001[Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] Josh do we have a thumbs up are we ready to go all right good morning everybody hopefully we are now streaming live to everywhere around our school corporation as we welcome all of you back from Thanksgiving this is the 28th day of November and we've had a long Thanksgiving weekend I know that it can be hard to relax sometimes during some of these holidays however I hope that you're able to find at least some time for a little relaxation eat some good food find some quality spend some quality time with family and friends and perhaps get a few things accomplished such as shopping and putting up a Christmas tree or two but most importantly I hope that you were able to take time to truly consider those things for
002which you are thankful one of those things that I am thankful for is you I am thankful that you have chosen us and that you have chosen to commit your careers to the development of kids I can think of nothing more important than spending time developing our children so thank you it's hard to believe that there are only 16 student days left until winter break so we do get a few more days coming up pretty soon that begins on Wednesday December the 21st and goes through January the 5th Thursday January the 5th with unless teachers have already if they have not waived that day we do have some teachers that will come up back on Friday January 6th meaning that we will not have students back in our buildings till Monday January the 9th so
003as we look at the next month or so another amount of time there that's pretty big with a gap that we have for winter break so be thinking about that as you're looking at the next month or so today is our fourth PD day and believe we have gotten a little bit better each time that we have done this as a reminder we did file a waiver with the state of Indiana to be able to leverage the amount of time we already have instructionally in a day so the number of hours that we have and each day both at the elementary level and secondary level are more than what the state requires and so we asked the state for us to be able to count our year in hours instead of days that allowed us
004to take a day like today and use it for PD so we can try to get all 2000 of our staff members aligned to the Strategic plan to which we have put together I do want to make sure to recognize our community and especially our parents for the sacrifice that they're making today to have their children to home one more day while we take advantage of this time without them being here to do some professional development and I think as we utilize this time and as we get better each time that we use these PD days it is going back to what I thank you for taking time to work learn be better in the development of our kids before we jump into our keynote address I just want to remind you about today it
005will be different for again 2 000 staff members so look a little bit different for all of us but as we go to the keynote address our keynote speaker will go to about 9 15 this morning and then from 9 15 until about 10 45 school buildings departments programs will be doing some specific professional development tied to the keynote address that we have today which is about equity and then from 10 45 to 12 30 basically there's a free time or lunch time built into there and then 12 30 to 3 o'clock is back to buildings and departments meeting again that'll look a little bit different your department leader supervisors will have hopefully given you some specific Direction already about what today looks for looks like for you individually our strategic plan contains the word
006Equity Equity or Equitable many times Equitable system Equitable access equity and academic achievement Equity cultural responsiveness and sustainability equity and outcomes in order to ensure that we provide Equitable access to opportunity for each of our students we must first better understand our students and the community in which we live work and play Jack Hess is here this morning to deliver a keynote address that will help us do that I know that many of you know Jack and it is an honor to have him helping us out Jack is the executive director of Civic lab a local non-profit Institute that is a part of the Community Education Coalition and housed at the Columbus Learning Center at the Airpark post-secondary campus on the north side of town Civic lab is dedicated to advancing the practice of Civic
007collaboration and teaches collaborative Community teams how to better approach complex social problems by redesigning the way they work together complex social problems like ensuring that each of our children have access to opportunity since the founding of Civic lab 10 years ago Jack and his team have served more than 300 communities across the country including this one and trained more than fourteen thousand leaders and Community stakeholders including several of us Within bcsc I worked with Jack prior to my coming back to Columbus was thrilled to get to work with him again when I arrived here and I'm grateful that we can benefit from his continuous assistance with us ladies and gentlemen Jack Hess thank you sir good morning everyone first of all good morning to everyone here at Columbus East High School and also to all
008those on the broadcast and the simulcast we'll just call it the metaverse if that's okay I were delighted you're all here I too hope you all had just a fantastic uh holiday and had some time off I hope you had a lot of coffee this is a pretty heavy and dense day to do right after a pretty major holiday that all of you had but I think you're going to be interested in the topic and let me tell you why today I want to tell a story and that story is actually going to be about an ambitious body of work that's taken place in the Columbus community over the last several years I called BC or before coven and that particular story itself I think will interest you because it's about the future of our
009youth in Columbus Indiana and Bartholomew County Ash and I know that's life's work to so many of you here in this room today and in the metaverse in the community here that we speak with going to try to address four questions a question number one starts with a what what are we learning about equity in general and what are we learning about the state of our families and our youth in Bartholomew County here we're going to present some compelling research that many of us have found very meaningful in the work that we do in advancing that goal and then we're going to share with you some data and that data is going to be related to that research to see how are we doing where are we at as a community question number two is
010also a what question which is what are we doing now that we've kind of learned some things what it is that we as a community are doing and here I'm going to present to you a very ambitious community-wide Vision around Equity a moon shot if you would it's brought in scope and it's brought in scale and then we're going to finish and conclude with two how questions how are we going to get there because I think any time you lay out a pretty big ambitious Vision you owe people kind of a sketch or an idea and a reminder of just how it is we are going to make that moonshot happen there I'm going to try to remind you that this community has a long and proud history of achieving really big things together across
011the public the private and the social sectors and then we're going to conclude how are we doing we said we've been at this now for a couple of years so surely there's some directional evidence that would at least be afforded to us so we can see are we headed in the right direction and how do we know and I have some results that I want to share with you here today about just that fact so that's where we're headed we're going to tell a story that we think Equity works it makes a profound impact for families it makes a profound impact for Youth and makes a profound educational impact for all so they're going to start off as promised with the first question what are we learning and here I want to start off by
012introducing you to this gentleman this is Mr Raj Chetty very gifted Economist does his work out of Harvard University and his family immigrated to the United States from India and Raj was fascinated with the American dream and in particular one facet of the upward and the opportunity for Upward economic Mobility which he said was unheard of and really quite different in India where he came from in terms of temperament and attitude and even process and approach and so Raj wanted to study exactly what made kind of American exceptionalism as they called it and told him it was called and really upward Mobility work so in the course of starting to do his research and study he put together this data and for those of you especially in the Multiverse this is actually showing the percent
013of children who earn more than their parents on the horizontal axis here just vertical axis on the horizontal axis we have the child's Birth Cohort year starting from 1940 and going all the way to where Mirage did his research around 1987. I think you see a trend almost without exception in most years a child's ability to earn more than their parents has actually began to fall that data point today is below 50 percent on that so now we can say less than half of American children will actually go on to earn more than their parents uh during the course of their lifetime the second second piece of data that Raj came across was something that happened in the 1990s I had no idea this has happened maybe you did but the government 1990s actually paid
014families through vouchers to move to other communities other neighborhoods within their cities there are 15 American cities which they did this to and they measured the results in many different ways but this was an example from Seattle and what this graph shows you is the lifetime earnings effect on the vertical axis again for children how much money they would make and this is the age when the children were actually moves so two years eight years 14 and so forth and where do they move them from from the seattle-centric district which was a place that wasn't very amenable for raising and nurturing children to a Shoreline District which had much better outcomes from safety nurturing education and so forth and look at the impact the sooner a child in terms of age was actually moved the
015much more substantial the results were on economic upward Mobility that Trend every single year they moved to begin to fall and fall and by the age of 23 most of those effects are gone so what the research said in a number of bodies of work confirmed is that the community of child reason has significant impact on their ability for Upward economic Mobility so Raj got really interested and conducted probably what's been one of the largest kind of ever study done on upward mobility and he actually looked for five years of all children born 1978 1983. 20 million American children 96 sample size and research you call that a pretty good thing and what did they find well they what they really found was something quite extraordinary and interesting I'm going to tell you the end
016of the movie now because you won't be probably surprised by this but how it comes about is somewhat surprising barrage found that the neighborhood in which a child grows up has substantial causal effects on his or her prospects of upward income Mobility even more then the income and socioeconomic status of the parents themselves now Raj and his team Drew this map it's called the opportunity Atlas you get online at opportunityatlas.org and what this is is a median income of chilled those children at age 35 how much money they earn and if you can't see the scale in the upper right hand corner blue is good yellow is about average red is lower than average so you can kind of get an idea of the level knowing what you're seeing here this is the income that
017they earned at age 35 mapped back to where they were born and raised not where they lived when the income measurement was taken so they measured how much income then mapped them back to where they actually born and raised in communities and you can see substantial differences not only in the Upper Midwest as compared to the South across the national level you're going to see as you'll see in just a moment substantial differences here in Bartholomew County in the rural Midwest you'll see substantial differences in urban areas like Indianapolis especially around Urban centers and cores Manhattan is a tapestry almost looks more like a a quilted quilted cloth and variation changing block by block but even if you go out west Tehama County where a lot of the car fire and a lot of the
018fires that hit very rural very agricultural if you look at Redding and Shasta even in those environments you'll see extraordinary differences in economic outcomes so if you look at Bartholomew County here's the data again this is median income blue is better about average and yellow and lower is red you can definitely see differences especially around the central center of the city the center Central core there and you also see some variation remember this is where how much children were making maps to the neighborhoods they were born and raised but what rajan's team found out was something pretty important these effects happen at a hyper local level six tenths of a mile so the effects are about six tenths of a mile after that those effects begin to actually Trail off in other words they're able
019to predict kind of upward Mobility begins to fall off drastically you can no longer look at surrounding counties and try to predict a child's outcome from that data so the effects of Community are intense and at the same time they're hyper local at best if you can kind of see there's a little circle in the middle of that kind of char that's six tenths of a mile to kind of give you an idea about the size we're talking about in scale on that map there's some other things because if you look at some other kinds of effects that happen here here's a map showing the fraction of single parent household darker meaning higher concentration of single-parent households in this area again a strong correlation as you might imagine to income shown here but here's something
020kind of extraordinary that the team kind of came to and I want to read this because I think it's important I get raja's wording right it's not the direct effect of your own parents marital status it's again something about Community level factors that are associated with the fraction of single area appearance in the area that's predictive of kids outcomes it by the way was the number one predictor of upward economic mobility and the important thing there is it doesn't matter about your own household or family situation it doesn't matter if you were raised in a traditional nuclear two-parent or Guardian household or if you were raised in a single parent household it's the fraction of single parent houses it's the kind of households around you that have a stronger correlative effect about your upward economic
021Mobility pretty kind of counter-intuitive result there's also something else that was really important in the study and obviously race plays a huge factor in this if you shouldn't think of place as presiding a uniform set of conditions for all people race ethnicity and culture and having cultural competency matters this is the income in Bartholomew County for black African-American biracial families again you can see wide variances north to south these are those same variances on income for Hispanic families and then this one's interesting here's Asian so here you would see much lower meeting household incomes for the children born on the actual East Side of the community as opposed to the west side in that area it's almost choosing the neighborhood even for that particular race had substantial causal differences there's also something for me coming
022out of economic development that I think Raj pointed out was really important even having a booming economy does not actually substitute for Upward mobility in fact as you can see up there in the upper left hand corner a booming economy is not enough to even guarantee upward Mobility for children here are a bunch of cities and how they performed over a number of years shown here and if you look at two of the highest gaining cities Atlanta and Charlotte they have one of the highest areas of job growth in the entire country during those years and yet at the same time they produce some of the lowest outcomes for youth on upward economic Mobility the two things they kind of thought about that was funny the correlation there they said what predicts upward Mobility is
023not proximity to jobs but growing up around people who actually have jobs and the other thing is they found the values that promote human capital development what you do are very different than the values that markets value and so even having a booming economy is no guarantee that children will have greater opportunities for Upward economic Mobility or other factors that are important so what explains the difference there's six things so number one the more segregated a community is by any Factor whether it be type of housing whether it be race whether it be income doesn't matter the more segregated a neighborhood is the worse off everyone does not just those impacted by segregation or harmed by the effects of segregation themselves all Races and all ethnic groups and all people do worse the second thing
024here is places with a smaller middle class uh tend to do worse in terms of upward economic Mobility you're missing that important transition stage makes pretty obvious there this one I told you is extraordinarily important the family structure of the neighborhood not your own family but the family structure around you it's six tenths of a mile highly predictive of your chances of moving up that economic ladder more Social Capital stronger glue tends to have better outcomes as well as look at their better schools you play a really important factor enrolling this and then again I can't emphasize enough race is a very important variable we can't assume all communities produce equal outcome for all people there are cultural effects within place that are very important as well and sometimes you have to come up with
025unique strategies for people who are situated in those systems and places differently so those were the six kind of factors that this research this largest body of research conducted on American children kind of told us to look for them some people walked away very depressed from this but Raj said you know I think we're asking the wrong question because I kept saying well Raj is the American dream dead then look I showed you some data that was not very compelling and saying that it's still alive and vigorous and he's I think it's the wrong question you know we shouldn't be asking about the American dream America's too vast and well too different having too much diversity and an array of difference in variation rather we should think of more as the Iowa dream or the
026Atlanta Dream or the California Dream and I think that's right we need to ask what we want the Columbus and the Bartholomew County dream to be that's the question because these effects are important and they're hyper local so one question we might ask ourselves then is just how unfair and Equitable on those six factors is Bartholomew County and so I want to show you some data quickly that I think complements the research that we just saw many of you some of you may even came over this bridge today the Robert Stewart bridge and if you know that kind of your your geography these cars are coming from the west side of town over 46 and they're coming over the East Fork of the White River into the actual downtown itself most Census Data uses barriers
027like Rivers as a boundary and that would be completely true in this case that is the boundary and it separates two areas of geography they call census tracts in a census tract is about 5 000 people so when you go across that bridge you're actually going across 109 and you're coming in to 101 and for those to help you now we'll just kind of map out that picture right in the middle of the map where you see kind of the dotted Circle that's where that bridge locates and again there's census tract 109 the car is coming from the west and here's census track 101 where they were actually leading to that bridge is somewhat almost a portal to two different worlds in many respects whether you're looking at income education or even lifespan in fact
028if you look you can see some of the days of 23 poverty rate about 37 000 annual median income you can see the educational attainment rate which means anything beyond high schools about 30 percent and you live to be about 71 years in terms of life expectancy uh in that 101 area conversely those cars were coming from an area has a four percent poverty rate a hundred and four thousand median income 80 percent of those have something Beyond high school and look at the life expectancy it's 83 years you essentially lose 12 years of your life crossing the bridge now if you kind of look at Bartholomew County besides those two there are 15 census tracts in Bartholomew County again it represents about 5 000 people they're all different sizes because whether the people are
029more dense in the city center they should be smaller and the county that are bigger but they still represent a proportional relative amount of people that explains the size different on the tracks here if you don't need to see the data basically red means you're below the national average on those metrics yellow about average green you're doing better than the national average themselves now if you take the 15 tracks and would line them highest to lowest what would you find what's the range difference well on poverty there's a 20 range difference between the highest and lowest tracks in Bartholomew County now for youth unfortunately that picture picture is much more bleak there's a 42 percent difference in poverty rate between the lowest and highest tract when you're looking at tracks there's a 66 000 difference
030each and every year on media and family income between again the highest and the lowest and the educational attainment rate is staggering 60 percent difference among those tracks our community goal is to try to get everyone 60 of our adults to some credential Beyond high school we have a 60 variance between the lowest and the highest tracks and the one I think most people always find surprising is there's a huge life expectancy range in Bartholomew County from the highest to the lowest of about 17 years Hope by the way has the highest about 89 years the water must be great there as opposed to the lowest which again is around the central core of the downtown which we saw is about 71 so there's a substantial life expectancy difference even within our own County based
031on where you live here's the other passionate plea I'm going to put out to you big lesson for me uh the poverty rate itself most of us use data at the county level or the city level but remember what Raj told us effects on children are actually at a hyper local level these numbers don't actually mean too much because they're averages and their Aggregates and their medians and their averages of averages and there's no such thing as an average kid let me show you quickly just how quickly you can see that there's before covid the actual poverty rate in the United States there it is for Bartholomew County we can Pat ourselves on the back we say hey we're doing better off than the United States on average but we'd be missing the point the
032real point is in no census tract in Bartholomew County is 10 percent the rate not even close remember it's an average it's a median and we tend to forget that in fact if you look at again at the big variation let's put up here the lowest poverty rate up kind of near the airport is actually three percent the highest in the downtown at 23 percent and if you're talking about youth on the east side the highest rate is actually 42 percent and the next census tract over which is only a two-minute Drive the youth poverty rate is zero so in a two-minute ride you can go from zero percent youth poverty rate to a 42 percent uh youth poverty rate in a very very short amount of time please note nowhere up there does it
033say 10. the thing that you and I do so often when we use data and averages and Aggregates and all of our work is the fact that we tend to hide variation we hire differences we hide contrasts and these contrasts we saw from the research are extraordinarily important we cover these up right we actually cannot see what is right in front of us because of the kinds of data sometimes we use so that led us to these questions Bartholomew County we figure is not actually one homogeneous place and that's okay instead we have 15 glorious ecosystems that are all different that need to work in a sort of balance if you will and that's a good thing but here's the big question that we asked from Ross chetty's work is this if we were using
034data though at a hyper local level would we make different decisions in different places on the map would we have different conversations with families at different places on the map and to us the answer was I think we would in fact we did a lot of work in this community on food insecurity and we were using county level data but then Purdue Extension Center helped us actually produce track level data and as you might imagine the effects were staggering it was so Jagged it ups and downs was no flat average and we asked ourselves had we had this data when we started might we have done things differently and our answer was yeah where we located things policy changes Transportation routes right a whole different set of strategies all of a sudden became available to
035us that weren't there before and so I think if you put those two things together you kind of say what are we learning some great powerful research about the powerful effects of what creates upward mobility and Powerful communities and the way of looking at data in a new way that could help us maybe make different decisions so that question leads to this you know what are we doing about it so I want to share something that's kind of is called the moonshot vision it's not the Community Vision it's a very important Community Vision though and it kind of came across in a coffee shop when some folks from Cummins were saying you know we have a big Vision called Planet 2050 we want to be carbon net neutral by 2050. and we got like a
036John F Kennedy moonshot between now is 2020 and 2030 of where we want to be in one decade and it's bold and it's ambitious and they said does the community have anything like that you know it kind of looked each other I don't know you know could should the community have something like that through a lot of thought and effort and I'll tell you the work that you do and this school corporation was a major I think influence and effect as well as many others uh the council for youth developments but we had so much energy in the youth space so many great collaborative leaders and so many great outcomes that we decided hey if we're really going to kind of put a stake in the ground about a big ambitious moonshot there is one
037there and it's this you know how could Columbus Indiana become the most Equitable community in for children in the nation within a 10-year time period and to know that we'd have to know where we're at how we're going to get there and how we're doing or how are we going to know that we're making progress toward that big moonshot vision and that's kind of where I want to kind of spend the rest and bulk of my time figuring that out with us what are we doing where are we going how are we going to get there and where do we think we're at today so let's take a few thoughts about that for more than two years now since September nine of the largest I think organizations that are responsible for serving families and youth
038in the community have been getting together showing kind of up there where it says guiding team on that line and they're the ones who I think really are the stewards of the biggest systems that impact so many of our families and it does have a list of supporting partners that have been there for numbers of reasons of technical assistance and support and expertise and Monies and we've been getting together every two weeks 90 minutes it's always on Thursday and we've been having a discussion about that research and looking at this data just the way that you saw it here this morning and asking ourselves you know what could we be doing better and what could we be doing different and thanks to the Ross Chetty work we kind of realized what's Raj kind of telling
039us well it's not one thing okay it's got to somehow be a multi-faceted kind of approach we don't want to create just another program it has to be really a community level effort we call this the layer cake and we thought there are three layers to this cake number one the systems meaning ourselves we decided we'll look in the mirror and look at ourselves for our systems need to be better coordinated and better aligned they need to fit the realities of our community today and our youth that's there and there's many improvements that we on our own could begin to make on that to make sure that these systems are best aligned and coordinated as they could potentially be two as we saw from the data Place matters and it matters a lot these systems
040show up in different places within the community and because the effects of place the outcomes are different so unless the systems are somehow aligned to the places in Bartholomew County it's kind of always hard to get to those outcomes that we want and then if you recall race cultural competency ethnicity there are differences culturally within these places that have to be respected and understood and specific strategies develop for people situated in the community differently and if you look at that kind of on the layer cake it's really about people at the top places in the middle and the systems that serve both of those things Lane as a support underneath so that's what we're trying to tackle so let me give you just a couple things in each one of those layers of the cake
041that's going on because I think it's important you know it's important for all of us to be informed one because I think there's a role for all of you to play and two the more horn informed and communicate the more and better we can collaborate so systems building this is our Battle Cry here there's no Silver Bullet there's no program that's going to get us into this set of results that's going to make the moonshot happen it's a system stain not a single thing I can't say enough about the Strategic plan that Dr Roberts had mentioned earlier today he's right there's equity and Equitable all over it and all we really need to know is we're just trying to create more opportunity and create better outcomes for youth in a fair way I mean that's
042really what we mean and when we say that and I applaud you for applying it not only to accessibility to all opportunities but even your Pathways that's tremendous so so much great work has went into it and we applaud the efforts that happened there so I first want to acknowledge that but there are other fantastic I think things going on you may not be aware of the juvenile justice system at the county level a few years ago decided it wanted to turn its whole system inside out and upside down and so instead of being this reactive deficit-based reactive support system they decide they wanted to be an asset based development support system and flip the whole thing to asset based development you know before they were called the juvenile detention center it doesn't sound very
043asset based so they actually renamed and rebranded all of their efforts around Youth and Family Community connections and they actually in hosts with the other stakeholders came up with these principles guiding principles for positive Youth Development based on the guiding kind of assets of asset-based development and also trauma-informed care crosswalked all that and came up with a pretty cool set of guiding principles so much in fact the equity Works team just adopted it because they love the fact that the youth voice was actually presented and accounted for in that vision Council for youth development's new master plan fantastic up at the top you can kind of see across it recognizes the importance and diversity of place and it talks about those are our concerns and you'll see again The Guiding principles for Youth Development you
044know all over this and you'll see the concern about creating more opportunities and uh for advancement and for equity on youth written all over the plan brand new plan that's just come out and will guide their efforts until 20. 26. at the same time so many of you know they also have an index a great way for us to measure as a community just how we're doing and making impacts that some of it is obviously secondary data like I presented some of it as you know surveys that your own students have taken for student voice and we know as a community and highly concerned about it that the community ranks pretty low from youth voice and perspective about being supportive and being nurturing on this and that's one of our big concerns that we're really
045trying to address and we know that another piece of work I think is important is giving youth themselves more voice and choice in the programs and services delivered to them that's one of the fundamental guiding principles giving families and giving youth more voice and choice of those things that they have available and accessible to them so this youth Ambassador group is one of the most important aims of getting representation of Youth voice into this process which is a really important piece of the pie and then later you'll be looking at this a small group of those stakeholders say well how we even figure out if we're accessible so that group identified seven factors what they thought for accessibility and they created the seven dimensions of Equitable access and you can see the seven here a
046pretty simple tool uh it pretty much asks you how you think you're doing on the dimension and then it actually how you think we as a community overall are doing on that Dimension itself so it looks both at an organization or a team as well as the community level itself it's a tool as well as a process to kind of have a conversation a tool that you'll see here in just a few minutes yet today and so Equitable access was a big piece of the project that second layer of the cake if you recall is all about place and we kind of said with that you know area where you live shouldn't determine your potential or even full potential outcomes in life and we know from the data we saw that that can actually be
047the case and can happen we partner with iupuc Dr George Towers fantastic if you've never got to know Dr Towers but he helped us visualize equity which we'll look at a map or two here in just a moment that he did and he said it has two goals one we want to help people visualize the diversity within the community and show there's actually a spatial dimension to our diversity and to our Equity but also more importantly we think we can find out different strategies within the community that we have employed before by looking at data in a new way so that was kind of the rallying crawl that George helped us with there's Bartholomew County we already looked at the census tracts they're marked in Black but one thing I want you to know is
048census tracts are divided again into smaller pieces called block groups the block groups are shown this map in red so instead of 15 census tracts you now have 59 block groups so now we're finally getting down to the level of Raj Chetty and their data six tenths of a mile a block group is about a thousand people it's about 1300 in Bartholomew County but just to kind of let you know the red lines kind of show you how those are divided up so there are 59 of those block groups so a map kind of looks like this when you kind of color code it uh in so how do you read these and we're making all these Maps available to all of you we have a tremendous amount of data the colors are the percent
049of whatever variable is being measured the darker the more so this is where kids live so this is the youth population children under 18 years of age so the darker colors are where more children are present in terms of composition of that particular neighborhood it's a dark places where children congre the actual numbers are the absolute numbers of children so one's a very kind of a comparison and the other one is the actual data itself so it probably won't surprise most of you to know that our highest concentrations sit in these these four areas there are about a thousand individuals under the age of 18 in those areas the largest grouping here is the South Side kind of split with Mount Healthy this census uh black group here 1700 youth live there the hot that's
050the highest concentration of those under 18 actually in the county if you look at this now this kind of goes back to something we've already looked at this is median household income again darker I mean Tire lighter means lower on this area so you can clearly see some variation here I'm going to push in a little bit to the city okay and now I'm just going to push in just a little bit more up toward the airport here and specifically here because I want to show you again how quick kind of neighborhood effects can kind of change if you go up right Middle Road which goes right up that you essentially drop one hundred thousand dollars a year in median household income going from the south kind of part of that direct angle and going
051right across the line in that area so there are places and numerous places on this map that you'll see very very similar variations for instance here medium 75 000 dropping down to twenty seven thousand uh one street over again these are median values the Staggering thing to me if you kind of look at the scale on that I got back up to do that the bottom number was about twenty two thousand and the top number is about 160 000. so that's the range variation or if you did the same exercise we do before the lowest number of block groups in the high it's a hundred and thirty three thousand dollars of annualized income difference from the lowest to the highest now I told you it was 66 earlier but we're looking at census tracts but
052when you get down to the neighborhood level the variations even much much wider this is why Raja was kind of advocating for the hyper local kind of uh factor or the look here's an important one for you families with children below the poverty line again darker tends to be more acute the highest number of absolute families sits again in this area about 256 families uh sit up just south of the Airport runway that's their highest kind of concentration of those areas and this is educational attainment something this is high school diploma or lower so your dark chocolate areas are the places that actually have higher concentrations in fact the dark chocolate that's 67 to 82 percent of the people in the dark chocolate ones the highest level of educational attainment is a high school diploma
053or less so the dark chocolate areas are the places where educational attainment I think lags or is in variance with the places kind of around it and one more map here this this is children under 18 living with neither parent or a single parent highest areas here again I think the three kind of similar areas kind of pop up if you kind of take the aggregate of what George kind of ran when I was a zoom in for you if you kind of take the aggregate of what George kind of ran the whole idea here was we want to democratize data not only among our group but everybody is why we're making the data available to all of you and to everyone in the community itself and there's two reasons we do that one from
054an appreciative endpoint these are 15 distant systems in here they're not actually our weakness I there are there are strengths because when you begin to look at data this way you can actually come up with new strategies and new insights and new kind of new bodies of you know work that can be conducted but more importantly you know in all of this you know we're not here to compare these places we're here to figure out how to best enrich and cultivate and looking at data in this way helps us do that in fact if you look on this area there's about 860 families right after covid that had filed for some type of Public Assistance uh in that 12-month period with with children shouldn't surprise you these are the paces that showed up on map
055kind of after map after map in these areas 600 in other words of the 860 families sit in just five block group areas so what is kind of the group doing well one one of the teams in the work has actually decided to go with Taylorsville and thanks to sedal Gantt all the great leadership being provided up there as well as Tsukasa and healthy Community there are a number of on the ground kind of place-based organizations working together today our idea is get them to work even even stronger together it's a place that's very much Hispanic and Latino as you know has its stability rate that's pretty high 80 percent of the people stick around from year to year uh the lowest in the county is about 50. so that's not a bad rate on
056that but a community with very unique challenges right it's a desert for many things be a food desert a transportation desert Etc so there's an ambitious set of neighborhood engagement Pilots going on right now in the community especially using Taylorsville as an area of that and there's so many people working in that area some of them knew each other some didn't so the first body of work is just connecting the connectors helping those that are actually out there in those neighborhoods building relationships with the residents of those communities make sure they know each other better understand their work better and figure out how they can work more closely together to make better results in that area and I'd be remiss if I didn't thank the United Way who's helped us conduct numerous listening sessions in
057those communities again using residents as the actual facilitators themselves use an appreciative based inquiry questions such as what do you love about here what would make it better for Youth and so forth these have been tremendous insight into the process that we couldn't had otherwise it's also been the most difficult part of this work it wouldn't surprise you that some of these listening sessions you wouldn't be shocked to say you know there are tears there's anger there's recrimination there's a lot of different types of emotions and attitudes that run very very strongly around these topics and issues and it makes the work quite honestly some of the most challenging bodies of the work but as we said earlier voice and choice is one of the most important principles and that's what it takes I think
058to achieve it and then finally here we must ensure Equity before we can enjoy equality we're all after equality but you have to ensure Equity that the track has been you know set up on the racetrack with the lanes staggered appropriately even be kind of for the race begins we have to kind of figure out the equity places we said from Ross chetty's research many of you familiar with tufaturo your future the Latino education work it's proof positive that you can put coaches and mentors and a plethora of community organizing and support together to show that really over time you know you can close Equity gaps on not only high school and education but also College enrollment data and Beyond appreciate my slides I apologize my slide's not more up to date on those data
059points but I think you still see the trend in the correlation the importance of the work and the community thanks to Cummins and their care which has come into advancing for racial Equity is actually now formed a very similar body of work around black and biracial community and we're so proud of the guiding team we've hired actually a facilitator for this work Felicia who's actually from Louisville Kentucky worked for Goodwill Industries for many years so we've got people now on the ground that are working this on a daily basis trying to improve the outcomes we think before this moonshot we've got three stages where we think we're actually at if I push in on this I think you'll see I think we're right on track you know we said we wanted to I'm sure Equitable
060access and so it was a group working on that instrument that you'll kind of work through today your various facilities in the metaverse and Beyond uh but also we said neighborhood engagement had to be critical if we learned anything from Raj Chetty Place matters a lot and then finally systems building support getting our own cells better aligned from our organizations that serve using data in a new way but also redesigning the systems themselves was a really important body of this work so I'm really proud of the team so we're going to conclude by just saying how are we going to get there so a couple thoughts on this and something I want to kind of impress upon you our community has taken on huge challenges before with great success one of the biggest challenges was
061right in the middle of the last century and if you recall this is the birth rate per 1 000 people and right in the middle of this chart highlighted in yellow shaded here in Gray is the baby boom generation and that demographic force was one of the greatest challenges our community as well as many ever really had to face in the modern era right after the war because if you really looked in Columbus plat map in 1950 we hadn't built a single School in over 22 years at that point there was just really no reason demographically to do so but now with the baby boom generation coming on we realized we were going to have to build a new school every two years for the next 15 years many of you know this story our
062first attempt on that was the Jefferson Elementary school project and if you look at the community's history and all practical accounts they said it was kind of an unmitigated disaster Forbes Magazine actually ran a story in the community and said the Jefferson project was built on the cheap and it showed and their words within the first year it was experiencing a tremendous amount of maintenance issues and that Community worries it looked kind of like a cookie cutter and they worried you could see one there tomorrow and on that corner tomorrow and the next day and so forth it was a real black eye on the community on the school bar and it wasn't the way you'd want to start addressing the greatest challenge what had been up to that time of the last century now
063Crosstown little struggling entrepreneurial startup trying to take some diesel technology and commercialize it and for 17 straight years lost money didn't earn a dime of profit that is until this gentleman came about this is the young jarrow and Miller just graduated out of Yale he was stacking grocery store shelves in his family's business out in California as you do I guess if you graduate from Yale he had a liberal arts major and the joke was they didn't want him anywhere near the family's core businesses which were located here in Columbus Indiana which are basically General Stores Banks and financial institutions but this little struggling entrepreneur business was losing money and nothing to lose so they brought Jalen Miller back to Indiana they gave him his first desk shown here inside Irwin's bank and they set
064him off to work they told him make that little startup profitable or divest the company from the family portfolio he went to work in Earnest and over the next 60 years obviously became the great Steward and president and CEO of Cummins engine as you know today a great Fortune 150 Global Powerhouse over 20 billion in sales more than 55 000 employees given the day that's more than the population of our city of where it is but before General Miller would turn that small startup into that Global Powerhouse he had a problem he had two he had a business problem and a community problem and the business problem was how do you get smart talented people and their families to come move to a community that few people had ever heard of and has lousy looking
065schools and so many of you know him being a liberal arts major and a very different take on things and he loved this quote by Winston Churchill that was dedicated to a church after the Reconstruction uh in in England where Churchill said first we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us and he was a powerful believer in the context of place and the way it shapes people over the course of their lifetime and so as many of us know what's now affectionately just called the offer was put forth and the offer was simply here are five mid-century modern Architects on a piece of paper and if the community interviews all five which was the only string attached and chose one of them Cummins would pay the architect's fees on the BET next Elementary School
066built five interviews were conducted and I think we know the history in 1957 the Lillian C Smith Elementary School was constructed and it was an overwhelming success not only architecturally but for the community put Columbus on the map for being someone who was willing to invest in the stakeholder who has the least amount of voice at the table Our Youth and our future and so two years go by and of course people say hey can we do that again and they did it again and again and finally in the 50s it was formalized as the Cummins architecture program more than 70 different buildings and projects have been either funded or inspired by that and it's created I think some of the greatest probably collection of assets for any city of its size even your city
067you're sitting in Chicago I'll tell you what we always tell everyone this is No One debt corrected me but you know I think that you were the very first school corporation in the country to go K-12 PBO and I cannot applaud those efforts on that and no one's ever corrected me using that stat so I think you are that congrats on that we took as a community if you recall an abandoned air base and we actually turned into one of the most collaborative post-secondary campuses where Purdue Polytechnic Purdue University Indiana University and Ivy Tech all collaborate share assets share facilities provided by a community gift the Columbus learning Center they provide dual credit stackable degrees credentials and it's quickly becoming the number one campus a choice for bcsc students the Caesar Pelley Advanced manufacturing center
068of excellence the brand new IB tech building if you haven't seen it you got to see it fantastic incredible and we took a five-year pilot with Indiana University for the IU Center for Art and Design in terms of the J Irwin Miller School of Architecture bringing everything kind of Full Circle the community has always kind of had a way of knowing how to do this build a home-grown Community Learning System in other words we've built a learning system in a way where we've become more of ourself in the process which is an amazing thing to do and it was always kind of built on this idea there is this thing called the Columbus way I mean I know there's books that are kind of titled that but it does exist and it is a real
069thing and there's three things in particular I wanted to kind of share with you 15 years ago we got together with some of the leaders that made a lot of those projects happen and asked them how'd you do it what was the approach what was essential what went wrong how do you fix it and they told us three things they thought were pretty important and what were those three things well number one Mr Miller wrote passionately and is how he turned around Cummins and if you look at some of his readings and writings it's all there when speaking to businessmen in 1970 he said this the American systems public or private they were created for a world that no longer exists and yet it's our normal preference to rehabilitate the damaged products people or in
070your case students than it is to transform and reform the systems themselves it's our natural tendency to fix people and not fix systems and that's not what we should be doing even called this systemness and the idea about getting system is all you and I need to do no matter where we are in the system it's just look up one level higher than us so if if you're a teacher in a classroom you think about the students interaction in the school if you're the principal at school you think about the students flowing from other schools into your school and the students flowing out to the next school if you're I happen to be in the school board a cabinet are they actually what kind of administration level you're connecting to the community making sure all
071those various assets support and serve kind of the needs not only economically but also from the advanced citizenry uh in that area but all you're ever really asked to do is to think one level up and isn't that what general Miller did you look up for purpose and you look down for function depending on what question you're asked and a lot of people thought he got that idea from the great architect Elias searing who said you always design something in the next larger context that's what he did when he had a talent problem he didn't fix the company fix the community the second kind of principle is based upon that one we've already said this one it's a system saying not a single thing but the second principle is really based on the first one
072he wrote extensively about a different kind of model of leadership which was almost heresy at the time it wasn't stakeholder capitalism or shareholder capitalism it was stakeholder capitalism and he wrote he didn't seek Commons as an organization he saw it as a network of relationships and the leader's job was to understand how those leaderships were different and distinct and then and this is like a fantastic quote on that it's basically the fascinating problem is figuring out what our responsibilities and relationships are in those five areas and one of the most disastrous things any organization can take is make a single aim at making Profit just take out profit with student outcomes and I think that's actually true same things there it's the responsibility of the relationships that are most important and if you take care
073of that outcomes tend to take care of themselves this what he said the system is the way that you and I work together it's just a set of relationships so if you want to transform a system you transform those relationships so we got our system we know how we're going to kind of rewire the thing to produce different outcomes but then how do you do it well he kind of had some thoughts about that as well when he was inducted into the building Hall of Fame he didn't talk about architecture buildings he actually said you know architecture is something you can see but there's a spirit and a temperament and a character though in this community and it's an invisible thing but it's something he said he was most proud of because in a democracy
074the process is more important than the product and he was right you know collaboration just isn't come by us spirit it's a lot of work it's a process and when you get it right it's supposed to be a common approach and a common language that a community uses to actually work together and this community always seemed to have that today we call it the stakeholder engagement process it's all about relationships whose relationships do we want to build why are those relationships working the way they are what can we do to further those relationships further and and how can we actually tie that back into Community itself again this is something not invented this is something discovered over many decades in this community but what they really discovered is important is the process can't happen to
075people and even though you may want to be a servant leader and do things for people the process has to be done in participation with people and that's when it works at its best so we have a history of doing this we know that the process is the product and so I want to kind of say If you think about this process has been employed to many things even with bcsc I grad counseling counts and here's my most passionate plea to you when you look at those maps and you look at the great challenge ahead of us and the great moonshot and you say we can't do this on your own your answers you're absolutely right and nor can the community do it without you if you need help I got a piece of advice
076just ask just tell us what kinds of help you need to make your schools and your places and communities Serve by those systems better we want to hear that just ask that takes us to the final thing I want to share how we do him a couple numbers here and then we'll be done Jamie marasotas is the president and CEO of the largest foundation in the country supporting education called Lumina Foundation and he wrote a book a few years ago right before coven called American East Talent how do you attract develop and actually deploy uh talent in a 21st century Workforce area Lumen actually created kind of a better housekeeping designation or seal for those communities they found were rocking it Knocking the cover off the ball in that area and they identified these 26
077communities across the country and here's that list I highlighted one in particular you might be interested in red and I think it's so funny they actually had to put Columbus comma IND on the list because everyone would have thought it was Ohio right it looks like kind of a standout and I mean that in a very very good way because a lot of people like why are they on there who are they let me tell you why I think we're on actually on that list let's first of all for all the work I just kind of showed you has taken play but this year in February a pretty important study was conducted the 355 metropolitan areas in the United States and they wanted to find out where is educational attainment increasing the fastest I was
078a study done by Dr Richard Florida so you know men from the rise of the creative class he coined that term and when they ran the data on all 355 communities lo and behold if you look at the top of the list for small and medium-sized metros it's Columbus Indiana notice we're number one for small communities notice we're also number one for all communities so out of 355 metropolitan areas we're ranked number one and for those who can't see it in the back and for those who can't see it in the metaverse right number one increase over a 10-year period around educational attainment and that's so much contribute to all the great and hard work that all of you have done to make that happen that's staggering there's more maybe you remember last year around
079this time the Wall Street Journal came out with this story and we're so proud this loose Elena Michelle an employee of the Community Education Coalition and her family it's something called the diversity index which is kind of the probability of two randomly chosen people would bump into each other would they be different by either race or ethnicity the higher the number the more diversity that a community has and when they ran that data with some modifications The Wall Street Journal did lo and behold who ended up on top as the fastest growing area for diversity in the last decade why The Country Rose 22 percent Columbus Indiana was ranked number one for increasing diversity 67 growth rate on that I'm here to tell you I don't think those two things are accidental creating good economic
080and good educational outcomes leads to people wanting to come to those opportunities from a vast diverse and widespread array those things are tightly correlated by any shape or means and we should be very proud of them an important thought it's just as true today as when Mr Miller said it 1971. it was a dedication of the Republic building when it opened as the headquarters for the public newspaper and on that day I think he put a passionate plea out to us basically saying our success in the future is going to depend on our ability to change systems and Equitable redistribution of wealth so that no doors of opportunity are closed to any American simply by reason of where he was born or how much money her parents had or because of his race or her
081religion and I think you see why we're doing the work we do and why systems and fairness to open opportunity are so important this is what the community of Columbus has always known Excellence is kind of a form of deviance and what we've learned by going out to other communities and coming back is something I think we all take for granted but a community becomes excellent because it's willing to do things that other communities don't want to do and why do we do it because I think in the immortal words of genuine Miller nothing is more expensive in this world than mediocrity especially when it comes the advancement of our youth and I'm pretty sure you'd agree with me on that so thank you so much Dr Roberts for the opportunity to be here with
082you today thanks for your kind attention on a very difficult day after a very long holiday I so appreciate all the work that you do and thank you and have a great rest of your PD day thanks [Applause] well thank you to Mr Hess for those words as we work as a school corporation to truly make sure that every child has Equitable access to opportunity a few things that I heard Jack say as he finished up there he laid out three really focused areas I think for each of us focus on stakeholders the people that we serve that'd be our community our parents our businesses our partners our students our faculty our staff all of you focus on relationships among all of those stakeholders and focus on the process it is about fixing or reforming
083the system not trying to fix people so again thank you Jack for that information about our community and giving us some steps in a direction of making sure we are providing access to opportunity for each child what is next is from a department standpoint from a building standpoint you're going to be having some conversations about what Jack shared with us today I have sent a link out via email with Jack's presentation as a part of that so the data might be easier to see and look at also some other links that are in a different a second email that has information about the rest of the day so from now again to about 10 45 we're going to be diving into some of this information answering some questions to kind of get us started and
084then that youth accessibility assessment tool the jacket on the screen earlier we'll be looking at those seven dimensions and trying to figure out are we a welcoming providing a welcoming environment for all of our people is transportation someone that makes it easy for people to participate in our curricular co-curricular extracurricular activities are things that we do affordable for everybody are the pathways that we make available truly accessible for each child so be having some of those dialogues and conversations in it 10 45 if you choose there is a half hour time frame that you can log in and get some questions answered about a number of topics and those topics and those links that I've provided and then again the rest of the day based upon your situation individually with your department it may look
085different but the PD day for the most part is from now until three o'clock so again thanks for your participation engagement this morning and have a great rest of your PD day thank you