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Building Maker Pathways from K- 12 – Community College

Deborah Bird

Technical Assistance Provider, CCC Maker

Carol Pepper-Kittredge

State-wide Project Lead, CCC Maker MakerEd Convening, San Jose, 19 October 2018

Goals for this session

• Problem: K-12 to CC Pathways
• Solution: Ecosystem Development

Let’s get organized…

• Line Up in order of the grade you teach: K-16
• How many adjacent connections do you have?

Let’s get organized…

• Now, what color are you wearing today?
• Organize yourself within our collective palette.
• How many adjacent connections do you have?

CCC Maker Initiative

• CCCCO Innovation-maker Grant
• 3 years, 24 colleges, $17m
• Create a network of college makerspaces that prepare

innovation-ready students

• Support non-traditional, under-represented students

to STEM/STEAM careers

• Embed innovation, entrepreneurship & making into

the curriculum

• Connect students to 800 paid Internships

Why CCC Maker?

• Students need career resilience
• Rapidly changing education outside traditional

structures

• Declining enrollments
• Low completion and transfer rates
• Lower levels of entrepreneurship
• Employers demand highly skilled workers – now!

24 CCC Maker Colleges

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1. Allan Hancock College 2. American River College 3. Butte College 4. Cabrillo College 5. Chaffey College 6. City College of San Francisco 7. College of Alameda 8. College of San Mateo 9. College of the Canyons

• 10. Folsom Lake College
• 11. Foothill College
• 12. Glendale Community College
• 13. Golden West College
• 14. Hartnell College
• 15. Laney College
• 16. Moorpark College
• 17. Moreno Valley College
• 18. Mt. San Antonio College
• 19. Mt. San Jacinto College
• 20. Orange Coast College
• 21. Sacramento City College
• 22. San Bernardino Valley College
• 23. Sierra College
• 24. Woodland Community College

CCCCO Initiatives

• Strong Workforce
• CC
• K-12 - $150m
• Gig Economy
• Guided Pathways
• And whatever comes next…

Mis-perception

• How many students go from your K-12 system to your

local CC?

• How many of your CC students come from within your

district?

• What are the benefits of your local CC?

Mis-communication

• What are the obstacles to communication between your

K-12 and CC?

• What messages reach your students and faculty?
• From K-12
• From CC

Mis-alignment

• What are the challenges of K-12 to CC alignment?
• K-12
• CC

What’s Missing?

If we consider the 3 misses as symptoms, what is the real problem? … And how can we begin to work together in new and different ways to solve the real problem?

We believe that Makerspace Ecosystems

• Can create a bridge between K-12 to Community College
• Empower all stakeholders to self agency
• Build individual and institutional resilience

Ecosystems in Action

What is an Ecosystem?

Starling Murmuration

CCC Maker Ecosystem Map – kumu.io

Ecosystems in Action

• Interdependent elements
• Flow of energy
• Self-organization
• Emergent phenomena

Makerspace Ecosystems

• Interdependence - community of makers
• Energy – resources, people, skills, tools
• Self-organization – flexible systems
• Emergence – innovation

Social Capital Ecosystem

• Interdependent Elements
• Group Cohesion
• Flow of Energy
• Brokerage
• Adaptive Space
• Self-organization
• Operational + Entrepreneurial
• Emergence
• Diffusion of Innovation

(Complexity Leadership Theory: Shifting from Human Capital to Social Capital, Michael Arena, Ph.D., Mary Uhl-Bien, Ph.D., M.B.A., People + Strategy, Volume 39, Issue 2, Spring 2016)

Rules of Engagement

Cohesion S e p a r a t i o n Alignment Simple Rules – Complex Systems

Cohesion S e p a r a t i o n Alignment

CCC Maker Phases

Unique Makerspaces Leverage systems Create Community

Cohesion Create Community

Principles

• Establish Trust
• Look Inward
• Pull in Community
• Create Shared Identity
• Make Connections
• Facilitate Communications

Actions

• Regional Meet-ups
• Welcome Everyone
• Design Thinking Process:
• How do we design a

makerspace to affect learning outcomes?

• Ecosystem Mapping

Kumu Ecosystem Map Sierra College

https://ku mu.io/CCC

• Maker/sier

ra-jt-ccd- makerspac e- ecosystem

• map#ccc-

starter- template/ prof- michael- halbern-ft- faculty

Central Coast Network Allan Hancock College

https://kumu.io/CCC-Maker/allan-hancock-college-maker-ecosystem - ccc-starter-template

Lessons Learned

• Community is a pre-condition for success
• Liberate hierarchy through agency
• Include all stakeholders as change agents
• Create relationships through dialog and feedback
• Encourage redundant connections
• Embrace friction, manage conflict

Post-it activity: Who are your ecosystem partners?

Separation Empower Experimentation

Principles

• Build Confidence
• Look Outward
• Encourage Diversity
• Embrace Risk + Failure
• Branding – Outreach
• Diversify Communications

Actions

• Initiate specialized,

customized, individualized Makerspaces

• Find interdisciplinary
• pportunities
• Teacher/Learner relationships

Lessons Learned

• Maximize autonomy, minimize control
• Facilitate continuous feedback – data

Post-it activity: How can you use your makerspace to experiment within your ecosystem?

Alignment – Leverage Systems

Principles

• Coordinate Across Network
• Share Principles
• Common Language for Skills
• Shared projects, courses
• Matching Funds
• Funding Streams
• Open source ethos/IP
• Data-informed Decisions
• Integrated Curriculum

Actions

• Symposia
• Work Based Learning
• Curriculum
• Makermatic Internships
• Publications
• Presentations
• Maker Faire
• Tell Your Story – so what

Central Coast Network Emergent Pathway

https://kumu.io/CCC-Maker/allan-hancock-college-maker-ecosystem - ccc-starter-template

Folsom Lake College Emergent Pathway

Lessons Learned

• Facilitate continuous feedback – data
• Recognize and sustain innovation
• We can’t build the pathway, we can only create the

pre-conditions from which the pathway emerges

Post-it activity: What would you hope to emerge from your makerspace ecosystem? Share a photo of your ecosystem: @cccmakerspace, @makeredorg

Thank you for your participation

For more info: cccmaker.com