In this fast-paced session, participants will collaborate with two other educators from different roles on campus to brainstorm ideas for specific learning opportunities upon which they could collaborate or partnerships they could form. The session will consist of three rounds of collaborative ideation, after which participants will have time to circle back and focus on ideas that had real traction for them, so they can begin planning specifics and next steps. Work will be captured in a live Google doc, so try to bring a laptop or tablet!

1. Cross-Functional Creativity Lab
Welcome!
Please sit with “different dots” J
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2. Cross-Functional
Creativity Lab
Jen Lehmann Michael Sweet
CATLR CATLR
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3. Goals for Today
• Build your SAIL community connections
• Get you thinking about possibilities that exist “across
silos”
• Generate ideas for learning opportunities and/or
partnerships as raw material for future collaborative
refinement

4. Learning Opportunities or Partnerships
• Activity
• Program
• Event
• Course
… basically something where learning happens (in or out
of the classroom)

5. Creating Learning Opportunities or
Partnerships
Resident
Advisor
Faculty:
Public Policy, Biology, Sociology,
Economics, Environmental Science. . .
Health and
Counseling
Services

6. Creating Learning Opportunities or
Partnerships
Resident
Advisor
Faculty:
Public Policy, Biology, Sociology,
Economics, Environmental Science. . .
Volunteer at urban farm with
discussion about food access
and sustainability impact

7. Creating Learning Opportunities or
Partnerships
Resident
Advisor
Residence Hall program: “Your
First Semester: Successfully
Navigating Common Stressors”

8. Creating Learning Opportunities or
Partnerships
Resident
Advisor
Faculty:
Public Policy, Biology, Sociology,
Economics, Environmental Science. . .
Sustainable Nutrition:
•
Basics
•
Local
Shopping
•
Recipes
Resource handout (Google Doc)
they all keep current, and make
available to:
• Students
• Residents
• Clients/patients

10. How We’ll Proceed
• Cross-functional triads: always try to find people with
different colored-dots!
• Three rounds of brainstorming, 30 minutes each.
• Enter the results of your efforts on a collaborative
Google sheet.
• Some time at the end to circle back to the ideas you
really like and flesh them out more.

11. In Each Round
• Introduce yourselves, dimensions that resonate with your
work AND those that you’re interested in exploring.
• Designate “scribe” who claims three rows on the Google
sheet (example on next slide).
• Brainstorm activities in which at least two of you could
work together—ideally all three.
• Try for three different learning opportunities/partnerships.

12. Round
(1, 2, 3)
Title of
Opportunity or
Partnership Description of Opportunity or Partnership Names of
Educators
1 Service-
Learning
Fellows
Program
Cohort program in which educators involved in
Service-Learning courses meet regularly to
explore evidence-based teaching methods and
for information, inspiration, and community
support.
Becca
Berkey
Mary
English
1
1
1 Next set of
folks

13. Introductions
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Which Dimension:
• Resonates most with
your work as an
educator?
• Is something you
might want to
explore?

14. Time to Create!

15. REFLECTION
Insights, Reflections, and Possible Next Steps
• Something you learned (or want to learn more about)
• Something that has changed the way you think
• Something you might incorporate into what you do now
• People with whom you’d like to reconnect

16. Bragging?
Accolades?
Invitations?
A Moment for:

17. • Next steps?
• Plan a time to reconnect!
-
Reconnect

18. Thank you!
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