CFP for FLCs in 2024-2025

After a successful pilot run of short-term FLCs during Winter 2024, we continue to develop our vision, process, and budget for Faculty Learning Communities at Transy. You can learn about our initial vision for FLCs from the slide deck accompanying our November 2023 BCTE Lunch & Learn presentation, embedded at the bottom of this page.

We are now accepting proposals for FLCS for the 2024-25 school year! If you are potentially interested in facilitating an FLC, you do not need to have your participants in place - we will help you recruit after the proposal process.

Potential facilitators, please fill out and submit this form by Friday, April 5 at 5 p.m. We encourage you to talk with us as you develop your proposal. You are also welcome to speak with any of our Winter 2024 FLC facilitators: Avery Tompkins, Steve Hess, JJ Wallace, and Iva Katzarska-Miller.

We will then recruit participants (if needed), aiming for a minimum of five participants per group. Note that FLCs can include staff and students, though ⅔ of participants in any given FLC should be teaching on campus. If necessary, we will work with proposers to select participants if there are more applicants than seats.

Once established, FLC facilitators are responsible for scheduling, planning, and running meetings; coordinating work done between meetings; reporting progress back to the BCTE. Facilitators will receive a micro stipend for their work.

FLCs will meet somewhere between four and nine times, depending on the scope of outcomes, and will produce at least one "deliverable" of interest to the campus community or beyond (e.g., a resource list or annotated bibliography for the BCTE website or library, a podcast or video, a Canvas module, a Lunch & Learn presentation, a workshop, a conference presentation or manuscript for publication). 

The BCTE will provide logistic and financial support. The BCTE will reserve rooms, order materials, and make food arrangements. Financially, the BCTE will fund up to $2,500 per FLC for the creation of three learning communities, covering stipends for facilitators and participants; hospitality for in-person meetings; professional development support; and, books and software.

Note that FLC budgets could be combined with other BCTE grant funds to further develop the FLC's programming.