1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.
Brad Neuenswander, Deputy Commissioner

2. IF I DIE-
I hope it’s during a closing keynote speech because the transition to death would be so subtle.

3. How Times Have Changed 2016 2006 Don’t get in strangers’ cars.
Don’t meet people from the internet.
2016
Literally summon strangers from the internet to get in their car.

4. Education is the only industry that waits for the government to tell them what to do. We are trying to break that culture.

5. Exploring the Educational Frontier
This is our moonshot.
-Dr. Randy Watson

6. Exploring the Educational Frontier
Progress is a nice word.
But Change is its motivator.
And Change has its enemies.
-Robert Kennedy

7. Kansas Community Conversations

9. Competency Wheel www.cccframework.org
© 2013 Amy Gaumer Erickson and Patricia Noonan

10. What Kansans want from their schools
Kansas children need quality preschool including all day kindergarten
Changes need to be made to address school culture
New dynamic roles for counselor and social workers
Collaboration between schools and businesses
Reorganize schools around students, not the system
Community service needs to play a bigger role
We also learned that Kansans believe
Every child needs access to quality preschool education
School culture needs to be addressed – we must value the student going to a two-year or certification program as much as a student attending a four-year institution.
Counselors need to be able to help students identify and explore career interests
Must be collaboration between schools and businesses to prepare students for postsecondary pursuits
Schools must be reorganized around the student, not the system to meet unique needs
Community service is an important part of preparing students for life after high school.

11. Research complied by ACT
In 1979, the average 30-year-old with a bachelor’s degree earned 17% more than a 30-year-old with a high school diploma.
By 2004, this gap had increased to 50% (Levy & Murnane, 2004), and…
Today it is well over 80% (Carnevale, Strohl, & Melton, 2014). 

15. Starting with a class of 350 HS Freshmen
In Kansas, ON AVERAGE…
304 will graduate HS 46 will not
196 will enroll in a 2- or 4-yr postsecondary institution
161 will complete 1 year of college and return the 2nd year, or have completed their certificate or degree
122 will complete a postsecondary degree or credential in 6 years 228 or 65% will fight for 8% of the jobs that earn a middle-class wage w/out some PS
With 71% of all jobs in Kansas requiring some college or above, what are the 68 students not completing a credential 6 years after HS going to do????
This is why career education/exploration is so important for K-12, it’s the only way to close this large gap
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18. Harvard, Stanford and the Carnegie Foundation

20. try to end factory model schools by using factory model strategies
We are deluding ourselves if we
try to end factory model schools
by using factory model strategies
for change.
- Andy Calkins

22. How Change Happens in Schools
286 School Districts
16%
47 Districts

23. How Change Happens in Schools

27. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.