1. Bonner Meetings
The Claggett Center • November 5-8, 2023
Bonner Fall Network Meeting:
Best Practice Sessions

2. Session Goals
• Collaborate with colleagues to inform your Bonner
meeting planning and curriculum.
• Apply SOAR framework to guide your calendar analysis.
• Brainstorm resources and tools to assess student
learning.

3. Session Agenda
• Reflective Discussion
• Calendar Review with Colleagues (Pair-Share)
• Bonner Meetings: Basics & Highlights
• SOAR Framework to Analyze Bonner Meetings Calendar
• Takeaways

4. Reflective Discussion
How do you feel about the effectiveness of your current Bonner
Meetings in supporting student learning?
According to you, what knowledge, skills, or values do Bonner
students need to develop as a justice-oriented community
member?
What are your 1-2 key strategies, topics, or changes to support
students’ developmental journey as justice-oriented community
members?

5. Calendar Review with
Colleagues
10-12 minutes

6. Calendar Review
• Find a partner and explain your Bonner Meetings
calendar.
• Share one thing that you do to support each cohort.
• Discuss structure, topics, challenges, possibilities etc.

7. Bonner Basics & Highlights
10 minutes

8. Expectation

9. Meeting Structure
The Bonner Program has a meeting structure with adequate time (from 15-20% of total hours, at a frequency of two
meeting per month or more by class) for effective learning and program management.
Level 3 = 15%
Level 4 = 54%
Level 5 = 30%
Level 2 = 2%

10. Developmental Pathway
Personally Responsible Citizen Participatory Citizen Justice-Oriented Citizen

11. Developmental Pathway
The Bonner student developmental framework is integrated and implemented throughout the program, including with an
intentional education, training, and reflection calendar by class year. Students are aware of and engaged in the student
developmental framework and have an understanding of what knowledge areas, skills, and habits they are developing.
Level 3 = 54%
Level 4 = 32%
Level 5 = 7%
Level 2 = 7%

12. Types of Meetings
• All Bonner Meeting (at least once a month)
• Opportunities for DD, Common
Commitments, Current events
• Cohort-Meetings (at least four per semester)
• 1:1 Meetings (at least once a semester)
• Cornerstone Activities
• FY Orientation
• Fall Retreat, Winter Retreat
• Senior Presentation of Learning
• *FY Service-Trip
• *Sophomore Exchange

13. Meetings Calendar
The Bonner Program has a clear calendar designed to support student learning and engagement, with a developmental progression of topics
across the four years.
Level 3 = 10%
Level 4 = 55%
Level 5 = 13%
Level 2 = 17%
Level 1 = 5%

14. What are we doing well?

15. Strengths
Orientation
Presentation of
Learning

16. What opportunities could we
leverage to support student
leadership?

17. Opportunities
Cohort-based
Meetings
Capacity -
Building
Capstone-Level
Projects Student Leadership

18. SOAR Analysis
40 minutes

19. Internal External
Current
Future Strengths
What are you proud of?
Opportunities
What partnerships will lead to
greater success?
Aspirations
What do you want to achieve?
Results
What resources or tools will help
you get there?
OR What is Working Well?
SOAR Framework

20. SOAR Stations
• Station 1: First Year & Second Year
• Station 2: Third Year
• Station 3: Fourth Year
• Station 4: Bonner Leadership Team Roles

21. Takeaways
10 minutes

22. Takeways
How do you feel about next steps?
What would you like to take back from this conversation (ideas,
topics, approaches)?
What are 1-2 feasible steps you will take to manage this aspect
of the program?