Events
program design school
learn how to write participant guides, facilitator guides, identify 40 learning methods and leave with a template for writing consistently and engaging material with ease
10-11 JUNE 2025 // 9am-4pm ET each day
Delivered Virtually
Join Erin Fischer from the Leadership and Training Studio for a two-day, hands-on, engaging session. Erin has hosted this program for 10 years and has graduated nearly a thousand higher education professionals in her Program Design School.
Erin will share how she wrote hundreds of programs in the past decade and still has more ideas. (As a matter of fact, she has written eight new courses in three months.) You will learn how to write participant guides, facilitator guides, identify 40 interactive learning methods and understand why you can’t write learning objectives until the end of your course! By the end of the two days, you will have a template for writing consistently–with ease and without procrastination. We are excited to continue to offer this outstanding professional development opportunity in a live virtual format using Zoom Video Conferencing.
This is a session that maxes out with about 40 participants and you will be in small groups working on your own curriculum while learning the process. This allows for a ton of feedback but requires full engagement from 9am-4pm ET.
It’s time to join the Program Design School if you:
- Struggle writing creative curriculum year after year.
- Need to write quickly or move past writer’s block.
- Need a specific plan and clear steps to write consistently.
- Need new ideas for teaching methods beyond the boring, unoriginal and overused methods.
- Write task-related curriculum, like how to run a meeting, use Roberts Rules of Order or put together a strategic plan.
- Write competency- or soft skills-based curriculum, like feedback, confidence or managing conflict.
- Want to network with professionals, and leadership and education professionals from institutions and headquarters.
- Want to learn the trends in leadership development for all types of adult learners.
Who Should Attend?
- Leadership development educators who create programs for students
- Professionals who oversee leadership strategies or write curriculum
- Education professionals who serve their headquarters or institution
Registration Rates
Each attendee of the Program Design School Online must be registered. Individual and team rates are available. Select “Add Additional Registrant” before submitting registration to add a team member from the same institution at a reduced rate!
In order to qualify for member rates for Program Design School, membership with ACPA must be valid through 11 June 2025. You must have your own individual membership. ACPA Members who purchase a Program Design School Registration understand their membership needs to be active through 11 June 2025. If it is not active prior to the start of Program Design School you will not be provided with the link to access the Program Design School Event unless you renew your membership or pay the difference between the non-member and member registration cost.
Registrations can be paid by check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. All fees must be prepaid. Purchase orders are not accepted. Refunds will be given for cancelations, received in writing at ACPA by 9 May 2025. Registrations can also be withdrawn by registrants using the event registration system through 9 May 2025. After 9 May 2025 there are no refunds. ACPA reserves the right to charge a service fee of US$50 for returned checks. Registrations are non-transferable. The conference may be canceled or postponed due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. In this case, the fees will be fully refunded; however, ACPA will not be responsible for other additional costs, charges or expenses, including cancelation/change charges assessed by airlines and/or travel agencies.
schedule
*all times listed in Eastern Time
Day 1
9:00am – 12:00pm
- Welcome
- Step One: Manage Great Ideas and Set Boundaries
- Step Two: Create a List
- Application: Steps One and Two
1:00pm – 4:30pm
- Step Three: Portion It
- Application Step Three
- Step Four: Create Tests with Learning Methods
- Application: Step 4
Day 2
10:00am – 12:00pm
- Welcome Back
- Step Five: Write Learning Objectives
- Application: Step Five
- Step Six: Write Participant and Facilitator Guides
- Application: Step 6
1:00pm- 4pm
- Step Seven: Permissions, Design, and Piloting
- Step Eight: Create Assessment
- Step Nine: Educational Strategies
