Initiative Team Meetings

Process

Build team with diverse members who can contribute their experience and knowledge.

Mine experience of lead team but also of other members of Bonner Network (and their connections). Collect and analyze relevant data and information from programs and people in the network.

Also do research on peer organizations and analogous processes (e.g., who else has done this or is doing this in higher education, non-profit sector, for-profit sector?).

Process

Consider and adjust vision, goals, and strategies in light of information collected.

Articulate concrete goals for what should happen by when, with the end-of-school-year as primary milestone.  Then, work backwards from that point.

Establish and flesh a work plan with clear goal lines and activities that intersect with Bonner Calendar (e.g., real convenings or projects; integration of fall meeting, SLI, realistic goals for each semester). This should build in short-term wins.

Process

Use the crystal theory—if one program or campus wants to take lead on a particular component of initiative, great.  Support this work and use it to spread success and test processes.

kotter’s 8 steps

1. Increase urgency - inspire people to move, make objectives real and relevant.

2. Build the guiding team - get the right people in place with the right emotional commitment, and the right mix of skills and levels.

3. Get the vision right - get the team to establish a simple vision and strategy, focus on emotional and creative aspects necessary to drive service and efficiency.

4. Communicate for buy-in - Involve as many people as possible, communicate the essentials, simply, and to appeal and respond to people's needs. De-clutter communications - make technology work for you rather than against.

kotter’s 8 steps

5. Empower action - Remove obstacles, enable constructive feedback and lots of support from leaders - reward and recognise progress and achievements.

6. Create short-term wins - Set aims that are easy to achieve - in bite-size chunks. Manageable numbers of initiatives. Finish current stages before starting new ones.

7. Don't let up - Foster and encourage determination and persistence - ongoing change - encourage ongoing progress reporting - highlight achieved and future milestones.

8. Make change stick - Reinforce the value of successful change.

the big picture

•The purpose of the Impact Organizing & Assessment initiative team is to foster campus program and Bonner Network capacity to organize campus-community civic work with a problem-solving approach—one that includes a comprehensive set of activities (from service to policy research) and that achieves measurable impact.

issue organizing noteslocal issue campaigns (e.g., high school drop out rate at local school)

◦college is a hub/forum for community issues

◦students on local commissions (or help form commissions - e.g., food security/policy group)

◦let local community partners guide campaign strategy

•statewide/regional collaboration

◦issue focus (e.g., food stamps)

◦legislative focus (e.g., stop budget cuts to school lunches)

•national campaigns (legislative)

◦in context of student development model: how do we motivate students to want to do this? (bigger picture; partner with faculty for interesting classes)

◦partner with national organizations who are doing this

◦pick an issue as a network and mobilize (similar to PIRGS)

•best practice sharing as a network

◦video resources

◦wiki

◦sharing our "secret" amazing local partners and organizations

◦perhaps organizing conferences to train people from other Bonner regions

the big picture

• The purpose of Moving Students from Direct Service to Policy Work initiative is to create resources for use by Bonner Programs— particularly by staff, faculty and student leaders—to more systematically educate students to be aware of and engaged in related public policy research and analysis.  These resources supplement the developmental model and be a support structure (precursor) for effective implementation of Issues to Impact.

from service to policy notes• build a framework & series of (interchangeable) teachable moments

- create easy-to-use resources & staff/student capacity to use them

build on existing experience (best practices of campus programs)

◦First Year Trip

◦Second Year Exchange

◦Upper-class immersion projects

◦Individual student projects and capstones

•build on existing curricula and resources

◦civic engagement training modules

◦connecting service to politics sequence (created for Allegheny SLI)

◦integrate videos and social media (Serve 2.0)

•build on or create new national partnerships

◦RESULTS

◦Roosevelt Institute

◦Oxfam America

◦Midwest Academy

the big picture

•The purpose of the Staff Professional Development initiative is to identify and/or create resources that equip staff to build, manage, and revitalize strong programs—while also sustaining themselves and expanding personal potential. 

the big picture

•These resources will help staff to identify and take advantage of relevant professional development enrichment experiences, including conferences, leadership roles, events, and post-graduate training (including local and national offerings).

notes from summertrack and resources for SLI

•look at health of staff

•share tools for self-sustainability

•structured reflection

•skills training (invite community partners) on:

◦facilitation counseling

◦mediation transformational leadership

◦work-styles time management

◦work-life balance strengths-finder (free)

•share best practices and challenges/scenarios

•staff mentors within Bonner network for new staff

•staff enrichment fund

notes from summer

Bonner professional development advisory committee made up of Bonner directors & staff

•list of good conferences (look at Campus Compact, too)

•How to work with faculty/get their attention

•program expectations based on length of time the program has been around (e.g., after one year my program is succeeding if...)

•intro to higher education for staff without graduate degrees (e.g., how to navigate student affairs, good reads, NASPA, ACPA)

•regional, short one-day/weekend professional development workshops hosted by Bonner schools

the big picture

• The purpose of this Faculty Development and Engagement strategy session is to begin to:

• identify, augment, and spread effective strategies for developing and engaging faculty in our programs and its comprehensive vision, in ways that result in greater institutional contributions and results for civic engagement

• identify people who want to join a team to work on the next steps for this year

notes from summer

Goals of a faculty track at SLI 2011 that:  

•attracts and sustains faculty participation;

•allows faculty (& staff who work with them) to showcase their work in service learning and community engagement;

•highlights faculty, staff, community partner and student research and collaboration 

notes from summeraddress—why would faculty come? what would we get from them once they are here?

•long-term vision: scholarly publication (e.g., proceedings from conference), white paper?

•build mentor relationships with students (help faculty be better advisors)

•sets foundational understanding of Bonner network

•deepen our own work, dream together, feed spirits (and egos?)

•affirm the work they are doing

•don't duplicate other conference experiences

•showcase evidence (qualitative)

•incentives for attendance (travel, grants)

notes from summer

•discussion of ways for faculty and staff to collaborate (internships) on research (break the barrier; don't perpetuate it with this gathering)

•create an opportunity for intersections (roads that don't always connect; faculty and community partners presenting together)•showcase inspiring ideas (hearing that these issues are valued by senior administrators)•marketing angle for the track  ("academic" track) would be crucial

•workshop on how to market your scholarship in the field as scholarship

Logic Model

OUTCOME OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIES INPUTS

What do you want to influence, change, or achieve?

What do you need to achieve outcome? Think SMART goals, and list...

What could be done to achieve each objective on the list? (This could be exhaustive)

What would be needed for each activity in terms of people, time, money, and resources?