2017 SLI Strategy Session Engaged Signature Work and Capstones Part 1: Integration with the Bonner's Culminating Year

1. Engaged Signature
Work and Capstones
Part 2: Integration
with the Bonner's
Culminating Year
With Dave Roncolato, Allegheny
College and Ariane Hoy and Ray
Barclay, Bonner Foundation

2. • Work in groups to help brainstorm the
ideas and resource material needed,
focusing especially on integrating this work
with Bonner students and with faculty (for
academic credit)
• Get a primer for how to use a rubric to
assess student learning by watching a
video of a student's Presentation of Learning
or reviewing some other piece of student
work

4. Introductions
What have you taken away
so far from other sessions
that you bring here now?

5. The Cohort So Far
• A multiyear strategy
• Integration of civic & community engagement
across curriculum (visible, hidden, null)
• Build formal engaged capstones into Bonners’
four-year experiences
• Aspiration/Thought Experiment: what would it
look like if 25% of graduating seniors were able
to do it?

7. Strategies So Far
• Community Partner Focus Groups
• Student Leadership
• Faculty Outreach and building allies
(Reading Group)

8. Learn & Work
Together
• Rethinking our roles and
relationships on and off
campus
• Building true appreciation for
our roles as educators and
the value it has for student
learning
• Leveraging resources and
assets in reciprocal, deep
community partnerships

9. What is Community Engaged Signature Work?
In Signature Work, students integrate,
apply, demonstrate, reflect on, and communicate their
cumulative learning in a project or activity lasting at
least one semester. Ideally, in such a project students
wrestle with complex questions that matter to them
and to society.

10. What is Community Engaged Signature Work?
While many departments may be have a capstone option or
requirement, several features distinguish Community Engaged
Capstone or Signature Work:
• A community identified need for the student’s academic work;
• A reciprocal and mutually beneficial relationship that features
ongoing dialogue and exchange between the student,
community partner, and staff or faculty member helping guide the
student;
• Academic inquiry (which may take many forms) that intentionally
connects with the intended purpose and project; and,
• Mentoring and/or advisory relationships for the students with a
faculty member and (ideally) a community representative.

11. What is Community Engaged Signature Work?
Jonathan Franklin
Wofford
Worked with
Urban League
Majored in English,
Humanities, &
African-American
Studies
“The Understanding of a
Single Story:
Identities Amongst Black
Students at
Predominately White
Institutions.”

12. What is Community Engaged Signature Work?
Katie Beck
Allegheny
Cornerstone Theater
Majored in Values,
Ethics, & Social
Action
produced play about
Civil Rights
movement in
Meadville

13. RUBRICS - Analytic Example

14. RUBRICS - Scaling Example

15. A multidimensional
continuum…
Driven by
faculty
Driven in
partnership
Driven by
community
not mutually exclusive!

16. Examples

17. Examples

18. Examples

19. Examples

20. Conceptual Model

21. Group Dialogue
1. Faculty Perspective
2. Student Perspective
Choose one to discuss…

22. Group Dialogue
We’ll decide
subgroups
Faculty
Perspective
(Student
Initiated)
Faculty
Perspective
(Course
Linked)
Student
Perspective
(for credit)
Student
Perspective
(not for
credit)
or others…

23. Group Dialogue
1. Who are the stakeholders?
2. What are the current links or assets for making
this happen?
3. What are the current barriers or challenges?
4. What are resources needed? How can these be
linked to Bonner Program?
5. What education and training is needed?
6. What authority or leadership is needed?
7. How can we build bridges?
Questions…especially for
Bonners

24. Group Dialogue
1. What are the resources needed? (i.e., especially
written resources that the Foundation might be
able to find or develop)
• Forms (i.e., template or worksheet, and what
is on it)
• Trainings
• BWBRS Links
• E-portfolio, etc.
We will guide your time…

25. Each group can…
1. Focus on each question.
2. Do what feels right.
3. Don’t worry about it.
4. Generate observations or insights.
Discuss and record…
Please take notes.