Some explanations:
- Mentorship Meetups are intended to be generic help sessions, where groups of newly badged instructors meet with a mentor once or twice a month to discuss progress towards teaching in a workshop. The mentor will create a space where new instructors are comfortable asking questions, facilitate conversation between instructors so they can support their peers in this process, and offer guidance where necessary. These meetups are soft-mandatory for new instructors until they teach their first workshop; Instructor Training should funnel all new trainees there as the clear next step.
- Pre-workshop Checkin - to be discussed, likely a troubleshooting session to make sure everything is on track in the final leadup to the workshop.
- Topic-specific help sessions have been floated previously, like intro to git and how to teach python; these focused topic sessions will serve to take the pressure off the more general Mentorship Meetups by answering common questions, and also be open to the Instructor community at large.
- Community Management Pings are simple, 1:1 emails asking Instructors how they're doing and if they're thinking about teaching another workshop, best delivered a few months after their last debriefing to encourage them to come on back and teach another workshop.
- Phase I / Phase II Offerings distinguish between must-haves (phase I) and nice-to-haves (phase II). The Phase II offerings are conjecture only at this point and should not be implemented until more evidence for their necessity is observed.
