This presentation is part of the 2019 Bonner New Directors and Coordinators Orientation, held in Princeton, NJ, for staff and faculty in the Bonner Network.

1. Student Success & Leadership
A Developmental Approach & Tools for Success

2. What We’ll Cover
• Student Development Frameworks
• Bonner Meetings
• Recommended Themes and Workshops
• Cornerstone Activities
• First Year Trip
• Sophomore Exchange
• Junior Immersion
• Junior/Senior Capstone Projects (covered extensively later)
• Senior Presentations of Learning
• One-on-One Advising

3. Student
Development
Frameworks

4. Expectation
Exploration
Experience
Example
Expertise
The Five E’s
Pre-College
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

5. First Year Second Year Third Year Fourth Year

6. Student Development
Frameworks
•Result of network input, program
design, innovation, experimentation,
research & scholarship
‣ Common Commitments
‣ Skills
‣ Knowledge
•Link to Bonner Cornerstone Activities

7. Bonner Common Commitments
Cool Schools Do Intense Community Service

8. Bonners Gain Valuable Skills
Personal
• 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

9. Exploration
• Place-Based
Immersion
• First Year
Seminar
Experience
• Public Policy
Courses
• Economics
Courses
• Issue-Based
Courses (i.e.,
Food Justice)
Example
• Undergraduate
Research and
Methodology
• Community-
Based Projects
Expertise
• Capstone
Seminars
• Integrative
Capacity-
Building
Projects
Academic Pathway (Minor)

10. Links with Strategic Initiatives

11. Example: Certificate in
Community Development
Exploration
• Social Context Course
Experience
• Diversity and Community
Engagement Course
Example
• Data Collection and
Analysis Course
Expertise
• 9-Credit Practicum
or Capstone

12. Bonners Deepen Their Knowledge
Place
Politics & Public Policy
Power & Privilege
Poverty & Economic
DevelopmentIssues

13. Cornerstones
Are High-Impact
Experiences
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
Jr/Sr Capstone Projects
an opportunity to complete a capacity building or social action
project (ideally connected to academic learning)
Senior Presentations of Learning
an integrative reflective activity through which students synthesize
and make meaning of their four years

14. Bonner Outcomes Rubric
• Civic Agency
• Civic Identity
• Critical Thinking
and Perspective
• Communication
Skills
• Diversity and
Intercultural
Competence
• Empathy
• Integrative
Learning
• Leadership
• Place- and Issue-
Knowledge
• Social Justice

18. How Learning Outcomes Matter?
• Institutional Mission
• Outcome-Based Program Design
• Scaffolding
• Developmental Meetings and Courses
• Advising and Reflection
• Assessment

19. Bonner
Education &
Training

20. Why are meetings important?
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
•Promote retention and success

21. Meetings also…
•Build skills (i.e., project management)
and knowledge (i.e., public policy
analysis)
•Support learning outcomes (i.e.,
intercultural competence)
•Build community — Bonner Love
•Promote accountability
•Foster campus-wide and community
connections

22. Class Meetings
•at least every other week
•cohort-based meetings for each
class year (or two, if small program)
Meeting Types
All Bonner Meetings
•every month
•engage Common Commitments,
partners, and issues

23. Cornerstone or Project Meetings
• occasionally
•trips, campus-wide events, Bonner
Congress, Bonner Leadership Team
Site Meetings by issue, team,
or cluster
• every other week or monthly —
• planning, project management,
and problem solving

24. Campus-wide or National Events
•Speaker series, IMPACT
Conference, national conferences...
flavor not main ingredient
Course-based Meetings
•can be used for cohort or projects
•link with integrative pathways
•DO COUNT for hours!

25. Education, Training & Reflection
•Hold at least once every other week
(2x/month)...even more for freshmen
•Staff lead cohort meetings using
recommended themes and workshops
•Students lead other sessions (All
Bonner Meetings, specific topics)
•Fill in with other faculty, speakers, etc.

26. Recommended
Themes and
Workshops

27. 1st Year
Semester Fall Spring
Training &
Education
Theme
EXPLORING IDENTITY & PLACE FROM SERVICE TO SOLUTIONS
Workshop
Modules
Identity Circles Discovering Solutions That Work
An Introduction to Place Making a Difference: Measuring
Impact
River Stories Tackling Root Causes
Community Asset Mapping Cultivating Powerful Collaborations
and Relationships

28. 2nd Year
Semester Fall Spring
Training &
Education
Theme
LEADING TEAMS
KNOWING
YOUR ISSUE
Workshop
Modules
A Toolkit for Leading Others Researching the Scope of a Local
Problem
Leadership Compass Researching Current Programs and
Policies
Effective Facilitation Identifying Proven Programs and
Practices
Effective Meetings Finalizing an Issue Brief

29. 3rd Year
Semester Fall Spring
Training &
Education
Theme
MANAGING PROJECTS MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
Workshop
Modules
Overview of Project
Management with a Case Study
A Systems View of the Nonprofit and
Public Sectors
Completion of Program
Management Case Study
How Nonprofits Assess & Build
Organizational Capacity
Hands-on Project Management
with Individualized Case Study
An Introduction to Fundraising and
Resource Development
Present Case Study and Project
Plans for Feedback
A Reason for Being: Exploring the
Concept of IKIGAI

30. 4th Year
Semester Fall Spring
Training &
Education
Theme
LEAVING A LEGACY LIVES OF COMMITMENT
Workshop
Modules
Preparing a Leadership
Transition
Through Evaluators’ Eyes – Senior
Resume Review
Resume Writing: Maximizing
Your Bonner Experience
Budgeting & Financing for Your Life
After Bonner
Public Speaking & Presentations
of Learning
Interviewing Skills
Finding Your Pathway After
College
Staying Well and Engaged

31. CAPSTONE SERIES
1st
Stage
#1 Explore Your Palette: An
Introduction to the Bonner
Capstone
#2 Primary Colors: Building a
Foundation for the Bonner
Capstone
2nd
Stage
#3 Capacity Building & Its Link
to Capstones
#4 Your Capstone Personal
Development Plan
3rd
Stage
#5: Capstone Nuts and Bolts #6: Your Capstone
Proposal and Work Plan
4th
Stage
#7 Reflecting on Your Project,
Learning, & Impact
#8: Sharing and Leveraging Your
Bonner Experience

32. Option 2 COMMON COMMITMENTS SESSIONS
Civic
Engagement
Social Justice Diversity
International
Perspective
Community
Buiding
Spiritual
Exploration
Advocacy 101
Unpacking
“Isms”
Unpacking race,
privilege, &
oppression
Refugee and
Immigrant
Voices
Community
Asset Mapping
Interfaith
Perspectives
Bridging the
Gap: Service,
Activism,
Politics
Understanding
Awareness
Campaigns
Identity
Circles
Summer of
Service / Study
Abroad
Power
Mapping
Tower of
“Me”sa”
Spiritual & Self-
Exploration
Guide
Bridging the
Political Divide
Understanding
Issue
Campaigns
Education and
Its Influences on
Class Mobility
Four
Corners
Building
Coalitions
Faith and
Me

33. Implementing
Bonner
Workshops

34. Engage Relevant Leaders
Students Faculty PartnersStaff

35. Who Leads 1st Semester 2nd Semester
BLT Identity Circles Interfaith Perspectives
Staff An Introduction to Place Discovering Solutions That Work
BLT Time Management Unpacking the Isms
Staff Capstone Session #1 Capstone Session #2
BLT
All Bonner Meeting -
Exploring Diversity and
Intersectionality
All Bonner Meeting -
Interfaith Perspectives
Staff River Stories Measuring Impact
BLT
All Bonner Meeting - Bridging
the Gap Between
Service, Activism, & Politics
All Bonner Meeting -
Four Corners
(Stand and Declare)
Staff Community Asset Mapping Attacking Root Causes
Cross-Campus Finding a Summer Internship Cultivating Collaborations

36. Bonner Resource Wiki

37. Each is a full
lesson plan,
with activities
and handouts
Bonner Workshop Modules

38. 1. Determine the schedule for your meetings for each class year
2. Discuss whether you will have any courses involved (and at what stages)
3. Identify who can assist with planning and leading meetings
4. Start with recommended themes and workshops (4 per term & led by staff)
5. Plug in the capstone workshops (1 per term) so that they will work according
to your project timelines (i.e., junior and/or senior year)
6. Fill in with other Bonner Curriculum workshops, especially those focusing on
the Common Commitments. All Bonner Meetings are a good place for these.
7. Fill in with other campus-based sessions (speakers, partners, other offices, etc.)
8. Delegate who will lead based on the topics and level of facilitation needed
(staff, Senior Interns, BLT, faculty, etc.)
Implementation Checklists (p. 30)

39. First Year Trip

40. First Year Trip
• 3-7 day cohort experience for fresh
and new Bonners
• Somewhere distinct from local
context
• Provide a chance to delve into an
issue - like poverty or immigration
• Use available funds & national
partners
10%
10%
10%
10%
60%
Service or Meaningful Action*
Culture & History
Community and Team Building
Education, Reflection &and Discussion - meetings with issue experts
Learning about the Organizations & Issues

41. Maryville College: First Year Trip
"Maryville College’s First Year trip is embedded in a semester-long class called “The Road to Justice,” in which
all the first year Bonners, plus a few other students, study the history of the Civil Rights Movement and
contemporary justice issues, including race, incarceration, and immigration. The trip, over spring break,
includes visits to Birmingham, Montgomery, and the Stewart (ICE) Detention Center in south Georgia.

43. Bonner Resource Wiki

44. • What have been the best First
Year Trip experiences?
• How might you tap National
Bonner Partners?
Sharing Best Practices

45. Sophomore
Exchange

46. Second Year Exchange
• Cohort experience for second year
students that shows a bigger picture
• Pair up with 1 or more other Bonner
Programs or other schools
• Delve deeper into an issue - like
poverty, diversity, policy
• Use available funds
• Can take students to IMPACT or other
national conferences!

47. Rollins, Stetson, Univeristy of Tampa
Students participating in “The
Privilege Walk” activity The
Everglades
Discussion: Environmental
Sustainability
The Everglades

48. Be Strategic

49. Bonner Resource Wiki

50. Sharing Best Practices
• What have been the best
Sophomore Exchange
experiences?
• How do you integrate higher level
developmental experiences?

51. Junior
Immersion

52. Junior Immersion
• Cohort experience for some or all Third
Years
• Individual Bonners CAN study abroad
and be engaged in regular 8-10 hour
positions
• The junior class often raises funds for
global service trips
• Campus-wide or national projects can
also work
• These experiences often help Bonners
to understand an issue in local,
national, and/or international contexts

53. Clare’s Immersion Experience
• Mérida, México
• Centre College collaborates
with an organization called
“Habla”
• Centre has study abroad
programs which cost the
same tuition as studying on
campus (not including the
cost of flights) because your
scholarships and aid all are
still applicable, making it
relatively accessible for
students.
• Clare was part of a cohort of
22 other students who
tutored students at Habla
Center once a week for three
hours

54. Clare’s Immersion Experience
Uxmal, Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
One of the most important archeological sites in
Mayan culture
Clare with her homestay Mamá in Mérida,
Mexico

55. National and International
Bonner Partners

56. Sharing Best Practices
• What is happening at your
campuses?
• How can programs build
sustained partnerships
internationally (& even link with
courses)?

57. Junior/Senior
Capstone Projects

58. Capacity-Building
Capstone Projects
• Bonner Capstones engage students in an
individual or team project in junior/senior
year.
• It has a clearly defined community
purpose for a partner or constituency
(involving an advisor).
• It allows the student to integrate academic
and experiential learning.
• It involves a staff or faculty mentor (who can
provide structure, help, feedback, and other
supports. This may or may not involve credit).

59. CAPSTONE SERIES
1st
Stage
#1 Creating Your Capstone
Palette: An Introduction to
the Bonner Capstone Project
#2 Primary Colors: Building the
Foundation for the Bonner
Capstone Project
2nd
Stage
#3 Capacity Building and
Capstone Projects
#4 Creating Your Personal
Development Plan
3rd
Stage
#5: How Will
You Capstone?
#6: Finalizing Your Capstone
Focus and Plan
4th
Stage
#7 Blueprints for Success:
What Legacy Will Your
Bonner Capstone Leave
Behind?
#8: Your Bonner Legacy:
Translating and Sharing your
Capstone Work

60. Longer
Intro
After
Lunch

61. Senior
Presentation
of Learning

62. Senior Presentations
of Learning
• An integration reflection across
four years of experience
• An inspiring presentation to one’s
cohort, campus, and community
• A high-impact practice in which a
student articulates her or his
journey and learning
• Can be linked with assessment

63. Use an Inquiry Approach to
Assessment
•Use student work to
evaluate their
learning
•What can you learn
(as program staff)
from what students
are saying during
their Senior
Presentations of
Learning?

64. Pilot the Rubric
•Does the student demonstrate
capstone level learning?

65. •What guidance can your program
provide to students to create their
Presentation of Learning?
•How might you pilot the integration
of a learning outcome and
assessment?
Sharing Best Practices

66. 1. Review examples and resources for Cornerstone Activities.
2. For First Year Trip, think about the place or destinations that will work best for
you (considering distinctive context, institutional partnerships, location, travel
costs, etc.)
3. For Sophomore Exchange, think about potential partner schools
(programmatic lessons, location, travel costs, etc.) or events (Gulf South
Summit, Impact, etc.)
4. For Junior Immersion, investigate institutional partnerships (i.e., Study Abroad,
Bonner Partners, etc.) and determine what might be sustainable
5. For Junior/Senior Capstones, begin to articulate the expectation and
examples during recruitment and to this year’s freshmen (and perhaps others)
6. For Senior Presentations of Learning, review and beef up your guidelines,
linking them with at least one defined learning outcome
Implementation Checklist (p. 31)

67. One-on-One
Advising

68. Why Advising?
• Build relationships upon mutual trust and
respect with students through genuine
communication
• Make the experience personal for each
student
• Emphasize the importance of positions and
accountability
• Recognize good work privately (and in a
group settings)
• Get to know your students and support their
interest and talents
• Help students internalize & integrate
learning across their Bonner and college
experiences

69. Holistic Focus
•Bonner Work
•Coursework
•Identity and Wellness
•Academic Interests
•Social Life
•Goals
•Post-Graduate Interests

70. First Year Written Reflections
• Identity and place: Let’s
talk about experiences in
service in which you
learned about place and
thought about your
identity and the identities
of others different from
your own. What have you
learned?
• Recognizing Solutions: Let’s
talk about issues you have
begun to find a passion for
addressing. What strategies
and solutions have you
learned? What courses and
other college experiences
have meshed with these
interests?

71. Second Year Written Reflections
• Leading others: Let’s talk
about times you were an
active member or leader of a
team or civic community.
What tools, skills, or
knowledge did you use? How
did this experience shape
you? How did it make you
feel? What have you learned
about leadership?
• Understanding An Issue:
Let’s talk about ways that
you have begun to better
understand the issue you
are working to address.
What projects have helped
you do this? What courses
or trainings have helped
you? What ideas for next
year have surfaced?

72. Third Year Written Reflections
• Managing projects: Describe
a time you took initiative or
leadership to create and/or
manage a project at one or
more sites. How has your work
helped to build capacity for
the agency or community?
How have you begun to link
your Bonner work and
academic learning?
• Managing organizations:
Let’s talk about your
reflections of your work in
community engagement at
this, your third, year. What do
you think the impact of your
engagement has been for
the community? How has this
engagement shaped your
own knowledge and
viewpoints about change?

73. Fourth Year Written Reflections
• Leaving a legacy: Let’s talk
about the evolution of your
work in service and community
engagement. What are the
most meaningful contributions
and impacts you believe you’ve
helped to make? How will or
has your capstone project
allowed you to integrate your
identity, learning, service, and
long-term interests?
• Civically-engaged Lives: As
you reflect on your whole
Bonner experience, what
impact do you think it has had
on you? How has the
experience clarified or shaped
your own personal values or
aspirations? What are your
hopes for how you carry
forward this learning after
graduation?

74. 1.Identify who can help with one-to-one advising (Director,
Coordinator, other staff, faculty, etc.; some programs have a Class
Advisor)
2.Develop or use recommended questions and forms that include
a holistic focus (i.e., positions and internships, majors and
coursework, wellness and social life, post-graduate planning)
3.Integrate written reflection assignments.
4.Use recommended prompts or develop them (from learning
outcomes).
5.Set up a schedule for each semester.
Implementation Checklist (p. 32)