CEOs for Cities is pleased to announce a three-part fall webinar series designed specifically to meet the needs of cities participating in the Talent Dividend Network and Talent Dividend Prize Competition. This event, spread over the next three months and with generous in-kind support from the presenters will explore how geospatial mapping may be used to better inform metro strategy around college completion using Columbia, SC, McAllen, TX, and Lakeland, FL as examples, strategies around adult college completion, and a comprehensive review of the 2nd year benchmark reports from Joe Cortright. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to stay engaged with the TD Network!
Webinars will be held the first Friday of each month and will begin at 12pm EST.
Participants must register for each webinar separately.
Webinar #1:
October 4, 2013
12:00 pm EST
Presented by Peter Winograd and Amy Ballard, Center for Education Policy at University of New Mexico.
This webinar will focus on how cities can use data visualization and powerful maps to create a strong platform for advocacy by bringing diverse community groups together; identifying areas of need and gaps in resources; and documenting progress towards key goals in education and economic development. We will share real-world examples from three of the Talent Dividend cities and provide webinar participants with some ideas for using their own data more effectively to strengthen local initiatives.
Webinar #2:
November 1, 2013
12:00 pm EST
Presented by Patrick Lane, WICHE
Adult Learners: A Key Piece of the College Completion Puzzle
This webinar will focus on why reengaging adult learners (particularly those with some college credit but no degree) is such an important part of any metropolitan strategy to increase degree attainment. With demographic and workforce projections showing that the traditional education pipeline will not provide sufficient students to meet the future needs of employers, bringing back adults who have started but not finished a postsecondary credential is crucial. In addition to focusing on the need to serve these potential students, the webinar will also share promising strategies to develop collaborative relationships with other stakeholders to increase degree attainment.
Webinar #3:
December 6, 2013
12:00 pm EST
Presented by Joe Cortright, Economist, Impresa, Inc.,
Year 2 Talent Dividend Progress Reports
This webinar will present the year 2 talent dividend progress reports covering the 57 cities participating the the Talent Dividend Prize competition. The webinar will describe the data and methods used to count the number of degrees awarded in each metropolitan area, and the process for reviewing and approving this data. The webinar will describe the range of results for participating talent dividend cities. The year 2 process and methods will serve as the basis for the final determination of the Talent Dividend Prize winner in the fall of 2014.
Presenter Bios
PETER WINOGRAD currently serves as the Director of the Center for Education Policy (CEPR) at the University of New Mexico. CEPR’s mission is to conduct independent research on a wide range of education issues and to use that research to strengthen the efforts of policy makers, educators and citizens in meeting the challenges facing New Mexico.
Winograd has been deeply involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of New Mexico’s major education reform initiatives including early childhood care and education; statewide longitudinal education data systems; high school redesign and college readiness; and teacher and principal recruitment, preparation, retention, and evaluation. Dr. Winograd directed the Wallace Foundation Educational Leadership Grant from 2004 to 2008 and also directed the New Mexico Title II Teacher Quality Grant from 1999-2003. Since coming to New Mexico in 1996, Dr. Winograd has obtained and directed more than $17 million in grants aimed at improving student success; teacher and principal quality; and using data to inform policy.
Winograd’s previous experience includes serving as the Education Policy Advisor to Governor Richardson for two years and the Director of the New Mexico Office of Education Accountability (OEA) in the Department of Finance and Administration for six years. Dr. Winograd also served as the Director of The Center for Teacher Education & Educational Policy in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico; Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Kentucky; Director for the University of Kentucky Institute for Educational Research; and Co-Director for The University of Kentucky and University of Louisville Joint Center for the Study of Educational Policy.
AMY BALLARD is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Education Policy Research where she focuses on data visualization to support CEPR's wide range of projects in areas including early childhood education, community asset mapping, educational resource allocation and many others. She is particularly interested in the implications of geographic location as it relates to educational opportunities and outcomes. Her favorite reading includes software manuals and anything by Edward Tufte.
In addition to her professional pursuits, Ms. Ballard is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership program at the University of New Mexico, prompted by her leadership experience at Central New Mexico Community College as a Faculty Chair and Chair of the Faculty Chair Council. She intends to research the use of spatial and other data to enhance understanding of community educational needs in New Mexico. She has been a GIS practitioner for the last 20 years as an archaeologist, college instructor at Central New Mexico Community College and currently as an education researcher at the University of New Mexico. The organizations she works with have received 3 Esri Special Achievement in GIS awards in 2010, 2012 and 2013. She received the 2013 Red Chile Outstanding Service Award from the New Mexico Geographic Information Council. Amy has been an American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Certified Mapping Scientist in GIS/LIS since 2005 and also holds an Esri Professional Certification.
PATRICK LANE joined Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) in 2008 as a project coordinator. He is heavily involved in WICHE’s adult degree completion work. He coordinates the Adult College Completion Network and has worked extensively on WICHE’s Non-traditional No More: Policy Solutions for Adult Learners project. Both projects focus on indentifying policy and practice solutions to help adults with prior college credit return to postsecondary education to complete their degrees. He also coordinates WICHE’s College Access Challenge Grant Network—a collaborative learning network of western states working to increase the number of low-income students succeeding in postsecondary education. He came to WICHE having spent several years working in education policy in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, where he served as a special advisor to the secretary of education 2006-2008 and the field director for the WorldTeach program from 2003-2005. He received a master’s degree from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in 2007 and is currently pursuing a PhD in public administration at the University of Colorado Denver.
JOE CORTRIGHT is President and principal economist for Impresa, a Portland consulting firm specializing in regional economic analysis, innovation and industry clusters. Joe is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and senior policy advisor for CEOs for Cities, a national organization of urban leaders. He has served as an advisor to state and local governments, private businesses, foundations and advocacy groups in more than a dozen states, Canada and Europe.
Joe's work casts a light on the role of knowledge-based industries in shaping regional economies. Joe's latest report is City Vitals--a tool for benchmarking urban economic health--published by the national organization CEOs for Cities. Cortright is the author of three publications on industry clusters published by the Brookings Institution: Making Sense of Clusters (2006) -- a review of academic literature on industry agglomeration -- Signs of Life (2002) -- a benchmark analysis of the clustering of the U.S. biotechnology industry and High Tech Specialization (2001). Cortright has also written extensively on the migration of talented young workers among metropolitan areas in a series of studies entitled The Young and Restless for cities around the nation. His work is quoted regularly in the media, in publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times to The Economist, Business Week and USA Today.