This document discusses strategies for planning effective meetings and training opportunities for Bonner students. It recommends having a mix of different types of meetings each semester, including class meetings, cohort meetings, site meetings, and all-Bonner meetings. It also suggests using student development frameworks to plan multi-year learning outcomes and corresponding trainings. Additionally, it provides examples of leveraging academic courses and co-curricular opportunities to enhance student learning. The goal is to intentionally design a developmental model that supports students' growth over four years in the program.

1. Your Toolbox for
Training, Reflection,
Bonner Meetings Management, and
Development

2. What We’ll Cover
• Why are meetings important?
• What kinds of meetings?
• Core Student Development frameworks
• Strategy:
• Training & Enrichment in BWBRS

3. Why are meetings
important?
• Bonner Student Impact and
Alumni Survey suggests that
the strongest elements of
program effectiveness are:
• dialogue across difference
• mentors (staff, peers, site
supervisors, & faculty)
• structured reflection
magnifies unstructured
reflection

4. Bonner
Wiki:
See
Research &
Assessment

5. Bonner Wiki: Research and Assessment
Prezi -
Engagement
Multiplied

6. Moreover, these
meetings:
• Build skills (i.e., project
management) and
knowledge (i.e., diversity)
needed to do best work in
communities
• Build a sense of belonging
—Bonner Love
• Promote accountability
• Foster campus-wide and
community connections
• Promote retention and
graduation

7. What kinds of meetings?
Class Meetings
- at least every other week
Cohort-based meetings for
each class year (or two, if
small program)
All Bonner Meetings
- every month
Engage the Common
Commitments, partners
and issues, broader
themes, and community

8. Other kinds of meetings...
Site Meetings by issue, team, or
cluster - every other week or
monthly —
engage students (& leaders) in
planning, project
management, & issue learning
Cornerstone or Project Meetings
- occasionally
Preparation for service trips,
campus-wide events, Bonner
Congress, Bonner Leadership
Team

9. Other kinds of meetings...
Campus-wide or National Events
Speaking events, faculty-led
sessions, IMPACT Conference,
national conferences... flavor
not main ingredient
Course-based Meetings - can
be used for Cohort or projects
You may choose to link training
& enrichment with credit-
bearing options, such as a first
year experience course or
third-year community based
research course

10. Resource Sharing
for Great Meetings

11. Have a mix of meetings each semester...
Semester Staff Student Leaders Community Partners
Summer Planning Orientation Participate in Orientation
Week 1 Model: Monthly rotation:
Week 2 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class Meet with team
Rotate to visit sites Meeting - by Site
Week 3 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class
Week 4 Lead All Bonner Meeting All Bonner Meeting
Week 5 Monthly rotation:
Model, then delegate:
Week 6 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class Meet with team
Rotate to visit sites Meeting - by Site
Week 7 Guest leads Class Meeting Meeting - by Class
Week 8 Host partner at ABM All Bonner Meeting Speak at Bonner Meeting
Week 9 Model and delegate: Monthly rotation:
Week 10 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class Meet with team
Rotate to visit sites Meeting - by Site
Week 11 Intern leads Class Meeting Meeting - by Class
Week 12 Coach BLT to lead ABM All Bonner Meeting
Week 13 Lead Class Meeting Meeting - by Class
Week 15 End-semester Celebration

12. Student Development
Frameworks
• The result of network-wide
input, program design and
innovation, decades of
experimentation, and
assessment
• Common
Commitments
• Skills
• Knowledge Areas

13. Common Commitments
Community Building International Perspective
Social Justice
Diversity
Spiritual
Exploration
Civic
Engagement

14. Skills and Capacities
Personal • Budgeting
• Event planning
• Fundraising
• Active listening
• Grant writing
• Balance &
• Marketing
boundaries
• Mediation
• Communication
• Networking
• Decision
• Public education
making
and advocacy
• Organization
• Volunteer
• Planning management
• Time • Conflict resolution
management
• Goal setting
•
•
Delegation
Planning
Professional
• Public speaking
Leadership • Running a meeting
• Teamwork
• Working with diverse
groups

15. Knowledge Areas
Place Poverty and Economic
Issues Development
Politics and Public Policy
Power &and Privilege

16. How to create a
meeting calendar
• 3 strategies can
yield a rich array of
training & enrichment
events for all of
your Bonners

17. Build around learning
Strategy 1 outcomes

18. Download
rubrics
from
aacu.org

19. Diversity of communities and cultures...
Year 1 Year 3 Year 4
Sense of Year 2 Power and Knowledge
identity and privilege; and
Teamwork in being an ally;
knowledge navigating
diverse more complex
of complex
communities; issues
community community
focus on
and
gender, race, institutional
Self Campus and
& ethnicity environment
community
Team Nation,
world

20. Resource Development
Year 1 Year 3
Year 4
Understanding Year 2 Helping your
Being a
Bonner funds; Understanding site or
community to social
using non-profit
increase its entrepreneur
community funding
fund resource base
Initiating
Fundraising resource
Budgeting events Grant writing;
development
(planning, Making
campaigns
leading) personal asks

21. In a nutshell, decide 4-6 learning
outcomes for each year
Year 2 Year 4
Year 1 Year 3
Knowledge of Politics and
Place-based poverty (and Power and public policy
knowledge economic privilege (dealing
development) with isms) Decision
Active listening making
Balance & Delegation
Budgeting boundaries Evaluation/
Event planning research
Goal setting Conflict
resolution & Facilitation Marketing and
mediation public relations
Organizational
skills Planning Fundraising and
grant writing Networking
Reflection Teamwork Planning and Public
Time running a meeting education and
Resource advocacy
management development and
fundraising Volunteer
management and Public
events team leadership speaking

22. Remember these also link to positions,
leadership roles, &and cornerstones
Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Year 1 Knowledge of poverty (and Politics and public
Place-based economic development) Power and privilege (dealing policy
with isms)
knowledge
Balance & boundaries Delegation Decision making
Active listening Event planning
Conflict resolution & Evaluation/research
Budgeting mediation Facilitation
Fundraising and grant writing Marketing and public
Goal setting Planning relations
Planning and running a
Organizational skills Teamwork meeting Networking
Volunteer management and
Reflection Resource development and team leadership Public education and
fundraising events advocacy
Time management BLT!
First Year Second Year Public speaking
Exchange Site Leadership Capstone
Seminar
Course
Learning International Trip
First Year Community Site Leadership
Trip Research Course Roles

23. Find relevant
trainings on the
Bonner Wiki under
Trainings, Common
Commitments or
Student Handbook

24. Each training
module is a full
lesson plan, with
activities and
handouts

25. Strategy 2 Use and create a
training calendar

26. Bonner Sample Calendar
Developmental Model Training Calendar
Fall Year 1 (First Years) Year 2 (Second Years) Year 3 (Third Years) Year 4 (Fourth Years)
August • Orientation covering Bonner 101, • Back-to-school refresher; • Back-to-school refresher • Back-to-school refresher;
community partner introductions, update Bonner Wiki update Bonner Wiki; find update Bonner Wiki & find
community/team buildling • Setting Service Objectives courses for juniors senior year capstones
• Games, Games, Games Galore & (at higher level) • Learning Circle (class • BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Icebreakers • Introduction to Civic based) Audacious Goals
• Identity Circles: A Personal Engagement
Exploration of Diversity
September • Introduction to Effective • Developing an Action Plan • Leading Learning Circles: • Hearing the Call: Listening
Communication • Budgeting (involve A Train-the-Trainers to Your Inner Voice
• Community Asset Mapping part 1 presenter from campus/ Approach • Vocation: Board of
(introduction, scavenger hunt) community) • Bridging the Gap Between Directors
• Global Poverty (NEW) Service, Activism, and
Politics
October • Community Asset Mapping part 2 • Introduction to Effective • Facilitation 202: More • Introduction to Spiritual
(involving partner) Communication: Do You Techniques and Strategies Exploration
• Community Asset Mapping part 3 Hear Me? • Get-Out-the-Vote • Evaluation (involve faculty
(involving campus assessment) • Advocacy 101: Tools for presenter)
Political Engagement
November • Time Management: Managing by • Conflict Resolution: Steps • Building Coalitions • Tuesdays with Morrie
Calendar for Handling Interpersonal • Building Coalitions (part 2: Discussion
• Time Management: Managing by Dynamics application for campus • Personal Vision: Creating
Calendar Follow Up (planners) • Facilitation 101: Roles of project) or Grant Writing One
Effective Facilitators
December • Setting Service Objectives • Group feedback session • Vocation: “The Bridge • Personal Vision 2: Follow
(modeling previous Builder” poem and up and sharing & Building
trainings) reflective discussion Shared Vision
December/ • Mid-Year Bonner Retreat integrating:
January • Community building (move diversity workshops from other areas or add new ones)
• Common Commitments (use Bonner Wiki videos from STUDENT HANDBOOK LIVE! and new modules)
• Reflection & visioning
• Most recommended: Cover Story, Four Corners (changing questions), River Stories/Introduction to Community Building,
Leadership Compass,Vocation workshops

27. Bonner Sample Calendar
Developmental Model Training Calendar
Spring Year 1 (First Years) Year 2 (Second Years) Year 3 (Third Years) Year 4 (Fourth Years)
January • Vocation: “Dead Poet’s Society” film • Four Corners: Building • Citizenship: Rights, • Finding Your Vocational Fit
clip and discussion Appreciation for Diverse Responsibilities & Struggles Worksheet
• Service-Based Reflection: How It Ideas and Dialogue or Introduction to Social • Resume Writing &
Supports Making Service Meaningful • Advocacy & Lobbying 101 Justice (similar) Interviewing Skills
• Leadership Compass or
Meyers-Briggs/Work Style
Inventory
February • Fishbowl Discussion: Defining Your • Building a Personal • Power Mapping • Public Speaking
Communities Network • Advocacy 201: Meeting • Preparation for Senior
• Research related to First Year Trip • Resume writing workshop with an Elective Presentations of Learning
(Career Services) Representative
March • Groups Within Groups: Exploring • Facilitation 201: An • Building Career Networks • Seeing Through Employers’
Dimensions of Diversity Intensive Introduction • Exploring Non-Profit Eyes: Group Resume Game
• Gender 1: Building Gender • Gender 2: Deepening Careers • Senior Resume Review
Awareness Gender Awareness
April • Racism: Deconstructing It • Planning Effective Meetings • Vocation: The Two Choices • Preparing a Leadership
• Introduction to the Non-Profit • Ethnocentrism: Exploring & • Homophobia: Countering Transition
Sector (in preparation for summer) Tackling It It • Want Ads:
May • Tower of “Me”sa Spiritual & • Vocation: Guided • Vocation: “So What do you • Submission of Senior
Personal Exploration Reflections for do?” personal exploration Presentations of Learning
Recommitment exercise • Last Words: a Reflection on
My Life
June • Review trainings and customize plan.
• Review other modules, such as on international perspective and poverty, using links on Wiki.
July • Plan your own trainings & plug them in!

28. Fall 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year 4th Year
Bonner 101 & Community BHAGs: Setting Big Hairy
Orientation Partner 101 Introduction to Civic Engagement Learning Circle Audacious Goals
Week 1 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Overview of the Civic Leading Learning Circles: A Train- Hearing the Call: Listening to
Week 2 Engagement Center and Campus
Action Planning
the-Trainers Approach Your Inner Voice
Week 3 All Bonner Meeting
Community Asset Mapping part 1 Bridging the Gap Between
Week 4 - Scavenger Hunts
Budgeting
Service, Activism, and Politics
Vocation: Board of Directors
Week 5 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Community Asset Mapping part 2 Intro to Effective
Facilitation 202: More Techniques Introduction to Spiritual
Week 6 - Community Partner presents Communication: Do You Hear
and Strategies Exploration
schools issues Me?
Week 7 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Faculty member presents
Advocacy 101: Tools for Political
Week 8 classroom management
Engagement
Get-Out-the-Vote Evaluation
techniques
Week 9
In this example, we
All Bonner Meeting
Time Management: Managing by Conflict Resolution: Steps for
Week 10
modify the first year
Building Coalitions: Part 1 Tuesdays with Morrie Discussion
Calendar—give students journals Handling Interpersonal Dynamics
Week 11
by engaging partner
Issue/Site Team Meetings
Time Management: Managing by Facilitation 101: Roles of Effective Building Coalitions (part 2:
Week 12
and faculty reps.
Calendar Follow Up—students application for campus project) or Personal Vision: Creating One
bring planners to discuss Facilitators Grant Writing
Week 13 Issue/Site Team Meetings
Setting Service Objectives for Vocation: “The Bridge Builder” Personal Vision 2: Follow up &
Week 14 second semester
Group feedback session
poem and reflective discussion Building Shared Vision
Week 15 All Bonner Meeting

29. Student-led Faculty-led Partner-led
Fill in with other
Strategy 3 enrichment opportunities

30. Academic Journey
Capstone or
Integrative Seminar
Courses (many disciplines)
with Full-time
Internships
Bridge Coursework:
Methodology, Service-Learning,
CBR, or Research
Policy/ Poverty/ Global/
Political Economic International
Analysis Analysis Awareness
Lead-in or
Gateway Course

31. Learn from campuses across USA
Colorado College Certificate or Thematic Minor in Civic Engagement
Concord University Minor in Civic Engagement
Lynchburg College Minor in Civic Engagement
Mars Hill College Certificate in Civic Engagement (Co-curricular Transcript)
Morehouse College Minor in Civic Engagement
Portland State University Minor in Civic Leadership
Rutgers University Certificate in Women’s Leadership
Saint Mary’s College of CA Justice and Community Minor
The College of NJ Concentration in Civic Engagement
University of Alaska Certificate in Civic Engagement
UCLA Minor in Civic Leadership
Wagner College Certificate in Civic Engagement
Washington & Lee Univ. Minor in the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty
West Chester University Honors Program (Civic Engagement focus)

32. Training &
Enrichment in BWBRS
• Every workshop, meeting,
and eligible opportunity can
be added into BWBRS so
that, yes, students log it!
• a way to track
learning; a portfolio
• a way to view
intentionality
• program oversight

33. Sample Class Meeting

34. Sample All Bonner Meeting

35. Sample Faculty-Led Meeting

36. This student has attended 41 events since August 2010,
totaling 140.5 hours in training (- plus courses!

37. What’s on your worksheet
•Discuss your meeting structure
•Brainstorm learning outcomes
•Study and apply the Bonner Training
Calendar
•Understand how to write up a training
event