Possibility Thinking - creative imaginative vehicle to move from the way things currently are to making them the way they should be

Water filtration devices to provide something for students in need

Possibility Thinking and Creative Expression  

Creativity requires more than originality

Blend between originality and meeting task constraints

Don’t fixate on task constraints that all creativity disappear

Don’t try to be so original that you forget task constraints

Overplanned Learning Experience (Beghetto, WHAT IF?  ASCD)

Identify a challenge or ill defined problem that you’re wrestling with? 

Integration

Assumption flip - we can’t get parents engaged? 

Skills matter - critical thinking, problem solving, 

career counseling - how do we counsel our students

2 - Eliminate barriers to access - equity - boys/girls, low income, etc

3 - Transform teaching build confidence in teachers to deliver it - no learning is being created if you can answer all questions students ask

Build a network - connect students to internships 

College is a pathway to a great career

Have to give students candid advice about what the future holds for them

Be smart about following their passion - things that drive them but they have to have skills if someone will pay you for it

What skills do you have that will allow you to have a great career? 

Collaboration 

Rethink mission and connect students to that mission

Connect skills and passion - that’s why we have to make those connections now in K-12

Connecting math to everything and then help them to see that math and science are tools to solve problems

Gaps that Chevron sees - 1 - ensuring a diverse workforce - underrepresented minorities and girls

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Recruiters - give us an example of leadership, what challenges have you faced and how have you overcome them?  Skills for success - types of things they’re looking for

Chevron partners with schools

-Greatest unmet Need in current workforce- Lack of programming skills & being able to use data to tell a story

-Exposing students to different jobs that they might not even know exist

-What Facebook is looking for in interviews: Being open, moving fast, building social value, focus on impact (and how can you demonstrate it?)

-College degrees are not required for the creative class, but teaching them those characteristics gives them the advantage over other candidates.

-How to screen for "Creativity:" critical thinking and problem-solving. The rise of the "side hustle."  How you spend your free time is how you work through problems in your job.

-72andSunny Playbook- a guide for businesses to how they can partner with their school; available on their website for schools to use to develop partnerships with local businesses

-PBL & cross-curricular problem-solving is important to develop the characteristics that students need.

-Looking at how technology can interact with people to evolve processes

-Using AI to change the social good

-"Tell me about a time you used data to drive a decision."

Most important take-aways from panel members:
1) Collaboration, problem-solving, and grit
2) Figure out how to connect with different industries to figure out where they are headed and learn about the "creative class."
3) Embrace technology and the digital age; think about the intersection between automation and the human interaction

-Kali Linux- Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

-Hackzilla

-Compare teaching hacking to learning karate.  It’s about honor.

Grand master flash’s PD plan

Jobs in EdTech are moving teachers from the classroom and into the tech industry

Schools need to do a better job of retaining teachers with tech expertise

Factors that drive TECH teachers away from the classroom

But, really, it’s the paycheck.

Other major draws to leaving classroom

Median Teacher Salary: $47,000ish; Most CS jobs make double

Pathways teachers take to go to private sector

What can schools do to help teachers to stay?

They have a partnership with Chicago called Engineering Futures.