Applications for the inaugural TRB Retrospective have closed. If you're interested in participating in a future workshop, contact Cat Moon at c.moon@vanderbilt.edu.
🚀 Our mission for this workshop is to #MakeLegalEdBetter through intentional retrospection and a commitment to learn from our COVID experiences, to experiment, and to iterate going forward.
WHAT
🌹 The TRB Retrospective is an interactive event — think 🧰 workshop 🛠, not conference — with the explicit purpose of using a reflective, intentional framework to mine our shared and unique experiences of the COVID pandemic, identify lessons learned, and use this to inform how we can improve legal education going forward.
Note: there is no cost to participate, other than a commitment of time and engagement.
WHO
The theme of this inaugural TRB Retrospective is legal education with a focus on participants who have experienced law school and higher education in the time of COVID.* We invite the following to apply to participate:
Education Experts
Law students (rising 2L and 3L and 2021 graduates in US, and the equivalent from any other country)
Law school educators (those teaching in any capacity in any law school), and
Law school administrators (in any capacity in any law school)
We're accepting participants in this inaugural TRB Retrospective on a rolling basis up until May 30, or until we've reached capacity.
HOW
We ask all participants to commit to three things:
#1 👋 Attend and engage in the workshop. Participants will engage in curated working groups of 8 people, with engagement starting before the workshop date (see #2, below). The quality of everyone's experience depends on the commitment of all participants to show up and engage for the entire 3-hour workshop.
#2 🎬 Create a *short* video in advance to share with your working group and watch your group members’ videos before the workshop. Each participant will share their rose-bud-thorn retrospective in a short (2 minutes or less) video, in advance of the workshop. We’ll provide information about the framework to help guide your video creation. We envision simple videos that capture participants speaking — easily recorded in a platform we will provide — so no video production skills (or slides or graphics) are required!
#3 💬 Engage as part of a working group in break-out sessions during the workshop. Our primary work during the retrospective will be in curated working groups of 8, with short plenary sessions between working group sessions. We ask you to commit to working with your group on the day of the event, and you’ll have the opportunity (and support) to continue the work going forward. Working groups will be composed of a variety of participants across the legal education spectrum.
Ultimately, working groups will create and share specific action items generated from their retrospectives. Group members will have the option to continue their retrospective work over the course of the summer to realize more specific action items and goals, and we’ll gather in the fall for a follow-up event to share our work with each other and make it available to all legal educators.
We are 💥 SUPER EXCITED 💥 about the opportunity to engage with people from across the legal education spectrum to do this important work together. If you would like to retrospect and engage with us, please complete this short application form.
Participation is limited due to the interactive nature of the workshop, and spots will be filled on a rolling, first-come-first-served basis. Would you like to participate? Complete the application, below! 👇
We welcome any questions — see below for how to reach us. And, we hope to see you on June 24!
Alyson Carrel, Organizer Northwestern Pritzker School of Law a-carrel@law,northwestern.edu
Dennis Kennedy, Organizer Michigan State University College of Law kenne514@msu.edu
Cat Moon, Organizer Vanderbilt Law School c.moon@vanderbilt.edu
*We hope to hold future TRB Retrospectives focusing on different parts of the legal ecosystem. We're starting with legal education and can't wait to see where it goes from here!