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Greater Waco Community

Harnessing The Power of Community To Expand Opportunities and Change Lives

Elane V ScottPresident & [email protected] November 17, 2010

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Our Shared Challenge

“We are attempting to educate (and hire) students today so that they will be ready to solve future problems not yet identified, using technologies not yet invented, based on scientific knowledge not yet discovered.”

Joseph Lagowski

University of Texas at Austin

Current systems struggle to stay focused on helping students learn to solve future problems

Waco 2008 Summit Call to Action

① Ensure enriched learning environments from birth to five

② Ensure reading at grade level by third grade

③ Ensure student mastery of math concepts from early grades into high school

④ Ensure students’ early exposure to a range of post secondary education options

⑤ Ensure students stay in school and graduate fully prepared for postsecondary success

⑥ Ensure parents and students make academic and financial plans that provide for postsecondary options

⑦ Ensure money is no barrier to student postsecondary success

⑧ Ensure students reach their postsecondary goals

⑨ Indentify benchmarks for community progress to guide decisions in reaching these goals

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Chronicling the Roots of Today’s Education Challenges

First decline in student achievement (1963)

A Nation at Risk (1983)

Rising Above the Gathering Storm (2005)

No Child Left Behind (200?)

Race to the Top (2009)

1.1 million 501©3 organizations today vs 500,000 10 years ago

Same problems as 1963 in spite of all the dollars spent

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FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT

OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY

COMBINED WITH EXPERIENCE

OF MANY YEARS OF EXPERTS

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Technology and Competition Driving Skill Migration

Eight Keys to Employability

Personal Values

Problem-Solving and Decision Making Skills

Relations with Other People

Communication Skills

Task-Related Skills

Maturity

Health and Safety Habits

Commitment to Job

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Connecting Some Dots

Movement enhances respiration and increases oxygen to the brain, resulting in improved brain function

Movement develops vision

A multi-sensory kinesetic environment for children key to neurological development

Babies who don’t get enough tummy time and spend a lot of time in products that keep them on their backs have significant developmental delays

Effects of computers and flat panels at an early age inhibits movement and becoming a greater concern

ADHD grew from 150,000 US school children in 1970 to 6 million in 2000 (12-13% of US school children)

Engaging Environment Key to Success in the 1st Five Years

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More Dots to Connect

Students are involved in formal classroom education 20% of their awake time…what are they doing the other 80% of time?

Education is more and more focused on knowledge transfer

Assessment and testing is focused on knowledge

Excellence in the future workforce will be defined not by memorized data and information, but by capacity and capability, driven by imagination, innovation, and creative intelligence.

Not every student needs to attend a “live in” college or university . . . And that’s OK! . . But, Everyone needs post secondary education

Education for Life not for Test Taking

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More Dots

Because someone can be involved in 16 chat rooms at the same time doesn’t imply that they can apply the technology to solve problems

Information (what used to be “owned” by a few) is now available to anyone

Research points to focused attention more important than knowledge recall

Youth spend 6-8 hours a day with media or electronics, more time then they spend in school or with their parents…the two groups most often targeted as being responsible for youth and their behaviors

Pediatricians have initiated media diets among their patients

Jonas Salk didn’t find a solution to polio by studying people who had polio but rather looked at those who didn’t and asked why not

60% of future jobs require training that only 20% of the current work force possess

Environment and Experiences Play a Critical Role in Brain Architecture

Many People and Organizations Are Trying to Help

Business

Religious Organizations

GovernmentSocial Services

Education

Professional

Organizations

Health Care Providers

Text PublishersStudents

Youth Organizations

Merchants

Media

Text Book Writers

Schools of Education

for Teachers

ParentsIndustry

Service Clubs

Politicians

Many programs and information sources aimed at addressing workforce development and/or education enrichment lack:

Focus

Common objectives

Integration

Cohesion

Organization

Sustainability

EffectivenessOur efforts are site-based and often splintered.

Why Do We Still Have a Problem?

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The Birth to Work “Life-Long Learning

Eco System”

Parents

Media/TechnologyDrive Culture

Education

Workforce0-4 5-10 11-13 14-18 18-21

Business

Elementary Jr High High School College

Health

Community (including Local, Community Based and Professional Organizations)

Government PolicyFederal/State/Local

Local, State & National Government

Industry

K12 & Higher Education

DELAY

Health

People & Culture

Media

Feedback Diagram

culture at different ages (fromparents through maturing

children to workforce)

humandevelopment rate

technical workerquantity and quality

businessperformance

learning fromelementary through

college

local state and federaleducation policy

federal immigrationand outsourcing policy

workforce availabilityand health insurance

costs

health system

health policy

readiness to learn atvarious stages of

development

curriculum andpedagogy

health practices

media messages

health beliefs DELAY

DELAY

DELAY

DELAY

DELAY

DELAY

Policy resistance arises from feedback loops that weave their way around society, and by so doing go unnoticed.1

1. Morecroft, John (2007) Strategic Modelling and Business Dynamics: A feedback systems approach, Wiley, p. 48

R&D Expenditures

STEM workers

educationexpenditures

attractiveness ofSTEM careers

STEM wages

STEM workershortage

STEM students andteachersprosperity

The U.S. S&T Enterprise is a Dynamically Complex System

Local, State &National

Government

Public & Media

Industry

K12 & Higher EducationForeign

domestic STEMJobs

offshoring

STEM immigrants

immigration policy

pressure for STEM domestic R&Dand education policy and expenditures,and immigration and offshoring policy

prosperity

educationexpenditure pressure

GovernmentLocal, State& National

Public &Media

Industry

Education,K12 &Higher

Foreign

It is difficult to intuit system response to policy interventions due to the existence in the system of: - many feedback loops -many delays of varying durations, and- many nonlinear relationshipsIt is the role of computer simulation to help us better intuit system behavior.

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Align the Parts of the CoalitionAround a Shared Vision and Values toLeverage Strengths

Based on McKinsey 7-S Model

SharedSharedValues & Values &

VisionVision

SkillsSkills

StyleStyleStaffStaff

SystemsSystems

StructureStructure

StrategyStrategy

Our Solution: Integrated Community Stakeholder Development

McKinsey 7-S Model Used with Permission

Comm(family)unityComm(family)unity

Business & Business & IndustryIndustry

MediaMediaNot-for-Not-for-ProfitsProfits

GovernmentGovernment

EducationEducation

HealthcareHealthcare

Put Community at the Center

Facilitate Ownership while creating cultural change

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We Want Citizens in the 21st Century Who Are:

Capable of economic self sufficiency

Active participants in the process of governance

Can effectively communicate and interact with others

Have a passion to learn, unlearn and relearn

Focus on the future

Programs Are Too Small A Focus


We need community-owned processes to ready ourselves for our

future.

We need an engaged citizenry(all sectors) to take ownership.

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Birth2Work’s 6 Step Process forBuilding a Sustainable Coalition

1. Identify and attract community stakeholder leaders

2. Agree on common language and shared values (common ground)

3. Agree on shared vision, scope of work, and measures of success

4. Agree on stakeholder roles and responsibilities including key stakeholder interfaces

5. Agree on resource requirements

6. Establish and implement a management process

Partnerships are no longer sufficient….We must align and integrate in an open and transparent way

Partnerships are no longer sufficient….We must align and integrate in an open and transparent way

The Way Forward

Many people have expressed disappointment with performance of the present K-12 schools

We spend $650 billion on US public schools while the performance of its students on standardized science tests of those about to graduate declined further

Fixing schools alone is not sufficient

We must focus on the entire system of child development and human interaction and work continuously to ensure all stakeholders aligned around

Common Language,

Shared Values and Vision, and

Agreed to Measures of Success

Tomorrow

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Stop – Start-- Continue

continually looking for funding for numerous small fledgling programs…

moving from one focus to another annually….

looking for and adopting successful programs on a regular basis…

relying on the same community leadership for everything….

Website:Birth2work.org

From…

Changing Community Processes

Use data to define and view community…

Gain input and perspectives from all community sectors…

Put community, not education, at the center of the focus….

Take time to study issue and evaluate best-practice models from community, region and nation

Gather, consolidate, focus resources

Make tough decisions – more is not always better…

Establish Integrated Community Stakeholder Team that works together to establish a cohesive foundation on which to do strategic planning and implementation

To…

Birth2Work Recommends Two Actions to Guide Education Transformation

1. Restore civic capacity

2. Build social capital

Phillip C Schlechty

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Accept the ChallengeMeet the Opportunity

Challenges No one alone owns the problem Everyone must be engaged Integrating multiple and diverse constituents with different

Expectations Languages Motivations But all with shared values and vision….. A strong and vibrant global economy

Opportunity – Move to a working together and integrated systems thinking model Drives integrated solutions for multiple and diverse stakeholders

Our Solution Process

Birth2Work has processes and tools to assist communities moving from sector-centric individuals to community-centric

engaged teams moving forward to address communities’ education and workforce

needs

Book titled, The System: Igniting the Soul of Commerce

Online learning modules

Whitepaper and web resources

Consultant Services

Website:Birth2work.org

Who are our workers for the future in Riverside County?

Whose responsibility are they to get them ready?

How much do generational differences make?

Age span and charateristics

Most don’t know how to deal with their own workers

What is motivating the current workforce

Especially as we are going into the current economy

Meet Lucia Cape on Birth2Work Radioin Huntsville, Alabama

One of Our Leading Partners

Marshall Space Flight Center

6 year partner-history

Committed to shared values and shared journey

Vision is inclusive of all six stakeholder sectors

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Grow Your Own Citizens andEmployees Who Can:

Define problems

Assimilate relevant data

Conceptualize information and reorganize it

Make inductive and inductive leaps with it

Ask hard questions

Discuss findings with colleagues

Work collaboratively to find solutions

Convince others of their position

Deliver solutions

The STEM Workforce Issue

An Unexpected Problem…

Doctoral Student Uncovers Issue in 1995 Aerospace Reporter Brings Story Forward Research Study Conducted in 1998 AIAA Conference Unveils Data in 2000 Birth2Work Begins Working Workforce Issue is Complex and Preparation Begins at Birth

A Systems Approach is Needed

Moving Forward with Pleasure, Meaning, and Power

Pleasure-driven (Freud)

Power-driven (Adler)

Meaning-driven

(Frankl)

Forward Progress - - - ->

A Research Scientist DescribesComplex Adaptive Social Ecosystems

The Emergence of Social Ecosystems

Biological and social systems are comprised of components, or actors, with partially overlapping interests. When component interests are not perfectly aligned or when information is imperfect, conflict inevitably arises. ‘Conflict’ in this sense refers to interactions characterized by an asymmetrical payoff matrix, or those in which individuals rank the set of possible interaction outcomes differently. The role of conflict in facilitating or impeding the emergence of new biological units is of particular interest. SFI External Professor Nihat Ay, and collaborators have been studying the multi-scale network dynamics of behavioral conflict in relation to how behavioral strategies for managing conflicts evolve in systems in which interactions are polydadic (involving multiple individuals rather than being simply pair-wise) The development of a new, network conflict theory, to include the development of new measures of causality and information flow in networks are in their early stages, and new methods of data analysis of non-linear time series over networks, informed by careful measurements of conflict in a model system (macaque society), are important goals of the project. SFI

Professor Jon Wilkins works on closely related issues in the context of intragenomic conflict.

Hear Phillip C. Schlechtyon Birth2Work Internet Radio:

Phase 1 Share data and Initiate Collaborative Discussions with Stakeholder Leaders

because Americans respond to “gut values” and an invitation to contribute

When local citizens are not sufficiently informed to make decisions about what children should learn, better to educate them than take their power away. Discussion helps uncover common ground that binds communities together.

Partner with Media to get the message out - Phase 2

Develop a common language and information set so that meaningful conversations about standards occur locally and not just in government agencies far from the community.

Phase 3 Highlight and promote programs that are just as concerned with building a

sense of belonging and community as adding to technology capabilities Facilitate collaborative efforts – Relationships can last a lot longer than the

latest technological innovation and lead to longer lasting results

Key Forces Shaping Tomorrow’s Workforce

Ever widening gap between overall population growth and demographic distribution

Language proficiency- affecting the way we communicate Number of skilled professionals declining, especially scientists and

engineering Demand for better solutions to global societal problems increasing Need for workforce commitment to continuous learning and re-skilling Complex workforce crisis issue – multiple variables need addressed

simultaneously

Meet Vickie Hougan and Kim Kuchenbraod of Vermilion County, Illon Birth2Work Radio

Watch and view our DVD of more than 80 stakeholder leaders who came together in Vermilion County, Ill almost exactly one year ago and began the process of knitting together the programs and resources whose net effect can be multiplied if they are less scattered and more in alignment with each other in the community. Birth2Work showed them how to do this.

Listen to Vickie and Kim talk on the internet podcast about what they have observed about their own community as its people have responded to an opportunity to grow their county in a whole new way by coming together and using a clear, precise 6 step process to get each sector’s needs identified and aligned with the rest.

Vermilion County, being a rustbelt community has improved and grown, or just stayed stable in education graduation, employment and community economic development. But no one will tell you that they miss the days when groups didn’t share data and didn’t talk about the future more than they talk about the past.

Another city and county are taking their job to grow their kids at home seriously.

Consider the Future

The fastest growing occupationsthrough 2013 will be in science, technology and information management.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

“60 percent of future jobs require training that only 20 percent of current workers possess.”

Richard Judy – Discovery Institute

Footnote: From Presentation By David Vance, Caterpillar University

With everybody trying to help us, what are we doing to help ourselves first?

What would you focus on in terms of improving

Looking closely at outside assessment

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What is the final product? Vision and Measures of Success

What did you learn from the district assessment that might help us inform the process we will be doing with the staff?

Future Engineering Need & Supply

PracticingEngineers

(USA)

2000 2020

1.3M *

Need

Current Workforce

How do We Fill the Gap?

* Note: Total workforce with Science & Engineering education exceeds 10M, 30+% work in S&E; Engineering accounts for 1.9M degrees and 1.3M working in the field, (NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2000)

2010

Most growth comesin the ComputingTechnology field

1/1/02

What Types of People Are Needed?

Greater numbers of qualified technical people are needed to enter the job market.

• Professionals• Certificated• Competency-based

We’re Not Talking About a Labor Shortage

We’re talking about a SKILLS shortage

Not just just in the short term, but in the long term

Industry is growing weary of the fluctuating cycles

The Challenge…

“We are attempting to educate students (hire people) today so that they will be ready to solve future problems that have not yet been identified using technologies not yet invented based on scientific knowledge not yet discovered.”

Joseph Lagowski

University of Texas at Austin

Key Elements Requiring Alignment


SharedSharedValues &Values &

VisionVision

SkillsSkills

StyleStyleStaffStaff

SystemsSystems

StructureStructure

StrategyStrategy

Citizens in the 21st Century Education and business’s shared vision

Capable of economic self sufficiency

Active participants in the process of governance

Ability to effectively communicate and interact with others

Passion to learn, unlearn and relearn

Focus on the future

Our Solution: Integrated Community Stakeholder Development


CommunityCommunity

Business & Business & IndustryIndustry

MediaMediaNot-for-Not-for-ProfitsProfits

GovernmentGovernment

EducationEducation

HealthcareHealthcare

Assisting Communities

Community must become the center of the issue Need shared set of values on which to base change

Establish common language and datasets Acknowledge & celebrate cultural (sector)

differences Stakeholders from all 6 sectors must be involved

Education, Business, Gov’t, Healthcare, Not-for-Profits, Media

Integrated Community Integrated Community Stakeholder Development: Stakeholder Development:

Systems ApproachSystems Approach to Workforce Needsto Workforce Needs

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Stories with Holes

The man was afraid to go home, because the man with the mask was there

A young woman walked into a café and asked for a drink of water. The man behind the counter suddenly pulled out a gun and pointed it at her. A few seconds elapsed, then the woman smiled, thanked the man, and left.

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Using Partnerships to Drive aUsing Partnerships to Drive aSystems Approach to Workforce Needs Systems Approach to Workforce Needs

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A Little History

We are embarked as pioneers upon a new science and industry in which our problems are so new and unusual that it behooves no one to dismiss any novel idea with the statement, "It can't be done."

-- William Boeing

In the early 20th century

During the last 100 years, humans went from walking on Earth to walking on the moon. They went from riding horses to flying jet airplanes. With each decade, aviation technology crossed another frontier, and, with each crossing, the world changed. Have human capacities for adaptation to a technically charged environment kept up? Really? Consider how the technology supporting the landing on the moon changed our world. It’s still in the experimental stages.

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