NSF CalWomenTech Project
WomenTech Leadership Team Training June 7 & 8 (Canada & San Diego Mesa) June 18 & 19 (CCSF & El Camino) Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Emeryville, CA CLOSED
The CalWomenTech Training Workshop for City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and San Diego Mesa College will take place on Thursday and Friday June 7 & 8. The workshop for El Camino College and Caņada College will take place on Monday and Tuesday, June 18 & 19.
There are a couple of you who are attending on different dates than your college because of your scheduling issues. This information was emailed to you on April 3, but if you have any questions, please contact the CalWomenTech Project.
The workshops will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the San Francisco Bay Bridge Four Points Sheraton, 1603 Powell Street, Emeryville, California, 94608. Registration and a continental breakfast are held from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
We have some additional seats, so if you know of another educator from your college who is interested in attending, please contact the CalWomenTech Project to learn more about registration and event planning.
Strategies that work! Learn "How To" Recruit & Retain Women and Girls in the Technology Classroom this semester and train others.
Strategies that work! Directly from the nation's expert on preparing women and girls for technology careers. Donna Milgram, Executive Director of IWITTS, conducts her fast-paced interactive workshop for technology instructors, school administrators, counselors, school-to-career, tech-prep and equity coordinators. The woman behind the CalWomenTech Project, WomenTech Project, WomenTechWorld.org, and IWITTS's role in the Cisco Gender Initiative, Ms. Milgram has conducted national and state training and workshops in 42 states. The WomenTech Training is based on best practices, is solutions oriented, and our participants say that it's even a lot of fun. Develop a plan for recruiting women to your traditionally male-dominated classes that you can put to use right away and an action plan for retaining them in the classroom.
IWITTS has provided hundreds of WomenTech trainings around the country. The CalWomenTech Project takes the best of our past work and builds on it with our expanded knowledgebase via our WomenTech Portal.
Listen to a podcast on Project Strategies featuring Donna Milgram done by the National Center for Telecommunication Technologies.
Learn a menu of new recruitment strategies that are little to no cost based on proven best practice methods from urban, rural and suburban schools. Learn how to put on a WomenTech Career Expo.
In-depth module on gender differences in learning styles. Learn "how to" excite and engage female students in technology by teaching to their learning style; help (some) female students overcome their fear of breaking the computer; incorporate bridge activities and course modules that will enable ALL of your students to succeed in the technology classroom. And much more!
Work through case studies with your colleagues on retention problems that arise in classes where the number of female students is small. Help female students withstand negative peer pressure and connect with female role models.
Learn about the free technical assistance and training your college will receive during this project including customized posters, a WomenTech section of your school's website featuring role models, a lending library of software tools to boost student's tech skills (e.g. spatial relations, blue print reading), and much, much more.
Develop a plan for recruiting and retaining women to your school's technology program with your Leadership Team.
With Ms. Milgram's combination of interactive video, case studies, on-line web browsing and short PowerPoint lecture presentations, you get an exciting and extremely informative session, plus everything you need to know to educate others. And, since the bulk of the workshop is group work, it's also a great opportunity to interact with and learn from others in your field.
"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 is about empowering people and providing opportunities don't miss it!" -Owen Takamori,Cisco Networking Academy Program Instructor, Mililani High School, Mililani, Hawaii
"This workshop provides participants with a plethora of useful strategies for recruiting and retaining girls and women in technical programs. An exceptional educational experience.." -Shirley Chenault, Ed.D. Dean of Resource Development, Weatherford College, Texas
"Excellent training! Provided realistic workable strategies that we can take back and implement in our institutions. Gave me additional confidence and support." -Jerry Sue Thompson, Outreach Specialist Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
"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, Asst. Professor, University of New Mexico
"I have been waiting for almost a year to attend this workshop and it was well worth the wait. The training has exceeded my expectations." -Christa Jones, Training Coordinator, Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
"This class and the supporting materials really brought home for me the importance of this issue and gave very real, practical, easy-to-use options and solutions to hurdles one encounters in educating and inspiring young women to pursue meaningful careers. We've incorporated the training in our School-To-Career staff development classes and feel it is an essential piece of the entire effort." -Debra Schluter, School-to-Career Coordinator, Aurora Public Schools, Aurora, Colorado
Pricing: This training is FREE to CalWomenTech Leadership Team Members as it is funded by our NSF grant. This is the same training that we offer on a fee basis of $500 per person.
Time and Place: The CalWomenTech workshop is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the workshop hotel. Registration and a continental breakfast are from 8:30 to 9 a.m.
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