We are pleased to announce this year’s full-day NY Academic Support Workshop, to be held from 9:30 to 5:00 at New York Law School on Friday, March 20th, 2020 (with informal socializing afterwards). This will be a gathering of academic support professionals and colleagues working actively to learn from one another. Warm welcome to NYLS’s Paulina Davis who is joining in the organizing of this year’s workshop.
As is our usual practice, the afternoon sessions of the workshop will have an open agenda and room to include any subject of interest to those in attendance. The morning sessions will be related to a more specific theme: Transfer: Fostering the Transfer of Skills and Knowledge/Ways to Address Impediments. This is intended to be a broad topic. We hope our participants will address wide-ranging matters such as helping students see commonalities in legal reasoning, understanding differences in subject matter or instruction approach, addressing real differences in professors’ expectations either on individual or institutional levels, demonstrate lessons or exercises that may facilitate transfer of learning, and any related presentation.
One thing that makes all ASP gatherings exciting has always been our unique emphasis on collaboration — ASP folks DO things together so that we can learn together. NY Workshop participants work with each other to develop or enhance our individual lessons, materials, presentations, or any other part of our professional endeavors. No one who comes is allowed to be a back-bencher. Participants should be prepared to discuss issues they are addressing in their work that others may have struggled with as well, a strategy for dealing with a specific challenge, or a method of teaching or counseling that has helped you work with students. Discussions/demonstrations/presentations may be short or extended, depending on content and our own timing. Please let us know what you would like do with your fellow workshop participants, and let us know how you will actively engage all attendees. If you aren’t certain let us know that too: we are happy to help you brainstorm. We will send out a finalized workshop agenda when we confirm who will attend and what specific topics the participants plan to address.
RSVP to Kris and Paulina at kris.l.franklin@nyls.edu and paulina.davis@nyls.edu. This is a collegial interactive workshop and there will be no fee to attend.
We hope to see many of you soon!
Kris Franklin Paulina Davis
Professor of Law Associate Dean for Academic and Bar Success
New York Law School New York Law School
