big picture & strategic goals
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Big Picture teamlist |
| FutureForce |
Talent Pipeline |
Think! Nebraska |
Career Connections |
PFI |
| Caleb Pollard |
Frank Comisar |
Marty Mahler |
Tim O'Brien |
Greg Smith |
| Rick Sheehy |
Linda Lichtenberg |
Pat Nauroth |
Donna Vrbka |
Ron Hanson |
| Marshall Hill |
Greg Christensen |
Jean Brown |
Maria Neesman |
Ted DeTurk |
| Jim Walsh |
Traci Hancock |
Tim Erickson |
Ken Mar |
Bill Eakins |
| Jeff Cole |
Larry Johnson |
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Randy Nelson |
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Strategic Goals teamlist |
| FutureForce |
Talent Pipeline |
Think! Nebraska |
Career Connections |
PFI |
| Jim Linderholm |
Bruce Rieker |
Daphne Hall |
Norm Ronnell |
Dean Folkers |
| Joe Rowson |
Bonnie Sibert |
Trish Souliere |
LeeAnn Vaughn |
Rozanne Murphy |
| Korinne Tande |
Dena Stevenson |
Tawanna Black |
Paulette Cook |
Erika Volker |
| Richard Schenck |
Elizabeth Mulkerrin |
Mary Hawkins |
Randy Vlasin |
Dennis Baack |
| Dennis Ellis |
Craig Frederick |
Jennifer Badura |
KC Belitz |
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Work Walls (click on a thumbnail below to open the larger version in a new window)
Partnership for Innovation
 
Career Connections
 
Talent Pipeline
 
Think! Nebraska
 
Future Force
 
  
Discussion
 MK: I’m interested in hearing about the story that you saw in this gallery walk.
- There are consistent themes
- It’s comforting to see that other people are on the same page
- The challenge is always how it becomes action
- Based on the number of post it notes there is still some clarity required
MK: Was there anything that stood out?
- The inclusion of the immigrant population
- Getting different generations to participate in the dialogue
- Got a sense of the enormity of the task
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MK: Any surprises or insights?
- I was unfamiliar with P16
MK: Anyone want to give a quick overview of P16?
It’s an initiative to look at pre-school through college. Randy and I spoke yesterday noticing the overlap. We’re not implementing any particular program but how to connect the dots and how to have the right conversations with the right people. We’re trying to make this happen.
Where does the funding come from to support the initiative?
There are three funding sources: money that comes from the governor’s office, University of Nebraska, Education for Quest, and Department of Education.
MK: Is it collaborative with Future Force?
Yes, to the extent that we’re here and we include Randy in our conversations. There is 90% overlap with the people who are in this room to the people who are on our steering committees. The difference is that we focus on education and not education and the work force. We’re trying to eliminate the duplication of effort between the two groups.
MK: Any other surprises?
As I work with Future Force after having worked with the GED, I see that there are people who can be successful in other than the traditional ways of school.
MK: Do you have any sense of scale of that?
- It’s definitely thousands.
- It’s 12 percent.
- Nebraska has an 80% graduation rate.
Our ELL programs have mushroomed in the last couple of years.
Since the 2000 census, the minority population has gone from 9% to 13%.
That’s something that the Think Nebraska program is designed to do. We maybe hit that topic but didn’t explain it well.
This is some of the issues some people have with the rigid format of the Think Nebraska program. We want to look at that during this session. We want to define scholarship.
It shows that we have to shift what our model looks like. So far it’s been departmentalized and everyone does their own thing. We have to work collaboratively to get to where we want to be.
School doesn’t look like it did and we have to accommodate that.
In shifting the model, we have to shift what this group looks like. I said this last year and will say it again and again until it changes.
I haven’t formed a solid opinion on this but it occurred to me that we might not have enough emphasis in accounting for the adult learner. With Future Force it directs you to the pipeline of younger people, but we do have a lot of people now who retool and are lifelong learners.
MK: Any other comments?
It seemed that at least for some of the goals, the pipelines thought they had ownership of a particular goal and that could be some cause for dialogue later. Maybe there are different aspects owned by each.
If you remember what it looked like last year to this year, you’ll see movement. There is less of a turf war attitude. We’re now on the positive proactive side.
After walking away from last year, I felt a 'can’t do' attitude. I haven’t seen that in this group at all.
MK: When you talk about education and business partnering, can you imagine removing the kids from the physical plant you call a school?
It’s already happening. The reality hasn’t been caught up in this group. How do we emulate these projects and programs?
Let’s raise your hand if you ever gone out to a school and talked about your business and had students come to your place of business. (several hands raised)
There is a tremendous number of people who have no clue of this.
We also need more than a show and tell effort. We need to have internships and apprenticeships. Bringing students in to look at a manufacturing plant is different than continued exposure and hands on work.
We need to see conversion of these efforts also to jobs for these kids.
We have students who are doing research and getting published. It’s a scary thing at first but you get them involved, have a mentor and let them really participate.
I’d like to see all of our high school be incubators for economic development. How do we use the cafeterias and shop classes after their being used for lunch and regular classes?
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