1. Active Commercialization and What It Means for Education Cliff Zintgraff President, Innology LLC Century Live ! 21 st

2. Context – Innology LLC Raising Talent, Technology & Entrepreneurs SM Technology Commercialization K12 Workforce

3. Raising Talent, Technology & Entrepreneurs SM Technology Commercialization K12 Workforce Context – Innology LLC

4. The Workforce Ecosystem Two-Year Colleges Four-Year Colleges Graduate Programs Summer Programs After School Programs Assessment Services Articulation Agreements Policy High Schools Middle Schools Magnet Schools Academies Cities Counties States Economic Developers Workforce Boards INDUSTRY

5. Pressures on the Workforce Ecosystem More Indian college graduates than U.S. high school graduates More English speakers in China than in the U.S. “This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education … whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, (and) distinguish good information from bad …” Time Magazine, December 2006 Quoting the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce Houston Community College organizing to graduate 500 bio- technicians Houston stands up Robotics Education Support Center Arlington organizing to recover manufacturing base with state grants San Antonio Greater Chamber Survey indicates corporations hire IT graduates from outside San Antonio GLOBAL WARMING – WORKFORCE AND EDUCATION VERSION “This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education … whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, (and) distinguish good information from bad …” Time Magazine, December 2006 Quoting the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

6. 21 st Century Jobs SECONDARY SCHOOLS SAY Is this what you needed? HIGHER ED SAYS I’m not sure we’re so well aligned! INDUSTRY SAYS I’ve been telling you guys we need teamwork skills!

7. 21 st Century Jobs We’re All In This Together!

8. “The best employers the world over will be looking for the most competent, most creative and most innovative people on the face of the earth … not just for the top professionals and managers, but up and down the length and breadth of the workforce.” Tough Choices or Tough Times Written by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce

9. We are going to talk about … The “Portugal” project Commercialization  The “OK” kind  The really good kind What it means for education What it means

10. University Technology Enterprise Network

11. Your Impressions of Portugal?

21. Nice Kitty

22. Only European country where the growth of creative jobs was negative for the period 1995-2000.

23. Creative Occupations as % of total employment: 13%

24. Current state is not good, BUT growth is promising …

25. SUMMARY: They don’t want to be left behind.

26. Partnership 1.Ministry of Science and Technology 2.15 Portuguese universities 3.Technology transfer office 4.Incubators and science parks 5.Large Portuguese companies 6.Corporate innovation leaders 7.UT Austin, IC 2 Institute 8.Who’s missing?

27. UTEN Goals 1.Identify promising technologies in universities, science parks, companies 2.Help commercialize those technologies 3.Transfer best practices to sustain progress after we leave.

28. Strategy Did you find a place to land yet? ARGH! Google Maps is down!!

29. Portuguese Partners and IC 2 Institute 1 PILOT Test & adapt for Portugal 2 Full scale execution with National Competitions UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do”

30. Readiness Assessment Where YOU think you are Screen Where WE think you are MarketLook Where the MARKET thinks you are Integrated Portfolio & History

31. UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do” 42 Identified Screening 12 (5-8 hour process each) MarketLooks on ~3 (40 hour process each) Potential wins are: IP assistance Development partners R&D collaborations Sales, direct and channel U.S. corporate presence – “soft landing” ATI connection or admittance Six established companies with products or services Two early stage companies Four university IP for license or venture formations One Energy One Bio Two Medical Three Microelectronics One Nano One Packaging Two Software One Telecom

32. UTEN Pilot Phase – “Think & Do” OK, this is great, but what’s it really like to do this work?

33. Commercialization 101 LAB! 1.Three investors have C$100,000 total. 2.You have two Portuguese technologies. 3.5 minutes – choose one. 4.15 minutes – analyze commercialization potential. 5.Seek out experts. 6.Deliver elevator pitch.

34. C$4000 : US$1

35. Questions 1.How much did you know about commercialization before the lab? 2.After the lab?

36. What TECHNICAL skills were needed? 1.abc 2.xyz 3.…

37. What OTHER skills were needed? 1.abc 2.xyz 3.…

38. If you were the Czar of Education, how would you teach these things? 1.abc 2.xyz 3.…

39. Things we could talk about (but won’t) 1.Closing the achievement gaps 2.The value of standardized testing 3.The challenges of standardized testing 4.Data-driven strategy 5.Curriculum alignment 6.Building broad partnerships 7.Classroom management!

40. Huge questions we could ask (but won’t) 1.How much can we change inside out? 2.Outside in? 3.Will it take more money? (SUGGESTED READING: Tough Choices or Tough Times, www.skillscommission.org)www.skillscommission.org

41. Innovation – Full Circle In the early 1900s, we learned better than anyone in the world how to vertically integrate a task. Now we have learned better than anyone in the world how to vertically DISintegrate a task.

42. The Goal Tough Choices or Tough Times, www.skillscommission.orgwww.skillscommission.org

43. WHO do we need? 1.abc 2.xyz 3.…

44. WHO do we need? 1.Scientists 2.Engineers 3.Writers 4.Artists 5.Business people 6.Who understand each other

45. WHAT do we need? 1.abc 2.xyz 3.…

46. WHAT do we need? 1.Research skills 2.Communication skills 3.Critical thinking skills 4.Information synthesis ability 5.Entrepreneurial spirit

47. HOW we get there 1.Rigor  We must match the world’s rigor in math and science 2.Relevance  For students  For actual jobs 3.Reading and math in context  We are out of alignment 4.Exploratory learning 5.Working in teams

48. 1.Awareness 2.Comprehension 3.Application 4.Analysis 5.Synthesis 6.Evaluation Knowledge Taxonomy Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett

49. Application Model Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett 1. Knowledge in one discipline 2. Application within discipline 3. Application across disciplines 4. Application to real-world predictable situations 5. Application to real-world unpredictable situations

50. Rigor & Relevance in a Nutshell Courtesy: Dr. Bill Daggett

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53. Exploratory and Team-Based Learning funded by the Texas Workforce Commission …

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64. Texas Institute for Educational Robotics 1.Robot summer camps 2.Connected on the front and back end with local career pipelines 3.Exportable model 4.Whyville Robotics / Whyville and GetThereTexas integration

65. Texas Institute for Educational Robotics

68. Ultimate Influences

69. “swift and seismic … three years of effective teaching result(s) in a 35% to 50% gain for students, especially those who are low-achieving … translate(s) to all we hold dear: lower dropout rates, higher proportion of low income students graduating from college …” EDUCATION WEEK COMMENTARY The Gift of Bleak Research How the Pianta classroom study can help schools improve immediately. By Mike Schmoker & Richard Allington Ultimate Influences

70. Work within the System. Help build a new one. Ultimate Influences

71. Active Commercialization and What It Means for Education Century Live ! 21 st Cliff Zintgraff President, Innology LLC

72. Analysis Summary Promising position to achieve enhanced innovation and economic competitiveness … … through the creation of wealth and jobs Make more efficient use of the country’s talent, science, and technology base Industry, academia, and government (must) more effectively collaborate (More) effectively link to global market opportunities.