  28th National WomenTech Educators
Train-the-Trainer Workshop
July 23 & 24, 2009
We are encouraging institutions to register as teams with our special low cost group rates so that they will have assistance in implementation when they return home. Bring a team of technology instructors, math teachers, counselors, administrators and school-to-career and tech-prep coordinators.
Strategies that work! Learn "How To" Recruit & Retain Women and Girls in the Technology Classroom this semester and train others.
Strategies that work! Here is some breaking news 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. Ms. Milgram is the woman who has conducted national and state training and workshops in 42 states, including:
In particular:
- The WomenTech Training is based on best practices, is always solutions oriented, and is “a lot of fun” according to our male and female educator participants. Here, you can develop an action plan to recruit women to your traditionally male-dominated classes, then put the plan to action right away to retain women in your classrooms with both high school and community college recruitment strategies.
 In IWITTS’s NSF funded CalWomenTech Project, the schools that implemented the recruitment strategies actually saw an increase in female enrollment of 10%-15% within 16 months. In addition, schools that successfully implemented the retention strategies had both an increase in the completion rates of women (some by as much as 20%-40%) as well as men.- You can learn a menu of new recruitment strategies that cost just a little or nothing at all based on proven best practice methods from urban, rural and suburban schools. Become skilled at putting on a WomenTech Career Expo and make girl geeks cool in your school!
- Concentrate on an 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 technophobic 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 nd 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 your female students withstand negative peer pressure and connect with female role models.
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.
"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
"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
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Publications You Receive: Each participant will receive our best practices WomenTech Training Manual (which is only available through this workshop), the WomenTech Best Practices CD and the WomenTech Educators Tool Kit a $225 value. The WomenTech Educators Tool Kit includes our Video and Video Facilitator's Guide, WomenTech PowerPoint, Trainer's Workshop Guide, Bibliography, and Participant's Workbooks.
Hotel and Location information click here
"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
"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 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
"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
Seats Still Available? Our workshops can only accommodate 32 participants as the workshops are intensive and interactive. To ensure that we do not exceed this limit, workshop registrations can only be paid for online. Our online store will not register more than our maximum number of participants. You will receive an email confirmation of your workshop registration immediately from our Yahoo store, and a second more extensive confirmation within 5 working days.
If you have registered for the training, you must fill out our brief questionnaire: We customize all of our training to our audience so we need a little bit of information about you and your educational institution to enable us to do this. All WomenTech training registrants are required to fill out a short on-line questionnaire. Click here for the questionnaire.
Pricing: Cost is $500 per participant for the two-day workshop if your registration is received by April 23, 2009. Cost is $600 per participant if your registration is received between April 24 and July 16, 2009. Cost is $675 (registration plus a $75 late fee) if registration is received July 16 or after. Schools registering 3 or more participants at the same time receive a group discount of $50 off per participant. Schools registering 10 or more participants at the same time receive a group discount of $200 off per participant.
Time and Place: The WomenTech workshop is from 9:00am to 5:00pm on July 23 and 8:30am to 3:30pm on July 24 at the workshop hotel. Registration and a continental breakfast is from 8:30am to 9:00am.
WomenTech Educators National Workshop Registration Fees
** cannot be combined with any other offer. Workshop registrations can only be ordered via our online store.
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