Donna Milgram, Executive Director of IWITTS

Are you ready to stop recruiting and start teaching? Learn proven recruitment and retention strategies so you can see more female students succeed in your STEM classes and have a richer educational environment.

One program saw more than half of its female students dropping out of computer networking. Learn how they turned around those results so now more than 90% of female students complete their classes. AND more female students are signing up—female enrollment has risen from 19% to 35%.

WomenTech Educators Online Training   Date and time: To be determined. Contact us for more information, or to be alerted when a new date has been set.

Do you want to see more women in your technology classes, but you don't know where to start? Are you short on time, low on budget, but want results next semester? This online training will get you started with proven, research-based strategies you can implement right away.

You will take away:

• A realistic recruitment plan that will enable you to create the reality of having 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
• The knowledge and confidence you need to put these plans into action, right away.

PLUS you'll receive this extraordinary free gift when you sign up for the Online Training:

The Women in Technology Outreach Kit with tried-and-tested customizable marketing materials to make it even easier for you to recruit women into your technology programs ($150 value).

At the WomenTech Educators Online Training, 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

Here's what past training participants are saying about the WomenTech training:

“I have been very successful with recruiting more girls for my after school programs. Thanks for providing the class at ITEA in New Mexico; I really got a lot out of it.”
~ John Singer, Technology Education, Hanby Middle School, Wilmington, DE

“The best part of this WomenTech training was the abundance of solutions and recommendations to address the problems we face in the classroom and the workplace.”
~ Charnell B. Slaughter, Outreach Coordinator, Puget Sound Center for Teaching and Learning Technology, Bothell, Washington

“Donna, with great eloquence and intelligence, taught us workable strategies to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of women's progress in high skill, high wage careers.”
~ Claire Rubach, Academic Counselor, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA

"This workshop really answered my questions on how to interest women in IT careers, and also how to retain them. I feel I have a bag of tricks to take back home."
~ Toni Black, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico

Training agenda:

• Discover Proven Practices
• Learn a menu of new recruitment strategies that cost little or nothing
• Find out how to excite and engage female students in technology by teaching to their learning style
• Discover why games are so important to developing classroom skills
• Learn how to address challenges that arise in classes where the number of female students is small
• Provide the technology building block skills at little or no cost that will enable your students to be successful throughout the course
• Develop a customized action plan for recruiting and retaining more female students in your school!
• AND get the Online Training Participant Manual, including slides for each day, sample marketing materials and sample strategic plans. The Manual is available only to training participants.

Choose the Full Implementation Package with group coaching and receive long term support, so you're never on your own:
 

WomenTech Educators Online Training	Women in Technology Outreach Kit?	Follow up support?
Online Training with Full Implementation Package (Best Value)	Includes Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)	Small Group Coaching Implementation Package * (Including monthly calls and private online forum)
Online Training	Includes Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value)	Not included

 

*What is included in the Small Group Coaching Implementation Package?

Once a month for six months from April to September, you will join a small group of other dedicated education professionals for a 1-hour call with Donna to discuss your progress, address any challenges and brainstorm next steps. All calls are recorded and emailed to participants. You'll also receive access to a private online forum for group coaching participants where you get support and your questions answered.  Receive long term support so you're never on your own.

Connect to the Online Training via your computer's speakers and microphone.

Can't make it to one of the classes? No problem. Participants will receive a recording and the slides of each day's session that you can review at any time.

Join me, and you'll learn how to see more female faces in your technology classrooms, starting next semester. For more information on the Online Training, or to be alerted when new dates are announced, contact us.

I'll see you there!

 

Donna

About Donna Milgram: 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 in 2009 for boosting recruitment and retention rates of women in technology programs.