• Focus25: Adaptable. Accountable. Agile. Altruistic.

    Building with Purpose.

  • SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 18, 2024

    Education sessions are 1 hour.

    All proposals must be sumbitted through this online form to be considered. 

    CMAA strongly recommends reviewing the RFP details and guidelines and using the RFP template to prepare your proposal then paste your draft responses into this form. 

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    • For 2025, CMAA has identified a learning matrix—topics with strategic learning outcomes. The matrix identifies learning outcomes that increase PM/CM professionals’ capacity to address challenges and opportunities in the current program and project delivery environment. Proposals for Focus25 should address ways of improving the professional PM’s/CM’s performance as a leader and their ability to overcome the obstacles and challenges they face in their professional lives. Sessions should provide content and learning opportunities that attendees cannot get elsewhere.

    • Learning Objectives & Outcomes 

    • Blooms Taxonomy classifies educational learning objectives into levels of complexity and specificity. The graphic below illustrates levels of learning with applicable action verbs. Learning objectives are clear, concise statements that define the expected outcome of a learning activity and describe observable skills or knowledge that will be acquired by an attendee. 

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    • AIA Health, Safety, & Welfare Learning Units  

    • For a learning activity to qualify as HSW, it must meet the following criteria:

      • Content must directly support the HSW definition
      • Content must include one of more of the AIA CES acceptable HSW topics​
      • At least 75 percent of the content must be on HSW

      The following three standards must be met for a course to qualify for HSW credit.

      1. Content must directly support the HSW definition
      Licensed architects and affiliated design professionals have, in their professional practice, a positive duty to protect the public’s health, safety, and welfare. Learning programs must address knowledge intended to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the occupants of the built environment, as defined below:

      Health: Those aspects of professional practice that improve the physical, emotional, and social well-being of occupants, users, and any others affected by buildings and sites.
      Safety: Those aspects of professional practice that protect occupants, users, and any others affected by buildings or sites from harm.
      Welfare: Those aspects of professional practice that enable equitable access, elevate the human experience, encourage social interaction, and benefit the environment.

      2. Content must include one or more of the AIA CES acceptable HSW topics  
      Technical and professional subjects related to the practice of architecture that safeguard the public and that are within the following continuing education subject areas necessary for the proper evaluation, design, construction, and utilization of buildings and the built environment are considered Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) subjects.

      Learning programs must address one or more of the following HSW topics to be approved for LU|HSW credit:

      Practice management: This category focuses on areas related to the management of architectural practice and the details of running a business.
      Project management: This category focuses on areas related to the management of architectural projects through execution.
      Programming and analysis: This category focuses on areas related to the evaluation of project requirements, constraints, and opportunities.
      Project planning and design: This category focuses on areas related to the preliminary design of sites and buildings.
      Project development and documentation: This category focuses on areas related to the integration and documentation of building systems, material selection, and material assemblies into a project.
      Construction and evaluation: This category focuses on areas related to construction contract administration and post-occupancy evaluation of projects.

      3. At least 75% of the content must be on HSW topics
      To qualify for HSW credit, 75 percent of a learning program content and instructional time must be on acceptable HSW topics as outlined above. When submitting a learning program for approval, at least 75 percent of the learning objectives must relate to HSW topics to qualify for HSW designation.

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    • Speaker Information 

    • Panel diversity is encouraged, in background, experience, gender, geographic location, ethnicity, delivery method, stakeholder status, etc.

    • All sessions must have at least two but no more than five presenters or facilitators

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    • Deadlines, Changes, Cancellations, Withdrawals 

    • CMAA regards submitted proposals as a commitment to present a scheduled session. If extenuating circumstances prevent an accepted speaker from making a presentation, it is the submitters’ obligation to notify CMAA staff. Withdrawals, along with alternate plans, must be submitted in writing.

      Failure to meet established deadlines may result in your disqualification from consideration for future CMAA conferences.

      All speakers are required to agree to these deadlines.

      December 13, 2024 (on or around): Notifications sent out and accepted speakers confirm intent to present.

      February 23, 2024: Presentation files and handouts due.

      March 9-11, 2025: Focus25 - Las Vegas, NV

       

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