Workshop Program

(Updated 12/2/24)

Unless otherwise noted, on-site participants will meet in the Ballston Room of the Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center in Arlington, VA.
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Participant Playlist

2:00 pm Pre-workshop meeting with the Early Career sub-group.

5:00 pm Evening Session - starting with our music!

5:30 pm Why are we talking about Belonging specifically? What are we trying to accomplish?

5:45 pm Early Career Showcase the Belonging Responses

6:00 pm Small-group discussions: focusing on what belonging will look like

What does it mean to belong in the (academic) geosciences? How is it different from "fitting in"? What is your experience with those two terms? What does it feel like to belong / how do you know when you "belong"
What does your vision of a future where everyone belongs look like? What are actions that need to be taken to get there (maybe a little at a time)? What would you need to be supported in working toward a culture of belonging?

6:30 pm Report out

6:55 Road Check to set the agenda for tomorrow

7:00 pm Adjourn

9:00 am Welcome and plan for the day(playlist)

Community Building Exercise
Today's objectives
Roadcheck summary
A reminder about community, privacy expectations versus attribution, and our hybrid format

9:30 am Small group work (topics based on the roadcheck)

Keep notes in the workspace, remembering that these will be our enduring record, reporting of notes will happen at the aggregate group level
Call back to what we just heard about. 1) goals for the day and 2) privacy - we will report things as attributed to the whole group unless 1) you want to be personally attributed or 2) you want your name kept out of it altogether (let us know)
First round we choose who goes where - balancing early career and hybrid participants across four rooms. The second round later, they will be required to switch topics and people, but can choose the second registration.

10:20 am Lightning report outs

10:30 am Break

10:45 am Group shake-up (and new discussion topics)

11:35 am Lightning report outs

11:45 am Whole group discussion

12:00 pm Lunch - box lunches provided for participants in Arlington

1:30 pm Presentation: Geoscience Education Community and the NAGT On the Cutting Edge Program

1:45 pm whole group discussion

What the program looks like now and what opportunities do we need to create for it to change in order to serve the goal of creating Belonging
How can we adapt and change the current paradigm in light of our conversations last night and this morning?

2:30 pm Break out groups

What do we need to do to get to a Geoscience Education Community that successfully cultivates, supports, and creates a sense of belonging for everyone?
- What do we have agency to change?
- How do we prioritize actionable steps?
- What actions need to be taken? Who needs to take these actions?

3:15 pm Break

3:30 pm Gallery walk activity of other groups' workspaces (individual work)

4:00 pm Individual report back and synthesis

4:30 pm Whole group discussion and synthesis

Making sense of what we have learned
What are the highest priority recommendations? What are the most straightforward ones to enact?
What are important and actionable next steps?
How do folks want to stay involved (if at all)?

5:30 pm Discussion of how to continue this conversation and how visible/involved you want to be in this effort.

5:45 End of workshop evaluation

6:00 pm Adjourn