Greater Waco Community
Harnessing The Power of Community
To Expand Opportunities and Change Lives
Elane V Scott
President & CEO
Birth2Work
elane@birth2work.org
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
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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
http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/lmi/misc/lmistu3.htm
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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
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Many People and Organizations
Are Trying to Help
Why Do We Still Have a
Problem?
 Many programs and information sources aimed at
addressing workforce development and/or education
enrichment lack:
 Focus
 Common objectives
 Integration
 Cohesion
 Organization
 Sustainability
 Effectiveness
Our efforts are site-based
and often splintered.
The Birth to Work
“Life-Long Learning
Eco System”
Media/Technology
Drive Culture
Government Policy
Federal/State/Local
Health
Education
Elementary
Parents
0-4
5-10
Jr High
11-13
High School
14-18
Business
College
18-21
Workforce
Community (including Local, Community Based and Professional Organizations)
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Feedback Diagram
Policy resistance arises from feedback
loops that weave their way around
society, and by so doing go unnoticed.1
culture at different ages (from
parents through maturing
children to workforce)
DELAY
curriculum and
pedagogy
DELAY
People & Culture
readiness to learn at
various stages of
development
K12 & Higher Education
learning from
elementary through
college
human
development rate
health practices
health beliefs
DELAY
DELAY
media messages
workforce availability
and health insurance
costs
Media
Industry
health system
Health
DELAY
business
performance
Local, State & National Government
federal immigration
and outsourcing policy
DELAY
1. Morecroft, John (2007) Strategic
Modelling and Business Dynamics: A
feedback systems approach, Wiley, p. 48
technical worker
quantity and quality
local state and federal
education policy
health policy
DELAY
The U.S. S&T Enterprise is a
Dynamically Complex System
education
expenditure pressure
Government
Local, State
& National
Public &
Media
Local, State &
National
Government
Industry
Public & Media
pressure for STEM domestic R&D
and education policy and expenditures,
and immigration and offshoring policy
prosperity
attractiveness of
STEM careers
R&D Expenditures
Foreign
Education,
K12 &
Higher
STEM wages
immigration policy
domestic STEM
Jobs
education
expenditures
Industry
STEM worker
shortage
offshoring
prosperity
Foreign
STEM immigrants
STEM workers
STEM students and
teachers
K12 & Higher Education
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
relationships
It is the role of computer
simulation to help us better
Align the Parts of the Coalition
Around a Shared Vision and Values to
Leverage Strengths
Structure
Strategy
Systems
Shared
Values &
Vision
Staff
Style
Skills
Based on McKinsey 7-S Model
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Our Solution: Integrated
Community Stakeholder Development
Put Community at the Center
Education
Healthcare
Government
Comm(family)unity
Not-forProfits
Media
Business &
Industry
McKinsey 7-S Model Used with Permission
Facilitate Ownership while
creating cultural change
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
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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.
McKinsey 7-S Model Used with Permission
Birth2Work’s 6 Step Process for
Building 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
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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
9:15 – 10:15
Elane V Scott, President and CEO Birth2Work
“Success in Becoming the Way We Never Were”
or “Round 2 of Tonight”
10:30 – 11:45
Breakout Session/Panel Discussion
“Choose to Be Remembered by Your Actions, Not
Your Circumstances”
 How to know if you’re solving the problem
 Understanding the urgency of early childhood
development
 Getting Parents into the Classroom
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Stop – Start-- Continue
From…
 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
Changing Community Processes
To…
 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
Birth2Work Recommends
Two Actions to Guide
Education Transformation
1. Restore civic capacity
2. Build social capital
Phillip C Schlechty
Accept the Challenge
Meet 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
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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 Radio
in 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
Grow Your Own Citizens and
Employees 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
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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)
Meaning-driven
(Frankl)
Power-driven (Adler)
Forward Progress - - - ->
A Research Scientist Describes
Complex 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. Schlechty
on 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
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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, Ill
on 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 occupations
through 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
 ______________________________________________
 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
1/1/02
Practicing
Engineers
(USA)
Most growth comes
in the Computing
Technology field
Need
How do We
Fill the Gap?
1.3M *
Current Workforce
2000
* Note:
2010
2020
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)
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
Structure
Strategy
Systems
Shared
Values &
Vision
Staff
Style
Skills
McKinsey 7-S Model Used with Permission
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
Education
Healthcare
Government
Community
Not-forProfits
Media
Business &
Industry
McKinsey 7-S Model Used with Permission
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-forProfits, Media
Integrated Community
Stakeholder Development:
Systems Approach
to Workforce Needs
Birth2Work Organization
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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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Integrated Community
Stakeholder Development:
Using Partnerships to Drive a
Systems Approach to Workforce Needs
Birth2Work.org
Birth2Work Organization
NASA Educational Partnership Forum, Washington, DC
September 12, 2006
Elane Scott, Maureen McMahon, Katharyn Bandoni
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A Little History
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.
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
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