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Let’s talk: Innovation in education, anyone?

February 18th, 2012

Hey everybody. We need to talk: What are you doing in rural education that is innovative? How are you overcoming the unique challenges faced by rural schools? Are your students experiencing increased academic achievement?

That’s the message I caught in a recent tweet from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation ( @WK_Kellogg_Fdn). On Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. ET, John White, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach, and Sterling Speirn, president & CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation will be hopping on Twitter to chat about unique rural partnerships and innovative solutions that people are developing. My mind immediately goes to the Rural School and Community Trust’s efforts to bring rural schools and communities together through place-based education. If the Rural Trust hadn’t invested in our efforts in Howard, SD back in the mid-1990s, I’m confident that innovative projects like the Maroney Commons would never have developed. If I were to pick a new initiative, however, I would select the work of the Center for Midwest Innovation, a project being developed in partnership with the Rural Trust. They are quickly becoming a great source on how rural schools, communities, and foundations can partner to create innovative educational projects. I might also highlight the efforts of the GoTeachSD program, which the Rural Learning Center is a part of developing. Centered at the University of South Dakota, GoTeachSD has a clear focus on increasing the number and improving the quality of teachers in rural schools. I’m always interested in hearing about great work in rural education. Unfortunately, because of work conflicts, I won’t be able to join the conversation live. So I figured I could contribute by writing this post. And I’ll be sure to check out the summary of the Twitter chat that will be posted to the US Dept of Education’s Blog afterward. I know you are all probably busy as well, but I hope you find a way to join in this conversation. It’s too important to ignore. (To learn more on this event, check out this Dept. of Education blog post. Photo Credit: limonada - Flickr

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Understanding Poverty in rural places

September 27th, 2011

“It’ll be next week before I’m okay again!” That was my honest response to participating in the Poverty Simulation sponsored by NESDCAP in Sisseton, SD on September 14. Ann Pollert, Executive Director at North Dakota Community Action Partnership based in Fargo, North Dakota, facilitated the simulation held in St. Catherine’s Hall.

I admit that I registered and drove to Sisseton because of the working relationship we have with the team at NESDCAP and NESDEC. I expected to show up as a good team member would. What I didn’t expect was an experience that would keep coming back to me for days afterward. We were assigned a “family” and given the specifics of our home situation. In my case I was a 21 year old community college student – mom was out of the picture, dad in jail for 45 days, my sisters were 13-year-old twins and our little brother was 3 years old. We had $100 in cash, daycare and rent paid to the end of the month. GO! I spent the next few hours working as hard as I ever have in real life trying to apply for some help with my siblings, pay our rent, pay for food. Getting to class was the first thing that fell off the plate. I LIED on my application for part time employment indicating that I would be a dependable employee by showing up for work on time, working my full shift and taking advantage of training opportunities. The girls skipped out of a field trip because we couldn’t afford the $5 they needed to participate! I was so angry with the parents who had put the three little kids and ME in this position. It wasn’t fair! It isn’t fair. That’s what the simulation really brought home to me again. Working hard, paying attention, having a plan is not enough. Programs address only one aspect of real life – each program requires so much from the applicant in terms of information, follow-up, etc. that it doesn’t take long to simply wear out. No one at the community level has authority or oversight of the whole set of needs. I’ve had firsthand experience in being a single mom, low-income, living on the edge. I thought I had put those emotions and nightmares behind me but the Poverty Simulation reincarnated these for me. I needed to be reminded of the real-life challenges many people face every day. I needed to see why more and more people are in this situation every day. It means a good deal to the long term for our communities. I needed to remember what poverty looks, smells and feels like. I hope this experience stays with me and with my work in building better communities for a long time. Photo: Ann Pollert presenting at the simulation.

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Training the next generation of farmers

September 22nd, 2011

I hear a lot of talk among my farmer friends about how tough it is for young people to become farmers. My wife and I have a nephew who was born to be a farmer. Luckily, his father and grandfather both farm. Over time, they will provide access to land. In the meantime, and equally important, they will help him learn the ropes of farming.

Not everyone, however, is so fortunate. If you don’t have access to land and/or mentors, what do you do? Going back to college for a degree in agriculture might be an answer. But not everyone can afford (in either time or money) to take that option. That’s why I appreciate the efforts of Dakota Rural Action. For the last three years, they have offered a new farmer course called Farm Beginnings. It’s geared toward newcomers to the field of sustainable agriculture, and their classes are held on Saturdays during the winter months. I’ll let you check out the details of the class on the Dakota Rural Action website. I’d point out that class size is limited and scholarships are available. The deadline is September 30^th. I’d also recommend that people check out profiles of people who have graduated from the program. It’s always nice to hear about the impact training programs have on people’s lives. The Farm Beginnings class is a great opportunity for people who live in eastern South Dakota, northwest Iowa, and southwest Minnesota – but not so great for people in other parts of the country. It’s made me wonder what other options are available around the country to train the next generation of farmers? Whether traditional or sustainable agriculture, I’d be interested in learning about what other people are doing. Photo: Aaron (program graduate) & Kirstin Johnson. Photo by Kirstin Johnson.

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Holding conversations about rural places in rural places

August 15th, 2011

In June 1997, I travelled to Matfield Green, KS for a weeklong summer workshop on place based education. Matfield Green is located in the scenic Flint Hills of Eastern Kansas. Wes Jackson, founder of the Land Institute, and several of his friends had purchased the lumber yard, the school, and several old homes in the community. With a population of well under 100, Matfield Green epitomizes the decline of Rural America. The workshop was simply awesome. Rather than sit in a university classroom and listen to a professor lecture about teaching methodologies, we experienced the process of place based education first-hand; each professor used the natural and cultural surroundings of the Flint Hills (i.e. – the place) to teach us about the concepts of place based education. It was learning by doing, and it definitely stuck with me. Like most conferences and training sessions, the experience was also shaped by the conversations with other participants. Each evening, impromptu conversations with other rural educators helped deepen my understanding of both education and life in rural communities. Over the years as I’ve reflected on that week in Matfield Green, I have realized that my experience was shaped by the fact that the training was held in a small town and not a conference center somewhere else. I truly believe that the conversations that week would have been very different had they taken place in Minneapolis, Kansas City, or some other urban place. In fact, since that time, I’ve taken offense to the barrage of conference invitations to discuss rural issues while meeting in urban places. I mention this today because later this week, the Rural Learning Center will be holding a grand opening for the new Maroney Commons. It’s a six million dollar conference and training facility that is being built in Howard, SD. It will make it much easier for rural leader in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa to hold conversations about rural issues while meeting in a rural place. We’ll share more about the facility throughout the week, but I want to extend an invitation to anyone who hasn’t already heard about the event so that they can attend.

Date: Thursday, June 18 Time: 1:00 pm Place: Main Street, Howard, SD

For more Information contact 605-772-5153.

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MarketPlace South Dakota: Growing Entrepreneurs

July 16th, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur or are thinking about starting a business, you should strongly consider attending the South Dakota MarketPlace 2011 on July 26 & 27 at the Huron (SD) Event Center. Attendees will have an opportunity to:

learn vital business skills,
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and discover ideas that work for small business

The event is being co-sponsored by the Center for Rural Affairs and the South Dakota Farmer’s Union. The best way to learn about the event is at the CFRA’s website. The early bird registration of $59 is ending on July 19^th, after which time registration fees increase to $99.

Why attend?

Although this is the first year in South Dakota, the event is being patterned after successful MarketPlace events in both North Dakota and Nebraska. If you are sitting on the fence wondering if you should attend, I would encourage you to consider the following statistics about past MarketPlace events that I found on the event’s promotional materials:

52 percent of small business respondents stated that their MarketPlace participation resulted in starting, expanding or making changes to their business. Of those who started a business since participating in MarketPlace, 43 percent said the business is a primary business and 57 percent said the business is a secondary business.
About a third of the small business respondents stated they have added jobs in their businesses since participating in MarketPlace. A total of 14 jobs were added by those respondents (six part-time, one full-time and seven seasonal jobs). The sample of small business respondents who answered they created jobs thus created an average of 1.4 jobs per business (no distinction is made here among full-time, part-time or seasonal jobs).
Nearly all 88 percent of those small business respondents who stated they were making changes or expanding their business as a result of MarketPlace participation sought financing to do so. These respondents used a variety of financing sources (multiple responses were allowed). Loans from banks, resources from USDA Rural Development and personal resources (savings and credit cards) were the most popular sources.
79 percent of small business respondents stated they utilized new resources as a result of their MarketPlace participation.
A large number, 42 percent, of small business respondents stated they started to work with other companies as a result of networking at the MarketPlace conference.

Statistics like this suggest the MarketPlace concept is succeeding at growing entrepreneurs in other states. It’s great to see that it’s coming to South Dakota. . Connect with MarketPlace South Dakota at:

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The title of our presentation reads "Using Social Media to Support Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities." But what does that mean? What are we talking about.

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