Senior Advisory Retreat

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• Senior Advisory Retreat
• June 26, 2009
• Ford Fund NGLC Program

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• The Northwest Florida
• Next Generation Learning Community

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• Welcome/Introductions
• Participants
• Facilitators
• Rick Delano, Ford PAS Advisory Chair
• Pete Bermudez, Ford PAS Advisory Committee

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Did you know?
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Building Community Prosperity

• ConnectEd California

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Career Academy Data Philadelphia

• Philadelphia was the birthplace of the modern
  Career Academy in 1969
• Now it is the home of 34 Career Academies
• Approximately 10 (7,000) of Philadelphias high
  school students learn in these Academies
• Strong business support
• Academy students regularly achieve
• 90 graduation rate
• 60 go to college

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Lee County, FL
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12 Indicators of Success

• Senior level business/civic/education partnership
  is established to use these 12 best practices to
  develop a community career academy master plan.
• Regional economic and workforce projections are
  used to prioritize career academy selection
  within the master plan and employer/educator
  councils are formed to match employee demand with
  education supply.
• Community seeks out or develops academically
  rigorous advanced CTE offerings and programs of
  study, following duideli9nes set forth in Perkins
  IV.
• Community employs career cluster entrepreneurs to
  rally and align business support.
• Career academy evaluations support continuous
  improvement.
• District centralizes all programs likely to
  involve business (magnet, Choice, small learning
  communities, career academies and CTE Operations)
  under one leader/department.

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• Perkins, SLC, and grant funding are channeled
  toward launching new career academies.
• Community looks to identify and collaborate with
  a growing list of state and national career
  academies.
• Community develops a career academy marketing
  plan to build awareness and support among
  parents, students and business and within the
  education community, and, gathers date to support
  the plan.
• Business leaders representing each prioritized
  career cluster constitute on going business
  advisory board to align business support for
  academies.
• Successful communities understand and defend
  career academy essentials.
• Articulation plans cement post-secondary
  partnerships.

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Best Practice 10

• Business Leaders Representing Each
  Prioritized
• Career Cluster Constitute an On-going
  Business
• Advisory Board to Align Business Support for
  
• Academies

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Career Academy Data Sacramento

• In the Sacramento City district, a Gates/Carnegie
  grant supported the creation of a district-wide
  system where nearly all students learn in small
  learning communities, the majority of which have
  career themes
• Because all students learn in Career Academies,
  the following table on the following slides shows
  the pure Career Academy effect

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Sacramento Drop-out Rates Decrease
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Sacramento Graduation Rates Increase
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Sacramento The Number of Students Taking the
SAT Increases
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The New Economic Development Reality

• Recognize that a skilled workforce has become
  more important than land and buildings
• Availability of a skilled workforce leads in
  three of four factors influencing growth (next
  slide)
• Legacy costs or cost of place tops a fourth
  growth category High school non-completion
  (260,000 lifetime per dropout) is a huge factor
  in legacy of place costs -- more later on this
• Adding just 20 skilled aerospace workers, each
  paid 50,000 per year, at a facility in Northwest
  Florida, adds business taxes of 172,000,
  2,020,000 in employee compensation, 7,717,500
  in business activity generated according to Haas
  Center in Pensacola, Fl

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Ranking of Growth Factors According to Their
Importance to Economic Growth (Ranking by
statistical correlation, at 95 confidence level)
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2007 2008

• Benchmark
• 2007 Fords NGLC Program presented to
  community
• NGLC Leadership Institute
• Prospective Level Designation
• Priorities goal setting on Master Plan
• Community Site visit by Ford
• 2008 Smithsonian Scholars visit NW Florida
• Completed Master Plan draft with matrixes
• Presented at NGLC Leadership Institute
• Chambers Workforce Conference presentation
• Completed final plan submission December
• Ford Pas Training of Teachers

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2009

• Leadership Level Designation
• Initiated three advisory councils related to
  economic development clusters
• Information Technology
• Engineering
• Health
• September Culinary
• October Construction
• Ford Hub Task Force
• Presenting at Fords Conference August

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Career Academies

• Escambia County School District
• page ___ of your packet
• Santa Rosa County School District
• page ___ of your packet

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Future Business Participation

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Ford PAS Training November 2008

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Re-Assessing Fords Approach to Education

• Ford has a long history of work in education
  Henry Ford
• Learning by Doing Approach Linking Rigor and
  Relevance
• Successes and Learning Opportunities

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Where is Ford Heading Building a Movement FORD
PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED STUDIES NEXT
GENERATION LEARNING

• TRANSFORMING TEACHING AND LEARNING
• Creating meaningful learning experiences that
  enables
• students to apply academic knowledge to
  real-world
• challenges
• REDESIGNING SCHOOLS
• Creating and maintaining the collaborative
  culture, structures
• and practices necessary to transform teaching and
  
• learning and facilitate community engagement
• BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
• Engaging community and business partners to
• collaborate in promoting and sustaining
  educational
• programs that prepare the future workforce
  and
• citizens

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Discussion/Feed back Next Steps