Tech Skills Workforce Conference

June 15, 2021

8:00 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. - Opening Remarks & Keynote Speaker, Tom Murray

• Transforming Today, to Prepare Them for Tomorrow

  • Having no historical precedent, the current speed of technological breakthroughs has led to the coming age of workplace automation, dramatically altering the world of work that our students will enter upon graduation. With the vast disparities of inequity that have existed for centuries, all that is known about how students learn, and the predictions regarding the world that our students will face tomorrow, and the lessons learned throughout the pandemic, utilizing a traditional, one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is educational malpractice. Built upon the foundation of leadership and school culture, a redesigned learning experience fundamentally shifts the teaching and learning paradigm to one that is personal, while altering the use of how technology is leveraged, the spaces in which the learning occurs, how schools collaborate with the community, and ultimately, the sustainability of the system as a whole. In this keynote, Murray will highlight some of the puzzle pieces for redesigning the learning experience, to unlock tomorrow’s schools so that today’s modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems. We must create tomorrow’s schools today and you are part of the solution!

  • See Tom's website here.

10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Breakout Sessions - see grid below

June 16, 2021

8:00 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks & Business Panel

Panelists, their Career Strand, and their place of business Include:

• Kebby Simpson - Service Industry - Inspire Salon

• Jason Bakus - Food Industry - Pampered Palate

• Mark Fiely - Agriculture - Ernst Conservation & Seeds

• Matt McLamb - Banking - Northwest Bank

• Tom Swanberg - Manufacturing - Acutec

• Val Waid - Health Care - Nursing - Meadville Medical Center

• Lisa Bailey - Health Care/Service Industry - Home Instead Senior Care

9:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Breakout Sessions - see grid below

2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Tech Fashion Show

3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Next Steps & Evaluation

Action Plan Template - Please complete and share with your district contact.
Conneaut - Brenda Kantz, Crawford Central - Ann Noonen, PENNCREST - Patti Fiely
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