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COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS
This is a vital and productive committee. The Committee provides opportunities for:
- a network of members with a variety of AVP experiences to give broader input on decisions, and opportunities for
- experienced facilitators to share and evaluate new exercises, agendas and best practices.
The Committee invites new members who are willing to communicate and work collaboratively via various electronic or cloud-based network tools:
- manual writers, proofreaders, editors, publishers, translators
- newsletter writers, reviewers for exercises
- facilitators with data entry, database and internet development skills and experience.
Facilitators with the energy and creative ideas for these activities are welcome. Depending on the activities selected, an individual could spend from two to twenty hours per month on interesting and valuable tasks.
EDUCATION TEAMS
- Manual Writing Team *
- Best Practices Team #
- Knowledge Management Team $
EDUCATION WORKGROUPS
- Education Collection #
- Education Technology #
- Spanish Translation #
# joint with AVP International Education
$ joint with AVP USA Communication
* totally AVP-USA Education
PARTNERS
The Education Committee works in partnership with the following committees on various projects:
AVP International Education Committee
Communications Committee
Adaptations Committee
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2024-2025 OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE AND TEAMS
General Accomplishments of the Education Committee
Hired native Spanish speaking facilitators to translate the New Basic Manual and related materials into different Spanish dialects. Our intent is to serve AVP’s diverse Spanish-speaking populations in prisons and across communities in the United States. We successfully recruited Cuban, Peruvian, Mexican facilitators, and “inside prisons” AVP facilitators who can translate and edit Spanish companion manuals and related materials to meet our growing diverse Spanish-speaking populations.
Began revising exercises in the new Advanced Manual; the overall structure will emphasize consensus-based workshop approaches as well as specific topics workshop formats.
Worked in partnership with International Education in the development and presentation of the Online Libraries. This has led to further development of two Online Libraries, which are expanded annually to meet the needs of AVP facilitators world wide.
Formalized a feedback process for facilitators, using feedback circles in world cafe formats, Education Committee meetings, and breakout sessions during annual National Gatherings.
Decided to continue to use this approach to gathering facilitator feedback when developing manuals, our strategic planning, and other education related materials.
Continued to work with Teams or Workgroups that support special areas in Education, e.g., collection of materials and development of guidelines in online Core Workshop training.
Developed and implemented (along with the Education Collection Team) a process for submission and review of new AVP materials.
Team Accomplishments (2024-25)
Manual Writers Team:
Formed an active Team of highly experienced facilitators that planned the structure of and started developing the revised Advanced Workshop Manual. At this time, the writing team and Education Committee have developed a draft the introduction to the Advanced Manual and a draft of “Crafting an Agenda”; we will present these drafts to facilitators for feedback
We are revising existing exercises and discussing additional submissions from some facilitators.
Best Practice Team: a partnership between USA and International Education Committees
Began to develop guidelines and best practices in Core Workshop training for online and in-person approaches. Combined ten major Best Practice documents into a 28-page booklet on AVP Best Practice.
Education Collection Team: a partnership between USA and International Education Committees
Worked collaboratively with AVP-I to collect and evaluate new educational material, using the Online Library platforms.
Created a third online Education Archives Library (Green Library).
Gathered materials and resources to support manual writing (for the Basic and Advanced Manuals)
Reviewed all the content of the existing USA manuals to support current manual writing and the online library collections.
Knowledge Management Team:
Transferred the cloud-based working documents for Education from private drives to AVP-USA Team Drives (still in progress).
Continued systematic collection of documents and materials for archiving of AVP material.
Developed a knowledge management strategy for AVP-USA.
Workgroup Accomplishments (2024-2025)
Education Technology workgroup:
Worked collaboratively with AVP-I to expand the Education network infrastructure to provide access to Education materials, making them available to facilitators worldwide.
Continued development of the online library platforms and extended our online drive platforms.
Supported the Education Committee in its development of the Education Committee webpage.
PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER COMMITTEES
AVP International Education
Collaborated with AVP International Education Committee in online library development, best practices, collection development, and manual writing.
Developed the International Education Network and improved the USA Education website.
Communication Committee
Worked with the Communication Committee to make AVP-I educational material available to AVP-USA facilitators, both inside and outside.
Worked with the Communication Committee and Knowledge Management Team to develop a knowledge management strategy for AVP-USA.
Worked with The Transformer Editor and prison coordinators to collect manual material and evaluate exercises written and submitted by “inside” AVP facilitators.
Betty McEady & Katherine Smith
Co-Chairs, Education Committee
[email protected]
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