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IWITTS offers educators, administrators, counselors and outreach staff from high schools, community colleges, and four-year institutions a range of professional development opportunities to fit every schedule and budget. Donna Milgram, IWITTS's Executive Director, developed the training to provide you with the proven strategies you need to enroll more women and girls in your science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses and increase completion rates of your female and male students. No matter which training format you choose, you'll learn the full knowledgebase and develop an effective Women in STEM Recruitment and Retention Plan using our proven template. When you take the first step and request professional development, we'll follow up with details about which options will be most effective for your group's needs.
IWITTS's WomenTech Educators Training options include:
Online Training
IWITTS has cracked the code to helping colleges broaden participation as soon as the next semester with the WomenTech Educators Online Training System – developed during our 5 National Science Foundation projects and now available to all colleges through IWITTS's WomenTech Online Training program. IWITTS offers it's online professional development as a live 4-day WomenTech Educators Online Bootcamp. All online trainings include 5+ hours of Coaching and Customized Feedback Calls with your team and your Trainer Donna Milgram (including transcripts and recordings of all calls).
Onsite Training
Bring the WomenTech Educators Training to your location to increase the number of female students in your STEM classes. When you host a 1-2 day WomenTech Educators Training in your college, university, region, district or state, each participant will take away: 1) a Recruitment Plan to greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms; 2) a Retention Plan for your school to increase the completion rate of your female (and male) students starting this semester; and 3) the knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action right away.
Keynotes by Donna Milgram
Engage and inspire larger audiences at your conference or event with a presentation by Donna Milgram, an expert on closing the gender gap for women and girls in STEM. Donna shares her 25 plus years of research, insight, and experience through innovative, evidence-based keynote and conference presentations. Each of Donna's speeches is customized to match the theme and audience for your event. Find out more about speaking and presentations by Donna Milgram.
Evidence that IWITTS professional development works:
- Testimonials – See some of the hundreds of testimonials IWITTS has received over the last two decades from STEM educators, administrators, and counselors at every school level.
- Case Study – Find out how female retention went from zero to 86% and male retention from 70% to 93% in required introductory programming courses in less than a year after participating in a WomenTech Educators Training.
- Successful NSF-funded Projects – IWITTS's professional development has been a successful part of 5 National Science Foundation (NSF) projects. Based on proven practices, IWITTS's WomenTech Educators Training includes the "best-of-the-best" of our strategies, culled from 5 NSF projects and over 20 years of success in assisting educational institutions in recruiting and retaining female students in programs around the country. Our work was highlighted by the NSF for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness.
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Attention STEM Education Leaders:
Introducing an easy, new way to help your school, region or state learn how to move the needle on Women in STEM...from experts and practitioners who have actually done it!
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Hear firsthand from experts and experienced practitioners on proven methods for broadening participation. You’ll learn practical examples and proven strategies for increasing female enrollment and female — and male — retention in STEM programs. Want a free preview of the STEM Success for Women Master Class? Download a sample audio clip and transcript now (PDF). Listen to a free clip from the Master Class session "56% Female Engineering Graduating Class: Case Study" and read along to learn from Dr. Elizabeth Orwin a strategy her college used to increase engagement with female students (that male students loved, too). |
Learn from 11 of the top experts and practitioners on engaging women in STEM education including... |
Chandra Brown Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce |
Lily Gossage Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP) Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence, |
Dr. Mary R. Anderson- Director, Academic Success |
Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) |
We want to make sure that every STEM educator who is serious about enrolling more women in their STEM classes, especially at the community college level, has access to this valuable content. That’s why we created the Master Class.
The Master Class includes downloadable transcripts and audio of 12 sessions on increasing the number of women in STEM. These are on-demand, 1-hour audio classes that you can listen to at your convenience, with transcripts, from some of the top experts in the country.
Download the Master Class for your whole School, District or State:
This Master Class could be helpful for every science, technology, engineering and trades educator in your school, or even your district or region. Save significantly over ordering individual licenses when you order a silver, gold or platinum license. Simply choose which license you prefer during check out.
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We've made it easy for your educators to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach STEM in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save your educators many hours of researching this themselves.
The STEM Success for Women Master Class is the only way you can hear from this collection of top experts and practitioners on Women in STEM...
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How to Be Successful in the Lab with Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) Donna Milgram, your Telesummit host and a nationally-recognized expert on women and STEM, is currently Principal Investigator of two National Science Foundation projects working to assist STEM educators in broadening participation of women. In this session, Donna will share the proven strategies and best practices for ensuring your female students are successful in the lab. |
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An Engineering Graduating Class of 56% Female Students with Dr. Liz Orwin, Ph.D. Professor of Engineering and Department Chair, Director of Engman Fellowship Program in Bioengineering, Harvey Mudd College You’ll hear how Harvey Mudd College graduated an engineering class of 56% female students in this interview with Dr. Elizabeth J. Orwin, Professor of Engineering and Department Chair. Learn what changes her engineering program made to the curriculum of introductory courses to increase the number of female students getting engineering degrees. You’ll also find out how her department used female role models and increased confidence levels of female engineering students. |
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A 100% Job Placement Rate for Women in Non-Traditional Occupations with Ede Slovin Former President and CEO of the Options! Program, a Community-Based Organization for Empowerment, Education and Employment, and WomenTech Educators Trainer Ede Slovin has served as the Executive Director of the Options! Program, a community-based organization for Empowerment, Education and Employment. Under her leadership, the organization achieved a phenomenal job placement success rate of 92% for its clients, many of them displaced homemakers. While she was the Director of the New Directions program at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida, the program had a 100% job placement rate and 38% of the placements were in non-traditional occupations for women. In this session, Ede will share best practices applied during her decades of hands-on experience in recruiting and retaining women in STEM career pathways. |
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Women in Manufacturing: A Gender Gap to Innovation with Chandra Brown Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce Join us to hear Chandra Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing from the U.S. Department of Commerce, discuss how the gender gap for women in manufacturing is hurting innovation in the U.S. and what we can do to close that gap. Ms. Brown will share up-and-coming career options in the manufacturing sector and spell out why it’s so important to have women working at all levels in the industry. She’ll also draw on her own years of private sector manufacturing experience to explain why manufacturing is such a great career option for women. |
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Increasing Female Students Declaring a Computer Science Major from 11% to 46% via Pair Programming with Dr. Charlie McDowell, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Charlie McDowell, a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, has dramatically increased retention of female and male students in computer science courses. Over 46% of female students who participated in his introductory undergraduate computer science courses declared a computer science major compared to 11% of female students in a control group. Learn from his highly instructive case study. |
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A 62% Increase in Female Introductory Computer Programming Enrollment and a 45% Increase in Female and Male Student Retention with Barbara DuFrain Smart Wonderful Women Computer Science, Engineering and Advanced Technology Site Coordinator, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College Professor Barbara DuFrain of Del Mar College was able to increase female enrollment in her intro to computer programming classes by 62%, and improve female and male retention by 45% in less than a year. In this session, you’ll learn the classroom retention strategies that worked right away. Plus, get the details on the "Smart, Wonderful Women" outreach campaign that helped lead to substantial increases in enrollment. |
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Recruiting Women of Color to STEM with Lily Gossage Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP) Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona College of Engineering Lily Gossage is the Director of Maximizing Engineering Potential, MEP: Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence at Cal Poly Pomona. In this session Lily shares her experience with recruiting female students, and special considerations for recruiting women of color to STEM. |
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Increasing Female Enrollment by 46% and Improving Retention from a 64% Baseline to a High of 86% with Carmen Lamha Chair, Computer Networking & Information Technology, City College of San Francisco, and WomenTech Educators Trainer In the Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) department, chaired by Carmen Lamha at City College of San Francisco, the percentage of female students increased from 18% to an average enrollment rate of 26%. The retention rates of female students increased from a 64% baseline to a high of 86%, and the retention of male students increased as well. In this session, Carmen shares strategies and best practices on recruitment and retention from the CNIT program and from her role as Co-Principal Investigator of the CalWomenTech Project. |
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From 39 to 76 Female Students in a Community College STEM Program: Doubling Enrollment with Pam Silvers Chairperson, Computer Technologies, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, and WomenTech Educators Trainer Pamela Silvers, the Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in North Carolina, increased female enrollment in her program by 95% from 39 to 76 female students. Currently she is PI for a National Science Foundation ATE Grant entitled, "Skilled Workers Get Jobs: Recruiting Women and Retaining ALL Students." In this session she’ll share the strategies that nearly doubled the number of female students in her college’s STEM programs in less than two years. |
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40% Female Enrollment and 90% Graduation Rates for Two STEM Academic Scholarship Programs with Dr. Mary Anderson-Rowland, Ph.D. Director, Academic Success Programs School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University STEM Education expert Dr. Mary R. Anderson-Rowland has achieved an average of 40% female enrollment and a 90% graduation rate for two STEM Academic Scholarship Programs she directs at Arizona State University. Her programs have an emphasis on under-represented minority students with unmet financial need, but still have higher completion rates than students overall. In this interview Dr. Anderson-Rowland will reveal the strategies that worked to recruit women and students of color, and the retention strategies she used that helped them graduate with a 90% completion rate. One of her effective retention strategies was to use the Guaranteed 4.0 system developed by Donna O. Johnson. |
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Using Spatial Reasoning Skills to Boost Female Retention by 42% in One Semester with Dr. Sheryl Sorby, Ph.D. Professor of Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University Dr. Sheryl Sorby, Professor of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, is the international expert on boosting spatial reasoning skills in female STEM students to improve retention. In this session, she will share how in only 12 teaching contact hours she improved retention of female engineering students by 42% in one semester. |
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Opening the STEM Pipeline: Every Student Can Have An Interest in STEM with Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) What are we missing out on because the way STEM is currently taught in many schools turns students off from science and technology? Join Donna Milgram, a nationally-recognized expert on women in STEM and the Executive Director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, to learn why a diverse STEM workforce is a "life or death matter" and how educators like you are a vital part of the solution. You’ll leave the session with three things you can do right away to make a difference for students in your STEM programs. |
The Master Class is the recorded version of our recent live STEM Success for Women Telesummit.
Here’s what educators who attended the live event have to say:
"After the STEM Success for Women Telesummit, I immediately went out and located a copy of the book on gender inclusive STEM education that a presenter recommended and have been using several of the strategies in the TechSpot 2.0 ATE Project at my college ever since. The Telesummit provided a helpful overview of current proven practices and gender-based resources that I’ve been able to apply to my work."
~ Maura Devlin-Clancy, Chair of Computer Networking & Information Technology and Co-PI of NSF ATE Project TechSpot 2.0, City College of San Francisco, CA
"After participating in the STEM Success for Women Telesummit, I began reaching out to my female students more and trying to connect them with the technical material in a way they can relate to and I've seen female retention increase to around 75%. I look forward to attending future Telesummits for more new ideas!"
~ Kelli Kleindorfer, Instructor of Computer Science, Des Moines Area Community College, IA
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Attention STEM Education Leaders:
Introducing an easy, new way to help your school, region or state learn how to move the needle on Women in STEM...from experts and practitioners who have actually done it!
|
Hear firsthand from experts and experienced practitioners on proven methods for broadening participation. You’ll learn practical examples and proven strategies for increasing female enrollment and female — and male — retention in STEM programs. Want a free preview of the STEM Success for Women Master Class? Download a sample audio clip and transcript now (PDF). Listen to a free clip from the Master Class session "56% Female Engineering Graduating Class: Case Study" and read along to learn from Dr. Elizabeth Orwin a strategy her college used to increase engagement with female students (that male students loved, too). |
Learn from 11 of the top experts and practitioners on engaging women in STEM education including... |
Chandra Brown Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce |
Lily Gossage Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP) Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence, |
Dr. Mary R. Anderson- Director, Academic Success |
Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) |
We want to make sure that every STEM educator who is serious about enrolling more women in their STEM classes, especially at the community college level, has access to this valuable content. That’s why we created the Master Class.
The Master Class includes downloadable transcripts and audio of 12 sessions on increasing the number of women in STEM. These are on-demand, 1-hour audio classes that you can listen to at your convenience, with transcripts, from some of the top experts in the country.
Download the Master Class for your whole School, District or State:
This Master Class could be helpful for every science, technology, engineering and trades educator in your school, or even your district or region. Save significantly over ordering individual licenses when you order a silver, gold or platinum license. Simply choose which license you prefer during check out.
| Recommended For: | Individuals | Schools | Districts | States |
| # of users: | 1 | 10 | 50 | 500 |
| License type: | Individual | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
| Special Pricing: | Discount | 20% Discount | 40% Discount | 87% Discount |
| Total Value: | |
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| Yours for a Limited Time: |
$147
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$1,176
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$4,410
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$11,830
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The STEM Success for Women Master Class is the only way you can hear from this collection of top experts and practitioners on Women in STEM...
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How to Be Successful in the Lab with Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) Donna Milgram, your Telesummit host and a nationally-recognized expert on women and STEM, is currently Principal Investigator of two National Science Foundation projects working to assist STEM educators in broadening participation of women. In this session, Donna will share the proven strategies and best practices for ensuring your female students are successful in the lab. |
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An Engineering Graduating Class of 56% Female Students with Dr. Liz Orwin, Ph.D. Professor of Engineering and Department Chair, Director of Engman Fellowship Program in Bioengineering, Harvey Mudd College You’ll hear how Harvey Mudd College graduated an engineering class of 56% female students in this interview with Dr. Elizabeth J. Orwin, Professor of Engineering and Department Chair. Learn what changes her engineering program made to the curriculum of introductory courses to increase the number of female students getting engineering degrees. You’ll also find out how her department used female role models and increased confidence levels of female engineering students. |
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A 100% Job Placement Rate for Women in Non-Traditional Occupations with Ede Slovin Former President and CEO of the Options! Program, a Community-Based Organization for Empowerment, Education and Employment, and WomenTech Educators Trainer Ede Slovin has served as the Executive Director of the Options! Program, a community-based organization for Empowerment, Education and Employment. Under her leadership, the organization achieved a phenomenal job placement success rate of 92% for its clients, many of them displaced homemakers. While she was the Director of the New Directions program at Seminole Community College in Sanford, Florida, the program had a 100% job placement rate and 38% of the placements were in non-traditional occupations for women. In this session, Ede will share best practices applied during her decades of hands-on experience in recruiting and retaining women in STEM career pathways. |
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Women in Manufacturing: A Gender Gap to Innovation with Chandra Brown Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce Join us to hear Chandra Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing from the U.S. Department of Commerce, discuss how the gender gap for women in manufacturing is hurting innovation in the U.S. and what we can do to close that gap. Ms. Brown will share up-and-coming career options in the manufacturing sector and spell out why it’s so important to have women working at all levels in the industry. She’ll also draw on her own years of private sector manufacturing experience to explain why manufacturing is such a great career option for women. |
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Increasing Female Students Declaring a Computer Science Major from 11% to 46% via Pair Programming with Dr. Charlie McDowell, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz Dr. Charlie McDowell, a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, has dramatically increased retention of female and male students in computer science courses. Over 46% of female students who participated in his introductory undergraduate computer science courses declared a computer science major compared to 11% of female students in a control group. Learn from his highly instructive case study. |
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A 62% Increase in Female Introductory Computer Programming Enrollment and a 45% Increase in Female and Male Student Retention with Barbara DuFrain Smart Wonderful Women Computer Science, Engineering and Advanced Technology Site Coordinator, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Engineering and Advanced Technology, Del Mar College Professor Barbara DuFrain of Del Mar College was able to increase female enrollment in her intro to computer programming classes by 62%, and improve female and male retention by 45% in less than a year. In this session, you’ll learn the classroom retention strategies that worked right away. Plus, get the details on the "Smart, Wonderful Women" outreach campaign that helped lead to substantial increases in enrollment. |
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Recruiting Women of Color to STEM with Lily Gossage Director, Maximizing Engineering Potential (MEP) Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona College of Engineering Lily Gossage is the Director of Maximizing Engineering Potential, MEP: Center for Gender, Diversity & Student Excellence at Cal Poly Pomona. In this session Lily shares her experience with recruiting female students, and special considerations for recruiting women of color to STEM. |
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Increasing Female Enrollment by 46% and Improving Retention from a 64% Baseline to a High of 86% with Carmen Lamha Chair, Computer Networking & Information Technology, City College of San Francisco, and WomenTech Educators Trainer In the Computer Networking and Information Technology (CNIT) department, chaired by Carmen Lamha at City College of San Francisco, the percentage of female students increased from 18% to an average enrollment rate of 26%. The retention rates of female students increased from a 64% baseline to a high of 86%, and the retention of male students increased as well. In this session, Carmen shares strategies and best practices on recruitment and retention from the CNIT program and from her role as Co-Principal Investigator of the CalWomenTech Project. |
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From 39 to 76 Female Students in a Community College STEM Program: Doubling Enrollment with Pam Silvers Chairperson, Computer Technologies, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, and WomenTech Educators Trainer Pamela Silvers, the Chairperson of Computer Technologies at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in North Carolina, increased female enrollment in her program by 95% from 39 to 76 female students. Currently she is PI for a National Science Foundation ATE Grant entitled, "Skilled Workers Get Jobs: Recruiting Women and Retaining ALL Students." In this session she’ll share the strategies that nearly doubled the number of female students in her college’s STEM programs in less than two years. |
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40% Female Enrollment and 90% Graduation Rates for Two STEM Academic Scholarship Programs with Dr. Mary Anderson-Rowland, Ph.D. Director, Academic Success Programs School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University STEM Education expert Dr. Mary R. Anderson-Rowland has achieved an average of 40% female enrollment and a 90% graduation rate for two STEM Academic Scholarship Programs she directs at Arizona State University. Her programs have an emphasis on under-represented minority students with unmet financial need, but still have higher completion rates than students overall. In this interview Dr. Anderson-Rowland will reveal the strategies that worked to recruit women and students of color, and the retention strategies she used that helped them graduate with a 90% completion rate. |
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Using Spatial Reasoning Skills to Boost Female Retention by 42% in One Semester with Dr. Sheryl Sorby, Ph.D. Professor of Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University Dr. Sheryl Sorby, Professor of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University, is the international expert on boosting spatial reasoning skills in female STEM students to improve retention. In this session, she will share how in only 12 teaching contact hours she improved retention of female engineering students by 42% in one semester. |
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Opening the STEM Pipeline: Every Student Can Have An Interest in STEM with Donna Milgram Executive Director, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS) What are we missing out on because the way STEM is currently taught in many schools turns students off from science and technology? Join Donna Milgram, a nationally-recognized expert on women in STEM and the Executive Director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, to learn why a diverse STEM workforce is a "life or death matter" and how educators like you are a vital part of the solution. You’ll leave the session with three things you can do right away to make a difference for students in your STEM programs. |
The Master Class is the recorded version of our recent live STEM Success for Women Telesummit.
Here’s what educators who attended the live event have to say:
"After the STEM Success for Women Telesummit, I immediately went out and located a copy of the book on gender inclusive STEM education that a presenter recommended and have been using several of the strategies in the TechSpot 2.0 ATE Project at my college ever since. The Telesummit provided a helpful overview of current proven practices and gender-based resources that I’ve been able to apply to my work."
~ Maura Devlin-Clancy, Chair of Computer Networking & Information Technology and Co-PI of NSF ATE Project TechSpot 2.0, City College of San Francisco, CA
"After participating in the STEM Success for Women Telesummit, I began reaching out to my female students more and trying to connect them with the technical material in a way they can relate to and I've seen female retention increase to around 75%. I look forward to attending future Telesummits for more new ideas!"
~ Kelli Kleindorfer, Instructor of Computer Science, Des Moines Area Community College, IA
| Individuals | Schools (Silver) | Districts (Gold) | States (Platinum) |
| 1 users | 10 users | 50 users | 500 users |
|
$147
|
$1,176
|
$4,410
|
$11,830
|
Ordering Information
If you are purchasing this for multiple users, purchase the appropriate license. You can indicate which license you'd like to purchase during checkout or on the print order form. By purchasing this product, you agree to these terms of use. This is a downloadable product. There are no shipping fees.
You will receive instructions on how to download the file after you complete your purchase.
Dear Administrator,
Are you frustrated by the challenges your institution has faced in recruiting and retaining more female students to your STEM classes and programs?
If you're like me, you want to see more women enrolled in STEM classes and prepared to explore all the engaging and fulfilling opportunities available in STEM career pathways.
It's time to see more female faces in your excellent STEM classes and programs!
You've been wanting to improve the educational diversity
of your classrooms…
But you keep running into roadblocks.
You're in the right place if...
- You have tried to recruit female students to your STEM programs and found your efforts haven't worked
- You have limited time and want to ensure your recruitment efforts are effective and efficient
- You finally recruited one or two female students to your STEM classes... Only to have them drop out
- You want to improve educational diversity across all your STEM programs
- Your male retention rate also needs improvement
Don't worry—these problems are not unique to your institution.
You're in the right place to improve the recruitment and retention of women and create lasting institutional change in your school, district, region or state!
Increase the number of women in your STEM classrooms with the action plans you'll create during the WomenTech Educators Training.
I'm so excited to tell you about the upcoming WomenTech Educators National Institute, a unique live WomenTech Educators Training targeted to administrators who want to focus on big picture strategies that will affect all of your STEM programs.
Whether you're a principal, dean, department chair, state-level administrator or other education leader, this training is a special opportunity to learn how to enroll up to 25-50% female students across your STEM programs and to ensure high retention rates for female AND male students.
You Will Learn:
Females in STEM: Key Factors for Recruitment
✓ Top three recruitment strategies & how to put them to use
✓ How to adopt a program-wide "female friendly" recruitment approach
✓ How to communicate the benefits of STEM at each stage of the recruitment process
✓ Effective strategies to involve faculty & staff in your recruiting effort
Gender Diversity in STEM: Boosting Enrollment & Implementing New Culture
✓ Barriers to recruiting women into STEM & how to overcome them
✓ How to identify your target audience for recruitment and low-hanging fruit
✓ Success in STEM: See actionable examples of successful STEM programs
Strategies to Keep STEM Students on Course & Improve Graduation Rates
✓ How to make female students feel welcome and what not to do
✓ Ways to bolster confidence in STEM students to ensure success
✓ Strategies to help your female students be successful in the lab
✓ Building block skills to help close the experience gap
Addressing the STEM Challenge: Appeal to Women Who Aren't Excited by STEM
✓ How faculty can teach to female learning styles
✓ How to connect students with female role models & create community
✓ An "ah-ha" moment on spatial reasoning - what you need to know
Build a Leadership Team Model for Women in STEM: Strategies for Success
✓ Ways to partner with faculty, administrators, student services & others
✓ No educator is an island: How to work together & boost STEM retention
✓ Top 3 qualities of an effective Leadership Team & how to employ them
Download the sample training agenda (PDF)
Download a 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 FREE Takeaways below.)
- Plus: A certificate of completion from IWITTS and the option for a unit of continuing education credit from Fresno Pacific University.
What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
"I left the training feeling equipped and empowered with the necessary tools to improve female performance and success in STEM programs."
~ Timothy Brown, Department Chair of Mathematics, Georgia Perimeter College, Dunwoody, GA
"Last year, the Computer Science department held an Open House event for prospective students. Although a few female high school students came, none of our female faculty members could attend and there weren't any women there representing the department.
After attending the workshop with IWITTS, I was committed to making sure that didn't happen again. At this year's Open House, the College of Sciences held a special Women in Technology event in partnership with the College of Engineering. The girls who came had a great experience, they learned a lot, and I'm confident that it strengthened their resolve to pursue careers in science and engineering. Our goal is to have enough female students in science and engineering majors so that the process can become self-reinforcing.
~ Fred Martin, Associate Dean of College of Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
"In my division, we had about 200 students and only five of them were female. I have three daughters myself, and I really wanted to get more women interested in these technically oriented careers. I didn't realize initially that our programs may not have been welcoming for female students. Now, an important benefit that we've gotten from working with IWITTS is to have increased the number of female educators in the division. We're working together to recruit more female students, and to give them better support. We want to achieve a critical mass of female students in the classroom, so these numbers can become self-perpetuating."
~ Virgil Cox, Dean of Engineering & Industrial Technology, Gaston College, Dallas, NC
"Thank you so much for the information you presented. The manner in which you did so was easy to understand and comprehend. The fact that we were able to create plans to implement at our institution were helpful; especially since we were able to receive input immediately from our peers. This certainly allowed my partner and I to adjust our plans given others input and perspectives. Again, thank you!!."
~ Edda Urrea, Director of Support Services/Title IX Coordinator, Texas State Technical College Harlingen, Harlingen, TX
"Completely made me re-evaluate the approach that we have been taking. I realized the many mistakes and plan to make changes that I learned from the training. Great information!"
~ Hector Yanez, Engineering Division Director, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, TX
"The training conducted by Donna Milgram was the best training I have ever received because I can implement the recruitment and retention plans I created specifically for my program Computer Information Management (CIM) to help increase females in technology at Irvine Valley College!"
~ Roopa Mathur, Professor, Computer Information Management, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
"A lot of people, including me before I met Donna, do a lot of things that aren't necessarily recruitment, they're career awareness tools. People think if you put up a flyer that will solve the problem. Donna really taught us proven techniques to grow the program."
~ Edie Schmidt, Professor, Technology Leadership and Innovation/Supply Chain Management Technology, College of Technology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
"Participating in the IWITTS training refined my skills as an instructor and administrator to be an agent of change in this realm. Because Computer Networking and Information Technology was not on the radar of many women, the tools that were given to us by IWITTS for reaching out to students for our entry level class were very effective. And those changes have been institutionalized in my department. Thanks to our work with IWITTS, female enrollment in my department has risen from 19% to 33%."
~ Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, San Francisco, CA (ATE Center)
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Event Details At-A-Glance:
Event: WomenTech Educators Training
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Dates: June 16 & 17, 2016
Schedule: Thursday, June 16: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, June 17: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
Airport: San Francisco International Airport (SFO) or Oakland Airport (OAK)
Hotel: The event will be held at one of our favorite San Francisco Bay Area hotels, a beautiful Sheraton with a specially reduced event room rate.
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Two FREE Gifts When You Register Now:
Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
This Outreach Kit plus the included Online Website Strategy Guide will help you increase the number of women in your school's technology programs. Recruit more women to your STEM programs with these fill-in-the blank templates for proven outreach materials. You'll take the guesswork out of your outreach.
STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value)
We've made it easy for you to find online role model resources that will help women and girls see themselves in all career pathways. Also, find sample curriculums and websites that teach programming in a female-friendly way. Don't miss this; it will save you many hours of researching this yourself.
I am so excited to see you at our National Training Institute LIVE!
Warmly,
Donna Milgram
Executive Director, The National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science
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.
- Ms. Milgram developed the WomenTech Educators Training to help educators nationwide increase the number of women in their technology programs.
- A nationally recognized expert on closing the gender gap for women and girls in STEM, Ms. Milgram has personally conducted hundreds of WomenTech Educators Trainings in 46 states and Canada.
- She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and conference presentations including the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN). Presentation highlights from 2014 include:
- U.S. Department of Education, Moving STEM Forward in the Career, Technical and Adult Symposium;
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Challenging Technical Privilege Symposium Panel; and,
- Engineering for Kids Conference (Keynote Presenter)
- Donna has been featured in the media on CNN, Fox Morning News, C-Span, and National Public Radio, and has been quoted in major newspapers such as The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, and more.
- An innovative leader, Donna Milgram draws upon over 21 years of experience leading successful projects. The recent CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness and chosen as 1 of 3 model projects by the American Association of University Women.
The WomenTech Educators Training got us thinking intentionally about who we were going to target for outreach, how we were going to target them, and how we would follow up to make sure we had actual results linked to the different programs and events that we were holding. Since then, it has grown organically and blossomed into something that our college just does naturally.
I think getting together as a team with intention—because we're all so busy—and developing a written plan that we could stick to was what made all the difference. I don’t think we would have ever done that if it wasn't for the WomenTech Educators Training.