09:57:40 there's a couple of different questions here or different prompts here.
09:57:46 And each prop is worth a certain amount of points. So we have 1 point, 5 point and 10 points.
09:57:50 So what you're going to do is you'll get points for everything in each category that applies to while it's on your phone.
09:57:58 So if you have less than 50%, which I do, you will get up You will not get a point for that.
09:58:05 So if you're interested in sharing your point you can do that.
09:58:11 By clicking on the metamor link. I believe Emily was gonna share that in there we go, perfect for that awesome.
09:58:23 And then for prompts 5, and prompts that have 5 points or 10 points.
09:58:28 Excuse me. you are just gonna have to. or if you are willing to, you can share a photo, a podcast, or a song.
09:58:37 In the padlet link that's also the you can they're in the chat box as well sounds good, and it's not There's no it's just friendly competition there's no incentive to winning
09:58:54 here hopefully. we'll get some fun. photos and great stop alright. and then here is Oh, that is not the paddle link.
09:59:06 Sure kidding alright, and here's the padlock
09:59:17 Alright, let's see. Okay, we got so many meters stuff starting to come in.
09:59:24 I'll share them at meter like right before we start that way.
09:59:27 People see what's on the screen sounds great and I can repeat the directions.
09:59:36 Amazing
09:59:49 Hello! everybody! Welcome, welcome!
09:59:58 Alright. So, as you can see, we're doing a little game for the first couple of minutes, just to get us started.
10:00:08 Yep, and for anyone interested. I believe I did my math correctly.
10:00:12 You can get up to 87 points
10:00:18 So you can record your points in the mentee that I just dropped in the chat, and then for the 5 and 10 point.
10:00:25 I don't. If you want to share any of the podcasts or pictures, or anything like that, you can drop them into the padlet like there.
10:00:33 I'll just keep throwing these in the chat as people keep coming in
10:00:44 Oh, looks like so for anyone who is doing or answering any of the 5 point or 10 point sections.
10:00:52 Just make sure if you can and you're willing to that you share
10:00:56 You're a photo of podcast some right of earth whatever to support
10:01:13 Awesome points rolling into the meeting. Amazing a lot of 30 plus pointers
10:01:33 Awesome. i'm just gonna keep dropping these links in the chat.
10:01:37 If you want to record your phone and put them mentioned any of those podcasts, or photos, or anything like that, you can go ahead and add those 2
10:02:02 Alright, just about 4 more minutes. I think of this before we get started, and roll into our agenda.
10:02:11 Sounds great, and we had a couple of folks just join us i'm just gonna go over the world one last time here.
10:02:17 If you want to spend a couple more minutes. So you get points for every
10:02:20 Everything in each category that applies to what's on your phone.
10:02:25 You're welcome to share your point to be like and then for 5 to 10 points we just ask that if you are as you do.
10:02:33 Have any of those on that. you can share them. photos podcasts anything you have to share
10:02:43 And then, before we start the meeting, I will share that. the mentality results up.
10:02:48 So you can see where people fell on. there sounds great. Oh, yeah, and people are dropping pictures into the padlet.
10:03:00 I see a cute dog. Oh, oh, my God! a cute little kitty picture!
10:03:10 I think some sort of evil
10:03:15 And then I dropped in a picture of Gilbert's abroad from Zoom Loganics. I think Gilbert's very cute.
10:03:22 He makes me happy
10:03:27 Oh, juvenile bald ecosystem I was i'm awful at Id in my birds, so I appreciate that guidance.
10:03:37 Alright, just one more drop of the monkey and the pilot in there.
10:03:41 Anybody wants to those or contribute anything in there.
10:03:52 I just clicked on something. Oh, I see some lions from the Lincoln Park zoom.
10:03:55 Oh, my gosh! the tigers and a ball, Katie, did you knit that crochet?
10:04:05 Yeah.
10:04:08 Oh, my gosh! I love to be working perfect pictures into here.
10:04:13 Is somebody so happy? Oh, a view from where I catch my computer? Very.
10:04:17 Oh, my gosh, i'm good we've been touching the community very alright.
10:04:24 It is about 10 o 4, so i'll go ahead and just take a minute and share what's on the padlet, and then see I sent him that picture of him and remind him of all the secrets I kept Nobody
10:04:40 said. just a second we stop sharing the screen i'm sure awesome.
10:04:51 Alright, let me share the mentee results.
10:05:00 Okay share screen. So for our mentee looks like we had a fair amount of people who fell in the 30 plus Point category.
10:05:15 Congratulations to everybody, very, very fine. And then it also looks like on the pathway.
10:05:25 We got a lot of jobs, take sure. Oh, yeah and i'll share these out with everybody after the meeting as well awesome.
10:05:35 Alright, Well, thank you, Ryan. for facilitating the power icebreaker.
10:05:42 I will go ahead and kick us off for our meeting today.
10:05:47 So can everybody see the screen? it's a Trivia giant ace logo on a blue background. Amazing.
10:05:52 Okay, so welcome to our meeting today, Everybody before we begin.
10:05:58 I do want to start with a landing accomplishment.
10:06:00 So across the region of this network a from all live members recognize that we're all on the land of tribal people.
10:06:06 We acknowledge their stewardship of these places that continues to stay, and that is our responsibility to join them, to restore the relationship with the living world around us.
10:06:17 Now here is a little agenda for today we have a lot of stuff to cover, and not so much.
10:06:25 A lot of times we're gonna move pretty quickly and go back to back to back and just to the quick reminder.
10:06:31 This meeting was originally scheduled to go tell 1130 specific time, but we did extend it to go to 1145, just to ensure that we had time to for everybody to share out what they came to say
10:06:44 So here are the goals for today's meeting we want all of the committee and working group members have a chance to share out what they've been working on in our February meeting and this way, we can
10:06:55 enhance some knowledge, sharing and transparency in the network.
10:06:58 We also want attendees to have the opportunity to get involved in committee than working groups.
10:07:03 If that's not something they do already we also want attendees to have the opportunity to learn about an Mb.
10:07:09 3 related research project and its findings, as well as habits.
10:07:14 Everybody. give them the opportunity to bring storm collectively about conservation events coming up in 2,023
10:07:25 So at this point I will go ahead and hand. it over to Macin, who's going to share out about what the communication Committee has been working on since February.
10:07:34 Yeah, hey? everyone, i'm megan ashton my pronouns are she her and I work for the Seattle aquarium in an administrative role for the conservation engagement and learning department and I've been
10:07:48 serving on the Communications committee for the last year, or so. and we're gonna introduce all of our cells, so i'll let the rest of my fellow committee members introduce themselves in the order that you see on
10:08:02 the slide. So, starting with Jennifer, Hello! My name is Jennifer Clean.
10:08:09 I handle the society at the Roosevelt Park Zoo, in Minnesota.
10:08:20 I don't know if Paul was here. but Paul is the chair of the Communications Committee.
10:08:25 He wants to go for the Zoom Logical Society of Milwaukee.
10:08:29 Wow! My name is Ryan Redeski, and I am the lead Conservation education specialist at the Racing Zoo.
10:08:39 Hi I'm Heather I'm the Director of Education and Deea Committee chair over at Red River, Zoo and Fargo North Dakota
10:08:50 My name is Katie I'm the education leaders Montana.
10:08:55 This is Luna Cool: Okay.
10:09:04 Awesome thanks, everyone. So i'm happy to be sharing with you a few updates from the communications committee of things that we've been working on over the last year, and the things that we have our ion for next
10:09:18 year. So our discussions and decisions were informed by data that was collected during the first rapid inquiry cycle that asked remembers a lot of questions about communication and relationship building within the network.
10:09:33 And we were looking at different forms of communication that the network has been using, including the discussion boards and the Google group.
10:09:41 And in response to feedback that we received, the committee voted to close the Google group and consolidate the communication between network members to the discussion boards and also as a part of the decision to close the Google group We
10:09:57 elected to launch the empathy matters newsletter to send high-level updates and program and member spotlights to the network members and especially targeted for people who may be less engaged with the day to day interactions within
10:10:12 the network, but are still interested in hearing those updates at that higher level.
10:10:18 This news leader is newsletter is curated monthly by Marty Brunette, and if you're not receiving those already.
10:10:27 But you're interested in signing up then please contact Emily by sending an email to empathy at Zoom dot Org.
10:10:36 So Another part of the feedback that we received was that people wanted more opportunities to engage with their colleagues in a social environment.
10:10:45 So we voted to have 4 social or happy hour events this year with one.
10:10:52 In February, after the after the summit there was another one in April, and then we took a break.
10:10:57 During the very busy summer months, and we will be back with a third one later.
10:11:03 Today, and the last one is yet to be scheduled.
10:11:07 So keep an eye out for that announcement. We are also in the early stages of reevaluating the organization of the Ace for Wildlife Network website.
10:11:19 And so this year we have created an empathy. Glossary Page reorganized the Empathy Resources Page, and added a new channel to the Discussion board called Fun.
10:11:33 Where you can share fun, pictures, stories, or just really things that don't make sense on any of the other boards next slide.
10:11:39 Please. Alright, looking ahead to next year we have several goals for 2023.
10:11:47 So also, in response to some of the feedback we received, we are looking at restructuring the discussion boards to make them easier to use and encourage more engagement within the Ace community.
10:12:00 And one thing that came up during the site visits that the woodland park Zoo backbone staff.
10:12:08 That they've been doing with the member facilities was the desire for a database of conservation work and empathy projects that people can ask questions about and reach out to the people who have been working on those projects and
10:12:21 just engage a little more freely. So this year we are going to be working on putting that together.
10:12:32 And last, but not least, the Communications Committee will be collaborating this year with the membership committee to develop a more formal welcoming process for ace affiliates and partners as new organizations continue
10:12:45 joining us, so that's it from now from the communications Committee
10:12:52 And with that I will pass it back over to Emily. Awesome.
10:12:54 Thank you, Megan So if anybody's interested in the Communications Committee, or any of the committees that are going to be sharing out during today's meeting.
10:13:03 There will be an opportunity for everybody who's interested to sign up for the Committee of Interest for them.
10:13:08 But for now I do want to turn it over to Dr.
10:13:11 Julie arts who's gonna give us a presentation about some of the empathy collaborative work that she's done with like so superior zoom.
10:13:21 So. Julia will stop sharing, and turn it over to you.
10:13:25 Thank you so much for being here. Sure i'll just quickly share my screen, like I'm not able to share.
10:13:34 I No, there you go. You should be able to do it.
10:13:51 Now
10:13:52 Your patience for some reason it's not
10:14:01 Hi! Sorry about that.
10:14:07 Great. Good morning. Thank you for letting me join your group this morning. and thanks for being here and sharing your time with me.
10:14:14 Yeah, you know, at any point you have questions or if i'm not quite covering what you were anticipating, or what more detail or less detail, just feel free to kind of nedge me along in whatever direction, would be helpful
10:14:25 to your group. Thank you for the land acknowledgment that you already shared, and I thank you for doing that.
10:14:32 I also wanted to, as I get started, also acknowledge a few other aspects and and people.
10:14:38 Work that i'll be sharing. with You could not have been them without some wonderful research. partner.
10:14:44 Sites, and those sites also. provide ongoing permission to let me use their photos.
10:14:51 The presentation is a little bit more enjoyable to listen and and watch.
10:14:55 So thank you to them. And then also just a recognition of
10:14:59 Our appreciation for the funding that Ace has been providing.
10:15:03 And just put a wonderful opportunity that is, to have that support and financial support as well.
10:15:07 And then I think you to the zoom who has been the research partner in this project that i'll be sharing
10:15:15 And then also my student, to list couple in this work as well.
10:15:21 I wanted to just put the work that' be sharing with you today in the context of Marma Trajectory, and so through ac support, we were able to have the funding that allowed us to first do a pilot study where
10:15:35 we experimented with the assessment measure that we are using them to and used in the study that would be sharing with you.
10:15:44 And then the focus for today is on that red tech study which is you know, bearing more about.
10:15:52 And then that study last year has launched us into the project that we're doing this year where we're looking more closely at trying to understand what is influencing our children's empathy and then How do
10:16:01 we deep and our strategies to incorporating indigenous perspective.
10:16:07 So that's sort of the bigger picture the focus this way is that.
10:16:12 And so just stepping back again to kind of put our minds back into the the work and sort of the depth of the work that we are collectively working. on.
10:16:24 It's good to win some while we visit that Well, why empathy?
10:16:26 And I also want to acknowledge the expertise of all of you here, that you all so much of this, and I working in this as well.
10:16:34 And so I wanted to just do cool that that's wonderful country of each of your sites and the work that you've been doing.
10:16:43 And so one of the ways that we sent Empathy as being so significant, is in the context of conservation behavior which so many of us in our organizations ultimately care about.
10:16:53 And then we kind of trace like, Where does empathy and sort of that company?
10:16:59 Yeah, conservation behavior. And so one of the ways that we can do that is not necessarily causally, but more through associations.
10:17:06 And so research suggests that when we have with animals that can help extend empathy beyond animals to everything things, and into more broadly nature, and then also through that empathy that's more of the you know dispositional
10:17:22 epitome Internet broader since it empty, that has been linked to things like money concern.
10:17:29 Environmental behaviors protecting each of those kinds of things.
10:17:35 But for the most part this thinking is again more association as a port.
10:17:39 2 causing, or even just soul causes, behavior so complex.
10:17:48 And then I think the other way that I am so intrigued by the role of empathy in the context of behavior is that you know, we had sort of this.
10:17:58 You know, stretch of years when organizations were really focused in on connectedness to nature, and that was sort of my best theme, and and a big push throughout many of our organizations, and while that's still important we
10:18:09 were also noticing sort of a troubling link that connectedness to nature.
10:18:15 Didn't always lead to the concept behavior that we we're hoping for assuming it to be, and some of them are.
10:18:23 Recent research is suggesting thatness to nature may be fostering empathy with nature, and that it's that empathy with nature helps mediate the relationship between.
10:18:36 So Another reason to, and and try and and foster that another aspect of empathy that I find so significant and and worthwhile in in context, down, you know, investing in it relates to conversations about social justice and in the
10:18:55 context of pro social behavior, and so there's research emerging that is looking at the role of empathy and it's empathy that is related to one's ability willingness to see injustices one's ability d to
10:19:11 considering value the welfare and wellbeing of other people.
10:19:15 I think a really exciting aspect of. So we need have more of a lens of conservation behavior, kind of in that broader context of of social justice.
10:19:26 And then, even when we think about social behaviors that you know the research that suggests that childhood empathy is related to adult who positions to act
10:19:39 Needed 3 and timely, and just sort of to illustrate that.
10:19:44 Through this image here. these children, like one of the participating nature preschool.
10:19:50 Have learned over time that when they start to get cool in the far way they have to move their bodies and other times they'll go seek out, you know, the outcomes black boulder surfaces and use that
10:20:02 to warm up, and it occurred to them to go check in on one of their peers who is not able to move on her own.
10:20:12 And so you know, recognizing that their bodies were called and we're thinking to check in with their here and offer the blanket and and kind of you know, check on her.
10:20:21 And so we think about empathy, conservation, behavior.
10:20:25 But I like these quotes, makes their social life possible.
10:20:30 The basis for human quality creation. I love that spark of human concern for us all of which speak to them.
10:20:37 And then another conversation social justice, and empathy towards social justice.
10:20:45 It's also surfacing maybe not 2 problem rooms.
10:20:50 But hopefully you know, getting into the mix of sustainability cost conversations.
10:20:54 But when we think about kind of whining circle of empathy, and the literature talks about that, it's easier to be impacted, Those who are similar to, you and that we have to be really intentional to help
10:21:06 kind of expand that circle so that we can be from us.
10:21:12 And as we expand out this circle or these widening circles, and see how this fits with sustainability that we spent with being impacted like us.
10:21:23 And then, as we begin to acknowledge otherness and recognize differences, transcend those differences moving us more towards something security. consciousness and ultimately empathy for future generations and so you know
10:21:43 that's all very much with name and b things and and language sustainability.
10:21:48 So again underscoring the importance of not just in the context of innovation, became broader.
10:21:56 Sustainability. conversations as well also then stepping back
10:22:02 That's just why empathy
10:22:07 And like one of the courses that I teach at the University of Minnesota, is young children.
10:22:12 Excuse me an etern sustainability, and within that my students go out and do observations and field experience experiences have a number of our nature preschools, and one of the things that they so often come back seeing
10:22:23 or sharing are these examples where it just strikes them?
10:22:27 How kind children are in these environments, or how helpful, or how compassion.
10:22:32 Yeah, or how much they act and function as a commute i'll sorts of examples in stories, and so anecdotally making this wonder about major preschool, and is that something that supports labeling it as such as as we also
10:22:49 know that when we look at the literature on how do we foster empathy. I'm, the literacy literature suggest that some of the most effective strategies are ones that are developmentally recent, so tailored to the development levels of
10:23:04 the audience at hand. effective strategies for empathy embedded within a group.
10:23:14 And and then this one, I think, is really particularly relevant to our investigation.
10:23:22 Strategies that provide these repeated opportunities to practice within the program and beyond into real life situations.
10:23:29 So it's strategies and effective strategies and literature that are very much aligned with the nature preschool approach that made us think pursuing, and also from a theoretical perspective.
10:23:45 There are a couple of theories that seem particularly relevant to thinking about could or potentially be supporting empathy development.
10:23:55 So we have one that's the affordable and in this particular theory.
10:24:02 It talks about how important natural elements and settings are, because they immediately show their concept of children's actions, and they give rise to all sorts of opportunities that emerge, that allow for these different desired outcomes.
10:24:16 So in this example. you see here, that little girl who is climbing up on the stick, and there's so skirt gets caught in one of the pieces of the bark and her peers come to try and figure out how
10:24:27 they're going to get her off the stick and how they're going to the script one step.
10:24:32 And so the natural environments are providing opportunities that so you need it for someone different and more complex.
10:24:38 Next from our novel might find in my routine settings.
10:24:44 For example, another one more example, another. example, illustrating the affordances that arise through play in natural opportunities to show compassion, or to lend a hand to peers, and then one other theory that
10:25:06 seems quite relevant in the context. need to preschool as a strategy for empathy, and that is the attention Restoration theory from the K one and about our completed on how natural environments can help store
10:25:22 those, and so you know the the footage here is from one of our sites where they have a camera village for their, and then in the winter months it switched canvas tense for the outdoor app
10:25:35 Peter Khan has this wonderful quote: when we can engage with nature, our mind begins to settle, and when our mind isn't racing the wider world where there's great beauty and healing so things like we might be more
10:25:51 naturally better supported when our mind isn't so stressed out too.
10:25:57 Yeah tune into things, and and more things that are are deep. So that's the context that led us to pursue the project.
10:26:08 Where we were looking at preschool type, and whether a preschool type.
10:26:13 My children. And so we had 3 different types of prescription.
10:26:17 One was sort of a conventional manager preschool, and then are to a treatment preschool types where nature, preschool and then animal, focused nature preschool.
10:26:28 So I imagine many of you're familiar with nature preschool One of the hallmarks of these programs and children are engaged in nature play and structured play in nature for the majority of their characteristic of them that's kind of
10:26:46 neat within the area of our region we have 2 animal focused nature preschools.
10:26:53 One is our Lake Superior Zoom preschool, and then the other.
10:26:58 One is a barnard, a barnyard and so it's from animal focus, but setting that down. and so we used a pre-test post test.
10:27:10 We caught in that equivalent designed because kids randomly assigned to.
10:27:16 We were looking at does preschool typing, and also looking at with humans empathy and empathy with.
10:27:26 And so we were, You know, investigating when we control for where they start in terms of as well as the age, and in general, how much preschool they're pretty Do we see changes at the point in terms of What we are measuring
10:27:41 again recognize the expertise among us, and in terms of empathy, and what it is just to kind of show you what we were.
10:27:48 Yeah, we can break empathy down into 3 dimensions that are separable.
10:27:54 But also there, much intertwined 2 of those 3 which is on the right that has 2 pieces to an emotional sharing and motivational.
10:28:08 So they're sharing with sharing 4 and when the cognitive is that ability to primitively understand or the cognitive.
10:28:17 And so the green circles in the what? our instrument measured, cognitive, effective, and then impact intentions.
10:28:26 Oftentimes we assume empathy provokes some kind of carrying or compassionate behavior.
10:28:34 We know that behavior is so complex to that behavioral intentions as
10:28:44 The instrument that we use comes from the sure and I believe if i'm not mistaken, St.
10:28:53 Louis Zoo has also experimented with this instrument as well, and they used it in a slightly different way.
10:28:59 We kindly did it in the first year of our funding fund base, and then
10:29:06 In this particular study we used that modified number we tested out the year, but in essence it's measuring those dimensions that I had shown on the prior slide to cognitive and then the behavioral intention and
10:29:19 then for each of those dimensions the emotions and these 4 emotions for sort of the basic emotions that would be pressing didn't really time look good and are typically emotions that are measured in and we were interested in
10:29:37 the text that we're not just and i'm just animals, but also this is 3 different dimensions. The original instrument didn't have that context of with wildlife.
10:29:51 It did have the and people. Wow! I think so that's one way that we modified it.
10:29:56 You original instrument also didn't have both just add the stories, and we found that the use of photos was more of a ecological valid assessment oftentimes when we're trying to receive what someone
10:30:11 is hearing it's not just through what we hear but it's through what we see and facial expressions, for example, are value language.
10:30:18 And so we found, or with the story. So, just as an example, I said, we have 3 different kinds.
10:30:27 This is the example of the empathy
10:30:33 And so for each of these contacts they were more pictures, and then this the child would see the picture and be read.
10:30:40 This little scenario, and then they would be asked the different and Chat, who appears, you know, we would say this child.
10:30:49 It's still in my favorite playground. there's a lot of fun, slides, and swings like the child really likes to do.
10:30:56 And then we proceed to annual sleep. Yeah. You know the the questions on the bottom.
10:31:00 How do you think this child is feeling? How do you feel about this child who gets to whatever?
10:31:06 And then for the emotion that was happening it doesn't really make sense.
10:31:13 Do for this child? Question was asked for the What could you do, or what could you say?
10:31:18 And that was the question was we're using to assess the impact intention.
10:31:25 So we had this set of pictures and scenario like the level stories, and then we had one for empathy with animals, and then one less competition.
10:31:34 Life, the animals who use photos of a dog or I can, and we would let children choose which pictures they wanted to look at.
10:31:41 And then the wildlife one was a squirrel to do wildlife animal.
10:31:48 That would be one year to children, and would be something common, familiar, based on sort of back.
10:31:52 There in terms of the data collection. we after we had the approval.
10:32:00 It's good to be the board We administered the parents very high and enthusiasm.
10:32:10 We're familiar with survey research where 20% or 30 in this, that we had I don't know exactly the percent, but it was about and then the protests were administered in the fall, and then we did that
10:32:31 As well on children's age, gender and how much they participated in the present.
10:32:37 Every day participation rate, and then forward all the resources
10:32:50 Possibility for subjectivity. I scored, And then also the graduate students scored in the past, and that we, when we compared to look for and sees where I maybe thought it was since she got it was something else and then
10:33:04 discussed until we came to an agreement, and we were in for consideration
10:33:14 Each child had 9 different pretensions. test scores, okay, dimensions and
10:33:25 And then in terms of results, our results in terms of empathy with humans.
10:33:29 I what i'll share first, and the stars are what signify when there was statistical significance.
10:33:35 As I mentioned, we controlled for protest, controlled for gender and age, endo sage.
10:33:43 And so when we took into account that what you're seeing on the screen, are the adjusted postal scores, and then the 2 stars are indicating for the animal focus meeting they were significantly then more peers in the
10:34:02 middle, And then in terms of empathy animals where we saw preschool type, having a significant specifically for impacting.
10:34:17 Yeah. and the preschool type. That was significant different from the other 2.
10:34:24 Nice to meet you preschool those children or significantly higher than your your pre school, and then on nature preschool, and then in terms of empathy with wildlife the 2 dimensions that we're influenced
10:34:42 by preschool time, cognitive empathy, an act of wildly excuse me effective.
10:34:48 I would do with one and In both cases it was the animal focused as well as the nature preschools.
10:34:54 Yeah, higher and hostess levels than your peers, and just in terms of kind of thinking about meaning and helping us kind of draw from those findings and and make sense of it.
10:35:08 Our study is suggesting that the answer we'll meet your preschools, and then meet your preschool.
10:35:14 One animal ones. we're supporting the behavioral intent beyond what would be expected.
10:35:23 So these behavioral intentions in the context
10:35:29 And that is particularly worthy because of the research that thinks that disposition.
10:35:37 In pro social ways. and Then in terms of the animal folks didn't need your preschool isn't their effect on cognitive and access empathy one of the things that's particularly not worthy of that is
10:35:50 that don't typically see a lot of change in that and sort of a early window of early childhood that it's pretty construct.
10:36:04 And so to see within a year that going beyond and higher than what was happening in 92 preschools.
10:36:17 And then also, when we connect everything wildlife kind of in that chain of relationships with nature toward conservation behaviors, that's another finding that we can be excited and see the same
10:36:34 Also. what to me was really interesting is sort of what it prompts toward the need for studying further particular children.
10:36:43 And then, in the context, our study didn't allow us to really parcel out the nature preschool that was fostering empathy.
10:36:54 You can guess They send the literature about each appropriate the other studies that I've been conducted by 20.
10:37:00 One of the things that we have right now as a part of the next project working on is trying to look at.
10:37:09 What are these people Characteristics should play? Is it the role of the adoption?
10:37:16 Get more standing back and letting kids independent and help each other.
10:37:21 That different situations to arise so That's one thing that we're investigating.
10:37:30 We don't really know how durable and transient
10:37:35 Last into account, you know, taper app after a bit of time, or as true, merge into other sense.
10:37:46 And then One area that I think is particularly in to think about and and to explore further related to the research instrument itself.
10:37:54 For example, the active and to mention that it was measuring in an instrument lunch together.
10:38:02 Those 2 pieces it lung together, feeling with in feeling for, and why that matters is that each of those might lead to or being so.
10:38:16 For example, the literature suggests that when we feel for someone that without other skills to go along, regulation agency, sometimes feeling for can actually promote feelings of distress and lack of which is sort of the opposite of what we're trying to
10:38:37 get also in literature it talks about like power imbalances between feeling with and feeling.
10:38:46 For in that, again, in the context of social justice, might really be wanting feature with as opposed to feelings for particularly when option that, and fluid out of that might be more to relieve ones on distress as
10:39:00 opposed was to optimistic motivation, and so complicated and entangled in the the measure that we use.
10:39:11 They don't really untie another thing that we are thinking about is that
10:39:19 We're wondering about if the construct of behavioral intentions, particularly setting wildlife, if that is kind of too abstract for children like.
10:39:31 For example. we saw that there was a difference in kids being able to generate.
10:39:40 It was a little bit more challenging because sometimes they'd say things like
10:39:44 Why would we need to have a squirrel? We can help themselves.
10:39:46 The person, or some of the ideas that came up with helping a squirrel, for example, would be a like.
10:39:53 We could get them lemonade. find them a toy to cheer them up, which again you know.
10:40:00 Kind of reflect your stage development. but aren't you know kind of in that context.
10:40:05 The bigger picture, meaningful or realistic kinds of helping for wildlife.
10:40:11 That's, sort of an area that we're thinking more about capture that it's hard to know for instrument capturing it.
10:40:22 Or if it, indeed, that you know kids developmentally are better able to carrying actions opposed to wildlife, And then the other thing that we're thinking about is that the instrument itself.
10:40:39 Didn't really capture itative aspects of what children we're seeing.
10:40:44 So, for example, in some of the responses about like have the child who's toy was just broken a lot of the kids in the nature programs we're seeing I could make them a new toy and then the kids in the
10:40:56 conventional preschool would often use the phrasing like buy in the toy.
10:41:02 And so there's something there a pattern that we were picking up on.
10:41:04 But it was sort of beyond the scope of what they systematically.
10:41:09 To me it was something me, too. And then the other thing that we noticed in the kids is that in the animal focus, nature preschool.
10:41:19 We were really using visual queues to identify the emotion like the would comment on the position of the email of whatever the squirrel or like posture they would describe as droopy.
10:41:37 Or they would comment on, refer and They were really noticing things that didn't appear to be coming up in in the context of that.
10:41:45 Now I need to preschool kids and how they were trying to you know, assess the picture in the story, and the motion was that so?
10:41:52 I think there's more to of what the instrument could catch. And so you know, as we think more about how do we young children?
10:42:01 More work to be done instruments. stepping back just briefly.
10:42:10 Kind of in the context of research related. What are we doing?
10:42:15 From the nature contact in human health research agenda which isn't.
10:42:20 But I think there's some parallels there that kind of professional group is working on sort of these 4 different areas like
10:42:30 What are the mechanisms, characteristics of programs? Sort of the strategies, an exposure like?
10:42:39 How much do we need, and especially in the work that many of you do.
10:42:44 Where are contact with visiting time? Shorter trying to figure out like
10:42:50 How much time do we need, or how much of program can yield the desired result?
10:42:57 In terms of diversity equity. How do we design strategies that improve empathy different?
10:43:09 So that we are kind of thinking about and Then How Do we translate what we're doing in tomorrow.
10:43:14 Routine practice, and it's sort of like limitation of meeting and kind of along with that just wanting to mention to that.
10:43:25 You know how sensitive we have to be about kind of training.
10:43:31 You know what works in one scenario and one time and place may not work, and so not just like time in place, in the sense of geographic, but in times 10 places and spaces in terms of All sorts of different ways people
10:43:47 differ. You know, regionally gender and ethnicity, you know differences.
10:43:56 If we really need to pay attention to those as we can.
10:43:59 Strategies. And then I think the other piece that's interesting for us ought to be thinking about is that when we think about our programs, perhaps thinking about them in
10:44:10 The context of trying to disrupt some mechanisms that are perpetuating and sustaining a problem.
10:44:15 So thinking about like what is you know, resulting in the need for conservation, behavior, or even in empathy.
10:44:25 How do we disrupt the mechanisms that are causing levels of empathy?
10:44:30 In America, for example, over the last 10 years, have Sally declined.
10:44:35 And so research is suggesting things like family size, parenting style.
10:44:40 Media is one thing that has been said, Yes, one of the sources of declining empathy.
10:44:46 And so thinking about, how do we disrupt some of these mechanisms that are prompted?
10:44:52 And then my last. that is that again, we have to recognize empathy in the context.
10:44:59 Behavior is. And so it's great that we are all focusing on empathy. And I think that's very much a driving motivator of behavior, and something that's worthwhile focusing on we can't also forget
10:45:11 that we need people to be working on other things that should behavior. It's also normative belief, self advocates procedural knowledge, locus of control, helping people navigate constraints to behaviors and so kind of that bigger
10:45:26 page trying to keep that in the backup it's all that's what I have
10:45:35 I have no idea what time I met and i'm sorry if I went too long.
10:45:39 But I'll start sharing my no worry I think we have time for about probably 2 or 3 questions.
10:45:46 So you feel paid for to drop them in the chat if you could like do that way, and i'm happy to read them off or raise your hand.
10:45:56 I think the the chat in the company in my glasses i'm hopefully reading this right but there is a published study article.
10:46:04 That I can share. However, that would be best if I can update in the chat after I after you proceed on so that don't tumble around doing that.
10:46:14 But happy to put the Link Journal publication, so it should be easily accessible.
10:46:24 Anybody have any questions for Julie?
10:46:36 I'm happy to be reached in the future if you know you do think of a question or Yeah.
10:46:44 Have a comment or anything like that happy to here or answer questions to later time.
10:46:54 Thank you. Well, if nobody has any questions I think we can go ahead and move on to our next thing.
10:47:00 Thank you so much for coming to this julie it was really great to hear about this paper, and i'm more kind of flushed out space.
10:47:07 It was yeah and she'll let me just drop in the chat. she'll also be presenting on behalf of the zoom and their grant share on december thirteenth.
10:47:13 So if you want to hear a little bit more about this project. let me just drop the link in there.
10:47:17 So thank you for that setting. Yeah, that was kind of Julie. Thank you.
10:47:21 I'll put the link in the chat and Then I will depart.
10:47:24 But i'll put my email in there. as Well, in case thank you, Thanks for sharing your time with me.
10:47:31 Alright. sounds like a plan. Alright, I will go ahead and start sharing my screen once more.
10:47:38 And hand things off to tyranny and the membership committee.
10:47:44 Good morning, everybody. well here in voice See it's a listening so I guess good morning.
10:47:49 Good afternoon. my Name's tiery i'm part of the membership committee which was newly formed this past march, and I am the director of Education.
10:47:55 Here at C. Voicey. I would also like to point out this go looks like it's trying to run away.
10:48:00 I promise to jump to my lap for a picture It's just bad timing on the campus Angle. so and we are going to say by a couple of other members of Kennedy who I will let introduce themselves.
10:48:12 Hello, everyone! My name is Fernanda Mora, and I work for Zoom Montana.
10:48:16 I am part of the education team here. Hi I'm Heather we already met friend friendly reminder that I'm over at Red Rivers.
10:48:25 You in Fargo, North Dakota rep in the education team, and I'm Marty Burnett here it was in Park Zoo Empathy Grants and network manager fantastic and I would like to take this time to
10:48:42 officially welcome. some of our ace, for wildlife network affiliates.
10:48:46 So the affiliate status is something new that we just created over the past couple of months.
10:48:52 If you can join me in welcoming any new affiliates on the call, I would love that.
10:48:55 So if you are, this is your first network. events. If you could raise your hand, do something, give us a little shout out or even drop in the chat.
10:49:02 We would love to officially recognize and welcome you to your first event.
10:49:05 So welcome the couple of people there. Yeah, tested So to give you a little bit of context of the difference in my apologizes a week or right outside. So hopefully, if I start picking up on that But we did create the affiliate
10:49:19 status, because while we have a fantastic partnership with our 2088% of zooms across our 7 State nation we recognize that there are a lot of voices out here in the empty work.
10:49:30 And there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to share.
10:49:34 And so for the affiliate status, there are a couple differences between an appliance and a member.
10:49:39 This is kind of the first Intro level of the network membership.
10:49:42 So this is looking at. if you're just trying to kind of get your feedback.
10:49:45 If you're curious and you want to share some resources you've been looking into, I mean you can have some experience you would like to share, or you don't work for one of the 20 institutions currently part of the institutional
10:49:55 partnership, but she would like to be part of the network.
10:49:57 This is how that is available to you. And so the affiliate process works by applying through the ace for wildlife website.
10:50:05 And then we kind of asked just some basic questions to try to get some levels of interest in the network as well as any other relevant experience.
10:50:12 You may have to offer regardless of previous work anyone who's interested is welcome and encouraged to apply as we recognize that there are a lot of fantastic voices out there, and levels of experience that we would like to talk about just doing in this
10:50:24 conversation. Applications are reviewed by the membership committee on a monthly basis and accepted. it.
10:50:31 Affiliates are then welcomed with an orientation letter as well as an orientation video that includes some ways to kind of use.
10:50:37 The discussion board tips on how to navigate the website.
10:50:40 All sorts of fantastic things like that. And along with that, just a quick review for the network goals.
10:50:46 One of them is sharing those resources on foster and empathy based practices.
10:50:50 So if you know, if anybody that you think would be welcoming visibility status, or would be interested in it, please do direct thing towards the website, as we would love to happen to one just to give you some scope at the Aza
10:51:03 conference. we had fantastic success, and with having people come to our open meeting and learning about the program, and also wanting to join us on the affiliates.
10:51:13 So, as you can see, we have had 27 individuals join us from over variety of different institutions.
10:51:18 So the web pencil represents consultants. We have had 4 different consultants.
10:51:24 Join us over the past couple of months. The bluefish is an aquarium shed.
10:51:28 Aquarium is hidden there in Chicago, but it is there as well, so you can't quite see it.
10:51:32 So there are 3 of programs represented. but I know you can only kind of see 2 fish on that screen right there.
10:51:37 But that is it. The green bear does represent zoom, so you can see a variety of sees across the area, and then the yellow buildings are universities.
10:51:46 So I would also like to point out that we do have a span across the Us.
10:51:49 Which is absolutely fantastic, and a lot of that was due to the work at ease.
10:51:53 So thank you for everyone who is been spreading the word about the network.
10:51:56 It has absolutely been paid off. and then, in addition to working on the affiliate status, the membership committee also did a little bit of work on a code of conduct.
10:52:08 So this was in response to events, both in and out of the network this past year.
10:52:12 That kind of impacted some of our members and so we just wanted to take a step back and look at what was really important to the network, and put in a couple of different phrases.
10:52:21 And how we can make sure that we're all moving towards the same goals.
10:52:23 This document can be found on the membership page of the is for wildlife website as well as was shared, I believe, last week by Emily, and we will be building on the content of this document in just a few moments here
10:52:36 later on with the steering Committee so that'll be available here in the next few minutes, and then to give you a look into what's coming forward.
10:52:46 We will be working on some more recruitment. techniques as we do want to increase our reach.
10:52:50 In who's joining us for our net our empathy conversations.
10:52:54 So this will include creating a ace for wildlife recruitment video.
10:52:57 But she will talk a lot a little bit more about at the February summit.
10:53:00 We're gonna have some ways for everyone to get involved if people like to be involved.
10:53:04 And we're also going to focus on some more active equipment, not only the billions, but also potentially members as well.
10:53:09 So if there's any other full institutions, that would like to join us, We're gonna look at what that may look like moving forward, and how we can get going on that process. and then finally, we are looking to have an ace for
10:53:19 wildlife booth at 88 in Columbus next fall
10:53:23 And then we also wanna make sure that this is a process that is doable for everyone.
10:53:27 So we also wanna make sure that we are keeping that line of communication and collaboration open, especially with the Diversity and Inclusion working group which Bernie that will tell us about here just a little bit and then we will be working
10:53:38 with the steering committee. to kind of look at that strategic 3 to 5 year plan that the network is creating and make sure that we are keeping in mind how we want to look at expansion over the next couple of years and
10:53:48 then, if you would like to join us in the membership committee and any of this work sounds fun to you, and you're like.
10:53:53 Yes, this is me. I want to join. There will be an opportunity here at the end of the meeting for you to sign up, and we would love to see.
10:53:59 Thank you.
10:54:06 And with this you'll hear from the strategic planning Committee, please.
10:54:10 Thank you. Hi! My name is Liz Gillis and my pronouns are she and her, and I am the education curator at the Minnesota Zoo, and also the co-chair for the strategic learning committee So
10:54:23 i'm gonna kick it off to my fellow committee members in order to introduce themselves in order.
10:54:27 So first is about Hello, everyone, Isabel Bezer, she her pronouns. I work for the Zoological Society of Mo.
10:54:37 Hi Craig Standards She him Education Curator at Northwest Trek, Wildlife Park in Edenville, Washington, hey?
10:54:44 Everyone, Molly at Puerto rican she her I am the Empathy collaborative specialist at one part 2.
10:54:53 I don't think Brook is here today I think Katie, shaking her head.
10:54:57 Now. So i'm gonna take that to The confirmation That brook is not here today. How but she's also part of the Education Department over at the Montana
10:55:08 Awesome. So, as a learning network. Our goal really is to work together, to create and evaluate practices, to foster empathy and to do that, as you all know, we have these learning questions that guide our work that help
10:55:21 us to really be intentional about what we're learning together, and one of our first learning questions is this one: How are we sustainably promoting empathy for animals and people within an across our organizations and through this question.
10:55:38 we've actually began to answer it by creating a training toolkit. and this is for you all to use in your organizations in order to promote empathy for animals in a way, and continue to train your staff on some of
10:55:53 the important themes and the resources inside the training toolkit are from 9 institutional partners, And then we've also been working to create 5 videos with accompanying scripts.
10:56:06 And audio, so you can save a themes listed on your screen, which include an introduction to empathy, types of empathy, effective empathy practices Empathy Bridge and also a video on
10:56:19 anthropomorphism. So these cases came from you when we went around.
10:56:23 And they did the virtual site visits and also the in person site visits.
10:56:28 We asked you all what you would like to have to train your staff, and also what was missing, and that's where this toolkit comes from.
10:56:34 And really we are working on to create this toolkit for you to have something to use in your organization to keep this work going.
10:56:40 So they important part is, this is for you. also, as part of the toolkit is looking at a dip practices in their intersection with empathy, and also evaluation
10:56:53 So this is just a summary of the data that we found relate when we did when the folks did their site business, both virtually and in person, to kind of show you where these themes came from.
10:57:05 So really we looked at this information, and then use that to try to create research that would be able to be used from day one and Really, support.
10:57:14 Where the gaps are. and this is my favorite slide because it's awesome.
10:57:21 So this is the first video of the empathy toolkit, and it is almost done.
10:57:28 And as you can see em i'm only is about to be a breakout star, and we're excited for it.
10:57:33 I'm there for it. so really this is going to be completed, and then it's going to be put on the discussion board for you to begin to use.
10:57:39 So you'll see these tools being rolled out
10:57:44 So that was our first strategic learning question. Our second one deals with the intersection between, or empathy for animals work and our diversity.
10:57:53 Equity include inclusion and justice work that we're doing in many of our institutions.
10:58:01 And in order to address this question, what we did was we created a learning Group series and the goal of that series is really to give us a place to process the work that we're doing inside our institutions on Dea also to
10:58:15 highlight what organizations were doing across our region, and create really a space for reflection between the intersections of Dee Ai and empathy.
10:58:27 The first event was held on September thirteenth, and we plan to hold more.
10:58:32 In December, and the fees of these are kind of based on the feedback that we got from the rapid inquiry cycle.
10:58:40 So that's where that information comes from you've also probably already heard a little bit about the fact that in working with the steering committee we have created a Dai working group.
10:58:51 We're super excited about this new group and having the ability to really focus in as an as a network on dia work and be intentional.
10:59:02 Those first meetings were held in july and we're now actively recruiting members for this, so you'll hear more about this later in the meeting
10:59:13 So as we look to 2023 there are really 3 things that are committee are focusing on.
10:59:20 First of all, we're taking a look at aza's Social science, research, agenda, and really trying to figure out how ace for wildlife mission and learning questions relate to that framework.
10:59:32 We're also collaborating with an university inclusion working group to really focus in on that second question, and last we're editing the Empathy training toolkit and getting ready to pilot it through 2023
10:59:49 And next is Asia from the steering committee. Awesome.
10:59:55 Thank you, Liz. So my name is Asia Somers.
10:59:57 I think I was going through the call and I know at least 80% of you.
11:00:02 I'm the curator of conservation education and animal care at the Racine Zoo. and then i'll pass it off.
11:00:08 I know Laurel is here. i'm not sure if justice here to introduce themselves
11:00:14 I'm just gonna echo what's sitting said in the chat, which is that your picture is amazing Asia?
11:00:20 Hi! I'm Laurel I use that she her pronouns, and I am the grants manager in the learning and innovation department at Woodland Park.
11:00:26 Zoo, and it does not look like Jess is here.
11:00:32 But she is one of the fantastic Education staff over at Henry.
11:00:35 Violence. Hi here! Hello! you are here. Oh, my gosh I think we're using a device that doesn't seem to be about it.
11:00:45 So i've just i'm i'm a conservation education curator, as Emily said, if you're every matter of zoom and yeah thanks for joining me i'm glad I know who's in there for sure but now thank
11:00:58 you awesome? Yeah, that explains why I missed you there.
11:01:01 Just awesome. Yeah. So circling back, to kind of where we left off. we had a big conversation at our last all network meeting about a bunch of different models for expansion, because that's what we've been kind of looking
11:01:13 at the affiliate program is amazing, but we do want to get more zoos involved as actual network members.
11:01:20 So we presented these 4 different groups and i'm not going to read every single word on the slide, but basically looking at if we wanted to do demand base experience based 2 tiered approach and regional expansion for those who weren't
11:01:32 there at that meeting. All of these have a lot of pros and a lot of cons, and these different things, and we really wanted to take everyone's input into account and try to find the best path both for the sustainability the ace network as
11:01:46 a whole, and also making sure that we weren't putting up bear careers, and that we were being really equitable and accessible to people.
11:01:54 As we started to expand and open up, the network so we did take everything from those smallest groups and from input network boards everywhere else that we heard things when deciding how we were going to move forward with this and today we're voting on
11:02:06 it so don't. worry. we didn't just make a decision and say, this is it. We did it we're all gonna have a chance to vote on that.
11:02:11 But what we did end up going with is kind of a model demand based.
11:02:18 So we're going to admit any demand base is just any ecosystem. If any aza empathy easy, I should all be empathy, and any aa credited institution.
11:02:29 Regardless. So what we're going to do is do that through either the institution, if the institution wants to join, or the affiliate status, So that means, even if say, the i'm gonna pick on the shut aquarium because
11:02:41 I know the person there that's the champion save these shed Aquarium said, No, we don't want to do this, but the educator there said but Empathy, though they can join as an affiliate or if
11:02:52 the entire shed. Aquarium says, Yes, we are on board.
11:02:55 They can join, and then their people can join as network members.
11:03:00 So hopefully, that makes sense. and I think and a couple of slides.
11:03:04 We'll go through all of those terminologies but the things that that institution does become an institutional partner.
11:03:11 It's fairly simple The requirements that we came up with
11:03:17 Which are on there we go. I was hoping I was going in order here. so one they have to be as a credited.
11:03:24 We are going to stick to that for the time being.
11:03:28 As one of the things that we're going to use that doesn't mean we couldn't expand beyond that in the future, but for the time being to avoid a flood, we're going to keep it to easy institutions where a lot of our resources
11:03:36 are focused, be committed at the organization level, so they do have to have that letter commitment which all of our current network partners signed.
11:03:47 As we were going through this process, so someone with the authority to speak for the organization has to show that they are committed to this committed to the network.
11:03:55 They have to at least gone through some kind of introductory training, and it's there's a lot of flexibility on how to do that.
11:04:02 They don't have to fly staff out to seattle They can go to something that's in the area digital options.
11:04:07 Different ways to fulfill that requirement and attending at least 4 network events per year.
11:04:15 And that means someone from their institution, and that includes recordings.
11:04:19 So we hope that that is a fairly easy barrier.
11:04:22 But we also don't want people to just say that they are an institutional partner to check a box, and then never engage with the network at all.
11:04:30 And you guys, hopefully, all know that we do all kinds of learning groups, and there's the happy hours there are these meetings.
11:04:37 So there's a lot of opportunities to get involved in I think, including recordings, and that makes it very accessible to hopefully anyone.
11:04:43 So as kind of an overview of all the different levels of involvement.
11:04:47 The first 2 here network affiliates and network members.
11:04:52 Those are individual people, so an affiliate is an introductory level of participation within the network.
11:04:57 They are individuals, they can be at an institutional partner.
11:05:01 They cannot be at an institutional partner. They can work at a university; they can work at a museum.
11:05:07 They just said, Wow! this network is cool, and I want to learn more about it.
11:05:08 I want to get on these lists. I want to jump into these meetings, so they do not have voting rights, and they are not able to serve on committees, but they do have access to see all of the resources.
11:05:18 That we have available and contribute to that because there's really no reason to put a barrier on that.
11:05:23 So there is an application to become an affiliate, to make sure that they are doing somewhat work in a somewhat related field.
11:05:31 Or have, you know, a reasonable interest in not just going to come and control our wonderful discussion.
11:05:36 Board. but pretty low barrier for that one network.
11:05:39 Members then are people who are at institutional partners we're at the institutional level.
11:05:42 They have bought in, and these people are able to serve on committees, and right now participate in capacity building grant projects.
11:05:52 And then the network partner level the institutional partner. So again, those 2 are people.
11:05:56 This is an entire zoo aquarium, or related institution.
11:06:01 So like this example, it's within park zoo not Emily.
11:06:06 It requires that buy-in like I talked about from organizational leadership and votes are represented by organizational representatives.
11:06:14 So if you are not sure who your organizational representative is, or who that that main one or 2 people at your organization are?
11:06:23 Definitely feel free to touch base. I believe Emily would be the holder of that knowledge. And maybe what Emily has down might not be accurate to what you want it to be.
11:06:31 So you can definitely check into that. if you're like I don't know what organizational representative means which are the 5 people in this room is that you can definitely work through that internally.
11:06:38 But there are one or 2 selected for each organization that kind of say we're the ones making sure all the things are happening.
11:06:43 Those those 4 checklists on kind of that circle graph that we had.
11:06:49 So this is our proposal that we have for doing an expansion.
11:06:55 Those different criteria that we have. So we do want to change the bylaw again.
11:07:00 The steering committee can sit we talk about all the things that we want to do, but we don't actually make the big changes without running it by everyone.
11:07:07 So these have been available for everyone. 2 access and comments on I know as of yesterday.
11:07:13 When I talked to Emily. we did not have any comments I don't believe I saw any last time.
11:07:17 I looked at Emily is not on that so before we just had this kind of placeholder that we are going to create an expansion plan. And here we have verbiage that basically summarizes that expansion.
11:07:28 Plan that i've kind of expanded on in the last 2 slides on that The bylaw has just a fairly short summary of it, with a link out to the full expansion plan with the searing committee responsible
11:07:40 for drafting and overseeing the implementation plan, obviously pointing out that that is really closely in conjunction with the membership committee.
11:07:49 And speaking of the membership Committee, we do have a second insertion that we are proposing to our bylaws, which is the code of conduct.
11:07:56 So that was touched on a little bit earlier today. I think tyranny was the one talking about this.
11:08:03 So we want to also put that code of conduct exists. is something that is important in those bylaws. So we're going to go ahead, and emily's gonna pop open the poll.
11:08:12 If you approve these. but if you do have any questions about these, you can also pop those into the chat while we're waiting for votes to come in more than happy to answer those I know we didn't get any in
11:08:22 advance, but I also know how busy everyone's schedules can be
11:08:27 So if you have a question that's popping up to you now, or concerns something you want to discuss, you're more than welcome to pop that in the chat.
11:08:33 If you want to be anonymous you could send it just to me, and i'll know, and i'll promise i'll never tell anyone so completely up to you.
11:08:40 If anyone has any input, on that otherwise we will let all of our voting members do the voting thing
11:08:59 Notes are trickling in, appreciate. Take the time to read and look at them
11:09:11 Not seeing any questions either, so hopefully that means I was just really clear and I'm the best at explaining things
11:09:21 Which is good, because I still get confused with this terminology.
11:09:24 Sometimes
11:09:28 Alright, we've got 39 participants and 20 some votes. we're slowing down a little bit
11:09:42 Alright, but we have over half the votes in, and it is a unanimous Yes,
11:09:49 So we are going to say that we have passed our proposed bylaw amendments.
11:09:53 So yay we now officially have an expansion.
11:09:57 Plans will be able to get that rolled out relatively quickly, as well as the code of conduct, which should be common sense, but is always a good thing to have down.
11:10:06 So that if there ever is an issue we can circle back to that.
11:10:09 So keep an eye open for more information about actual implementation of these and kind of a a softer launch of the expansion plan, so we don't get flooded, but feel free to tell your friends as soon as that is
11:10:19 open So, looking ahead to the future of the steering committee we're going to continue to work with the membership committee.
11:10:26 To make sure that this expansion and opening this up goes smoothly, and one of the things that's really important to us, and we've heard from all of you that's really important is equitably both in terms of background
11:10:37 and in terms of a variety of institutions making sure that we stay accessible.
11:10:42 We're also working on an empathy adoption. brew brick, which is a really nice basically rubric to figure out where your institution lies on empathy.
11:10:50 It's not saying you're doing terribly or you're doing great.
11:10:54 It's just kind of a where are we and where can we improve a way to kind of assess what you could be doing better, and a way to assess what the network could be doing better to support members So that will be coming out in the
11:11:07 coming months. Hopefully, we're also as the mentioned by a few other committees working just for your head a 3 to 5 year plan for the network as a whole.
11:11:16 Within input, hopefully, from everyone. There'll be posts coming on the discussion board as we work through that, too.
11:11:20 So please please let us know what your thoughts are on that because I know everyone has thoughts.
11:11:24 They just don't always share them so let us know because we want your voice to be heard and speaking of that recruiting new members.
11:11:32 You might have noticed the steering committee didn't have a lot of photos there.
11:11:35 And the number of photos for all the committees including the steering committee, have been going down. and a lot of that, honestly is not because people said, Oh, my gosh!
11:11:44 This is too much it's just turnover which is something that we're seeing across the field.
11:11:49 We all know we all see it in our institutions and We're seeing it on our committees as well So I just wanted to put my little plug in here for joining the steering committee or really any committee it is
11:11:58 a really great opportunity. Emily makes it so smooth and easy that it really does not feel like that much of a time burden.
11:12:04 There's an hour meeting a month and then another 20 to 30 min outside of that of reading, which, if you get too busy for a month, and don't do it.
11:12:12 No one ever shames you for, cause we all get busy, and we get it.
11:12:15 And I also want to point out that the hearing committee the word steering committee might sound big and scary, But you do not have to have been in the network a long time to jump onto the steering committee.
11:12:24 We actually were just talking recently. We want people who are at different stages of the game joining these committees, because, as we talked about different diversity and inclusion is huge, and that is across the board, so we also want to represent different places in
11:12:40 the empathy journey on our committees because it's really hard for me to just support an institution that's just starting on empathy when we're 4 years in and have the institutional buy-in
11:12:49 i'm not speaking for you anymore. so if you want your institution to be spoken for in these meetings.
11:12:54 If you're someone who's at a small zoom you go to easy and you go whatever talks about the small seas jump onto these committees.
11:13:00 They're really great opportunity. really not that difficult I see a lot of people commenting and nodding their heads who are already on committees.
11:13:07 So if you're wondering how to get involved outside of your institution, I think this is a really good first step and highly highly recommend you guys getting involved with these committees, I think what the network has built.
11:13:19 Where we have so much input outside of the backbone staff is important. It's useful.
11:13:25 It is wide. The network is as powerful and collaborative as it is, and we need you guys to help keep it that way.
11:13:32 So that is my soap box and I will step off of it and pass it off to Marta for some of the cool stuff she's been working on all right.
11:13:43 Hello, everyone. go to the next slide emily. so we're continues on the conservation action project, and so first I'm going to share the conservation action inventory report in the chat or actually
11:13:57 Emily's gonna do that that I put together about the results from check-in calls and site visits.
11:14:04 Interviews as well as the conservation action survey results.
11:14:10 Feel free to review that in your free time or if you you know, need something to help you fall asleep. and hopefully you don't think that.
11:14:21 But anyway, So, based on network input the things that we're going to be focusing on as we finish out the year and move into 2,023 will be to support messaging, we wanna make it easier for network partners to
11:14:34 consistently encourage guests to take caring and conservation actions, and we're gonna do that by continuing to gather examples and resources of various conservation messaging and calls to action.
11:14:50 So folks don't have to reinvent the wheel, which is something we heard a lot during our talks with all of you.
11:14:58 So if you have conservation, event templates, and or, you know, examples of completed calls to actions.
11:15:07 You know any sort of samples that could help others to hit the ground running.
11:15:11 Please email me at Marta dot burnett at zoom dot Org and i'm just gonna put that in the chat.
11:15:20 We'd love to have examples from every partner No call is too big or too small to be included.
11:15:27 I find it often helps people if they have a jumping off point. and you know, can can brainstorm off of each other's ideas and kind of and come up with you know, clever ways to to market these things and then next
11:15:42 we have, as you've seen a reoccurring theme.
11:15:44 Here is a collaboration. We want to foster collaboration and share learning about the calls to action.
11:15:52 We have a learning group coming up later this month We'll have some information about it at the end here. and then I'm, hoping to recruit a working group to help with this work moving forward so if that's something
11:16:04 you're interested in. Let me know and then finally folks are understandably, you know, so busy moving from one project to the next that we we haven't been able to spend a lot of time identifying ways to evaluate our
11:16:20 calls to action. You know the messaging and assessing for impact.
11:16:25 And you know reflection time is not something that unfortunately we have a lot of time for.
11:16:32 So so it can be you know. making improvements and so that's something that we're hoping to support with by working to working together on some objects.
11:16:41 So next slide, please. So we're gonna get started. several members talked about wanting to develop seasonal campaigns with longer lead time, so that folks can build in their planning and So what we've started is a
11:17:00 calendar of main holidays. And you know, international insert animals name day
11:17:11 And in this calendar that's in the chat and so what we'd like to do is we're gonna break into small groups for about 10 min, and look at the spreadsheet, and what i'm going
11:17:25 to ask is that each of your groups are are going to, you know.
11:17:30 Start with introductions. and then pick a month ideally one that another group hasn't picked there's only going to be 7 breakout groups, so you should have your choice of months at the bottom.
11:17:41 You'll see there's a a sheet for each month. and I've kind of started to fill out January as an example.
11:17:50 And feel free to download this app we're done if you want to use that calendar.
11:17:55 Part of that is what we're what we're doing this for is to help support all of you. so what I'd like for you to brainstorm is based on the days you see in that month pick some possible conservation
11:18:09 links. So for the example, here you have national penguin day.
11:18:13 What are some different ideas. You see food, watch, reducing carbon footprint, less plastics.
11:18:20 Eat eat less. It looks like that got caught cut cut off.
11:18:25 But you know eat less unsustainable fishing.
11:18:29 So once you've kind of drafted some possible ideas and it's fine if you have no idea for what to do for a topic feel free to skip any of these and then what i'd like for you to do is think
11:18:41 about any existing resources, you know of so sustainable seafood.
11:18:45 Let's see food Wash watch link would be an example again. If you don't know of anything that's fine.
11:18:53 We can do some of that research. and then, if you are zoom or aquarium has done this before, or if you know somebody who has right that down.
11:19:04 Just so we know where we could follow up to get more examples or information.
11:19:10 And then, finally, what i'd like you to do is take the last 2 or so minutes, i'll send a reminder to prompt you to do this to look through the different months. and See?
11:19:19 If there are any of those days that you'd be interested in collaborating with others on, if so right, your name and email in there, try not to delete somebody else's information just add it to the box and then we'll see
11:19:30 if there's common interest in a couple of these that we could maybe support.
11:19:36 And because it's gonna be such a long lead time might be easier for us to to collaborate on.
11:19:42 You're not committing yourself to doing anything you know hours of work so feel free to put your name in as many boxes you like, or if there's somebody else at your organization who couldn't make it today that you think might
11:19:53 be interested. feel for you to add them and then we'll see if there's some things we can collaborate on.
11:20:00 So I will now open the breakout rooms and feel free to
11:20:08 Message me. If you have any questions here we go
11:29:46 I am proud, but i'm also like I Feel like I Don't know what i'm doing 20 more seconds Welcome back everybody.
11:29:57 Hello. Yes.
11:30:05 Our folks all back. I think they have a couple more seconds.
11:30:09 Okay, cause I was like we lost a lot Okay, there we go
11:30:19 Are you serious? it's really snowing Oh, yeah it is knowing here in Madison Wisconsin.
11:30:30 So enjoy and i'll enjoy my bike right Now that's crazy, it's like 75 for having August October. like it's August in October.
11:30:43 I think Laurel told him, came up shared that with little Nugget.
11:30:47 I didn't come up with that I just just took it from somewhere else.
11:30:52 Well, thank you all I know. that wasn't enough time feel free to like I said download this feel free to keep adding things to it.
11:31:01 If you didn't get a chance to look through other ideas, do you feel free to add your name or share it with other people who might have ideas?
11:31:12 And then, thanks for all of your help with this and like I said, We're gonna This is just a starting continuing to work on this.
11:31:20 We're We will come circle back to these items later.
11:31:25 And now I will turn it over to Oh, Fernanda, to talk about the Dea working group
11:31:35 Hello, everyone! I will introduce myself again. I introduce myself a little bit earlier.
11:31:41 My name is Fernanda and I work for zoom Montana.
11:31:44 We're located here in billings Montana I am the outreach coordinator for the Education Department, and I'm.
11:31:51 Also a committee chair for our idea group here at the zoom. That's what we call our Db Ai, and I will let our other members introduce themselves as well
11:32:07 I can go i'm Shana Hillard I'm, the Evaluator and Empathy Project coordinator here with this zoological society of Milwaukee
11:32:26 So it looks like Anna Mike does not work on this camera.
11:32:30 So i'll just read what he put in the chat i'm Adam wine garden the empathy behavioral coordinator, or yeah coordinator at the raising zoom.
11:32:41 And then I don't see it if the andrea's name and the box isn't gonna have a quick scan.
11:32:47 But I don't think she is here i'll go ahead and get started and tell you a little bit more about the the Ei ricking group.
11:32:55 So why does this working group exist? We want to continue to ensure that the network is an equitable space, as we've been talking about today?
11:33:05 We wanna make sure that we can facilitate the sharing of the I work between our all of the members of our network.
11:33:12 So we are at all different levels of our D Ai journey, and we come from different facilities in different areas that have very different needs.
11:33:22 So far. Oh, and we also want to address our second strategic learning question, which is, What are the intersections of empathy and empathy for animals and diversity?
11:33:32 Equity, inclusion, and justice, oriented futures in zoos and aquariums.
11:33:37 So so far what we've done is that we've got gathered a lot of input from the network members, and we've done that through.
11:33:43 Asked on the discussion board. we've done that through the rapid increase Cycle number 3 and the learning group series number one that we just hosted, maybe a couple of weeks ago, kind of to learn what would be most beneficial to the members of the
11:33:56 network and the work that we are trying to do. So far our working group has held 2 different meetings to discuss all of these learnings.
11:34:08 And where are we going with this so we're hoping that the trajectory of this working group is going to be guided by the findings and the continual input of the network members?
11:34:18 We want to make sure that we are giving you what you need, and not what we think.
11:34:22 You need. We want to make sure that work we produced is beneficial to the network members.
11:34:28 Our next meeting, so far is October the eighteenth.
11:34:30 At 10 Am. at Pacific Center time. and then, after that we hope that we will have a lot of additional members. so we'll have a 2 h long meeting in November and December to kind of determine
11:34:43 the mission and the vision of this working group a little bit more.
11:34:47 How can you get involved? We encourage that Any network member join and be a part of this complete a working group.
11:34:54 We are fairly new. I myself am coming from a small zoom month.
11:34:59 Montana is located in the the biggest city or town in Montana.
11:35:05 But that's still really small. and we do live in a pretty conservative area.
11:35:10 Luckily our leadership is great, and they do believe in the D e ai work that we're doing. but it's a very new journey for us, and so the reason that I joined this working group is that I wanted to make
11:35:22 sure that i'm advocating for our zoo and the place that we were at
11:35:28 So we encourage that all kinds of network members join and give their perspective as well.
11:35:33 And then if you can't directly commit to being involved with the working group, we do want to get feedback from you. So we wanna make sure that you're interacting with whatever work we put out there such as discussion or
11:35:47 post or learning groups that we may do in the future as of right now.
11:35:51 The commitment is in our commitment monthly and of course, just like Asia mentioned earlier.
11:35:58 If you can't make it to every single meeting that is all right.
11:36:01 As long as you come and want to share with us.
11:36:04 You know every once in a while, and make sure that this working group is headed in the right direction.
11:36:10 So if you would like to join any of the committees, we do have a sign up available right now, and I will pass back to Emily so she can share how you can sign up right now.
11:36:19 Awesome. so to sign up you only have to use the annotate feature on zoom.
11:36:26 So if you like, go to the bottom of your screen, you could deal a little bar that does like participants.
11:36:31 Chat all that kind of stuff, and there should be a little button with a pencil on it.
11:36:35 That, said Annotate. and then when you click on that you should have a variety of things pop up like text spotlights, all that kind of stuff. and then if you want to type, your name or your email you can click the text button, and then you should be
11:36:49 able to type right on the slide just like that I will give folks a couple of moments to put their emails or their names on here, and i'll be reaching out to anybody who does sign up for these we're
11:37:05 kind of what the next couple of months will look like. So again, you can use that annotate feature on zoom for me to the right of my screen.
11:37:16 Share option. so for people who are viewing the screen share it's up at the top where you see you are viewing Emily bernhardt's screen it says view options at least for me there's
11:37:27 a little dropdown and annotate is under that.
11:37:29 Thank you, Sydney. God, if not what my screen looks like
11:38:11 I think that some people have dropped names on, and then they quickly disappeared.
11:38:17 At least on the my screen. Oh, there we go okay i'm seeing, and by back
11:38:34 I think we'll probably leave this out for about 2 more minutes before we do our wrap up slides
11:38:47 Yeah. And if your technology is being buddy you can either direct message me on zoom or just drop your interest in the chat that works too
11:39:31 Alrighty. Do you wanna make sure that we have some time for our last close out?
11:39:37 Thank you to every committee member who's presented today, and everybody who put all of the work into making what they presented about possible.
11:39:44 Here are some upcoming events. if you are interested in joining us. so if you scan those Qr codes, at least be on the screen there.
11:39:53 Let me clear off of there. you should be able to register for those events by scanning the Qr Codes
11:40:04 So we have a learning group coming up in a couple of weeks.
11:40:05 The Hard is going to be hosting as Well, as a listening session on October or november tenth. All right.
11:40:13 About the training toolkit so that's where you will be able to provide any feedback on the videos that have been created at that point as well as the layout of the toolkit.
11:40:22 What that will look like as well. So if you're interested in providing your feedback.
11:40:25 I highly suggest you sign up for that event. and then, November fifteenth, or seventeenth.
11:40:30 The Seattle acquiring is going to be hosting the deco conference.
11:40:34 So if you scan that Qr. code that takes you right to that informational page there, so you can learn all about that.
11:40:42 And oh, thank you, Shannon, for dropping your interest in the chat.
11:40:48 Thank you. Thank you. And then we have exciting news as well in that blue box.
11:40:55 So we are hoping to host an in-person Summit
11:40:59 In February of next year. So if you have not all already filled out.
11:41:07 The Google form that i'm about to drop in the chat if you are one of the 2 folks from your organization who are planning to attend please do fill out form out no later.
11:41:17 Then, november eighteenth that's gonna help us get a little bit of an idea of how many folks we are expecting, at our events, which is super exciting very stokes to have all of us in the same
11:41:27 place together, and I also wanted to announce the kind of fine right link.
11:41:36 We also have the more catalyze results to share with you from their baseline formative evaluation survey.
11:41:44 So once my Internet stops being glitchy I will sure off that link in the chat for you all to look at, and i'll also be close to it on the board.
11:41:59 As well. So just a moment. here is that and then I have one more slide for y'all
11:42:09 We will be dropping a survey link in the chat for you all to take it.
11:42:14 Take only about 5 or so minutes. Koran, if you could drop that.
11:42:17 Oh, amazing should be me, too! I should just drop that link in the chat.
11:42:22 We take the survey for about 5 min of your time, and it really helps us guide.
11:42:26 How are future events? go? So we really do take this input seriously, and it should only take a couple of minutes, though.
11:42:33 Thank you. Any chance for doing that. unless anybody had any question.
11:42:39 We ended 3 min ahead of time. So that is fantastic.
11:42:44 And I am happy to give you all those 3 min back.
11:42:48 So thank you so much for coming, everybody, and I will be chatting with all of you in the future.