STRIVESANJOSE.ORG
STRIVE SAN JOSE ANNUALÂ REPORT THE SVO FOUNDATION
2017
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CONTENT OUTLINE
Introduction Our Partners Our Work Member Stories Acknowledgements
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For two years, I spent every school day trying to get my students to like math. Actually, that’s an overstatement. I tried to get those high schoolers in my classroom not to hate math, not to be terrified of it. Not to feel like math was a personal affront to their worth as human beings. Not to walk in from the hallway where they were smiling and laughing only to have their expressions morph into frowns as they sank into their chairs. The cheerful posters with math puns and colorful 3D shapes hanging down from the ceiling did not have the intended effect. At the time, I didn’t realize that down the linoleum hallway the students that grimaced in my class came alive in someone else’s. One half of D hall was the domain of the math teachers. The other half was home to career technical education, known in the education world as CTE. In these classes, students did math all the time. They created business plans and pojected costs and revenue. They performed measurements, calculated ratios as they sketched out fashion designs they would then translate to scale when they made them. They handled logic and employed mathematical thinking as they learned the basics of computer science. But not in my class. In my class it was always a struggle to overcome my students’ deeply held belief that they were just not math people. That math wasn’t important, would never be used in “real life” and even if it were, they could never figure out how to do it. I wish I knew back then what I know now: education that is applied, that is linked to how we use that knowledge to solve real-world problems, is far more successful at enabling students to achieve in math and science.
-Kelly Peaton, Director of Education & Workforce Development
TEAM Derrick Seaver, Executive VP Kelly Peaton, Dir. of Education & Workforce Development School-Business Liaisons: Eddie Truong, ESUHSD Cat Uong, SJUSD Tonette Slaviero, CUHSD Donna Gilmour, MetroED
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 In Silicon Valley, we do things differently. Our member businesses are passionate about our local talent and recognize the need to be active participants in their future success. It’s because of this that we have had such a high participation rate from our member businesses in the strive san jose program since its inception in 2016. Silicon Valley is known for many things but at its core is its talented workforce and the ideas it brings forth. For The silicon valley organization, our top priority is economic development and it all starts here by developing the next wave of talentedand workforce-ready employees. Strive San Jose's work in connecting industry to our youth is the first step toward building sustainable career pathways for students to attain high-potential jobs here in Silicon Valley. A message for today's students: a paid internship is just the first step in your career journey.
-Matthew Mahood, President, SVO Foundation President & CEO, The silicon valley organization
CHAIR Jack Wimberly, KBM - Hogue
Heather Learner, Happy Hollow Foundation
FIRST VICE CHAIR Michelle Peacock, Turo
James Lyons, Santa Clara University
PRESIDENT Matthew Mahood, The Silicon Valley Organization
Tim Nguyen, East Side Union High School District
SECRETARY Bruce MacKenzie, Silicon Valley Capitol Club AT-LARGE Josue Garcia, Santa Clara San Benito Counties Building & Trades Council Peter Landsberger, Foothill-De Anza Foundation
Jackie Zeller, San Jose Unified School District Janikke Klem, Technology Credit Union EX-OFFICIO Dan Bozzuto, Bozzuto Insurance Michael Fox Jr., Goodwill Silicon Valley
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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FINANCIALÂ SUPPORTERS
ORIGINS In the spring of 2015, the business members of The SVO, then the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, had a problem. They had jobs they could no’t fill and applicants who did not have the skills they needed. The schools had a problem too. The state had just invested tons of money in scaling career pathways and asked schools to begin engaging business more in their design and execution. Whose job is it at a school to engage businesses? And whose job is it at a business to work with schools? When our business members came to us, saying they wanted to be more involved with education, we decided it would be our job. Matt Mahood, had a vision of an organization that understands that for a community to be a great place to do business, it also has to be a great place to live and work. And Derrick Seaver, who’s always had a soft spot for education, was more than willing to expand the Chamber’s education and workforce development efforts. “When we first started talking about creating a pipeline of talent for employers in the Silicon Valley, it had to begin with the talent that’s coming from our schools in order to create that hunger and passion for giving back to the community in which they had grown up in,” said Irene Chavez, Senior Vice President & Area Manager of the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center. “So there isn’t anybody better to do that with than Matt Mahood of The SVO.” In the summer of 2015, strive san jose was born. A group of invested members and a Fellow from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Kelly Peaton, got to work researching local needs and national models for effectively engaging business in education. After months of interviews, surveys, and research they crafted a plan. The Chamber would become the local workforce intermediary - the entry point for businesses to effectively engage with our education system around career pathways. “The members of The SVO came together to create strive san jose for just this purpose: building a qualified, dedicated and work-ready career pipeline for San Jose high school students to enter into a job placement pathway of their choice,” said Matthew Mahood, President & CEO, The SVO. strive san jose’s founding education partner was East Side Union High School District. East Side shared a vision of expanding work-based learning for students to increase the relevance of what students were learning in the classroom. Since that first year strive san jose has grown from one school district partner to four and has connected hundreds of businesses to their future talent.
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MISSION & GOALS Our mission is to connect industry and education to prepare all students for success. Our goals are to: Connect students to work-based learning Connect teachers to industry expertise Connect curriculum to industry standards Create and sustain career pathways
PRINCIPLES
1. Data and Evidence Based Decision Making. We must always ask “How will we know we’ve succeeded?”
5. Generosity. We believe in recognizing the efforts of
2. Continuous Improvement. We must constantly be studying what we’ve done and making
partners and lifting up the good work of
adjustments to do it better.
6. Equity.
3. Stakeholder Engagement.
The opportunities we work to create need to
Those affected by decisions need to help make them.
be accessible to the currently underserved,
4. Strategic Action.
and we need to do the extra work to reach
When we are pursuing the same outcomes we need to align
harder to serve populations.
efforts and resources to magnify impact.
others.
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DISTRICT PARTNERS
2015-16 Student Enrollment 7,676 2014-2015 Cohort Graduation Rate (UC/CSU Graduation rate) 87.8% (43.3%)
2015-16 Student Enrollment 26,684 2014-2015 Cohort Graduation Rate (UC/CSU Graduation rate) 83% (43.1%)
2015-16 Student Enrollment 1,661
2015-16 Student Enrollment 32,454
2014-2015 Cohort Graduation Rate (UC/CSU Graduation rate) MetroED is an all CTE high school that serves students from 6 school districts
2014-2015 Cohort Graduation Rate (UC/CSU Graduation rate) 85.4% (46.6%)
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DISTRICT PARTNERS
Demographics -Student Population
Demographics -Student Population
Demographics -Student Population
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STUDENT ENROLLMENTÂ BY INDUSTRY SECTOR 241 2666
Agriculture & Natural Resources Arts, Media & Entertainment
1028
Health Science & Medical Technology
790
Hospitality, Tourism & Recreation
1446
Info & Communication Technologies
704
Building Trades & Construction
420
Business & Finance
339
Education, Child Development & Family Services
287
Manufacturing & Product Development
Energy, Environment & Utilities
219
Public Services
385
Transportation
0 1200 57
Engineering & Architecture Fashion & Interior Design
0
133
Marketing Sales & Services
Work Experience Education Estimated enrollment for the 2017-2018 School Year
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The SVO business community engaged with the Strive San Jose program in a variety of ways and at varying levels. From hosting a summer intern to sitting on an advisory board to offering a worked-based learning opportunity; these members jumped in to be active participants in our regional workforce development efforts.
92%
BUSINESS PARTNERS
Ninety two percent of intern hosts ranked the program as excellent or very good.
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM HOSTS Quanten Electrical Contractor, Inc.
Brennan Bookkeeping LLC
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WORK-BASED LEARNING HOSTS
IN-KIND SUPPORT
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ADVISORY BOARD PARTICIPATION
OUR WORK Programs | Policy | Systems Alignment
I M P A C T
18 The Strive Internship Program is a regional publicprivate partnership between strive san jose, the City of San Jose, and the work2future Foundation. Interns’ wages are funded by the Mayor’'s San Jose Works program and the work2future Foundation acts as the interns’ employer of record.
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high schoolers placed into summer internships
103
employers hosted summer interns
31 in 2016
41 in 2016
27 4 1 in 2016
job offers made school districts participated
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
94%
of employers were satisfied with their intern's performance
92%
of employers are likely to host an intern again next summer
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WORK-BASED LEARNING
LARGE GROUP JOB SHADOWS
75 8 6
students participating
industry partners
industry sectors
INDUSTRY EVENTS
280 2
students participating
industry partners
TEACHER ADVISORY BOARDS
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industry advisors recruited to serve on advisory boards
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Advocated on the following proposed legislation: State Legislation: AB 1164 (Thurmond) The Emergency Childcare Bridge Program State Legislation: AB 445 (O'Donnell -D and Cunningham -R) Career Technical Education (CTE) Permanent Funding State Legislation: AB 169 (O'Donnell) Golden State Teacher Grant Program Support of Reauthorizing 'Perkins CTE Act'
POLICY
SYSTEMS ALIGNMENT
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Strive San Jose, like many initiatives, seeks to improve education and life outcomes for students and eliminate achievement gaps. However, we recognize that fixing one aspect of education won’t make much difference unless all parts of the education continuum improve. No single organization, however innovative or powerful, can accomplish this alone. Instead, our mission must be to coordinate improvements at every stage of a young person’s life, from cradle to career. It is for this reason that we advocate for a Cradle to Career Collective Impact organization in Silicon Valley, and are working with community partners to make it a reality. Collective Impact means more than simple collaboration. For a community initiative to be a true collective impact model it needs to have these five features: - Common vision amongst partners for the community change they want to see - Shared measurement against those shared goals to measure progress - Aligned activities that support each other rather than duplicate work or cancel each other out - Continuous communication amongst partners - Dedicated support from staff who move the work forward The SVO Foundation in partnership with the local Opportunity Youth Partnership and Kids in Common have begun convening key leaders along the cradle to career continuum to start the conversation around committing to collective impact. UNITE-LA and The LA Compact are key influencers of our work. Convened since 2008, the L.A. Compact is a bold commitment by Los Angeles leaders from the education, business, government, labor, and non-profit sectors to transform education outcomes from cradle to career, ensuring that today’s youth have the skills necessary to compete and succeed in a 21st century global workforce, and contribute to and positively shape a global society.
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STORY BEHIND THE DATA strive san jose is a great example of a program that integrates local youth into the professional world in ways that benefit both students and companies. Being a part of that program is a great way to achieve our workforce development goals. Other businesses should consider getting involved because this program is creating a reliable pipeline of workforce-ready talent. It's an important investment in any company’s future, and a great way to give back to the communities businesses depend on. -Brynt Parmeter, Director of Workforce Development at NextFlex
WORK-BASED LEARNING HOST | INTERNSHIP HOST
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STORY BEHIND THE DATA Microsoft Store is committed to being part of the fabric of the communities in which it operates, from volunteer hours to awarding technology grants to local community organizations. Microsoft Store hosts a range of free programs yearround, like the workshops we have with strive san jose that empower students by providing direct access to technology and hands-on learning. - Clyde Valouch, Community Development Specialist at the Microsoft Store at Valley Fair WORK-BASED LEARNING HOST |Â IN-KINDÂ SUPPORT
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STORY BEHIND THE DATA This program has done a sensational job of setting up the interns for success. What's important for businesses to understand is that a business is not only about extracting value, but also about giving. And one of the best things about this program is that you are able to give back to the community. You provide a playground for interns to learn – and that’' important for businesses to do. You get value from it because of the quality of instruction that the interns have had prior to showing up. It’s a win-win-win—a win for the community, a win for the student and a win for the business. -Derek Distenfield, Chief Operations Officer
INTERNSHIP HOST
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE We would like to thank the following organizations who have helped us along the way:
Bank of America California Strategies & Advocacy, LLC Campbell Union High School District Cintas - Fire Protection Chevron Creation Technologies San Jose East Side Union High School District Hopkins & Carley, A Law Corporation IBM Intero Real Estate Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Metropolitan Education District
Mike Clark O'Connor Hospital San Francisco Chamber of Commerce San Jose Unified School District San Jose Works Silicon Valley Career Technical Education The silicon valley organization TechCU The CORE Companies UNITE-LA US Chamber Foundation work2future work2future Foundation