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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:
Meeting - by Class Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class All Bonner Meeting
Week 6Week 7Week 8Week 9 Monthly rotation:
Meeting - by Class Meeting - by Site
Meeting - by Class All Bonner Meeting
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
Diversity: Level 2 Civic Action &
Reflection: Level 2
Diversity: Level 3 Civic Action &
Reflection: Level 3
Diversity: Level 4 Civic Action &
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
Year 2Knowledge & Commitments
• Analysis of diversity • Knowledge of
poverty • Understanding of place and ability to
think critically around community • Introduction to forms of civic
engagement
High-Impact Connections
• 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”)
Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence
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
Year 3Knowledge & Commitments
• Multiple forms of civic engagement
• International perspective • Critical thinking &
systems analysis (understanding root causes)
• Leadership skills and application through practice
High-Impact Connections
• 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
Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence
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
Year 4Knowledge & Commitments
• Exploration of social justice • Vocation and career
exploration/preparation • Spiritual exploration • Connection to academic study
(capstone/thesis)
High-Impact Connections
• 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
Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence
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.)
Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence
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
Bonner Calendar - Developmental Training Sequence
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 5 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Week 6 Community Asset Mapping Community Partner involved
Intro to Effective Communication
Facilitation 202: More Techniques and Strategies
Introduction to Spiritual Exploration
Week 7 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Week 8Faculty member presents classroom management
techniques
Advocacy 101: Tools for Political Engagement Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation
Week 9 All Bonner Meeting
Week 10 Goal-Setting Conflict Resolution: Steps for Handling Interpersonal Dynamics Building Coalitions: Part 1 Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion
Week 11 Issue/Site Team Meetings
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 13 Issue/Site Team Meetings
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
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting
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!