Call for Proposals for 2025-2026

We are now accepting proposals for FLCS for the 2025-26 school year! If you are interested in facilitating an FLC, you do not need to have your participants in place - we will help you recruit after the proposal process.

Facilitators, please complete and submit this document by emailing it to bcte@transy.edu by Monday, April 21 by 8:00 AM. We encourage you to talk with us as you develop your proposal. You are also welcome to speak with any of our previous FLC facilitators: Avery Tompkins, Steve Hess, JJ Wallace, Iva Katzarska-Miller, Michael Kelly, and Tiffany Wheeler.

We will then recruit participants (if needed), aiming for a minimum of five participants per group. Note that FLCs can include staff and students, though ⅔ of participants in any given FLC should be teaching on campus. If necessary, we will work with proposers to select participants if there are more applicants than seats.

Once established, FLC facilitators are responsible for scheduling, planning, and running meetings; coordinating work done between meetings; reporting progress back to the BCTE. Facilitators will receive a micro stipend for their work.

FLCs will meet somewhere between four and nine times, depending on the scope of outcomes, and will produce at least one "deliverable" of interest to the campus community or beyond (e.g., a resource list or annotated bibliography for the BCTE website or library, a podcast or video, a Canvas module, a Lunch & Learn presentation, a workshop, a conference presentation or manuscript for publication). 

The BCTE will provide logistical and financial support. It will reserve rooms, order materials, and make food arrangements. Financially, the BCTE will fund up to $2,500 per FLC, covering stipends for facilitators and participants, hospitality for in-person meetings, professional development support, and books and software.

Note that FLC budgets could be combined with other BCTE grant funds to develop the FLC's programming further.