A Conversation: Guiding Our Regions Future

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A ConversationGuiding Our Regions Future

• Northern Kentucky
• January 27, 2005

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• What does the future hold?

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• The 25 terms

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• Bioinformatics
• Biomaterials
• Biopolymers
• Bioremediation
• Biotechnology

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• Celestial mining
• Data mining
• E-Business
• Fuel cell
• Gene therapy

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• Genomics
• Green technology
• Intellectual property
• Nanotechnology
• Natural products

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• Proteomics
• Quantum computing
• Recombinant DNA
• Smart materials
• Stem cells

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• What do these terms mean to students in Northern
  Kentucky?

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• Four observations to consider
• 1. Kentucky is unprepared and is not adequately
  preparing for a knowledge-based economy.
• 2. Our future as a state depends on our
  preparation.
• 3. There are solutions.
• 4. We all have a role to play in providing
  solutions.

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Regions that accumulate the most human capital
will prosper in the 21st century economy.
Source Strategic Plan for the Office for the New
Economy 2002
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Kentuckys ability to sustain and propel a 21st
century Knowledge-based economy is dependent on
intellectual capital.
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• 3 questions that often accompany education
  change
• How do we change our schools?
• What needs to be done?
• Why change our schools?

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Observation 1
1. Kentucky is unprepared and is not adequately
preparing for a knowledge-based economy.
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Current data paint a bleak picture for our
future. . . Source US Census Data, 2000
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With regards to the number of adult Kentuckians
with less than a 9th grade education . . .
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• US average 7.4
• KY average 11.7
• 110 KY counties below the national average

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• Adults with less than a 9th grade education
• US Average 7.4
• Oldham 4.8
• Boone 4.8
• Fayette 5.1
• Jefferson 5.1

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• US Average 7.4
• Magoffin 28.5
• Clinton 29.3
• Clay 31.9
• Owsley 33.8

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• US average 7.4
• KY average 11.7
• Boone County 4.8
• Campbell County 7.1
• Kenton County 6.1

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Counties exceeding the national rate (7.4) for
more than a 9th grade education among adults 25
10/120 counties
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With regards to adult Kentuckians who have at
least a high school diploma . . .
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• US average 80.4
• KY average 74.1
• 109 KY counties below the national average

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• Adults with at least a HS diploma
• U.S. Average 80.4
• Woodford 82.6
• Boone 85.1
• Fayette 85.8
• Oldham 86.5

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• Adults with at least a HS diploma
• U.S. Average 80.4
• Lee 50.9
• Magoffin 50.1
• Clay 49.4
• Owsley 49.2

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• U.S. 80.4
• Kentucky 74.1
• Boone County 85.1
• Campbell County 80.8
• Kenton County 82.1

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Counties at or above the national average (80.4)
for adults 25 with a high school diploma.
11/120 counties
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HS Diploma by county
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HS Diploma by 3 digit zip code
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With regards to the number of Kentuckians with a
college degree . . .
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BA holders
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• US average 24.4
• KY average 20.8
• 115 KY counties below the national average

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• Adults with at least at least a BA
• US Average 24.4
• Jefferson 24.8
• Woodford 25.9
• Oldham 30.6
• Fayette 35.6

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• Adults with at least at least a BA
• US Average 24.4
• Leslie 6.3
• Lee 6.3
• Magoffin 6.3
• Edmonson 4.9

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• US average 24.4
• KY average 20.8
• Boone County 22.8
• Campbell County 20.5
• Kenton County 22.9

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Counties exceeding the national average (24.4)
of adults ages 25 with 4 or more years of
college. 5/120 counties
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BA holders by county
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• Where does Kentucky stand for meeting the needs
  of the 21st Century workforce?

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• The reality is . . .
• In 1990, we were 49th
• in high school completions and GEDs

ThinkLink
1990 Census, Adults 18-64
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ThinkLink
Adults 18-64, Decennial Census 1990, 2000
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But . . .

• In 2000, Kentucky still ranked only 46th in high
  school completions and GEDs

Adults 18-64 2000 Census
ThinkLink
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• If Northern Kentucky has good schools why think
  about changes?

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• Redefining the enemy
• Jim Collins in Good to Great
• We dont have great schools, principally because
  we have good schools.

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• In Kentucky we are firmly on the road
• From Good to . . .
• Gooder

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• We know our education system is not preparing
  our children to succeed in a new, technologically
  based economy.
• Source Lexington Herald-Leader December 12, 2004

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• The needs of the 21st Century workforce have
  changed significantly.

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1997
1950
Unskilled 15
Skilled 20
Skilled 65
Professional 20
Unskilled 60
Professional 20
ThinkLink
National Summit on 21st Century Skills for 21st
Century Jobs
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1970s 1990s 2010

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• What skills are important for success in the 21st
  Century?

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Lexile Framework

• Semantic Difficulty
• Syntactic Complexity

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Lexile Literature

• 400 - Frog and Toad are Friends
• 500 - The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
• 800 - The Adventures of Pinocchio
• 900 - Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders
• 1000 - Black Beauty
• 1100 - Pride and Prejudice
• 1200 - War and Peace
• 1300 - Brown vs. Board of Ed.
• 1400 - The Scarlet Letter
• 1500 - On Ancient Medicine

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Lexile Texts

• 300 - My World Harcourt Brace
• 500 - People and Places Silver Burdett Ginn
• 700 - World Explorer The U.S. Canada Prentice
  Hall
• 900 - World Cultures A Global Mosaic Prentice
  Hall
• 1100 - America Pathways to Present Prentice
  Hall
• 1300 - Psychology An Introduction Prentice Hall
• 1500 - The Making of Memory From Molecules to
  MindDoubleday

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Newspapers

• 1200 USA Today
• 1310 Associated Press
• 1310 Chicago Tribune
• 1320 Wall Street Journal
• 1350 Washington Post
• 1380 NY Times
• 1440 Reuters

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Personal Use

• 1080 CD DVD Player Instructions
• 1150 G.M. Protection Plan
• 1150 Microsoft Windows User Manual
• 1170 Installing Your Child Safety Seat
• 1260 Federal Tax Form W-4
• 1270 Application for Student Loan
• 1280 Medical Insurance Benefit Package
• 1360 Aetna Health Care Discount Form

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Construction

 
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Manufacturing

 
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• What about students preparing for a traditional
  college program?

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Visual Arts Design Academy

Lexile Range
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Medical Academy

Lexile Range
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• The 21st Century will see a convergence of many
  fields once thought separate and once calling
  for vastly different skill levels

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2000

Info Tech
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Info Tech

2004
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Info Tech

2008
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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• As if that werent enough, we face other
  challenges that have long-term implications . . .

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International Factors
The rest of the world is not standing
still Competition for unskilled
labor Competition for skilled labor
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• If you look at India, China, and Russia even
  if you discount 90 percent of the people there as
  uneducated farmersyou still end up with about
  300 million people who are educated. Thats
  bigger than the U.S. work force.
• Bob Herbert, New York Times

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• Are you still wondering Why change our schools?

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Observation 2

• 2. Our success as a state is dependent on how we
  meet this challenge.

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• Making the necessary changes may seem like a
  heavy task . . .

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• The solution is not to educate students in
  Northern Kentucky more efficiently and
  effectively . . .
• for the 20th century.

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• What can be done K-16?
• A look at options
• Stay the course
• Change the course

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Observation 3

• 3. There are solutions for Kentuckys current
  position.

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• In Northern Kentucky, changes are already well
  under way . . .
• Strong support from the NKY Chamber
• State Scholars Implementation
• Education AllianceA. D. Albright Awards
  Banking On Your Future
• B.E.S.T. (Business Education Success
  Teams)Career Passports / Work Ethic
  DiplomaMentoring
• Technology Tomorrow
• Work Ethic Certificate, K-8
• Quest 2015

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• A key ingredient to success is . . .
• Implementation of a common strategy among
  education, government agencies, and business

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• Take time to take a look at opportunities for
  each constituency to contribute to reaching the
  common goals.

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• At the State level, other changes are in progress
  . . .

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• Refocusing Secondary Work
• Focus on learning not time
• End of Course assessments
• Replacing the PreCollege Curriculum
• Extended Learning Opportunities

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Observation 4

• 4. We all have a role to play in the resolution
  of this problem.

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• What will it take in Northern Kentucky to compete
  in the Knowledge Economy?

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• What will the solutions and the commitment to the
  solutions look like?

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• An understanding of the connection between the
  economic health of Northern Kentucky and the
  quality of the school system.
• An understanding of the importance of every
  student in the systems.
• Commitment to the long-term nature of the
  solutions.

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• A commitment to a P-16 strategy
• A clear understanding of the consequences of
  failure in the New Economy.

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In the innovation ecosystem, there are three
foundational requirements The quality of the
labor pool The societys capacity to take risks,
especially for long-term investment The
continual creation of an infrastructure that
anticipates future innovation
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To thrive in this new world, it will not be
enough indeed, it will be counterproductive
simply to intensify current stimuli, policies,
management strategies and to make incremental
improvements to organizational structures and
curricula. National Innovation Initiative Final
Report
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• How will this community build intellectual
  capital?
• The time is past for optimizing for efficiency
  and quality.
• This is the time to focus on innovative
  education.

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Changing the Essential Questions

• We used to ask How do we change our schools to
  make them better?
• Now we must ask How can our school systems
  provide the best learning opportunities for each
  individual student in those systems?

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There ARE alternative ways to think about the
future of education in this community . . .
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. . .and we must be about the business of
providing them.
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• ThinkLink thinking about the problem
• Council on Postsecondary Educaiton (CPE)
• Department for Workforce Development (
• Dept. for Innovation and Commercialization for a
  Knowledge-Based Economy (ONE)
• Education and Professional Standards Board (EPSB)
• GearUp
• Kentucky Adult Education (KYAE)
• Kentucky Board of Education
• Kentucky Community and Technical College System
  (KCTCS)
• Kentucky Department of Education
• Kentucky Education Cabinet
• Kentucky Workforce Investment Board (KWIB)
• Partnership for Kentucky Schools
• TeachKentucky

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• Slides marked with an were drawn from
  materials of
• Dr. Willard Daggett, International Center for
  Leadership in Education, and were used with
  permission.

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• For further information, contact
• Tom Welch
• Tom.welch_at_ky.gov or twelch_at_kde.state.ky.us
• 502.564.4403 x 4300
• 859.576.0878