Here are the PowerPoint presentations from the sessions at the Ford Next Generation Learning Communities Institute in Rancho Mirage. Click on title of the PowerPoint presentation to download the file to your hard drive. Note that per the author’s choice, some files are in a PDF format, not Microsoft PowerPoint.
SESSION: 3
Title: Building and Re-Assessing your Long-Term Career Academy Network Master Plan
Presenters: Rick Delano, President of Social Marketing Services, LLC and Hans Meeder, Consultant with Meeder Consulting.
Description: This interactive workshop will help each team determine the key ingredients for its community. Each institute session will contribute to the formation or updating of this master plan which is by nature a living document. Team members should attend later sessions with an eye toward adding to the evolution of your master plan.
Indicator of Success: #1
PowerPoint:
“Building and Re-Assessing your Long-Term Career Academy Network Master Plan”
SESSION: 4
Title: Why Businesses Support Your Career Academy Network – In their Own Words
Presenters: Jennifer Grove, Workforce Development Coordinator, Gulf Power Company (Part 1) and Dr. Patricia Moore, Vice President of Flagler Life Institute (Part 2)
Facilitator: Scott Cheney
Description: Business leaders support individual academies and career academy networks in valuable and dynamic ways. This session will help you better understand how to discuss academies with business partners. Concrete examples of the type of human and financial resources partners can provide will be given.
Indicator of Success: #10
PowerPoints:
“Making the Case for Career Academies: A Utility’s Perspective”
“Why Businesses Partner with Career Academies”
SESSION: 5
Title: Effectively Marketing Your Career Academies To Parents and Students
Presenters: Randall Duckett, President, A3 Creative Group, and Melissa Robery, Assistant Principal for Curriculum, Ida S. Baker High School Cape Coral, Florida
Facilitator: Sandra Nicholls
Description: The need to effectively communicate your career academy cannot be overstated. The best career academy in the world will not have students lining up at the door waiting to be accepted if they and their parents don’t know they exist and/or their benefits. Learn some effective marketing techniques and strategies to inform your community about your academy.
Indicator of Success: #9
PowerPoint: “Effectively Marketing Your Career Academies to Parents and Students”
SESSION: 6
Title: Recruiting and Coordinating your business Volunteer Force
Facilitator: Mike Brunelle, Director of Career and Technical Preparation for Sacramento City Unified School District
Presenters: Lisa Nutter, President of Philadelphia Academies, Inc., and Connie Majka, Director, Communication and Events, for Philadelphia Academies, Inc.
Many businesses would welcome the opportunity to be supportive of career academies. It gives them a chance to introduce their business to potential future employees and help prepare students for a 21st century workforce. Philadelphia Academies Inc. has been engaged in this process longer than anyone else in the academy scene. In this session, you will hear how they created their partnerships.
Indicator of Success: #10
PowerPoint:
“Strategies for Building Sustainable Business Partnerships and Volunteer Networks”
SESSION: 8 (Keynote)
Title: Keynote: Creating Multiple Pathways to College and Career: From Policy to Practice
Presenters: Gary Hoachlander is President of ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career, and Vivian Guilfoy, Senior Vice President of Education Development Center, Inc.
Facilitator: Anne Stanton
Description: Using California as a case study, this session provides an overview of “multiple pathways” comprehensive programs of study connecting challenging academics with demanding career and technical education, both organized around a major industry sector. Introducing basic organizing principles, core components, and major state and local policy issues, the session will also brief participants on innovative curriculum initiatives to support pathway design and implementation.
Indicator of Success: #3
PowerPoint:
“Creating Multiple Pathways to College and Career: From Policy to Practice”
SESSION: 9
Title: Engaging Your Business Community, Understanding the Role of Career Cluster Entrepreneurs–Three Models
Facilitator: Rick Delano
Presenters: Mike Brunelle; Lisa Nutter, President of Philadelphia Academies, Inc.; Connie Majka, Director, Communication and Events, for Philadelphia Academies, Inc.; and Jay Steele
Description: As your career academy network scales up, the task of ensuring your students have a “real” academy experience with job shadowing, internships, and business volunteers, is very complex. Listen to three different approaches to connecting with and coordinating your business partners and their resources.
Indicator of Success: #4
PowerPoint:
“Philadelphia Academies: Where We Began, Who We Are, What We Do"
SESSION: 10
Title: Effectively Marketing Career Academies to Business Leaders and Government Officials
Presenters: Kati Anderson, Vice President, Media Relations, Comunicad, and Paula Chaon, Program Specialist, St. John’s County School District
Facilitator: Sandra Nicholls
Description: Your career academy network will need a variety of communication strategies and techniques to ensure business leaders
and government officials know about your academy network. This session will introduce you to a recently developed communications
strategy for presenting CTE and career academies and will explore a number of examples gathered from
around the country.
Indicator of Success: #9
PowerPoint:
“Effectively Marketing Career Academies to Business Leaders and Government Officials”
SESSION: 11
Title: Dissecting the Career Academy Evaluation Protocol and Building Local Evaluation Capacity
Presenters: Karen Shores, Education Program Consultant for the California Department of Education, and Liz Taylor, Career and Technical Education Specialist with Volusia County Florida Schools
Facilitator: Sandy Mittelsteadt
Description: Creating and maintaining high-quality, academically integrated career academies are essential to achieving positive outcomes. This session will introduce the national evaluation protocol and our recommended strategy for scaling up your local evaluation capacity. Once evaluated, your academies will continue to use this tool for continuous improvement.
Indicator of Success: #5
PowerPoint:
“Dissecting the Career Academy Evaluation Protocol and Building Local Evaluation Capacity”
SESSION: 12
Title: Shaping the Economic and Workforce Development Strategies
Facilitator: Scott Cheney
Presenter: Alexandra Mandelbaum, Monitor Group
Description: One way to engage business is to seriously consider economic development and workforce needs in the development of the career academy master plan. This presentation will provide practical guidance to ensure the new industries your community prioritizes are realistic given the nature of your community and are likely to yield the type of employment gains your community expects and can really support.
Indicator of Success: #1 & #10
PowerPoint:
“Aligning a Region’s Education and Workforce Development Strategies to the Needs of High-Priority Clusters”
SESSION: 13
Presenter: Donna Gilley, CTE Coordinator for Metro Nashville Public Schools
Facilitator: Donna Gilley
Description: Participate in a Ford PAS hands-on activity as though you are a student for an in-depth look at this academically rigorous, standards-based curriculum. Learn how Ford PAS links classroom learning with the challenges students will face as adults in the expectations of the workplace and post-secondary education. See how Ford PAS equips students with information and provides experiences to help them make decisions for a successful life.
Indicator of Success: #3
PowerPoint:
“Module 13, The Wealth of Nations”
SESSION: 14
Title: Comparing State Strategies To Back The Career Academy Model
Presenter: Leah Felcher, Education Consultant with Felcher First Class Consulting; Lucy Phillip, Executive Director of Partnerships for the Technical College System of Georgia; and Karen Shores, Education Programs Consultant with the California Department of Education
Facilitator: Rick Delano
Description: An increasing number of states are passing or considering legislation aimed at increasing the number, quality, or the focus of career academies within their borders. This session introduces the nature of this support and allows you to explore a variety of ideas you may wish to suggest to our lawmakers. Outcome of this session is a set of best practices we can advocate for in our respective states.
Indicator of Success: #8
PowerPoint:
“Career Academy State Support Models”
SESSION: 17
Title: Coachella Valley Showcase
Presenter: Kim McNulty, Program Manager, CVEP Career Pathways Initiative
Description: Coachella Valley will highlight their career academies, programs, and activities and demonstrate why they are a Ford Motor Company Fund designation site.
Indicator of Success: NA
PowerPoint:
"Career Pathways Initiative Summer 2008"
SESSION: 18
Title: Aligning Workforce Needs with Post Capacity Building through Business Education Industry Councils
Presenters: Sheila Thorton, Healthcare Industry Council Coordinator for Coachella Valley Economic Partnerships Career Pathways Initiative and Pam Silver, Education Coordinator/Net Learning with Eisenhower Medical Center.
Facilitator: Natalie Prim
Description: Industry councils that include employers, K-12 and post secondary are a valuable tool for projecting employment demand and bottlenecks in talent development. It is also a proven strategy in aligning support for your academies. Hear how Coachella Valley—consisting of three communities—is aligning their workforce needs.
Indicator of Success: #2
PowerPoint:
“Aligning Workforce Needs with Post Capacity Building Through Business Education Industry Councils”
SESSION: 19
Title: Career Academy Success Enhances College Readiness
Facilitator: Sheila Thompson
Presenters: Bill Roshon, Dean of Professional and Technical Studies at Edison College in Florida, and Sue Roshon, Assistant Director for Career and Technical Education in Lee County, Florida
Description: This presentation will provide participants the opportunity to look at what the School District of Lee County, Florida is doing to ensure that academy students are ready for post-secondary and what Edison College is doing to ensure academy students are college prepared (both academically and technically) to the greatest extent possible and confident in their ability to be successful at the next level of training or in the workforce.
Indicator of Success: #3 and 12
PowerPoint:
“Measuring Success”
SESSION: 20
Title: Career Academy Fundamentals–Ensuring the Career Academy Esentials
Presenters: Leah Felcher, Education Consultant with Felcher First Class Consulting; Sandy Mittelsteadt, Consultant with Ford Motor Company Fund; and Susan Tidyman, State/Regional Coordinator with the Career Academy Support Network.
Facilitator: Charlie Mojkowski
Description: To reap the potential benefits that academies offer, it is essential to provide the fundamental elements, such as scheduling academy students as a cohort, giving career academy teachers common planning time, and integrating the academic and CTE curriculum, etc. In this session, you will learn the essential elements of a successful academy.
Indicator of Success: #11
PowerPoint:
“The Career Academy Essentials”
SESSION: 21
Title: Strategies to Sustain Your Academy Network
Facilitator: Anne Stanton
Presenters: Kim McNulty, Program Manager, CVEP Career Pathways Initiative, and Connie Majka, Director, Communications and Events, for Philadelphia Academies, Inc.
Description: Success stories on sustaining career academy networks over time. Philadelphia Academies Inc. is celebrating its 40th anniversary and will raise $3MM next year for their network. Coachella Valley Economic Partnership is transitioning from Irvine Foundation funding to support youth development to local funders interested in supporting workforce improvement. Long term success is our goal.
Indicator of Success: #7
PowerPoints:
Strategies to Sustain Your Academy Network
Sustaining Your Network
SESSION: 22
Title: Research Forum–Latest Academy Data From The Field
Presenters: Mike Burnelle, Director of Career and Technical Preparation for Sacramento City Unified School District and Gary Hoachlander, President of ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career.
Facilitator: Rick Delano
Description: As interest in the career academy model has grown, so has interest in studying career academies. Hear the latest data on career academies from the experts in the field and share new data that has been collected. Session will include an interactive discussion of data and a projection of new data that is needed.
Indicator of Success: #9
PowerPoint:
“Research Forum—Latest Academy Data from the Field”
SESSION: 23
Title: Panel Discussing the Accelerated Options CTE and Career Academies
Presenters: Emily DeRocco, NAM and formerly with Dept. of Labor will talk about STEM diplomas, Catherine Balestrieri on New Visions academies in New York, Jay Steele on St. John’s collegiate level academies, and Karen Shores on the California Partnership Academy model
Description: This panel will discuss strategies aimed at strengthening the academic/technical rigor within our career academies and positioning our academies to appeal to academically successful students and their parents who might otherwise miss out on exposure to career course work. Many students who could benefit from the career academy experience end up making uninformed collegiate choices only to end up back in community colleges.
Indicator of Success: NA
PowerPoints:
The Manufacturing Institute and National Association of Manufacturers
The Future is Yours….Get Ready St. Johns County, Florida
New Visions Academies: Health, Education, Environmental Science