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Great Lakes Bay Region IV Collaboration
Prosperity Region 5
GLBBECN
What makes collaboration possible?
• RELATIONSHIPS and TRUST• Timing• Prosperity Regions
Why collaborate?
• We want to be THE education thought leaders in the region
• Five brilliant minds
• Leverage Resources
Collaboration…Who are we?• 1. Wayne RESA 274,971 students• 2. Oakland Schools 186,249 students• 3. Macomb ISD 133,842 students• 4. Kent ISD 107,301 students• 5. GLB Collaborative 78,364 students
• Bay-Arenac ISD 16,894• Clare-Gladwin RESD 7,353• Gratiot-Isabella RESD 13,271• Midland County ESA 12,259• Saginaw ISD 28,587
• Source: 2014-2015 from mischooldata.org
Challenges…
• Work together, but retain our identities
• Leverage resources to benefit students
• Time
• Structural Differences
Current ISD Collaboration
• Regional Preschool Partnership– Gratiot-Isabella RESD, Midland ESA, Saginaw ISD
• GLB Instructional Services Consortium– BAISD, CGRESA, GIRESD, MCESA, SISD
• Technology Services– Saginaw ISD and Midland County ESA
• Pupil Accounting• Data Specialist – Gratiot-Isabella RESD and Midland County ESA
Our Latest Project
• STEM– Great Lakes Bay Regional Alliance Education
Committee
– The Dow Chemical Company Sponsorship• $500,000 STEM study commissioned
– Create a STEM-Talent Pipeline
STEM Talent Pipeline Requirements
• Define STEM skills and competencies and communicate demand needs to education providers
– Specify needed technical and workplace skills and competencies for high-demand positions
– Forecast and aggregate short term employer demand
STEM Talent Pipeline Requirements
• Improve technical training and workforce programs so graduates meet or exceed employer requirements
– Align programming and curriculum with employer requirements
– Scale STEM experiential learning opportunities
STEM Talent Pipeline Requirements
• Enable and empower students to pursue STEM careers
– Improve 5th – 8th grade math achievement– Supplement K – 12 curriculum with STEM-aligned
programming– Enhance out-of-classroom STEM experiential
learning
STEM Talent Pipeline Requirements
• Increase job seeker and student interest in STEM careers
– Change perceptions and increase interest in STEM
– Eliminate barriers and incentivize students and job seekers to pursue STEM careers
Collaborative network - a network consisting of a variety of entities that are largely autonomous, geographically distributed, and heterogeneous in operating environment, culture, social capital and goals, but that collaborate to better achieve common or compatible outcome
The Great Lakes Bay Business and Education Collaborative Network is a coalition of businesses and educational institutions working together with the community to create a regionally networked educational system that provides:
– every student with the educational opportunities that will ensure them a successful future and
– businesses with the workforce of the future
Create ValueFocused Purpose
Facilitate Connections
Balance Interests
Innovation
Bay Arenac ISD
• Career Center– Bay and Arenac Counties– Saginaw– Midland
Clare-Gladwin RESD
Gratiot-Isabella RESD
• Millage – ability to invest• Mount Pleasant Tech Center• Relationship with Central Michigan
Manufacturers Association• Jan Amsterburg
Midland County ESA• Countywide System
– Collaboration– Consortium– Career Development
• Programmatic Innovation through Partnerships– GMCA Partnership
• Skilled Trades Programming• Camps
– Coleman Agriscience• Linkage to Workforce
– WIOA– Career Fairs– Scale WBL
Saginaw ISD• Kids to Bay-Arenac ISDs Career Center• Saginaw Career Center (run by Saginaw Public Schools)• Learn to Earn collaboration with GMCA• Hartley Outdoor Education Center• Great Lakes Bay Early College• Head Start/Early Head Start• Millet Learning Center• Transitions Postsecondary Programs• Recognized School to Work Program• College Access Advisors
It has already begun
• Prosperity Region 5• Presentation at Governor’s Conference– Award
• STEM Impact Initiative• Career Cruising – Career Development Initiative • Sharing Students– MCESA – CGRESD– Saginaw – BAISD– Midland - BAISD
• GLB STEM Strong Grant Proposal
STEM Strong Proposal
• Increase math and science achievement• Strengthen math literacy birth to 5• Improve elementary teacher science and math
knowledge and pedagogy• Improve access to career information• Data-based decisions• Connect classroom and industry through
teacher internship programs
East Central Michigan Prosperity Region (Region 5)(Arenac, Bay, Clare, Gladwin, Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, and Saginaw)
Focus• Students• Collaborative Network• Regional Hubs of Excellence– GMCA– Merrill Institute– Delta College– Mid-Michigan Community College– Central Michigan University– Saginaw Valley State University
• Transportation
Key Success Factors
• A compelling set of goals or principles that make the case for collaboration
• High-level sponsorship and a long-term commitment
• Identification and utilization of regional networks
• Structure that articulates clear and achievable objectives and includes measurable standards
• An organization with the mission, staff and resources to implement and sustain the effort
Strategic FocusStrategic Stakeholder
Great Lakes Bay Business and Education Collaborative Network
Students • Address why we are ‘turning kids off’ to school by providing passion enabling activities and experiences
• Provide career exploration and development opportunities and align a regional CTE system• Connect Early Childhood, K-12 and Postsecondary through collaboration to create a seamless
‘system’
Teachers • Support professional development through collaboration with the GLB Instructional Consortium to teachers across the region including Hands on and PBL PD
• Support teacher externships in businesses• Enhance the professional image of teachers through meaningful partnerships and professional
experiences
Businesses • Align and reinvent the CTE system regionally • Leverage CEPD Directors Network to align K-12 with postsecondary systems• Increase the number of industry certifications provided through the CTE system• Provide a more dynamic and responsive CTE system for the region that is demand driven
Community • Provide a forum for businesses to impact the direction of the educational system at a regional and local level
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between business and education across the region