BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T020000 RDATE:20190310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190228T043750Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190320T200000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190320T183000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190228T043750Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20190228T043750Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250475165 DESCRIPTION:**Please RSVP on our Meetup page to reserve your spot: ** \;\nhttps://www.meetup.com/AgilePDX-User-Group-Portland-Metro/events/259 111522/ \;\n**If you are unable to attend\, please update your RSVP to open your seat for another attendee.** \;\n \;\nWhile our tech -based companies are struggling to find the talent needed to grow a new creative economy\, our schools are still stuck in a 100-year-old model t hat was designed to produce workers for an industrial age. Students desp erately want to be a part of the future but many are struggling to under stand why they are even showing up to school each day. Here in Oregon\, we have the second worst graduation rate in the entire country. Some wou ld joke that we are the Mississippi of the West\, except that Mississipp i now has a higher graduation rate. Four years ago Innovate Oregon launc hed The Dayton Experiment\, in Dayton Oregon\, a rural community in Yamh ill County where two-thirds of the students live in poverty and a third of the students are Hispanic. This experiment explored what might happen if you took the agile mindsets\, skillsets\, and toolsets from our agil e community and partnered with a school district to re-imagine education . Might it be possible for an entire school district to transform from a traditional teaching institution into a dynamic learning organization\, one that unleashes the creative genius of their students? Today\, Dayto n has a 97% graduation rate and recently sent a student design team to b e showcased at MIT. It is inspiring agile cultural transformations in di stricts throughout the entire state. Thompson will be sharing the story of this journey and lessons that have been learned when bringing agile t o a complex ecosystem. These lessons have direct implications for compan ies seeking to scale agile within their organizations. Bio Thompson Morr ison is the Founder and Chief Evangelist for Innovate Oregon\, originall y a strategic initiative of the TAO Foundation. For 15 years he ran a so ftware company whose development teams embraced agile practices. He was on the Board of the TAO and chaired their strategy committee that led th e transformation of the organization from its earlier manifestation as t he SAO. He led the team from the TAO and PDC that developed a community- based economic development strategy for the software industry. He was a founding board member of the STEM Investment Council and co-authored Ore gon's STEM Investment Plan. He is also the co-founder of both TaborSpace and the Rosewood Initiative.\n\nTags: meetup:event=259111522\, meetup:g roup=AgilePDX-User-Group-Portland-Metro\, software development\, extreme programming\, scrum\, agile project management\, test driven developmen t\, agile testing\, kanban\, lean startup\, computer programming\, Agile Coaching\, agilepdx\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504 75165 SUMMARY:AgilePDX User Group - Portland Metro - Agile Unbounded: re-imagin ing education LOCATION:Puppet: 308 SW 2nd Ave.\, 5th Floor\, Portland OR 97204 us SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR