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Bring the WomenTech Educators Training to your location to increase the number of female students in your STEM classes. |
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Bring Our Training to Your Location! Based on proven practices, the workshop curriculum includes the "best-of-the-best" of our strategies, culled from our four National Science Foundation (NSF) projects and over 18 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. |
In this video, your trainer Donna Milgram shares an important realization about recruiting women to STEM classes: Watch this short video to learn how to avoid the most common mistakes educators make in recruiting female students |
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▸ What Educators Are Saying
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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
✓ 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
✓ Connecting students with female role models & creating 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 the brochure (pdf) to share with others in your institution
Download a sample letter to gain support (docx)
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.
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Why Have an Onsite WomenTech Educators Training at Your Location: The more people you can train in your department, region, or state, the more likely you are to have significant increases in female students in your school’s STEM programs, as well as lasting institutional change. When educators take time out of their busy schedules to come together and create a Women in STEM campaign, you’ll create the community that celebrates women in STEM, and see real improvements in enrollment and retention. Receive the highest return on your training dollars and save money by eliminating travel expenses. Who is the Audience for the Training:Training is not limited to females – males benefit from the training just as much and often more. Training should be an institution-wide initiative geared towards: administrators, teachers, instructors, professors, counselors, admissions, outreach and recruitment staff, and student support services. The WomenTech Educators Training will be customized to focus on your school’s grade level(s): two-year colleges, four-year colleges and universities, high schools, middle schools. Whether you’re looking to have more women in engineering, women in technology, women in computer science or women in the trades, these strategies will work for you! Up to 40 participants can be trained at one time. We work with individual educational institutions as well as at the regional and state level. How to Recruit Participants to the Training:We’ll help you get other educators as excited as you are about the WomenTech Educators Training. We recommend you recruit participants in teams so they’ll have more support for implementation and we’ll strategize with you on how to do this. We’ll also provide you with a series of customizable emails to recruit participants. |
The more educators who are trained, the more effective you will be! |
| Training Options:
Make your WomenTech Educators Training even more effective when you choose to include any or all of the following options. When you take the first step and inquire about the training, we’ll follow up with details about which options will be most effective for your group’s needs. > Group Facilitation and Plan Development Your WomenTech Educators trainer can work with your team to facilitate a written recruitment and retention plan for Women in STEM complete with strategies, timeline and responsible parties. When educators from your institution all work together on developing a plan, they will have the support they need to implement it; when you are part of developing a plan you are much more likely to implement it.
IWITTS can assist your state with its Perkins plan in several ways:
> After the Training: Long-Term Support for Implementation With this ongoing support, you’ll receive help as you work as a team to implement the recruitment and retention plans that you develop in the training. Schools that have received this type of long-term support have found that it was extremely effective in moving them from plan to action, and ultimately helping them see significant gains in the number of women in their STEM classrooms. Every month for 6-12 months you’ll have direct access to your trainer on live group Support and Strategy calls and unlimited email support to get answers to your specific questions about increasing the number of women in your programs. Audio downloads of Support and Strategy calls will be emailed to participants the next day. In this way, all of your instructors, adjuncts and other educators can listen at any time, even if they cannot make the live call. > Dedicated Online Training Hold a WomenTech Educators Training online, just for educators from your institution. The online version of the training covers the same content as the onsite version. Participants work at their own pace for 1 to 2 hours per week, spread out over 10 weeks. |
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Donna Milgram, 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. Ms. Milgram developed the WomenTech Educators Training to help educators nationwide increase the number of women in their technology programs. A national expert on recruiting and retaining female students in STEM programs in which they are underrepresented, Ms. Milgram has personally trained educators in 44 states and Canada and receives kudos from training participants for her personable, engaging and friendly style. Ms. Milgram 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). Most recently, she received a reader's choice award from the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) for her November 2011 cover article, "How to Recruit Women & Girls to the STEM Classroom" published in the journal, Technology and Engineering Teacher. The success of the CalWomenTech Project was featured in articles on the NSF "Discoveries" website in April 2012 and the Community College Times in May 2012. Download a full bio of Donna Milgram (PDF) |
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Ede Slovin |
Ede Slovin is an experienced and engaging trainer with a wonderful sense of humor who has trained for IWITTS since 1999. She consistently receives outstanding participant evaluations. Her hands-on experience in the career technical education and gender equity fields makes her uniquely qualified to deliver training and coaching for IWITTS. Ms. Slovin has directed Employment Training programs since 1995 that have placed women and men into "nontraditional" jobs and her programs have had a placement rate of over 90%! She also has served on many boards and is the past President of the Florida Vocational Education Association. Download a full bio of Ede Slovin (PDF) |
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Carmen Lamha |
Carmen Lamha is a dynamic trainer with hands-on experience increasing the number of women in technology classrooms, having achieved impressive results in the Computer Networking Information Technology department, which she chairs, at the City College of San Francisco, one of eight sites in the IWITTS CalWomenTech Project. The percentage of female students increased from 18 % to an average enrollment rate of 26.4%. The retention rates of female students increased from a 64% baseline to 79% on average (up by 23%). The retention rate of male students increased as well. Ms. Lahma was the Co-Principal Investigator of the CalWomenTech Project and is the Co-Chair of the California Joint Special Population Advisory Committee (JSPAC). Download a full bio of Carmen Lamha (PDF) |
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Leave the training with customized recruitment and retention plans for your programs. |
What Educators Are Saying About the Training:
"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%."
~ Peter Woodberry, PhD, Dean of Business, Science and Technology at Community College of Rhode Island
"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, College of Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
"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!"
~ Jessica J. du Maine, Assistant Professor/Program Coordinator, Electrical/ Electronic Engineering & Technology, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
"At the WomenTech Educators Workshop, it was eye-opening to learn that there is a long list of simple things we could be doing that would make women feel more welcome and included, for example the pictures we use to market the program, and some curricular approaches in the lab environment.
The first big benefit that we’ve seen is finding out the cross-campus interest in this topic. We’ve put together a team of 30 people covering a variety of academic departments, student services, admissions, and counseling. The workshop gives everyone a common language to continue discussions.
I don't see how we couldn't be successful. In the upcoming fall, we're looking forward to having more women in our Engineering and Computer Information Systems departments."
~ Patrick J. Enright, County College of Morris, Dean for Business, Mathematics, Engineering and Technologies, Randolph, NJ
“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
Here Are Just a Sample of Our Many 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 (ATE Center)
- 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 (ATE Center)
Start Recruiting Right Away With Ready-To-Go Outreach Materials:
These tools will provide you with instant examples of female role models to start inspiring women and girls at your institution right away. When you sign up for the WomenTech Educators Training you will receive deep discounts on these proven solutions!
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STEM Resources for Instructors to Help Women and Girls: Annotated Bibliography ($35 value) |
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Women in Technology Outreach Kit ($150 value) You'll learn the critical information that prospective female students want to know upfront that will get them interested in your program. There's no need to create a Women in STEM brochure, flyer or PowerPoint presentation on your program from scratch. We created these Outreach tools for our award-winning CalWomenTech Project and now you can use our templates to customize these to your program, complete with instructions and examples. Plus you get our role model questionnaire which can be used for print or video interviews. |
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Role Model Career Videos: 35 different career areas When women see other women being successful in each of these 35 careers, they’ll know that it’s possible for them, too. This video series introduces your female students to 35 high-wage career pathways -- from automotive to engineering to IT. Each 24-minute inspirational video uses extensive on-the-job footage, and reveals the personal experiences and insights of three female role models who describe their work and how they succeed on the job as one of very few women. |
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Women in Technology and Trades Banners These beautiful , bold women in STEM banners will attract women to your table at career events. Plus, hang the banners year-round in your school’s classrooms, hallways and around campus to send the message that women are welcome in these careers at your school. In seven career pathways : Women in Engineering, Women in Automotive Technology, Women in Construction Technology, Women in Green Jobs, Women in Manufacturing Technology, Women in Technology Careers and Women in Trades. Each banner is 6 feet wide by 2 feet high and includes 3 grommets on top and bottom for easy hanging |
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Unlimited Potential Posters: Customizable for your program Hang this set of six posters around your school's classrooms, counseling offices and hallways to recruit women and girls to STEM programs by imprinting images of successful female role models in STEM around your campus. Six career pathways: Women in Engineering Technology, Women in Automotive, Women in Construction, Women in Green Jobs, Women in Manufacturing, Women in Technology. Plus, add your school’s program contact information and logo to each poster! |
