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WomenTech Educators: More Female Students in Just One Year Training and System
A Proven System for Increasing the Number of Women and Girls in Your Science, Technology & Engineering Classes June 13-14, 2013 San Francisco Bay Area |
Attention: This training and system is for administrators, teachers, instructors, professors, counselors and outreach and recruitment staff from high schools, two-year colleges, and four-year colleges and universities.
How Many Women Are in Your Science and Technology Classrooms?
Not enough?
Get more women in the picture!
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Increase the number of women in your Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) classrooms with the strategies you'll learn through the More Female Students in Just One Year System. Based on proven practices, the workshop training curriculum includes the "best-of-the-best" of our strategies, culled from our four National Science Foundation projects and over 17 years of success in assisting educational institutions in recruiting and retaining female students in programs around the country. Our CalWomenTech Project was highlighted by the National Science Foundation for demonstrating significant achievement and program effectiveness. See the sample training agenda (PDF).
June 13-14, 2013, San Francisco Bay Area
Space is limited. Register Now.
Does the More Female Students in Just One Year System Work? Yes!
Community colleges that have implemented the strategies participants learn through this system have seen remarkable results. At a Computer Networking and Information Technology program at City College of San Francisco, female enrollment has risen from 18% to a high of 33%. Using the IWITTS system, the retention rate of female students rose from 64% to a high of 86%. Plus, the retention rate of male students increased as well.
Read on as I share how I helped schools nearly double their enrollment of female students and dramatically increase retention of both their female and male students. I'll show you how your school can do this, step-by-step, with practical strategies you can put into action right away.
From: Donna Milgram, Executive Director
San Francisco Bay Area
Which way to turn? (Donna's story)
It's Donna here. I know it's frustrating when you've made efforts to get more women and girls into your science and technology classes, and you're stuck because you don't actually see increases in enrollment and disappointment sets in. Your passion for increasing the number of women and girls in STEM starts to fade.
I know because I've worked with educators to whom this has happened. They have a strong commitment, perhaps they have given a workshop or some kind of career activity, and they haven't seen the kinds of results they are looking for.
One educator asked me in frustration, "Where do I start the recruiting process? How can I make our programs more attractive to females? Do I need to alter my teaching style, my explanations of the subject matter, my labs to help female students be more successful?"
I understand this kind of frustration, especially if the advice you've been given is very general or long-term. You're a really committed educator, and you want your female students to be as inspired by STEM as your male students. So I was yearning to provide educators with the direction they need.
That's why I developed the More Female Students in Just One Year Training and System
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~Pierre Thiry, Principal Investigator, Mid-Pacific ICT Regional Center, San Francisco, CA |
"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%."
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In the More Female Students in Just One Year Training and System, you will learn:
- The #1 secret to increasing the number of women in your classes
- The top three recruitment strategies -- according to the women themselves
- Why changing your thinking isn't enough, and what you can do about it
- The critical thing women want to hear up front that will keep them engaged throughout your course
- 3 simple techniques you can implement tomorrow so your female students will excel in the lab
Who should attend:
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Trades Instructors, Teachers, Professors; Administrators; Counselors; Outreach and Recruitment Staff; Learning Center Staff; YOU!
Here are just some of our past clients:
- SouthWestern College, Chula Vista, CA
- James Madison University, VA
- State of Kentucky, Dept. for Technical Education, Cabinet for Workforce Development, KY
- Convergence Technology Center, Collin County Community College, TX
- Consortium for Alabama Regional Center for Automotive Manufacturing, Gadsden, AL
- Quincy Public Schools, Center for Technical Education, MA
- Midwest Center for Information Technology, AIM Institute, Omaha, NE
Doing it piecemeal: It just doesn't work
We have found that schools that implement one, two or even three gender equity tactics don’t see an increase in enrollment. Doing it piecemeal doesn’t work. That’s we’ve developed our More Female Students in Just One Year System. The full system is contained in two full days of training, 6 to 12 months of Support and Strategy calls, and outreach materials. It’s the full system that enables you to get the kind of results that you see above. When you work with IWITTS, you’ll see how well the full system can work for your school.
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~ Peter Woodberry, PhD, Dean of Business, Science and Technology at Community College of Rhode Island |
"One thing that was especially valuable about the WomenTech Educators Training was having a variety of people come to the table to talk about all the issues. It was interesting for faculty to learn how they can engage students who might be on the fringes of the class, not necessarily just female students either. Also, in our publications and brochures, we're now as likely to use images of women as of men. As a result of working with IWITTS, over two years the percentage of women in targeted classes at CCRI went from 10.8% to 14.3%."
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More Female Students in Just One Year Training
At this WomenTech Educators training, you learn proven recruitment and retention strategies so you can see more female students succeed in your STEM classes.
You will take away:
- An easy-to-implement recruitment plan that will greatly increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms.
- A retention plan for your school that will 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.
Training agenda includes: Click Here for Sample Training Agenda (PDF)
Discover our proven, road-tested system for increasing the number of women and girls in your STEM classes, which was highlighted by the National Science Foundation.- Explore gender-specific learning styles: Find out how to excite and engage female students in technology by teaching to their learning style and help female students be successful in the lab.
- Discover your number one strategy that will help boost your female enrollment (that costs little or nothing and doesn’t take a lot of time to implement). Learn how to set up your students for success from Day One in your program so they can have a successful start and the confidence that comes with it.
- Learn how to overcome the challenges of engaging and retaining female students when their numbers in classes are still small.
- Develop a customized action plan for increasing the number of female students in your school and making sure they stay.
- And so much more!
Thursday, June 13, 2013: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, June 14, 2013: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Come to the training in a team:
The more people that you can get involved in this campaign, the more lasting change you're going to have. Yes, one teacher on their own can get more women in the classroom, but the schools that have been the most effective and had lasting institutional change have had more people involved. Together, you and your team members will work together to develop an action plan and provide support to each other as you implement it.
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~ Jessica J. du Maine, Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, Electrical/ Electronic Engineering & Technology, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO |
"The most valuable things I received from working with IWITTS were strategies that have been researched and have data to support them. There are also many inexpensive strategies; "inexpensive" is a key term in these difficult economic times. I anticipate additional increased retention in my programs. I have already implemented retention strategies from IWITTS with much success. The workshop has empowered me!"
About Donna Milgram, Your More Female Students in Just One Year Trainer:
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Donna Milgram, the Executive Director of the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS), has conducted national and state trainings and workshops in 43 states. She is the Principal Investigator of the CalWomenTech Project, highlighted by the National Science Foundation as an exemplary Project for boosting recruitment and retention rates of women in technology programs. She has been the Principal Investigator of four NSF Projects, the most recent awarded in June 2011 to build on the successful work of the CalWomenTech Project. |
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~ Renee Fall, Project Manager, Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE), University of Massachusetts Amherst |
"We know that the campuses involved in our partnership in Massachusetts have low numbers of women in their computer and IT programs. Getting people together in a workshop gives them time and space that they don’t have in their busy faculty lives to strategize about recruitment and retention. They get a lot of new ideas and an opportunity to talk with people from other schools and stimulate their thinking. Since the workshop, someone has already taken an idea that they had and created a specialized recruitment event for female students. We’re raising awareness among female students that this field and this department are welcoming, so female students can see themselves entering these careers."
Just for signing up, you will receive:
- Our best practices WomenTech Training Manual (available only through this workshop)
- The STEM Resources Bibliography for Women and Girls ($35 value)
- The Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)
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| Regular | $600 | Through 5/17/13 |
| Late | $675 | 5/18/13-6/14/13 |
Note: Pre-registration and Early Bird discounts cannot be combined with any other offer.
Hotel Information:
The training is held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Emeryville, CA only 6 miles from Downtown San Francisco by car or 15 minutes via BART (rail). It is less than 10 miles from UC Berkeley, Downtown Oakland, Fisherman's Wharf, Union Square, SF Chinatown and Alcatraz. Shops and restaurants are available within walking distance. Make your hotel reservation by May 20, 2013 to receive the conference rate of $115. To make your reservation, call (510) 547-7888 and say you are attending the IWITTS WomenTech Training.
Schedule
Thursday, June 13, 2013: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Friday, June 14, 2013: 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Click here for hotel and travel details
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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, College of Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
"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. Printable order form
Space at the More Female Students in Just One Year Training is limited. Don't miss out -- reserve your spot now.
Just click the Register Now button, and you'll receive all of the proven recruitment and retention strategies that will help your school increase the number of women and girls in your STEM classrooms in just one year.
Join me, and you'll learn how to see more female faces in your technology classrooms, starting next semester.
I'll see you there!
Donna
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.