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- GradNation Community Summits Business Engagement Toolkit Guide Content Introduction
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- Research, Resources, and Tools The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Center for Education and Workforce
- The Business Roundtable: Education Workforce Committee
- Managing the Talent Pipeline: A New Approach to Closing the Skills Gap
- Taking Action on Education and Workforce Preparedness
- Best in Class: How Top Corporations Can Help Transform Public Education
- Education and Corporate Philanthropy: Focus Funding for Maximum Impact
- Employers and U.S. Public Education: Facilitating an Open Discussion about the Role of Business in U.S. Public Schools
- Investing in the Future: The Importance of Cross-Sector Partnerships in Improving Workforce Readiness
- Partnership Is a Two-Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform
- Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Additional Alliance Partners
- Multi-Media and Suggested Reading Taking Action on Education and Workforce Preparedness
GradNation Community Summits Business Engagement Toolkit Guide Content Introduction Research, Resources, and Tools Speaker Recommendations Additional Alliance Partners Youth Engagement Multi-Media and Suggested Reading Introduction Today more than ever, businesses need employees who are well prepared to succeed in the labor market. However, the current workforce pipeline is not sufficient— not for businesses that need well-prepared employees, not for young people who need good jobs, and not for the nation that needs a growing economy. Recognizing that they have vital interests at stake, business organizations are becoming more outspoken champions of effective investments in children. America’s Promise’s Five Promises offer businesses a wide range of opportunities to invest in any stage of a child’s life, creating long term well-being for kids, their own business, the larger business community, and the economy. Research, Resources, and Tools The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Center for Education and Workforce The Center for Education and Workforce, through its research, programs, and policy on education and skills training, mobilizes the business community to be more engaged partners, challenge the status quo, and connect education and workforce reforms to economic development. Find more resources here: http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/center-education-and-workforce
As business leaders representing every sector of the economy, Business Roundtable members understand that America needs a world-class, skilled workforce to lead in global innovation, ensure future economic growth and drive job creation. We are committed to ensuring all students and workers are prepared to work and ready to succeed. Get more resources here: http://businessroundtable.org/issues/education-workforce/committee
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF) is engaging employers and their partners across the country in developing a new demand-driven approach—talent pipeline management—to close the skills gap. Through extending lessons learned from innovations in supply chain management, this is a call for employers to play a new and expanded leadership role as “end-customers” of education and workforce partnerships. This white paper begins by examining the challenge and need for a “demand-driven” system. From there, it introduces supply chain management and explores key lessons that inform how employers can improve their partnerships with education and workforce providers. Next, the paper identifies three foundational principles for a new talent pipeline management system and concludes by highlighting implications for key stakeholders, including employers, education and workforce providers, students and workers, and policymakers. http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/managing-talent-pipeline-0
Taking Action on Education and Workforce Preparedness from The Business Roundtable presents a practical, forward-leaning plan to equip the U.S. workforce with the skills needed to compete and succeed in the 21st century. The report draws on interviews with more than 30 recognized experts in the fields of education and workforce development regarding what policymakers, business executives, school administrators, teachers, parents and other key stakeholders can do to ensure that all Americans are ready to work and prepared to succeed. http://businessroundtable.org/resources/taking-action-on-education-workforce-preparedness
Is there a “best” way to channel corporate engagement on education? To answer this question, Ernst & Young retained FSG Social Impact Advisors to explore the landscape of corporate philanthropy in education and to help companies find an appropriate place to begin or expand their efforts. The research is based on interviews with over two dozen corporate philanthropy professionals and education experts, as well as an extensive analysis of the existing literature on education reform. Executives from leading companies have shared valuable lessons that are relevant to companies that want to be more involved in education improvement and those that are just starting out. This white paper also provides practical recommendations for how corporations can repeat the successes and avoid the pitfalls of past corporate initiatives in education. The paper also suggests how corporations can move beyond traditional philanthropy to achieve more lasting changes in education. https://www.fsg.org/publications/best-class
This discussion guide from The Conference Board’s Business and Education Council is designed to help employers communicate their current involvement in education programs and reform initiatives as well as to help employees become educated consumers of— and perhaps volunteers for— education. This guide does not advocate for specific solutions or educational reforms. It is intended to help employers identify and foster the unique resources that they and their stakeholders, both individually and collectively, can bring to the widely acknowledged imperative of improving education in America. http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=1904
With talent gaps looming in the future, businesses have a strong incentive to focus on workforce readiness. Education and its impact on the workforce of the future are evolving into a major issue for companies today. But how can business effectively address the challenge? This report from The Conference Board seeks to identify a framework for cross-sector partnerships in improving workforce readiness. http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=1426
American K–12 schooling is in need of transformative improvement, and business can play a valuable role in retooling school systems for the new century. Business can provide the leverage, expertise, and leadership that will help educators and public officials make tough decisions and take hard steps they may not take on their own. This report, written by Frederick Hess and Whitney Downs of the American Enterprise Institute, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber, presents that business leaders in communities across America recognize that K-12 schooling can and must do better and details that they must engage with school systems to develop transformational change. http://www.uschamberfoundation.org/publication/partnership-two-way-street-what-it-takes-business-help-drive-school-reform
Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their activities. Myriad organizations rank companies on the performance of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), and although these rankings sometimes have questionable methodologies, they attract considerable publicity. As a result, CSR has emerged as an inescapable priority for business leaders in every country. Many companies have already done much to improve the social and environmental consequences of their activities, but these efforts have not been nearly as productive as they could be for two reasons. First, they pit business against society, when clearly the two are interdependent. Second, they pressure companies to think of corporate social responsibility in generic ways instead of in the most appropriate way to each firm’s strategy. In this article published in the Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer propose a new way to look at the relationship between business and society that does not treat corporate success and social welfare as a zero-sum game. The writers introduce a framework that companies can use to identify the positive and negative effects that they have on society, to determine which ones to address, and to suggest effective ways to do so. http://hbr.org/2006/12/strategy-and-society-the-link-between-competitive-advantage-and-corporate-social-responsibility/ar/1 Speaker recommendations Below is a sampling of speaker recommendations for this topic. In a few cases, the contact information is included for a speaker. If you would like to find out more about a specific speaker or discuss additional speaker options, please contact your Summit Manager. Michael Cohen, a nationally-recognized leader in education policy and standards-based reform, became president of Achieve, Inc. in 2003. He has held several key roles in education during the past 20+ years, including Director of Education Policy at the National Governors Association (1985-90) and Director of Planning and Policy Development at the National Association of State Boards of Education (1983-1985). During the Clinton Administration he served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Special Assistant to President Clinton for Education Policy, and Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley. Achieve is an independent, bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization based in Washington, DC that helps states raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments and strengthen accountability so all students graduate high school ready for college, work and citizenship. Under Michael Cohen’s leadership, Achieve launched the American Diploma Project Network, formed the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)— one of two multi-state consortia developing common assessments— and helped develop the Common Core State Standards. Contact Information: Michael Cohen, Achieve, Inc., 1400 16th St., NW Suite 510, Washington, DC 20036 or 202.419.1540 Dane Linn, is a vice president for the Business Roundtable. In this role, he oversees the Education and Workforce Committee, advancing the BRT’s positions on education reform, U.S. innovation capacity and workforce preparedness. Linn joined the BRT after most recently serving as the executive director of state policy for The College Board. Prior to The College Board, Linn served as Director of the Educational Policy Division of the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices. During his 16 years in this role, Linn represented governors’ education policy issues at the federal level and to state and local associations. He also co-led the development of the Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by 46 states. In addition, Linn has led national efforts to ensure more students are college- and career-ready and worked on issues related to STEM, early childhood, Perkins and the Workforce Investment Act, and high school redesign. Before joining the NGA, Linn worked for 14 years in the education system as Coordinator of the Offfice of Special Education Programs for the West Virginia Department of Education, Principal of Guyan Valley Elementary School in West Virginia, and teacher and later the Assistant Principal at Matheny Grade School also in West Virginia. Contact Information: Dane Linn, Business Roundtable, 300 New Jersey Avenue NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20001 or 202.872.1260 Linda M. Noonan is the executive director of the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education (MBAE), where she is responsible for advancing MBAE’s mission to ensure a high quality public education that will prepare very child in Massachusetts for success in college, career and citizenship. Previously, Linda served as executive director of The Alliance for the Commonwealth, a nonpartisan research and educational foundation established by Associated Industries of Massachusetts to help companies increase their global competitiveness in order to create and maintain jobs locally. Linda has also held positions as State Director for the National Federation of Independent Business; as Assistant Secretary of Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a policy analyst at the U.S. Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her civic and volunteer activities include serving on the Westwood School Committee and the town’s Permanent Building Committee. Contact Information: Linda Noonan, Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, 400 Atlantic Avenue, Boston MA 02110 or 617.737.3122. Cheryl A. Oldham is vice president of education policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is also vice president of the education and workforce program of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. Through events, publications, and policy initiatives – and drawing upon the Chamber’s extensive network of members – the education and workforce program connects the best minds in American business with the most innovative thinkers in education and training, helping them work together to preserve the strength of America’s greatest economic resource, its workforce. Oldham has 20 years of experience in public policy development and implementation as well as in project management and government relations. Her previous experience includes serving for 8 years in President George W. Bush’s administration. In July 2008, the president designated Oldham as acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education while also serving as chief of staff to the under secretary of education. As chief of staff, Oldham was the senior adviser on policy and strategy and oversaw the coordination of the programs and policies for which the office was responsible. These included vocational and adult education, postsecondary education, and federal student aid. Contact Information: Cheryl Oldham, USCCF, Education and Workforce, 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20062 or 202.463.5525 Joyce Walters, founder, Corporate Education Strategies. Joyce has over twenty years of hands-on experience developing and implementing business and education partnerships at the national, state and local levels. She spent 25 years with The Boeing Company developing business education partnerships that began with local outreach, involving the early learning community as well as K-12. In her final five years with Boeing, Joyce acted as the company’s director of education and workforce initiatives, a position that broadened her scope to national and international levels. Joyce also chaired The Conference Board’s Business and Education Council from 2009 – 2012, a powerful global source of economic and business knowledge aimed exclusively at improving society. Joyce continues to serve as a member of the United Way Worldwide Education Cabinet and on Wolf Trap’s Early Childhood STEM Learning through the Arts advisory committee. Contact Information: Joyce Walters, Corporate Education Strategies, 14201 SE Petrovitsky Rd, Suite A3-360, Renton, WA 98058 or 206.779.7995 Additional Alliance Partners Included below are the names and websites for Alliance Partners who work in this area or may have a resource or tool that was not included in a previous section. If you are interested in learning more about the work of any of these partners, please take a look at their website and then contact your Summit Manager at America’s Promise, who can help facilitate a connection. Achieve, Inc. - www.achieve.org Business Roundtable - www.businessroundtable.org U.S. Chamber of Commerce - http://www.uschamber.com United Way Worldwide - www.unitedway.org
Youth Engagement In this section, you will find a tip for how to engage young people in your GradNation Community Summit. Making young people part of the conversation and including them in the agenda is a strategy that America’s Promise encourages you to utilize. Tip: Have a student or two interview business attendees on why they care about the education and futures of young people. Multi-Media and Suggested Reading Taking Action on Education and Workforce Preparedness Taking Action on Education and Workforce Preparedness from The Business Roundtable presents a practical, forward-leaning plan to equip the U.S. workforce with the skills needed to compete and succeed in the 21st century. The report draws on interviews with more than 30 recognized experts in the fields of education and workforce development regarding what policymakers, business executives, school administrators, teachers, parents and other key stakeholders can do to ensure that all Americans are ready to work and prepared to succeed. http://businessroundtable.org/resources/taking-action-on-education-workforce-preparedness Additional multimedia can be found at: http://businessroundtable.org/issues/education-workforce and https://www.uschamber.com/education. Additional reading can be found in Section 2. Directory: sites -> default -> files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations files -> Nstructions for Acquiring Excess Equipment online, through the 1033 Program files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status Download 222.79 Kb. Share with your friends:
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