Elective Workshops • Block 1

Thursday, June 4 — 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET

Here's the line up of web-based workshops that will be offered at this time on Thursday, June 4 at a glance. Choose one of these great sessions and pre-register on Zoom by clicking on the title. If you want to read session descriptions or access materials before or after the session, join the Bonner Learning Community platform at https://bonner.mn.co/ where you’re be able to find complete information.

Building a Community of Practice: Montclair State University’s Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Fellows Program

This session chronicles the historical and conceptual evolution of MSU’s Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Fellows Program and, in so doing, offers participants a particular cohort-based, developmental model for the campus-wide proliferation of community-engaged values, resources, and abilities. The session features examples of CETL Program projects discussed by program alumni, students, and community partners.

Presented by Bryan Murdock, Director of the Center for Community Engagement; Krystal Woolston, Assistant Director of theCenter for Community Engagement; and Todd Kelshaw, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Media and CETL Program Coordinator, Montclair State University

Community Engagement and Curriculum: Exploring Pathways

Through the Bonner CEL, Wagner's faculty have been exploring three pathways to more deeply connect academics and community engagement. These include: 1. assessment of courses offered through the CEL to determine how their community engaged work might map onto our general education structure, 2. revision of our Civic Engagement Minor, and 3. the creation of a faculty-generated inventory of community engagement work. In this webinar we will share each of these pathways and open a conversation around how such pathways might be applicable across institutions. We encourage participants to think about ways they are connecting curricula to community engagement at their own institutions.

Presented by Sarah Donovan, Professor; Sarah Scott, Dean of Integrated Learning at Wagner College; and Arlette Cepeda, Director of the Center, Wagner College

How to Create a Bonner Webpage using Wix and Google Drive

This workshop will walk through how to create a Bonner webpage that links to Google Drive through Wix. This process will allow for the easy creation of webpages specific to each Bonner program that make it easier to communicate information between the Bonner Scholars and their respective Bonner offices. This workshop is a great beginner workshop and uses platforms that are completely free. This is the process that was used to create the Bonner Webpage at Spelman College.

Presented by Zari McFadden, Bonner Scholar at Spelman College

IRT: Helping You Prepare for Graduate School

The IRT is a non profit organization that helps people committed to social justice and diversity, apply to MA or PhD programs within the field of Education, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. We work with a consortium of over 40+ colleges and universities throughout the country who provide our students with application fee waivers while in-house we provide year-long one on one advising and support throughout the graduate school process. We also offer a 4 week, paid, residential internship for undergraduate juniors and seniors (travel, food, and housing costs are 100% covered and the stipend is $1,200). Anyone that wants to work within the field of education (college professors, deans, administrators, college advisors, high school counselors, K-12 teachers, principals, etc.) is welcome to apply.

Presented by Monica Reum, Recruitment & Admissions Programs Specialist, Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)

Justice Work Starts at Home: Enneagram Nine Personality Types

When was the last time you prioritized yourself in your service work? In Justice Work Starts at Home we will cover the nine types of the Enneagram and discover how you can understand your core motivations and needs and navigate your relationship with yourself and others. Your healing is essential to change. If you are feeling spiritually stuck or want to know how to be compassionate to yourself in ways a bath won't cut it. Join Zenaida with Quaker Voluntary Service to begin your journey back home to yourself.

Presented by Zenaida Peterson, Recruitment Coordinator at Quaker Voluntary Service

(Not So) Remote Community Engagement

Even if our students are back on campus this fall, it seems unlikely that our institutions will want them to venture off campus, or that our partners will welcome them. Let's get together for an open session to share ideas and approaches for working remotely, particularly in the arena of our bread-and-butter work, youth engagement. This will be a discussion centered workshop.

Presented by Ellen Alcorn, Director of the Bonner Leader Program at Bates College

Online Internships and the Connections between Civic and Professional Life

This workshop will provide tips for internship hosts and interns on how to succeed with online internships, before turning to the qualities that an active citizen and an active professional share--and how internships can grow those characteristics.

Presented by Gregory Weight, President of Washington Internship Institute

Presented to the World: Transitioning from In-Person Presentations of Learning to Capstone Websites

In this workshop, you will learn how students were asked to translate their would-be in-person presentations to an online website or blog format that can be saved for program sustainability, used as a marketing & recruitment tool, and teach students new skills. See how staff created guidelines and hear student experiences.

Presented by Dr. Matt Bryant Cheney, Director of the Center for Community Engagement at Carson-Newman; Gabby Valentine, Bonner Scholars Coordinator; Rose Denor, Carson-Newman Class of 2020, Student Development Intern; Thomas Fodor, Carson-Newman Class of 2020, Center Leadership Team

Stereotypes of a Black Male Misunderstood: Supporting Black Boys in American Schools

Extant literature has suggested that Black boys face numerous challenges in our K-12 education system. Some have situated the challenge at their feet, while others have deconstructed that approach and determined—Black boys are brilliant and critical intellectuals in our classrooms. Through the removal of a deficit framework, this presentation will share quality practices that advance the academic development of Black boys while also using a case study approach from three public schools. Lastly, we will learn about efforts to recruit more Black men into teaching and its impact on the educational outcomes of Black boys.

Presented by Robert Simmons, Executive Director of the Black Educators Initiative and Colleagues from Urban Teachers