RIPPLE Program
Shana Gibbs presents information about the RIPPLE Program in American Sign Language.
Adapted from the UNC-Project CLIMB mentor training, the IRIS Project's Rural Interpreters Promoting Professional Learning and Engagement (RIPPLE) program was designed as a five-month, 120-hour hybrid (online and in-person) community of learning that focused on reflecting on one's own journey of learning and how to apply those experiences when facilitating and mentoring others. The program utilized current interpreting models and frameworks, paired with social justice as the lens of the discussion.
Throughout RIPPLE, participants experienced the following:
- Real-world experiences facilitating synchronous collegial discussions;
- Real-world experiences mentoring a fellow colleague;
- Applying interpreting frameworks to the task of facilitating and mentoring; and
- Analysis of dialogic learning environments.
Upon completion of this program, participants were able to:
- Demonstrate the competencies required to facilitate IRIS Project participants through an online curriculum;
- Demonstrate the competencies required to mentor IRIS Project participants;
- Recognize systematic barriers inherent in interpreting work;
- Reflect upon factors impacting decision-making while facilitating and mentoring; and
- Extrapolate a participant’s interpreting work apart from the person via an Integrated Model of Interpreting framework.
RIPPLE Curriculum
IRIS Mentors Lianne Moccia, Alicia McClurkan, Michelle Rheault, Jeremy Quiroga, and Shawnda Lowe discuss the concept of 'participant-led mentorship' with IRIS Meta Facilitator Donna Walker in American Sign Language.
Feel free to review and use this Canvas course and curriculum materials!
Supporting documentation:
- Course Map
- Slide Deck
- Orientation
- Module 1: Adult Learning Principles
- Module 2: Power Dynamics
- Module 3: Demand Control-Schema Applied
- Module 4: Role-Space Applied
- Module 5: Integrated Model of Interpreting Applied
- Module 6: Growth Mindset
- Module 7: Mentoring in Focus
- Module 8: Mentoring in Practice
- Module 9: Facilitation in Focus
- Module 10: Facilitation in Practice
- Module 11: Introspection: Discovery and Reflection
Curriculum materials are in a read-only format. Do you want to use this content in a Learning Management System (LMS)? Learn how to import it! Should you download the cartridge, you will need to create assignments and quizzes manually.
The University of Northern Colorado and the IRIS Project are not offering Continuing Education Units (CEU) processing for the content presented here. Should you be interested in RID CEUs, please contact any RID CMP Sponsor to inquire about a participant-initiated learning activity.
Please note that these resources are being made available to you as they were presented during the 2021-2026 grant cycle. Permission is granted to copy and disseminate this product for noncommercial educational purposes, provided UNC-IRIS is credited as the source and referenced appropriately on any such copies. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Suggested citation: UNC-IRIS. (2024). Name of Resource. URL (if applicable).
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Program Cohorts
The IRIS Project recognizes the hard work and dedication of the participants who have successfully completed* the RIPPLE program. To search for qualified interpreters, visit the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID) website.
*Successful completion does not provide endorsement of the participant's language fluency or skills as an interpreter/mentor or facilitator.
Cohort One (Winter 2022)
by first name; NOTE: 1st column is first names starting with A-D, 2nd column is J-K, 3rd column is L-M, and 4th column is S-T.
- Alicia McClurkan
- Caitlin Quiroz
- Dan DeLuca
- Donna Walker
- Jackie Bruce
- Jeremy Quiroga
- Kenton Myers
- LaShawnda Lowe
- Lianne Moccia
- Margaret Haberman
- Mary Essex
- Michelle Rheault-Bissonette
- Summer Chappell
- Trenton Marsh
Cohort Two (Winter 2023)
by first name; NOTE: 1st column is first names starting with A-D, 2nd column is J-W.
- Amy Richardson
- Daniel Gough
- Darren Reed
- Dawn Tomlinson
- Jordon Oswald
- Lakesha (KT) Trotter
- Laurie Walcott
Cohort Three (Winter 2024)
by first name; NOTE: 1st column is first names starting with A-D, 2nd column is J-W.
- Akeya Peoples
- Carrie Tweedie
- Don Petit Homme
- Emma Wood
- Glenna Cooper
- Jeanice Davis
- Khadayilah Garza
- LaTonya Smith
- Megan Joseph
- Shannon Wheeler
