The document discusses the Bonner Program's approach to student development. It focuses on providing students with experiential learning opportunities through service placements that allow them to develop skills across multiple domains. Students progress through these placements from exploration to experience to expertise. The program also emphasizes training, reflection, and skill-building through various group meetings. The goal is to help students become engaged citizens, nonprofit leaders, and produce other positive outcomes through an integrated curricular and co-curricular model.
This is for the 2012 Bonner Congress at Waynesburg University. Students will meet in clusters to share and refine their big ideas, leaving with action plans. Bonner Advisory Board Members and Network Student Leaders/Staff will be using this.
This is for the 2012 Bonner Congress at Waynesburg University. Students will meet in clusters to share and refine their big ideas, leaving with action plans. Bonner Advisory Board Members and Network Student Leaders/Staff will be using this.
This presentation and all staff (125+) member conversation by the Bonner Network involved exploring how higher education service programs can incorporate more democratic community engagement. It also shared the evolving model for community partner capacity building and development. This session occurred at the Bonner Foundation's Fall Directors Meeting 2011. For more info see bonnernetwork.pbworks.com
Theory of Change Mapping using a Youth Development Example4Good.org
Harvard researcher Carol Weiss advises communities desiring to make mindful social change that there is nothing as practical as good theory. Because change takes time, it’s important to track and document the process by which one aims to initiate and enforce change. Relaying your message of change to the public may sound challenging and difficult, but it can be done! Every community needs a roadmap for success that clearly states assumptions, inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This webinar will use a youth development as one example of how to take an idea and translate it into what is called a “theory of change.”
This presentation and all staff (125+) member conversation by the Bonner Network involved exploring how higher education service programs can incorporate more democratic community engagement. It also shared the evolving model for community partner capacity building and development. This session occurred at the Bonner Foundation's Fall Directors Meeting 2011. For more info see bonnernetwork.pbworks.com
Theory of Change Mapping using a Youth Development Example4Good.org
Harvard researcher Carol Weiss advises communities desiring to make mindful social change that there is nothing as practical as good theory. Because change takes time, it’s important to track and document the process by which one aims to initiate and enforce change. Relaying your message of change to the public may sound challenging and difficult, but it can be done! Every community needs a roadmap for success that clearly states assumptions, inputs, outputs, and outcomes. This webinar will use a youth development as one example of how to take an idea and translate it into what is called a “theory of change.”
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Bonner Student Development 2-15-11
1. The Bonner Program:
Student Development
“Access to Education,
Opportunity to Serve”
A program of:
The Corella & Bertram Bonner Foundation
10 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 924-6663 • (609) 683-4626 fax
For more information, please visit our website at www.bonner.org
5. Student Development:
Iterative Learning Cycle
Learn
Reflect/Apply
Do
Do
Learn Reflect/Apply
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6. Student Development:
Connection to Higher Education Initiatives
Example: AAC&U’s High Impact Practices
The Bonner Model includes the potential for linking with all five:
• First-Year Seminars
• Learning Communities
• Service Learning
• Undergraduate Research
• Capstone Courses & Projects
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7. Student Development:
Connection to Higher Education Initiatives
Example: AAC&U Civic Engagement Rubric
4 developmental levels, increasing complexity
• Communities and Cultures
• Analysis of Knowledge
• Civic Identity and Commitment
• Civic Communication
• Civic Action and Reflection
• Civic Contexts/Structures
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8. Student Development:
Typical Goal — Educating Global Citizens
Commitment to Understanding
lifelong active and analysis of
citizenship poverty & how to
‣ electoral address it
participation through policy
‣ public education ‣ policy research &
analysis
Can apply civic
skills in broader Can lead civic
contexts engagement
‣ critical thinking ‣ project
‣ leading reflection management
‣ event planning
Have experience locally, nationally,
internationally
‣ cultural competencies
‣ analytical skills (poverty in many contexts)
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9. Student Development:
Typical Goal - Producing Non-Profit Leaders
‣ Evaluation
‣ Outreach &
marketing
‣ Program
management
‣ Grant writing
‣ Program design
‣ Fundraising
‣ Volunteer
‣ Budgeting management
‣ Volunteer
‣ What is a 501c3 recruitment
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14. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills
• Active listening
• Balance/boundaries
• Communication
• Decision making
• Organization
• Planning
• Time management
• Goal setting
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15. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills Leadership Skills
• Active listening • Conflict resolution
• Balance/boundaries • Delegation
• Communication • Planning
• Decision making • Public speaking
• Organization • Running a meeting
• Planning • Teamwork
• Time management • Working with diverse
• Goal setting groups
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16. Student Development:
Skill Areas
Personal Skills Leadership Skills Professional Skills
• Active listening • Conflict resolution • Budgeting
• Balance/boundaries • Delegation • Evaluation/research
• Communication • Planning • Event planning
• Fundraising
• Decision making • Public speaking
• Grant writing
• Organization • Running a meeting
• Marketing /
• Planning • Teamwork Public relations
• Time management • Working with diverse • Mediation
• Goal setting groups • Networking
• Public education /
Advocacy
• Volunteer
management
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17. Student Development:
Common Commitments
Community International
Building Perspective
Social
Diversity
Justice
Civic Spiritual
Engagement Exploration
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24. Training & Enrichment:
Types of Meetings
Group Meetings:
✓ All Group Meetings
✓ Class-Based Meetings
✓ Site/Issue-Based Team Meetings
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25. Training & Enrichment:
Types of Meetings
Group Meetings:
✓ All Group Meetings
✓ Class-Based Meetings
✓ Site/Issue-Based Team Meetings
Meeting content:
✓ Training
✓ Reflection
✓ Project Planning
✓ Administrative
✓ One-on-One
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26. Fall 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Bonner 101 & Community Introduction to Civic BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Orientation Partner 101 Engagement Learning Circle Audacious Goals
Week 1 Site-Based Team Meetings
Introduction to Effective Leading Learning Circles: A Hearing the Call: Listening to
Week 2 Communication
Action Planning
Train-the-Trainers Approach Your Inner Voice
Week 3 All Bonner Meeting
Community Asset Mapping Bridging the Gap Between Vocation: Board of Directors
Week 4 part 1
Budgeting
Service, Activism, and Politics
Week 5 Site-Based Team Meetings
Intro to Effective
Community Asset Mapping Facilitation 202: More Introduction to Spiritual
Week 6 part 2 (involving partner)
Communication: Do You Hear
Techniques and Strategies Exploration
Me?
Week 7 Site-Based Team Meetings
Community Asset Mapping Advocacy 101: Tools for
Week 8 part 3 (campus assessment) Political Engagement
Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation
Week 9 All Bonner Meeting
Time Management: Managing Conflict Resolution: Steps for Tuesdays with Morrie
Week 10 by Calendar
Handling Interpersonal Building Coalitions: Part 1
Discussion
Dynamics
Week 11 Site-Based Team Meetings
Building Coalitions (part 2:
Time Management: Managing Facilitation 101: Roles of
Week 12 by Calendar Follow Up Effective Facilitators
application for campus Personal Vision: Creating One
project) or Grant Writing
Week 13 Site-Based Team Meetings
Vocation: “The Bridge Builder” Personal Vision 2: Follow up &
Week 14 Setting Service Objectives Group feedback session
poem and reflective discussion Building Shared Vision
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting
27. Spring 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Community building | Common commitments | Reflection & visioning | Workshops: Cover Story, Four Corners (changing
Retreat questions), River Stories/Introduction to Community Building, Leadership Compass
Week 1 Site-Based Team Meetings
Service-Based Reflection: How Citizenship: Rights, Resume Writing &
Week 2 It Supports Making Service Lobbying 101 Responsibilities & Struggles or
Interviewing Skills
Meaningful Introduction to Social Justice
Week 3 All Bonner Meeting
Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Building a Personal Network
Week 4 Your Communities
Leadership Compass Public Speaking
Week 5 Site-Based Team Meetings
Research related to First Year Resume writing workshop Advocacy 201: Meeting with Preparation for Senior
Week 6 Trip (Career Services) an Elective Representative Presentations of Learning
Week 7 Site-Based Team Meetings
Groups Within Groups: Facilitation 201: An Intensive Seeing Through Employers’
Week 8 Exploring Dimensions of
Introduction
Building Career Networks
Eyes: Group Resume Game
Diversity
Week 9 All Bonner Meeting
Gender 1: Building Gender Gender 2: Deepening Gender
Week 10 Awareness Awareness
Building Career Networks Senior Resume Review
Week 11 Site-Based Team Meetings
Ethnocentrism: Exploring & Preparing a Leadership
Week 12 Racism: Deconstructing It
Tackling It
Homophobia: Countering It
Transition: Want Ads
Week 13 Site-Based Team Meetings
Vocation: “So What do you
Fraying at the Edges: Stress Vocation: Guided Reflections Last Words: a Reflection on
Week 14 Management 101 for Recommitment
do?” personal exploration
My Life
exercise
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting
30. Training & Enrichment:
Assessing Your Current Status
Stages of development
‣ Just getting started (use sample
calendar)
‣ Adapting current structure (revisit
structure for student involvement)
‣ Strengthen, integrate (develop
campus-wide collaborations)
‣ Expand campus-wide
connections (courses, CBR,
application)
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32. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
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33. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
• When will they be scheduled?
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34. Training & Enrichment:
Who? When?
• Who will lead sessions?
• Bonner staff
• Experienced Bonner students
• Faculty & other campus staff
• Community partners
• When will they be scheduled?
• Collaborative calendar planning
• Road Map Planning Tool
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42. Student Development:
Cornerstone Activities
Expertise
Senior Capstone:
culminating leadership
project coupled with a
reflective developmental
Example focused presentation
Junior Leadership:
engages students in
applying their skills and
knowledge while
Experience
Second Year deepening their own
Exchange: leadership in the process
deepens students
Exploration understanding and
First Year Trip: exposes broader
exposes students picture
to an issue or area
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43. Student Development:
Training & Enrichment — Example Sequence
Expertise
• Academic Research
Example
• Career planning &
• Leading inquiry & vocation
reflection • Evaluation
• Personal and civic • Networking
values
Experience • Project coordination • Public Speaking
• Critical thinking • Fundraising & Grant • Skills for lifelong
involvement
Writing
• Diversity • Honors’ thesis project—
• Group dynamics & • Advocacy skills tied to service
Exploration communication • Academic Connection
• Community • Project planning • CBR course—Public
knowledge Policy Issue Briefs
• Introduction to social
• Personal exploration issues/civics
• Setting goals • Government course
• Time management
• Active listening
• Teamwork
• Poverty course
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44. Working Session
• What skills, knowledge
areas, and practices will your
students need to fulfill the
visionary goals?
• How do these learning outcomes
evolve developmentally?
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Student View:\n\nEXPECTATION /EXPLORATION: \nTrying to figure out their passions and interests, what is this program about?\nGetting to know the community\nExample: Tutoring; do they like working with children\n\nEXPERIENCE: \nBeen there a year; received some training and experience tutoring, beginning to help coordinate other volunteers, special service events\nSense of belonging to the program, the organization, “my kids,” “my site”\nAttend meetings; community partner really views them as reliable, \n\nEXAMPLE:\nTutoring, helping manage volunteers, write their own curriculum\n\nEXPERTISE: Decided to become education major; curriculum-approved by the state, discussing educational policy, attending staff meetings, treated more like a staff member than a volunteer, grant writing\n