Scott Myers-Lipton, Director of the Teaching Social Action Initiative, is offering 2-day, in-person, training for faculty and staff who want to use social action in their courses or workshop series. The expectation for the 2-day training is that there is minimum of five faculty and staff committed to teach a course or workshop series using social action in the next 18 months.
Short Overview
1) Choose a date
2) Reserve a space: Moveable chairs for 20+, tech, eating space
3) Find funding: $4-5K to cover lunch and coffee/snacks for participants, and my flight & hotel, and honorarium (nice, but not necessary)
Long Overiew
First, we need to choose a date. Are you thinking about fall or spring? During the school year, it is best to do Institutes on Saturday and Sunday, or Friday and Saturday, but in the summer or winter, we can hold them on weekdays as well.
Below is our DC Institute…but please note we generally go from 9 am-4:30 pm on Day 1, and 9 am-3:30 pm on Day 2
Second, you need to identify a room for 20-40 participants that has moveable chairs and tables.
Third, you need to raise $4,000 to $5,000 from your institution or community to cover the cost for lunch and coffee/snacks for the 20-40 faculty and staff, as well as airfare and 2-3 nights at a hotel for me. The food cost (lunch on both days, along with coffee and snacks) is about $2-3K and the cost of flight and hotel is around $1K. If you can include an honorarium, that would be great, but it is not necessary.
Fourth, The host (YOU!) will co-host the event with SML, which means you will cover about one-half of the slides in the 70 slide presentation. SML will send these slides to you, and go over them together before the Insittute.
Fifth, we will develop a plan to recruit in your state and regionally.
Sixth, Bobby and I will set up a link where the participants can apply, just as we do for all the upcoming Institutes. The application process makes them aware of our expectations, and gets them into our system on Notions, where we can track their progress with social action. If they agree to our expectations, we accept them into the Institute. Let me know your thoughts! I look forward to hosting an Institute on your campus.
You can call Scott ML at 510-508-5382, or email him at smlipton@gmail.com to discuss.