PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS: HELPING STUDENTS with COLLEGE and CAREER DECISIONS Tuesday April 9, 2013

1. PATHWAYS TO SUCCESS: HELPING STUDENTS with COLLEGE and CAREER DECISIONS Tuesday April 9, 2013 Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations

2. Sponsorship and Funding The Minnesota Department of Education and Minnesota State Colleges & Universities NAPE and the NSF http://www.napequity.org/

3. View Archived Webinars http://www.stemequitypipeline.org Certificate of Completion

4. Partnerships Resource Document Download today Lists links and resources

5. Chat FunctionQuestions after the presentations

6. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Meghan Reynolds, Coordinator Real World Externships for Teachers of Mathematics, Science and Technology, for the  Iowa Governor's STEM Advisory Council Jeff Weld Executive Director Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council Mary Lou Erlacher, Director Barb Tupper, Program Liaison Workplace Learning Connection

7. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations HIGH PAYERS Mechanical Engineering $80,000 Mathematics and Computer Sciences $98,000 Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration $105,000 NOT-SO-HIGH PAYERS Drama and Theater Arts $40,000 Social Work $39,000 Theology and Religious Vocations $38,000 Early-Childhood Education $36,000 Counseling and Psychology $29,000 http://cew.georgetown.edu/219725.html US News Top 10 Growth Fields for 2020 > Data Analysts > Computer Engineers > Mental Health Professionals > Scientific Researchers > Veterinarians > Business Management > Environmental and Conservation Scientists > Healthcare Providers > Finance > Entrepreneurship 2.4 million job openings in STEM coming by 2018 http://cew.georgetown.edu/stem/

8. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Plethora of Partnerships Career Day Internships Explorathons Job Shadows Profession-of-the-day Guest Speakers Curricular mapping Take Your Daughter to Work Day

9. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations 1,000,000 US 9th graders (28%) are interested in STEM 570,000 lose interest by HS graduation * STEM Connector and My College OptionsR Where Are The STEM Students? Where are the STEM Jobs? 2012-13 http://www.stemconnector.org/

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11. Create a broker – a matchmaker – an INTERMEDIARY Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations • The SOLUTION! The IDEA! The PROBLEM! Educators & employers want to work together! It is confusing & time consuming for everyone! A broker – a matchmaker – an INTERMEDIARY… A tool for career, future workforce & economic development!

12. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Other WLC Programs High School Job Shadows (10-12) High School Internships (post 10 -12) Staff Professional Development In-service Worksite Tours Employer Panels Teacher@Work (externships) Summer Careers Class Middle School Interactive Speaker Day Tri-Cycle (2 Pathway Tours/year) Target Your Future (7th or 8th) Pathway Tours (7th or 8th) Financial Literacy Fair (8th) Elementary School Awesome Uniforms Careers on Wheels Tools of the Trade Products & Processes High School Business Etiquette/Mock Interviews (9th) Career Fair/Day , i.e. STEM & Transition events Career Class Speakers/Tours

13. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations All stakeholder groups contribute to sustainability.

14. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Positive Return on Investment! 2011-2012 Data Points Job ShadowsInternships (What the students told us!) Connected HS & the world of work 76% 80% Impacted choice of high school classes 51% 58% Influenced selection of career field 82% 89% Helped select college major 72% 84% Built awareness of local career 87% 82% opportunities Positively influenced decision to live 67% 70% & work in Iowa The CONNECTION works!

15. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations 2011-2012 STEM Impact 115 Academic Internships 33 School Districts 879 Job Shadows 7 Counties Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Washington 314 Event Speakers or Tours Over 1300 Student STEM Connections

16. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations • STEM Products and Processes • The goal of “STEM Products and Processes” is to introduce students to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers by showing and demonstrating something that you DO, USE or MAKE within your work. • Here are a few suggestions to help you prepare for this event. • Please bring in a product or pieces/components of a process and as many hands-on tools • Ask students what they think the next steps are and then demonstrate,. • Discuss how team work, collaboration, time management, self direction and problem solving is used. • Talk about how a product is tested before it is sent to market. How does failure work into the process • Talking to children about your career and showing them the tools you use will plant a seed that will keep them motivated to do their best in school. • Keep your language simple – • When you are showing a piece of equipment to students, make sure all of the children can see. • Move around when speaking so the children can see you. • Set aside time for questions.  Allow time for the children to investigate and handle materials that are safe. • Emphasize your responsibility for being at work on a daily basis, being on time, doing your job well, and working cooperatively with others. • And of course, don’t forget to bring the product you’ve created. • We appreciate the time and effort you are making toward this event. Through your volunteer participation we can broaden the educational experience of these children and introduce them to new possibilities. Thank you!

17. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations • Prairie Creek 6th Grade STEM Day - April 19, 2013Schedule • Neighborhood 63 - 88 students - 8:15-9:25 (8:15-8:35; 8:40-9:00; 9:05-9:25) • Neighborhood 62 - 141 students – 10 -11:10 (10:00-10:20; 10:25-10:45; 10:50-11:10) • Neighborhood 61 - 143 students - 12:15-1:25 (12:15-12:35; 12:40-1:00; 1:05-1:25) • This speaker day required 22 speakers • Neighborhood 63 - 6 speakers - 14-15 students per group • Neighborhood 62 - 8 speakers - 17-18 students per group • Neighborhood 63 - 8 speakers - 17-18 students per group • Speakers stay in same room and students rotate within their small groups; • Speakers give same presentation back to back • Work closely with school contact to ensure adequate rooms, equipment and to ensure students are prepared with questions

18. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Tour Information for buses on April 16, 2013; Regis Middle School 8th Grade Tour Day, 133 students – 4 buses (CR Bus) BUS #2 – 32 STUDENTS TOTAL ON BUS#2 GROUP 1 GROUP 2 Engineering Engineering (22 students) (15 students) 9:30-10:15 TOUR GROUP 1: Hall and Hall Engineers, 1860 Boyson Road, Hiawatha Allen Witt, (319) 361-6303 Arrival Info: front door; ask for Allen 9:45-10:30 TOUR GROUP 2: OPN Architects, Inc., 200 5th Ave. SE, Suite 201 Joe Tursi, (319) 730-2925 Arrival Info: drop students at front door; enter building and door and stairs to OPN are on the left; ask for Joe  Pick up Group 1 at 10:15; pick up Group 2 at 10:30 Proceed to 2nd set of tours 10:45-11:30 TOUR GROUP 1: Red Star Yeast, 950 60th Avenue SW, CR 11:00-11:45 TOUR GROUP 2: Intermec, 550 2nd St. SE, CR 11:45 drive back to school

19. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations STEM for all Iowa children!

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21. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations • Launched in 2009 • Funded by NSF grant #DRL-1031784, Iowa Economic Development Authority, and investments by Iowa business partners • Over 150 teacher experiences, over 50 business partners • “When am I ever going to use this?” • Impact the teachers to inspire the students

22. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Goals • Real-world career information • Classroom relevance • Modernize the curriculum • Business-school partnerships. • Encourage students towards STEM related futures.

23. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Benefits • Businesses of Iowa • High level projects • Build STEM literacy community • Teachers of Iowa • What do students need to be STEM ready graduates? • The students of Iowa • Inspired teachers inspire students

24. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Real World Externships Timeline

25. Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations • Evaluation • 92% report improved teaching • 93% report can better prepare students • “Technology and problem-solving are so much a part of the modern world. This experience has allowed me to bring that kind of thinking back to the classroom.” • Cost savings on completed projects • Teacher and student benefit valuable to business • "[The externs] bring a fresh set of eyes to our business and can offer solutions we may not have even considered… They in turn get real life experiences they can take back to the classroom with real life examples that kids can relate to.” • Evaluating student impact Building STEM interest

26. √ Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Key Aspects to Healthy School-Business Partnerships…. √ Beneficial ways to go about establishing partnerships √ Keep the partnership momentum going √ Strategically manage relationships, territories, turf

27. √ Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations Great Reading Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century James W. Pellegrino and Margaret L. Hilton, Editors; Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills; Center for Education; Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council Where Are the STEM Students? What are their STEM Career Interests? Where are the STEM Jobs? STEM Connector.org Investing in America’s Future: A Blueprint for Transforming Career and Technical Education United States Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education April 2012

28. Thank you! Jeff Weld Mary Lou Erlacher Meghan Reynolds Weld@IowaSTEM.govMaryLou.Erlacher@kirkwood.eduMeghan.Reynolds@uni.edu Barb Tupper Barb.Tupper@kirkwood.edu Successful Paths to Hot Careers, Best Education & Perfect Jobs: Partnering with Business & Industry and Community Organizations

29. Time for Questions

30. Thanks Jeff, Mary Lou, Barb and Megan Thanks to the Minnesota Department of Education and Minnesota State Colleges & Universities NAPE and the NSF

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34. Certificate of CompletionComplete page 2 of the Evaluation Survey