How to Co-Sponsor a BPR Event in Your Region

That's Open to Both Your Staff & To Others

 

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What does it mean to Co-Sponsor an event?

Best Practice Resources is currently seeking educators at prime locations in the USA and other countries who:

• Want to provide a high impact Best Practices training or conference for your own staff
• Are willing to help co-sponsor such a Best Practices Training or Conference in your local area
• Want to capture several benefits for yourself, your staff, and your own organization (see below)
• Would consider providing that experience if it were at a significantly discounted cost. (It can be!)

Click on any of the links below to read answers to the questions you may have about being a co-sponsor. Then, contact Barry.

• What do co-sponsors have to do?
• What would Barry Sweeny do for a co-sponsored event?
• What are the benefits for a co-sponsor?
• What are Barry's fees for a co-sponsored event?
• Two Examples of Ways to Co-Sponsor a Training or Conference With Barry
• How do we get started?

What would you have to do as a co-sponsor?

Barry sponsors several Best Practice trainings and conferences every year, but doing this away from his home area is harder to arrange. The distance creates several challenges, including:

• Identification of an appropriate training site in an area with which he is unfamiliar
• The expenses of shipping conference training materials to that site
• The need for on-site assistance with registration and materials at the opening of the conference

Basically, to be a co-sponsor, you'd help Barry with these and similar issues. The benefits and cost savings you attain for your self and your organization are linked to the extent of the work you are willing to do. The more you can do, the greater will be the benefits and cost savings to you.

See the two examples below for a few of the possibilities, but remember to think creatively, as there are other possibilities too.

What are you willing and able to provide to help bring a Best Practice training or conference to your staff?

Suggest your ideas to Barry and describe the benefits you want to capture.

What would Barry Sweeny do for a co-sponsored event?

Basically, Barry will:

• Lead the entire training/conference event, PLUS...
• He will do whatever local logistical activities YOU choose NOT to do.
• Are there liabilities or challenges you do not want to assume? No problem, Barry can probably assume them.

See the two examples below for some of the possibilities for how this might work for you.

What are the benefits for YOU as a co-sponsor?

Depending on the option you choose, you could:

• Significantly reduce the cost of training your staff (both options 1 & 2)
• Significantly reduce or even eliminate the expenses and/or fees for bringing in an expert trainer (option #1)
• Provide your staff with a highly effective training which you might not be able to do otherwise(both options 1 & 2). Consider if you fit one of the following situations:
  • Are you a new staff developer/program coordinator and reluctant to take on such a big task alone?
  • Are you an over worked experienced staff developer & just don't have the time to plan such an event?
  • Is your district budget too poor to provide such an event on your own?
• Provide your staff opportunity to interact with educators from other states and widen their prespective on teacher mentoring and induction (both options 1 & 2)
• Significantly improve your own program and/or mentoring practices
• Improve your new teacher and students' performances because of the specific, practical focus on how to use mentoring and induction to achieve these results.
• Position your district and program with your own staff and districts from around the country, as invested in achieving a greater induction program and practices.

What are Barry's fees for a co-sponsored event?

As the co-sponsor, you provide a top quality training for your staff, build new skills in them, and...

Option #1 - It's Barry's event:

• You pay NO OR DISCOUNTED FEES OR EXPENSES TO BARRY
• You gain THREE FREE OR several more DISCOUNTED REGISTRATIONS for your staff!

Option #2 - It's your event:

• You pay Barry's expenses, BUT ONLY PART OF BARRY'S USUAL FEES.
• You gain FREE TRAINING REGISTRATIONS for ALL your staff!

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Two Examples:

Ways to Co-Sponsor a Training or Conference With Barry

METHOD # 1 - It's Barry's training/conference, but you gain discounted attendence.

GAIN FREE OR DISCOUNTED REGISTRATION FOR SOME OF YOUR STAFF. PAY NO FEES OR EXPENSES TO BARRY. PROVIDE ONLY "IN-KIND", LOGISTICAL SUPPORT.

Here is what is involved:

Best Practice Resources and Barry Sweeny will:

• Assume any and all financial risks associated with providing the conference or training
• Contract with the conference hotel
• Advertise and recruit up to 30 additional training participants, charging them a conference registration fee.
• Plan the entire conference
• Conduct the conference pre-registration for all participants
• Conduct all the advertising to bring other folks to your local conference or training to improve the exchange of ideas
• Provide all of the presentations & trainings for the whole conference
• Provide the mentoring displays and literature tables

The local co-sponsor will:

• Contract with Barry for no fees or expenses, but just to provide the following in-kind help.
• Research and select the conference site (a moderately priced hotel in a suburban setting near the airport is desired)
• Advise Barry Sweeny about selection of specific conference rooms and other conference logistics
• Collaborate with Barry Sweeny in agenda planning so it address your district's needs.
• Provide at least 20-30 additional spaces at that training for participants which Best Practice Resources recruits & provides.
• Provide a mailing or email list of potential participants from other organizations in your area (if possible)
• Duplicate and deliver training materials for all participants
• Provide limited coordination with the conference hotel staff before and during the conference
• Provide a clerical person to conduct on-site registration and materials distribution at the start of each event.
• Pay expenses and a registration fee for your staff who attend, except for those discounted as described below.

In return for this local assistance... Best Practice Resources will provide the local co-sponsor with THREE FREE conference/training registrations for persons of your own choice, or an equivalent discount on attendence by more of your staff.

Willing to give greater help? Then we can give you greater benefits. Email or call us with your ideas.

METHOD # 2 - Barry leads YOUR training/conference, and you gain FREE attendence.

BARRY PROVIDES YOUR LOCAL TRAINING. YOU PAY BARRY'S EXPENSES. YOU PAY 1/2 OF BARRY'S USUAL FEE AND NO REGISTRATION FEES AT ALL FOR ANY OF YOUR STAFF.

The local co-sponsor will:

• Contract with Barry Sweeny to provide a training for your own staff.
• The contract is signed at least 3 months in advance and includes Barry's expenses and ONLY 1/2 OF BARRY'S TYPICAL PROFESSIONAL FEES.
• Select and contract with a local training site. A moderately priced hotel in a suburban setting near the airport is desired. This is necessary so there are overnight guest rooms for out of town participants and no transportation needs other than an airport shuttle. (If you prefer, you can select the site but Barry can contract with the hotel instead.)
• Collaborate with Barry Sweeny in agenda planning so it address your district's needs.
• Duplicate & deliver conference/training materials for all the participants.
• Provide at least 20-30 additional spaces at that training for participants which Best Practice Resources recruits & provides.
• Provide a mailing or email list of potential participants from other organizations in your area (if possible)
• Provide limited coordination with the conference hotel staff before and during the conference
• Provide a clerical person to conduct on-site registration and other logistics during the conference.
• Pay expenses for your staff who attend, BUT YOU PAY NO TRAINING REGISTRATION FEE for them.

Best Practice Resources and Barry Sweeny will:

• Advertise and recruit up to 30 additional training participants, charging them a conference registration fee.
• Contract with the training site hotel, if the co-sponsor does not do that.
• Provide in advance to the co-sponsor, masters of the training materials for duplication
• Plan and provide the training for the entire event.
• Directly pay its share of the expenses for the participants provided by Best Practice Resources (that is cost divided by the total # of participants).

How do we get started?

1. BEFORE CALLING BARRY:

• DEFINE the problems you want solved or addressed and any problems you foresee in the process.
• ASSESS the prior experience, knowledge, and professional development needs of the participants on the topic, based on needs assessment data.
• DEFINE the goals for the process or event.

2. CALL OR EMAIL BARRY with the problem definition, needs assessment data, and event or process goals.

- If you do not have needs assessment data, Barry can help you or design by himself, a tool and process to collect it.

- Click here for information about how to CONTACT Barry Sweeny.

3. SUGGEST an agenda if you feel there is a specific one which should be used, or topics which should be addressed.

4. At this point Barry will ask some questions of you. Answering these will better define the agenda and Barry's role.

5. Negotiate the contract.

6. Follow the specifics in the contract which define your responsibilities for preparation for the process or event.

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