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Save travel time and money when you attend the WomenTech Educators
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Online Training Do you have extraordinary STEM programs that are predominantly filled with male students? Do you want a gender balance, but struggle with attracting women who are enthusiastic about STEM? IWITTS can help you recruit and retain more female students in your STEM programs. |
In this video, your trainer Donna Milgram shares a "confession" about a lab strategy that will help your female students: Watch this short video to learn how to help your female (and male) students be more successful in their STEM courses. |
▸ What Educators Are Saying
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Attend the WomenTech Educators Training from the comfort of your own desk. Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment ✓ Top three recruitment strategies & how to put them to use Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success Download a sample letter to gain support (DOC). |
You Will Take Away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A retention plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male students), starting this semester.
- The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away, and free bonus tools that will help you be even more successful. (See Bonuses section below.).
- Plus, A certificate of completion from IWITTS and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.
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Silver Registration ($2995):
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Gold Registration ($4690):
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Weekly Customized Feedback and Support for Your Team:
Members of Gold and Silver level teams have direct access to Donna and her talented team during the training. Every week, your team will receive individualized written feedback on the development of your Recruitment or Retention Action Plan and your personal encouragement and welcoming conversations. Plus, you’ll take part in two live Question and Answer calls with Donna where your team can get even more of your questions answered, and learn from the successes and challenges of other teams in the training.
This training is designed to provide you with a roadmap that will enable you to achieve your goals and because the training is over ten weeks, you will receive support for implementation of your plan strategies.
We are committed to helping educators succeed in creating a gender balance in STEM. Once you have achieved results in increasing the number of female students in your programs, you may be featured in case studies or webinars to highlight your team’s accomplishments while inspiring other educators!
The Power of Teams:
Teams communicate as a single voice during the program. While team members may watch modules individually, the team joins together weekly to synthesize and apply the information into a group assignment. These assignments build to create full recruitment and retention action plans by the end of the training. Experience and research show that participating as a team sets you up to be successful and see results. IWITTS has found in our 5 NSF-funded projects and 20 years of offering professional development that educators who work in teams develop stronger Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plans, are able to get the support they need to start implementing those plans right away, and are more likely to institutionalize lasting change. Some of the many benefits of participating as a team:
Who Should Be on Your Team: Your team will be the most effective if it includes a variety of stakeholders from your college dedicated to increasing the number of female students in the targeted STEM program(s). The most effective teams have 3-6 members. Ideally, a dean, department chair, technology center director, or Principal Investigator (PI) of an Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grant will act as key leader (the key contact) and an instructor from the targeted program will act as co-leader. Recommended core team members:
Other potential team members could include counselors, advisors, outreach coordinators, curriculum developers, and learning center staff. The WomenTech Educators Online Training includes additional guidance on forming and working with a Women in STEM Leadership Team outside of the online training. A full Women in STEM Leadership Team may include more than 3-6 team members, so your core online training team may grow to include other key stakeholders such as representatives from feeder high school(s) or job training programs. The larger the Women in STEM Leadership Team the greater the likelihood for change. Download a sample "Join My Team" letter to recruit team members (DOC). |
The more educators who are trained, in your school, the more effective you will be! |
About Your Trainer: Donna Milgram
Learn directly from Executive Director Donna Milgram, the creator of the WomenTech Educators Training |
Donna Milgram is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), a national nonprofit organization founded in 1994 that provides educators with a roadmap to increasing the number of women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math.
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What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
"The training was time well spent. It was such a minimal amount of time to get so many concrete implementable strategies. The WomenTech Educators Online Training gives you the most for your money—you can implement the tools immediately with minimal resources and see true quantitative results!" |
"We have the first three women in our Auto Technology Program and really want to make sure they succeed. After participating in the WomenTech Educator’s online training, we created additional open lab time for them, realizing they may need extra time to develop hands-on skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Two months into the course they are still with us. I learned so much about retention from the online training, I decided our entire Engineering and Technology Department could benefit and we are bringing the online training to our school and rolling it out to all of the technical faculty over the next two years." ~ Van Madray, Dean of Construction and Industrial Technology Division, Pitt Community College, Winterville, NC |
"Attending the WomenTech Educators training was the best decision I have made in a long time! During the training, I developed a recruitment and retention plan for one of the CIS programs. This is not a training where you consider doing “something” when you get back to your office, you are actually developing and obtaining feedback from other colleagues on what they have done and how you can improve your plan before implementation! Plus, I will be able to take my experience and work on other programs of study using the same framework." ~ Edna Quintana Claus, Ph.D., M.B.A., CIS Division Director, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Texas |
"The WomenTech Educators Online Training has the potential to change the way you view your program. Important data is presented with passion and humor. I want you to know I have gained a great deal from the course. By the time you have a graduate degree and have worked in education for decades, most "professional development" is repetitive. I can honestly say that you have given me much to think about and that it will result in changes to my approach to course development." ~ Lauran Sattler, Department Chair, Computer Information Systems, Ivy Tech Community College, President's Award for Instructional Excellence 2007, Warsaw, IN |
"The online training was very manageable because it was asynchronous. I'm always teaching an overload, but you watch the training videos at your leisure, and participate as you're able. Because of that I was able to integrate the training into my very busy schedule." ~ Dr. Cynthia V. Marcello, Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, SUNY Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake, NY |
"I learned a lot of new methods and perspectives on retention I did not have before and I've already started making changes on how I do things here at my school! The WomenTech Educators Online Training was a content-filled and highly informative training program." ~ Antigone Sharris, Full-time Faculty & Program Coordinator, Engineering Technology Program, Triton College, River Grove, IL |
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We've added these two bonuses to the training because our busy educators do not need to recreate the wheel. You'll have template outreach materials to help with recruitment from the get-go, as well as a way to find free and low cost classroom resources.
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