AGENDA Institute Location Harvard Graduate School of Education Gutman Library Conference Center 6 Appian Way Cambridge, MA 02138 The Institute will bring together state and regional leadership teams from Pathways to Prosperity Network member states in order to clarify and advance each state’s 2014-­‐2015 strategic career pathways agenda. •
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solving. Stakeholders will learn about emerging and effective practices for implementing the Pathways to Prosperity levers and incorporating them into work plans. Stakeholders will identify high-­‐value metrics and indicators of progress to include in work plans and share with the Network. Stakeholders will draft actionable state-­‐ and regional-­‐level Pathways work plans and leave with a clear vision for follow-­‐up steps in the planning and implementation of core strategic focus areas for this year (2014-­‐
2015). Wednesday, October 1st 9:30am – 2:00pm Optional: Site Visit to Marlborough STEM Early College High School 431 Bolton St, Marlborough, MA 01752 (transportation provided from the hotel) During this visit, representatives from Marlborough will share the school’s model for preparing students from all academic backgrounds for the high-­‐pay, high-­‐growth jobs of the future through career pathways. For more information, go to http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/PTPN-­‐Paving-­‐the-­‐Way-­‐061614.pdf. 2:00 – 4:00pm 2:00 – 4:00pm Registration Gutman Conference Center, Area 4 Optional: Introduction to an Intermediary: Boston Private Industry Council Gutman Conference Center This session, led by staff from the PIC’s Boston headquarters, focuses on the role of a regional work-­‐based learning intermediary, including details on its structure, staffing, funding, services, business and education partnerships, and public will-­‐building. For more information, go to http://www.bostonpic.org/. 2:00 – 4:00pm Optional: Pathways 101 for Participants New to the Network Larsen 106 This session will provide an overview of the Pathways to Prosperity report and data, as well as the Network's goals, strategies, and progress for first-­‐time/new participants in the Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute. 4:15 – 5:45pm Welcome, Regional Spotlight, and Measuring Pathways Progress Gutman Conference Center This session will highlight recent updates from across the Network, emphasizing the regional work and accomplishments, and will also introduce draft Pathways to Prosperity metrics. 5:45 – 6:30pm 6:30 – 7:30pm 7:30 – 8:15pm Reception The Garden Room Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served. Dinner Gutman Conference Center Participants will be seated by state team. Dessert Discussion: Setting Team Learning Goals Note: Transportation will be provided from the Gutman Conference Center to the Hyatt Regency Cambridge at 8:30pm. Thursday, October 2nd Note: Transportation will be provided from the hotel to the Gutman Conference Center at 7:30am. 8:00 – 8:45am 8:45 – 9:45am Breakfast Buffet and Welcome Gutman Conference Center Plenary: The Role of Business—Addressing the Misalignment Between Education and the Economy Gutman Conference Center Joseph Fuller, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School With Dan Restuccia, Director of Applied Research, Burning Glass Professor Fuller is leading a research effort on closing the “middle skills” gap through the Harvard Business School’s U.S. Competitiveness Project and will delve into the role of business in addressing the misalignment between the education and training pipeline and the needs of state and regional economies. Insights will focus on how policy can help improve the ability of regions to compete nationally and internationally. Going beyond the umbrella term of “middle skill jobs,” Professor Fuller will also show how those policies must focus on jobs that are both critical to U.S. competitiveness and assure more Americans of a “career of lifetime value” without the fear of technology-­‐replacement or offshoring. Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 2 10:00 – 11:30am Concurrent Sessions: Pathways Industry Sectors These interactive sessions include resource people from within and outside the Network who will jumpstart the conversations. Each breakout features pathways programs that serve as especially promising early examples in their respective sectors. The sessions are designed to be focused, practical, and to provide materials and resources to support your work at home, as well as to tap into the expertise that all participants bring to the Network. Advanced Manufacturing Gutman 303 Panelists: • Marybeth Campbell, Director of Education and Workforce Development, Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, Massachusetts • David William Davis, President & Chief Operating Officer, Simmons Machine Tool Corporation, New York • Marcy Raymond, Director of Curriculum and Innovation, New Albany Plain Local Schools, Ohio Moderator: Sheila Jackson, Project Manager, Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future Today’s advanced manufacturing workers have replaced their wrenches with iPads, and the machine floor is not the same dangerous, dirty place it used to be fifty years ago. This panel brings together an Ohio K-­‐12 administrator whose district has recently acquired an MIT mobile fab lab; the President and COO of a manufacturing company in New York State involved in curriculum development and forging partnerships with high schools, regional career centers, and community colleges; and a Massachusetts state official who helped translate Governor Deval Patrick’s statewide economic strategy around advanced manufacturing into CTE programs across Massachusetts. The conversation will focus on how these stakeholders have worked collaboratively across sectors to respond to the industry’s transformation and what they are currently doing with curriculum, scholarships, equipment grants, work-­‐based learning, and marketing strategies to build advanced manufacturing career pathways in grades 9-­‐14. Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 3 Healthcare Gutman Conference Center Panelists: • Terry Alleyne, Senior Career Specialist, Boston Latin Academy and Snowden International High School, Boston PIC, Massachusetts • Marty Alvarado, Director, Workforce Development, Long Beach City College, California • Wendy Lam, Youth Programs Coordinator at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts • Tara Raposa, Assistant Director, Employer Account Manager-­‐Healthcare, Boston PIC, Massachusetts • Bill Rawlinson, Health Engagement Coordinator, Edward M. Kennedy Health Careers Academy, Massachusetts • La Toya Robinson, Director, Students Taking Action for Nursing Diversity (STAND) and Pathways to Prosperity, Bunker Hill Community College, Massachusetts Moderator: Nancy Hoffman, Vice President and Senior Advisor, Jobs for the Future Health career academies are the best-­‐developed career academies in the country. This session focuses on three post start-­‐up issues: how the Boston PIC and a hospital youth coordinator place 500 students in Boston health care sites in the summer and school year, including the legal and safety issues involved; the steps the Edward M. Kennedy Health Careers Academy is taking to become an early college in partnership with Bunker Hill Community College; and the process and challenges that Long Beach City College faces in planning health career pathways for Long Beach Unified School District students when there are many highly qualified adult applicants and faculty resistance to younger students. Information Technology Gutman 305 Panelists: • Deborah Boisvert, Executive Director, Broadening Advanced Technological Education Connections (BATEC), Massachusetts • Shane Mayes, CEO, Onshore Outsourcing, Missouri Moderator: Elizabeth Santiago, Director, High School Through College, Jobs for the Future This session focuses on creating the curricular foundation for and pathways through key IT fields, including the nuts and bolts of IT internships and resources available to support pathways building in IT. It will describe some specific issues such as middle skills in IT, how to address IT needs in rural areas, and how competencies fit into an IT pathway, to name a few. The session will also share examples from specific pathway programs such as the SAP-­‐
sponsored IT pathway at Charlestown High School in Boston and Onshore Outsourcing, a nationally recognized rural outsourcing firm that provides business and technology solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-­‐sized companies. Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 4 Building STEM Pathways Larsen G-­‐01 Panelists: • Ayora Berry, Program Manager, PTC, North America K-­‐12 Program, Massachusetts • Mark Kobel, 7th-­‐grade Engineering teacher, Marlborough ECHS, Massachusetts • Scott Reeves, Director, Secondary Academic Affairs, Westerville City Schools, Ohio • Dan Riley, Director, Marlborough Early College High School (ECHS), Massachusetts Moderator: Bob Schwartz, Professor of Practice Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education While STEM is strictly speaking not a separate industry sector, the three sectors in which we are building career pathways all require a strong STEM foundation. What does a strong STEM foundation, that begins in the middle grades and undergirds one or more career pathways that extend through high school and on into college-­‐level courses, look like? The Marlborough (MA) school district has been building such a program, and three key participants — the lead administrator, a teacher, and a business partner — will present challenges and lessons learned to date. Scott Reeves, a key participant in the Central Ohio Innovation Generation project, will comment on the Marlborough case and on his experience leading STEM-­‐based pathway development in the Westerville City Schools. NOTE: This session is especially designed for those who were unable to go on Wednesday's Marlborough site visit. 11:45am – 1:00pm Affinity Group Lunch Gutman Conference Center Over lunch, we encourage you to sit with an affinity group to build relationships across the Network and informally discuss areas of interest to Pathways. Below is a list of groups that will have designated tables; we will also have tables with blank table tents, so that you can create your own affinity group. • Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) • Rural Considerations • Metrics/Data • Intermediaries • Academic-­‐CTE Integration • Employer Engagement • Community Colleges • Pathways Implementation Network (by invitation) Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 5 1:00 – 2:00pm Demonstration of Online Resources Gutman Conference Center This session will provide an overview of technology-­‐supported tools and resources that could enhance career pathways planning and implementation. Resources include: • My Best Bets: An application designed to help young people match their career interests and skills with “best bet” postsecondary pathways leading to in-­‐demand careers. • ConnectEd Studios: A platform containing great tools, coaching, networks, and technical assistance to expand high-­‐quality pathways. • Burning Glass Careers in Focus: A live demo showing how we use real-­‐time labor market data to identify high-­‐priority industry sectors and analyze trends in regional job growth. • Connecting Activities: A website and mobile app that provides a variety of resources for schools and employers who offer career development activities to students. Please refer to your conference packet for a demo “road map” and team color assignment. 2:15 – 4:00pm State and Regional Team Time All teams will be in the Gutman Conference Center, except: • Tennessee in Gutman G-­‐05 • California in Longfellow 225 4:15 – 5:15pm Plenary: Youth Development and the Role of Work Gutman Conference Center Michael Nakkula, Practice Professor and Chair of the Division of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Dr. Nakkula is an expert on adolescent development. In this informal talk, he will address the importance and impact of jobs and other out of school experiences on youth development and young people’s sense of future possibilities. The talk will particularly draw on Dr. Nakkula’s research on resilience and the promotion of possibility development among low-­‐
income youth. With Jobs for the Future, Dr. Nakkula has also been engaged in a longitudinal study on the impact of Early College High Schools on students’ academic identity development and college success; the role of work proves to be an integral part of that success for many students. Dr. Nakkula will also highlight key observations from Robert Halpern’s book, Youth, Education, and the Role of Society: Rethinking Learning in the High School Years, which will be distributed at the Institute. 5:15 – 5:45pm Plenary: Takeaways from the Day Gutman Conference Center 5:45 – 7:00pm Reception The Garden Room Light hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be provided. Note: There will not be transportation provided from Harvard back to the hotel. Dinner and transportation will be on your own. Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 6 Friday, October 3rd 7:30 – 8:00am 8:00 – 9:00am Note: Transportation will be provided from the hotel to HGSE at 7:00 am. Please be sure to bring your luggage. Breakfast Buffet Gutman Conference Center Plenary: Employer Perspectives Gutman Conference Center 9:00 – 10:30am Panelists: • Noemi Donoso, Senior Vice President, Education Initiatives, Roll Global LLC, California • Tim Spires, CEO, Tennessee Association of Manufacturers, Tennessee • Joe Wesley, Director of Strategic Workforce Development, Wegmans Food Markets, New York Moderator: Nancy Hoffman, Vice President and Senior Advisor, Jobs for the Future Scaling employer engagement in ways that serve company interests and the interests of young people is a major challenge. In this informal question and answer session, a supermarket employer, a manufacturing association CEO, and a senior vice president for a major agriculture company have a frank discussion about why they are doing what they are doing to build 9-­‐14 pathways, how hard it is to get where they want to go, and what they are doing to solve problems along the way. Notably, both Roll Global and Wegmans are private family-­‐held companies, and both exemplify the convergence between community spirit and economic self-­‐interest. Concurrent Sessions: Pathways Implementation Levers These interactive sessions include resource people from within and outside the Network who will jumpstart the conversations. Each breakout features examples from the Network of especially promising work around each of the key implementation levers. The sessions are designed to be focused, practical, and to provide materials and resources to support your work at home, as well as to tap into the expertise that all participants bring to the Network. Career Information, Awareness, and Exploration Eliot Lyman (in Longfellow) Panelists: • Tobie Baker-­‐Wright, Senior Project Manager, Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future • Michael Nakkula, Practice Professor and Chair of the Division of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education • Elizabeth Turner, Academic & Career Readiness Curriculum Leader and Site Lead for Possible Futures, Possible Selves, Long Beach Unified School District, California Moderator: Bob Schwartz, Professor of Practice Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 7 Career exploration and advising in pathways ensures that youth are engaged and empowered in directing their educational and career choices. This session will share the work of the Possible Futures, Possible Selves (PFPS) initiative and discuss the opportunities to pilot or partner in the work. There will be a focus on the two middle-­‐school sector-­‐based curricula in STEM and IT that are being piloted this year. Panelists from Long Beach Unified School District will share thoughts on topics that include: strategic inclusion of career exploration experiences in pathways development while dealing with the challenge of scale; their work as a PFPS partner site; and contributions to developing resources that support summer bridge, career fairs, college and workplace visits. Dr. Nakkula will contextualize the importance of this work within the broader scope of positive youth development. 9-­‐14 Pathways Larsen G-­‐06 Panelists: • Tony Clark, Senior Project Manager, Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future • Stacia Edwards, Associate Vice President, Workforce Strategy, Columbus State Community College, Ohio Moderator: Elizabeth Santiago, Director, High School through College, Jobs for the Future Opportunities for new 9-­‐14 pathway systems emerge from a myriad of sources. This interactive panel discussion focuses on lessons from the planning and start-­‐up of corporate-­‐
sponsored (SAP) 9-­‐14 schools in Boston and New York, federally supported pathways programs in Massachusetts via Youth CareerConnect, and state-­‐funded regional pathways programs such as the Innovation Generation project in Central Ohio. This session will include overviews of each program, sharing of approaches and challenges, and time for questions and discussion. Enabling State Policies Gutman G-­‐05 Panelists: • Jonathan Furr, Director, Education Systems Center, Northern Illinois University, Illinois • Charles Szuberla, Assistant Commissioner of School Operations, New York State Education Department, New York Moderator: Joel Vargas, Vice President, High School Through College, Jobs for the Future This session focuses on what state leaders have done to initiate and advance grades 9-­‐14 career pathways. It draws on examples in a brief about to be published by JFF that draws on the first two years of Pathways to Prosperity, a snapshot of what states in the network, and some others, are doing to build momentum for the implementation of pathways systems. The discussion will include a range of state-­‐level initiatives, structures, support systems, and policies and will describe recent developments in two member states, Illinois and New York. Participants will share advice about how the network can build on these emergent examples to eventually develop a playbook and policy set that promotes the most effective state roles and policies that create, sustain, and scale up grade 9-­‐14 career pathways. Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 8 Employer Engagement and Work-­‐Based Learning Gutman 440 Panelists: • Trish Cotter, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, IBM Netezza, Massachusetts • Pat Schramm, CEO, Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin, Wisconsin • Robin Willner, Director, Leadership Council for New York State P-­‐TECH, New York Moderator: Nancy Hoffman, Vice President and Senior Advisor, Jobs for the Future Picking up themes from the preceding plenary about supporting employers to engage, this session presents an adaptable guide for employers that JFF produced for the IBM New York P-­‐TECH. But employer guides have value only if there are employers to use them. Several employers or organizers of employers discuss the following: why and how they engage young people, especially in rural areas; what infrastructure is needed for widespread and long term engagement; and, from the employer and intermediary points of view, what schools and community colleges can do to better align with employer needs while ensuring students get a broad education. Effective Intermediaries Gutman Conference Center Panelists: • Kathleen Boyle Dalen, Vice President, PREP-­‐KC, Missouri • Charlotte Cahill, Senior Project Manager, Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future • Lillian Hartgrove, Vice President, Workforce Development & Education, Cookeville-­‐
Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, Tennessee • Daniel Jackson, President & CEO, Carroll Tomorrow and Carroll County Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Moderator: Amy Loyd, Executive Director, Pathways to Prosperity Network, Jobs for the Future Effective intermediaries are critical to the Pathways work, and yet this is often the least understood or developed implementation lever in Pathways regions. This session will highlight leading models of regional intermediaries from Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri, in order to learn from the processes, purposes, and structures they have developed as well as the strengths and challenges they have encountered in implementation. JFF will also discuss and differentiate the “anchor” intermediary roles, which are often played by a regional steering committee (e.g. convening across sectors; providing vision, voice, and accountability to the initiative), and the work-­‐based learning intermediary roles (e.g. connecting employers and educators; brokering opportunities for young people). 10:30 – 10:45am Break Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 9 10:45 – 11:45am 11:45am – 12:45pm 12:45 – 1:15pm 1:15 – 1:30pm State and Regional Team Time All teams will be in the Gutman Conference Center, except: • Tennessee in Gutman G-­‐05 • California in Gutman 440 Cross-­‐team Networking Lunch Gutman Conference Center Sharing Work Plans and Next Steps Closing Comments Pathways to Prosperity Network Institute • Agenda • Page 10