Education Department Season 9 Funding Proposal

Author: Paulitobankless; Hypolithe, Oluwasijibomi, KingIBK

Date created: 7/15/2023

Date posted: 7/21/2023

Affiliation: New members/on-boarding, Operations, Treasury, and Governance Departments

Funds requested: 296,115 BANK

Department wallet: 0xcF8422021b408B32983B525778CE45420715f094

SUMMARY

Department Description

One of the DAO’s core values is Education. The Education Department plays a key role in DAO Member Onboarding and maintaining live educational infrastructure for members, guilds, departments, and projects. With our new Ed3 DAO collaboration continuing in Season 9, our Live Sessions will be available to non-Bankless DAO Discord members as well.

The Services we provide to DAO Members and Units that align with the DAO’s Mission, Vision, & Values are as follows:

• Live onboarding for new joiners to the DAO

• Hands-on training on DAO tools for all DAO members

• Knowledge Sessions for DAO financial and governance infrastructure

• Educators talent development

New members are first welcomed with New Joiner Sessions, which provide an opportunity to become more familiar with the people, projects, and processes of BanklessDAO. Then, for those who may never have worked within a DAO before, we offer the necessary information to get started.

The Knowledge Session series is primarily focused on members wishing to advance their web3 and DeFi understanding to the next level, which is necessary for effective work in web3, while the How-To series caters to members looking to develop to become effective DAO members through an ever-evolving calendar of workshops.

Past Activities

In Season 7, with the lack of new folks in the Discord, more attention has been paid to getting new teachers up-skilled in their ability to teach. We have had 4 teachers get a whole season of teaching and improving their courses, and we have 2 new teachers this season stepping up to teach courses.

In season 8, we had a decline in engagement, and as such, we paid more attention to developing more courses and upskilling and training teachers. We had 3 new joiners get onboarded to become teachers, and we had our teachers develop and improve their courses. We also have the following operational highlights:

• Our Live Sessions Calendar is also an async educational library. Click on an event in the Calendar 1 to get access to the async material

• We changed our new joiner session Platform from Zoom to Zep which is a virtual classroom environment. This is to allow for easy accessibility, ensure the adoption of Web 3 tools in our operation, and also create an environment for new joiners to interact with.

• We switched our feedback platform from Google Forms to Spect Forms, which happens to be a Web 3 protocol.

• We started promoting our education sessions on twitter through the marketing department.

• We have a more defined process for quickly creating content based on the needs of projects and organizational units. We spun up educational courses for How to Gnosis and Parcel, Praise Bot, and How to Bounty Board/Dework.

• We tested and opened our courses to folks outside of the BanklessDAO Discord, and we have plans in partnership with Ed3DAO, which is an educator’s DAO and also the provider of the zep space we use.

• We now accept donations via our Spect.Network feedback forms, and with these forms, we also get to incentivize attendees with Kudos (onchain credentials).

MISSION & VALUE ALIGNMENT

The Education Department plays a key role in the empowerment of DAO members through

• onboarding new joiners,

• teaching DAO tooling that members need to familiarize themselves with in order to succeed in the DAO, and

• hands on workshops for those looking to further their crypto exploration beyond the introductory level.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

Budget Breakdown

Role salaries: 416,000 BANK

Role	BANK
Operations Coordinator	148,000
Operations Understudy	72,000
Administrative Coordinator	128,000
Administrative Understudy	68,000
Total:	416,000

Bounty expenses: 250,500 BANK

Bounties	BANK
New Joiner Sessions (7 per season at 10,500 BANK each)	73,500
How-To and Knowledge Sessions (45 per season at 4,000 BANK each)	180,000
ㅤ	ㅤ
Total:	253,500

Total BANK: 669,500 BANK

S8 left over: 373,385 BANK

Total seasonal funding request: 296,115 BANK

Compensation Breakdown

Roles:

Operations Coordinator (9.25 hr/wk x 16 weeks)

• Meeting prep and facilitation for the Weekly Sync and Stand-Up meetings

• Strategic course planning and course development

• Accounting, reporting, and member activity tracking

• Scheduling of events on Live Sessions Calendar, including NJS

• Update templates with teacher reviews

• Manage Notion Kanban

• Mentor the presenters in notetaking and updating of course (1.25 hr per Tu-Th)

• Register events and coordinate marketing with Ed3 DAO (1hr/wk)

• Host feedback reviews

Coordinator Understudy (4.5 hr/wk x 16 weeks)

• Assist the Department Coordinator in tracking member activity

• Steward Weekly Sync occasionally and when Coordinator is unavailable

• New teacher onboarding

• Get breakout room training if they don’t have

• Provide mentorship to breakout room facilitators and presenters in the NJS

• Familiarize with Praise thread and Kanban onboarding process

• Learn how to manage Notion pages for events

• Attend and participate in weekly sync and work meeting (work priority)

• Creation of feedback forms and Kudos; reporting of feedback data (weekly report)

Administrative Coordinator (8 hr/wk x 16 weeks)

• Payment tracking and processing for tasks/NJS

• Assist with treasury accounting

• Safe/Multi-sig management

• Upkeep of Education Department Notion pages

• Write, respond, and follow up on Discourse polls and posts

• Attend and participate in Weekly Sync and Stand-Up meetings

• Back-up facilitator for Weekly Sync and Stand-Up meetings

• Creation of marketing content for educational sessions to be delivered to the marketing department.

Administrative Understudy (4.25 hr/wk x 16 weeks)

• Create “Journal” and post Learning Opportunities update

• Community Call prep and slide presenter

• Assist the Admin coordinator where needed

• Manage NJS events in Notion calendar and fill in properties

• Steward NJS Level 2 Outline biweekly planning meetings

• Add events to Sesh Bot Calendar

• Attend and participate in Weekly Sync and Stand-Up meetings (w/Stand-Up priority)

SEASONAL KPI

KPI Type	KPI Description & Success	Environmental Factors
Breadth of Knowledge	Increase in Knowledge Base and Sessions	Increases in quantity and quality seasonally
bDAO Onboarding	Increase the number of New Joiners to the DAO & the number of talent development opportunities.	Correlates with general DAO population cycles
Educational Reach	The number of unique participants in the educational sessions.	Correlates with general DAO population cycles
Workshop Demand	If this threshold is met, demand for the course is assessed.	≥3

KPI Data Tracked by Type	S7	S8	Comments
Breadth of Knowledge	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
# of How to Sessions [S7 1], [S8]	21	15+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
# of Knowledge Sessions [S7 1], [S8 1]	8	6+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
# of Added Sessions	4	3+	Praise bot, how to bounty board, how to parcel
# of Courses In Development [S7], [S8]	9	3	Filter by Season
bDAO Onboarding	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
Total # of attendees for New Joiner Sessions (NJS Data table 1), (NJS Data S8)	26	22+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
# Events with Talent Development [S7 1], [S8]	19	15+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
Educational Reach	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
# of Unique Attendees in How Tos	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
S7 1, S8	19	22+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
# of Unique Attendees in Knowledge Sessions	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
S7 1, S8 1	11	4+	S8 data based on 7/21/23 on or before
Workshop Demand Benchmark	ㅤ	ㅤ	ㅤ
Minimum # of attendees for each live How-To or Knowledge Session	3	2	If there are fewer than 2 attendees or low survey scores, courses may be dropped or the time may be used for talent development

FURTHER DEPARTMENT CHANNELS

• Department Notion Page 1 1

• Working agreement 2 (including how to define active community)

• Poll/grid capturing the guild affiliation of active community of outgoing season (table below)

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Member

Files

Guild or Department Affiliations

0xzfi

Education Department, Ops Dept, AV Guild

Quietfox#2574

Education Department

paulitobankless

Education Department, Writers Guild, DAOlationship Guild

kingibk

Education Department, Ops Dept

warrior.eth

Education Department

aloy6049

Education Department

Marvel #0536

Education Department

thinkdecade

Education Department, Bankless Africa, Grants Committee

hypolithe

Education Department,Translators guild ,Pm guild

ximpli_ana

Education Department

oluwasijibomi

Education Department, Ops Dept, Marketing Dept

melasin

Education Department

bohjypellar

Education Department

ifeoluwakiitan

Education Department

NEXT STEPS

• Remove some courses from rotation, recruit teachers for new courses.

• Continue to open up events to folks outside the BanklessDAO Discord.