at least once every other week (2x/month)...even more for freshmen

• Use Bonner Curriculum

• Engage variety of leaders & instructors

• Students design & lead

Courses & Academic Connections

• Consider building in a related sequence

• Seek out faculty advisors and mentors

• Build in research and other projects

• Develop a capstone

• What meeting structure makes sense for your program this year? Who can help?

Exercise

Build Around Outcomes, Creating a “Roadmap”

lay out intended outcomes and

experiences in a developmental way

What is a Developmental Roadmap?

Download sample outcomes, rubrics, articles and other help

Bonner Wiki: Student Learning Outcomes

Can tie to assessment Civic Engagement VALUE Rubrics

Download rubrics from aacu.org

Diversity: Level 1 Civic Action &

Reflection: Level 1


Reflection: Level 2


Reflection: Level 3


Reflection: Level 4

lay out intended outcomes and

experiences in a developmental way

What is a Developmental Roadmap?

Diversity of communities and cultures...

Year 1 Sense of identity and basic knowledge of community

Self

Year 4 Understanding and navigating complex community and institutional environment

Nation, world

Year 2 Ability to work in diverse communities; focus on gender, race, & ethnicity

Team

Year 3 Analysis of power and privilege; being an ally; complexity

Campus and community

All strategies result in a scaffolded outcomes across each year

Year 1 Sense of place

Listening

Time management

Goal setting

Organization & professionalism

Reflection

Year 4 Building organizational capacity

Marketing and outreach

Networking

Public speaking

Public policy

Capstone research

Year 2 Balance

Conflict resolution

Planning

Teamwork

Volunteer recruitment

Broader understanding of civic engagement

Year 3 Event planning

Facilitation

Fundraising

Volunteer management

Community-based research

Power and privilege

Your Roadmap & Handbook • This summer, create your

roadmap! (4-6 skills)

• Provide students at Orientation

• Clearly articulate expectations and levels

• Revisit every term & engage students!

• Sequential activities

Year 1Explore

Year 1Knowledge & Commitments

• Knowledge of self • Knowledge of community • Exploration of diversity • Community building • Introduction to civic

engagement

High-Impact Connections

• First Year Seminars • First Year Trips • Learning

Communities

Skills • Sense of place • Listening • Time management • Goal setting • Organization &

professionalism • Reflection

Courses • Lead-in Course (First Year Seminars)

Roles & Positions

• Exploration:learning about issues and community; discovering passions and talents

• Settling into primary site and position

Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence

First Year Trip- - open hearts, minds, and heads

3-7 days

Somewhere out of local context

Cohort experience for frosh and new Bonners

Use Bonner Funds

Provide a chance to delve into an issue - like poverty or immigration

• Guilford College - Crow Reservation in MOntana - explores Native American experience and culture

• Emory &and Henry College - New York City -\\ learns about urban poverty, comparing it to rural (Virginia) poverty

• Maryville College - Border of Mexico and Texas - learns about immigration and border issues

• Siena College - Presque Isle, Maine - learns about very rural poverty, comparing it to urban (Albany) poverty

• Waynesburg College - Philadelphia - works with homeless and city ministries, building on their rural experience, and visits Foundation

Picking a Place

Need help? Talk to a Foundation staff member to connect you with another school or partner

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Service or Meaningful Action*Culture &and HistoryCommunity and Team BuildingEducation, Reflection &and Discussion - meetings with issue experts Learning about the Organizations & Issues

Trips contain a mix of activitiesYes, it all counts for hours!

1 Find a destination in a region different from your campus; identify strong partners

2 Designate roles and responsibilities for Bonners (frosh and leaders) to plan and implement the trip

3 Engage in preparation during Class Meetings — education, learning the history, language, prominent issues, culture , and other information.

4 During the trip, engage in meaningful activities — service, learning, reflection, cultural & team-building activities

5 After the trip,have your students process learning and share reflections to your Bonner team or even the campus

6 Consult the detailed Implementation Guide on the Wiki!

Trip Organizing Steps

• Do you have a First Year Trip destination and thematic focus in mind? Share ideas.

Exercise

Year 2Experience


• Analysis of diversity • Knowledge of

poverty • Understanding of place and ability to

think critically around community • Introduction to forms of civic

engagement


• Second Year Exchange

• Learning Communities

• Service-Learning

Skills • Balance • Conflict resolution • Planning • Teamwork • Volunteer recruitment • Broader understanding of civic

engagement

Courses • Poverty / Economic Development

• Service-Learning Courses

Roles & Positions

• Experience: commitment to an issue, agency/site, and place

• Expanded position and responsibility, including Capacity Building (see “Step It Up Sophomores”)


Second Year Exchange 2-5 days

Pair up with 1 or more other Bonner Programs or other schools - cluster

Cohort experience for second years

Use Bonner Funds

Delve deeper into an issue - like poverty - adding advocacy/policy dimension

Can also use IMPACT or other national conference!

1 Engage second year students in identifying partner school(s). This is a chance to build cross-campus connections!

2 Engage students as planners and leaders. This can happen through strategically using your Class Meetings to organize Exchange.

3 Engage in preparation during Class Meetings — Find strategies for linking the Exchange to student development. For example, providing advocacy training or tutoring in Spanish.

4 During the trip, engage in a wider array of meaningful activities — this isn’t just a service trip! It’s goal is to expose people to the bigger ideas, a sense of movement!

5 After the trip, have your students process learning and share reflections to the broader Bonner and campus community. You may want to link with blogging, vlogging, videos, and other social media.

6 Consult the detailed Implementation Guide on the Wiki!

Exchange Organizing Steps

• How can your Second Year Exchange provide a developmental experience? Course links?

Exercise

Year 3Example


• Multiple forms of civic engagement

• International perspective • Critical thinking &

systems analysis (understanding root causes)

• Leadership skills and application through practice


• Third Year Leadership • International /Global

Immersions • Undergraduate Research • Policy Research / Issue Briefs

Skills • Event planning • Facilitation • Fundraising • Volunteer management • Community-based research • Power and privilege

Courses • Policy Courses/Internships • International Course • Research Methods (CBR)

Roles & Positions

• Example:Project coordinator or leader role; managing of project or volunteers

• Expanded leadership roles in the Bonner Program (i.e., Bonner Leadership Team)

• Capacity building project


Third Year Leadership1-14 days!

International Service Immersion Trips

Cohort experience for some or all Third Years

Often raise funds

Build on issue knowledge - in broader context

Often link with course

Campus-wide events

For international immersions

Relevant Resources: • International partnerships

resources • Curricula - found under

Common Commitments and new international curricula

• Bonners Abroad Blog

- Develop international partner relationships - Partner with International Service Providers - Utilize international resources on wiki

• What are the best opportunities to align the work of your Bonner juniors with broader campus or community experiences?

Exercise

Year 4 Expertise


• Exploration of social justice • Vocation and career

exploration/preparation • Spiritual exploration • Connection to academic study

(capstone/thesis)


• Senior Capstone • Policy Research / Issue

Briefs • Senior Presentation of

Learning

Skills • Building organizational capacity • Marketing and outreach • Networking • Public speaking • Public policy • Capstone research

Courses Capstone / “Signature Work” Culminating Project

Roles & Positions

• Expertise: Capacity building role; project or site leadership

• May link to academic major, minor, certificate, or coursework

• Senior Interns


Capstones and Senior Presentations

A semester or year project - plus a presentation

A chance to connect studies and engagement

A capstone

An engaging presentation for community and campus

Capstones and Senior Presentations

Relevant Resources: • Implementation Guide on

Senior Presentation and Vocation

• Videos that can be found on YouTube - Bonner Network and other Bonner Program channels

- The student may initiate a culminating project - Many are developing connections to academic capstones in major or special program

• How can you build both a true capstone and Senior Presentation into your Bonner Program?

Exercise

• How can you use meetings to plan and carry out Cornerstones?

Reflection

Bonner Curriculum

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4August • Orientation: Bonner 101,

Developmental Model, Community and Place, Team Building

• AmeriCorps Orientation • Games and Icebreakers • River Stories

• Back-to-school refresher; have students engage in your Bonner Program social media, Facebook, Wiki, etc.

• Step It Up Sophomores (and have students revise positions/CLAs to be higher level)

• Engage juniors in helping plan and run Orientation

• Building Capacity with Community Partners

• Personal Vision or Cover Story

• Engage senior in helping plan and run Orientation & Training Calendar

• Nail down senior year capstones

September • Professionalism and Expectations • Identity Circles: A Personal

Exploration of Diversity

• Action Planning • Citizenship: Rights,

Responsibilities and Struggles

• Leading Learning Circles: A Train-the-Trainers Approach

• Bridging the Gap Between Service, Activism, and Politics

• BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy Audacious Goals

• Hearing the Call: Listening to Your Inner Voice or Vocation: Board of Directors

October • Community Asset Mapping • Time Management: Managing by

Calendar

• Volunteer Recruitment for a Non-profit Organization

• Advocacy 101: Tools for Political Engagement

• Volunteer Outreach for a Non-profit Organization

• Advanced Facilitation: More Techniques and Strategies

• Fundraising Strategies: Developing and Executing a Plan

• Evaluation/Program Assessment (involve faculty or non-profit leader as presenter)

November • Introduction to Non-Profits and Capacity Building

• Goal-Setting

• Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics

• Basic Facilitation: Roles of Effective Facilitators

• Volunteer Orientation & Management for a Non-profit Organization

• Global Poverty (lesson plan from Oxfam America or campus)

• Reflective activities like Tuesdays with Morrie Book Reading or Spiritual Exploration workshop (involve faculty/chaplain)

• Building a Personal Vision

December • Reflection: How It Supports Making Service Meaningful

• Introduction to Community Based Participatory Research

• Action Steps for Carrying Out a Community-Based Participatory Research Project or Building Coalitions

• Retreat for Seniors to begin focusing on their final term with Translating Research into Resources for Non-Profits

• Shared Visioning

December/January

Mid-Year Bonner Retreat: • Community building and Diversity • Common Commitments (see Bonner Wiki for other organizational workshops on topics like Social Justice) • Reflection & Dialogue across all classes and Peer Mentoring

• Recommended trainings include: Cover Story, Four Corners, River Stories, Leadership Compass, Vocational Discernment workshops, Diversity Trainings (race, class, gender, sexual orientation, etc.)


Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4January Have BLT lead a “Book Club” that

integrates stories about “place” such as the neighborhoods in which you work; can offer extra training & enrichment time for participation

• #SocialChange: Effectively Using Facebook in the Nonprofit Sector

• #SocialChange: Effectively Using Twitter in the Nonprofit Sector

• #SocialChange: Effectively Using LinkedIn in the Nonprofit Sector (and have students create profile/join Alumni Network)

• Resume Writing & Interviewing Skills

February • Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Your Communities

• Engage students in planning First Year Trip (delegate roles to students)

• Fundraising on Campus • Resume Writing workshop

(integrate staff from Career Services)

• Power Mapping • Fundraising: Mapping Out

Donors

• Public Speaking • Fundraising Strategies:

Developing and Executing a Plan

March • Groups Within Groups: Exploring Dimensions of Diversity

• Gender 1: Building Gender Awareness

• Facilitation 201: An Intensive Introduction

• Building a Personal Network

• Building Career Networks or Exploring Non-Profit Careers

• Advocacy 201: Meeting with an Elective Representative

• Senior Retreat/Preparation for Senior Presentations of Learning

• Seeing Through Employers’ Eyes and Senior Resume Review

April • Racism: Deconstructing It • True Colors

• Planning Effective Meetings • Four Corners: Building

Appreciation for Diverse Ideas and Dialogue

• Leadership Compass, Meyers-Briggs, or Strengths Finder

• Homophobia: Countering It

• Preparing a Leadership Transition

• Want Ads: have students write one to replace themselves

May • Spiritual Exploration (Tower of “Me”sa or engage someone on campus) or Volunteer Recruitment for a Non-profit Organization (here or sophomore)

• Vocation: Guided Reflections and Sophomore Recommitment

• Vocation: “So What do you do?” personal exploration exercise

• Senior Presentations of Learning

• Last Words: a Reflection on My Bonner Journey

June • Review trainings and customize plan. • Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki. • Plan your own trainings & plug them in!July


Fall 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year

Orientation Bonner 101 & Community Partner 101

Introduction to Civic Engagement Learning Circle BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy

Audacious Goals

Week 1 Issue/Site Team Meetings

Week 2 Overview of the Civic Engagement Center and Campus Step It Up Sophomores Leading Learning Circles: A

Train-the-Trainers Approach Hearing the Call: Listening to

Your Inner Voice

Week 3 All Bonner Meeting

Week 4 Professionalism and Expectations Action Planning Bridging the Gap Between Service, Activism, and Politics Vocation: Board of Directors


Week 6 Community Asset Mapping Community Partner involved

Intro to Effective Communication

Facilitation 202: More Techniques and Strategies

Introduction to Spiritual Exploration


Week 8Faculty member presents classroom management

techniques

Advocacy 101: Tools for Political Engagement Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation


Week 10 Goal-Setting Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics Building Coalitions: Part 1 Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion


Week 12Time Management: Managing by Calendar Follow Up—students

bring planners

Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective Facilitators

Building Coalitions (part 2: application for campus project)

or Grant WritingPersonal Vision: Creating One


Week 14 Service-Based Reflection (led by Students) Group feedback session Vocation: “The Bridge Builder”

poem and reflective discussionPersonal Vision 2: Follow up &

Building Shared Vision


can still engage student leaders, partners and

faculty

Find trainings on the Bonner Wiki:

under Student Development

or Common

Commitments

Each training module is a full lesson plan, with activities and handouts

• Based on your meeting structure, take some time to map out your training/meeting calendar. Thoughts?

Exercise

Build and Track in BWBRS

Training & Enrichment in BWBRS• Every workshop, meeting, and

eligible opportunity can be added into BWBRS so that, yes, students log it!

• track learning; a portfolio

• shows the sequence and intentionality

• program oversight

Sample Class Meeting

Sample All Bonner Meeting

Sample Faculty-Led Meeting

This student attended 41 events since between August-April, totaling 140.5 hours in training (- plus courses!