Draft
An Education Summit for Wayne County’s Future
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 (7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.)
“Responsibilities exist in every community but rarely form effective networks. They come from all sectors and all backgrounds and are committed individually and collectively to furthering their purposes in the public arena with tough minded skill and effectiveness. They must find each other, learn to communicate, and find common ground. Only then can they function as the keepers of the long-term and common agenda.” John Gardner
7:00 p.m.Welcome and Opening
7:20Why should we be concerned about education? Vic Jose
What are our unique opportunities and challenges?
“The greatest challenge facing Richmond/Wayne County is to make a quantum leap in the expectation of employers, community leaders, and the population at large regarding the level of knowledge and skill necessary for all youth and adults to enter the workforce, be employed, pursue postsecondary education, or engage in lifelong learning.” NCHEMS Report May, 2001
7:45Smart Communities for the 21st CenturySuzanne Morse
”Communities need an everyday strategy that produces better decisions
and also builds a stronger sense of community for all who live there.”
Suzanne Morse, President, Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 (8:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.)
8:00 a.m. Continental breakfast
8:30Discussion and Reflections from Yesterday
8:40Wayne County’s Smart Communities Efforts
9:00The Leak Points – A Description & Clarification
9:30Move to Groups with a Break
9:45Leak Points – action, needs, and future ideas
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” Alvin Tofler
The audience will be divided into five mixed groups - one group per leak point. Given the three pieces of information discussed; local challenges, Morse’s leverage points, and clarified leak points, as a basis for the discussion; participants will report what they are doing to plug leak points; discuss what is not being done; and brainstorm what could be done but isn’t? Each group will report three or four stellar ideas and examples.
11:00 Entities work as groups to make their plans based on what they heard.
LunchWhat shall we call our effort? If we want to be known as the EducationCounty, what does that mean to you? What will it look like?
12:45Closing Challenge Aims McGuinness
1:30Announcements:
Six months from this date the participants will be invited to a report back meeting.
Aims McGuinness will join us to respond.
Each organization will be asked to share one idea they are going to do.
Each person will be asked to sign a banner pledging to work to make WayneCounty
the EducationCounty.