Learn Deep Milwaukee

How do you engage community partners to create authentic experiences for your students?

Join us on December 15th for a conversation to share ideas and experiences on the effective engagement partners in the wider community. This workshop is an opportunity for you to learn what others are doing, and share what you’ve been working on, have seen working well elsewhere, or would like to try. More importantly, we’ll connect you with others on a similar path and those may be of help along the way.

Among others, you’ll get a chance to talk with:

Jay Flores – Rockwell Automation, Global STEM Ambassador
Focused on further diversifying and strengthening the technical talent pipeline through STEM education and outreach; engaging Rockwell Automation employees through volunteerism in STEM advocacy; and developing continuity in the STEM talent pipeline from high school to post-secondary education to early career.

Tom Hermann & Stacey Duchrow – Union Grove High School
Tom Herman is the principal of Union Grove Union High School and Stacey Duchrow is the Career and Academies Coordinator. Both have created deep relationships with business partners after being charged by the school board to create academies and pathways for students in IT, Healthcare, and Engineering/Manufacturing. Through this process and listening to the needs of the business community, the school culture was changed to shift the focus on increasing student college and career readiness while helping to fill in the skills gap in their community. They have created unique experiences utilizing their 100 business partners such as the Bronco Business and Career Expo, teacher externships, and business partners breakfasts.

Sylvia N. Wilson – MKEGrind
Sylvia N. Wilson, PhD is the CEO and Co-founder of MKEGrind, a youth-focused career development company. She is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in the School of Education; regularly teaching courses in leadership, organizational change, non-profit management, adult education theory & practice, and youth-service work. Being rooted in both the community and academia, Sylvia believes that it is her duty to build and to be a bridge between the two; assisting in the creation of critically sound and contextually effective programming practices. Her research includes inquiry of life transformative processes; from which she developed a model for urban African American males who desire to transform out of a life of street violence.

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 Grab something eat and drink, say hello

6:00 – 8:30 Let’s learn from each other

Food and beverage will be provided. There is no charge for participation but space is limited.

The Workshop will be held at Ward 4, 333 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Space provided courtesy of The Commons.

How do you create room (space, time, autonomy) to innovate within your school?

Join us on November 10th for a conversation to share ideas and experiences with others looking for ways to innovate within their school. This workshop is an opportunity for you to learn what others are doing, and share what you’ve been working on, have seen working well elsewhere, or would like to try. More importantly, we’ll connect you with others on a similar path and those may be of help along the way.

Among others, you’ll get a chance to talk with:

JJ Heesch – Pewaukee High School
JJ is the Director of Pewaukee’s Insight program — a cross disciplinary program that gives students hands-on, real world experiences immersed in a professional setting. The program started as an experiment within JJ’s Business Management class and now offers three separate strands which students may focus: Global Business, Innovation, and Pathways to Teaching. They are also planning to launch two additional strands next school year: Healthcare and Journalism.

Mike Kornacki – User Experience Director at Johnson Controls

Mike is a user experience leader who has successfully built User Experience (UX)/design teams from the ground up in three separate companies. He defined the UX discipline for Johnson Controls, building a culture that nurtures creativity and a user-centered approach in engineering-centric company–no small feat. In 2010, Mike co-founded mkeUX to get the user experience conversation going in Milwaukee. They now have 450+ members and have hosted presentations from local and national UX professionals.

Jump to minute 19:00 to hear Mike’s advice on how to make room for innovation:

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00 Grab something eat and drink, say hello
6:00 – 8:30 Let’s learn from each other

Food and beverage will be provided. There is no charge for participation but space is limited.

The Workshop will be held at Ward 4, 333 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Space provided courtesy of The Commons

How and why could a Maker Space or FabLab benefit your student?

Join us for a conversation to share ideas and experiences with others on the same journey. This workshop is an opportunity for you to learn what others are doing, and share what you’ve been working on, have seen working well elsewhere, or would like to try. More importantly, we’ll connect you with others on a similar path and those may be of help along the way.

Among others, you’ll get a chance to talk with:

Adam Pautsch – GE Healthcare
Adam was the founder of, and currently manages, the GE Healthcare Makerspace, a lab for conceptual development and prototyping which tests new technologies and ideas to add value and innovation to products. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UW-Madison, with a minor in Medical Physics.

Tuan Tran – Design Fugitives
Tuan has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee. He brings a high level of design experience and project management expertise to DF. In addition to design activities, Tuan is the in-house expert on Digital Fabrication, Parametric Modeling and manages New Product Development.

Erik Wolbach – South Milwaukee High School
South Milwaukee High School is researching a new Fabrication Lab as an extension of their existing shop facilities. They have new partners in architecture, aquaponics, and urban agriculture. Students have created a scale model of their existing space and are researching a building expansion to house a new green energy fab lab is ongoing.

Program

5:30 – 6:00 Grab something eat and drink, say hello
6:00 – 8:00 Let’s learn from each other

Food and beverage will be provided. There is no charge for participation but space is limited.

The Workshop will be held at Ward 4, 333 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Space provided courtesy of The Commons.

These workshops present a hands-on opportunity for you to experience the use of Design Thinking and the Business Model Canvas. We’ll explore how to apply these approaches to the education environment. We’ll discuss underlying concepts, the process for using it effectively, as well as review some derivative versions developed for organization with a social mission. Equally important, we’ll connect you with others who have a similar interest in exploring concepts and tools to innovate differently.

Finally, the process we’ll work through is designed to draw out feedback on how well this could work in Milwaukee area schools and modifications to make it even more effective.

Session 1

Tuesday July 26, 2016
9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Session 2

Thursday, July 28, 2016
9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Both sessions will be held in the Ward 4 Innovation Space, located at 333 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Light snacks and beverage will be provided.
There is no charge for participation but space is limited.

Space for the Canvas Workshops provided courtesy of

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We’re gathering educators from Milwaukee area schools and organizations that are breaking new ground in how they develop 21st century skills in their students. The first of these hands-on workshops are an opportunity for you to learn what others are doing, and share what you’ve been working on, have seen working well elsewhere, or would like to try. More importantly, we’ll connect you with others on a similar path.

The process we’ll work through is designed to draw out common goals and opportunities for collaboration across schools and organizations to help reach them.

Session 1: K-12 Teachers; Program Staff

Tuesday August, 9 2016
5:00 to 8:00 PM

5:00 – Say hello, grab something to eat.
5:30 – Let’s get to work!

Session 2: K-12 School, District, and Program Leadership

Thursday August 11, 2016
5:00 to 8:00 PM

5:00 – Say hello, grab something to eat.
5:30 – Let’s get to work!

Both Workshops will be held in the innovation space at Ward 4, 333 North Plankinton Avenue, Milwaukee, WI. Food and beverage will be provided. There is no charge for participation but space is limited.

Space for the Collab Labs provided courtesy of