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Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
WELCOME to the
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance &
Destiny Embrace
George V. Coyne, SJPresident, Vatican Observatory Foundation
Thursday, November 187:00 p.m.
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
International Year of Biodiversity 2010
Video
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
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NOVEMBER 18, 2010
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Morning Prayer
Friday,
November 19, 2010
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
The Role of Innovation in Education
Alex C. Cirillo Jr.Vice President, 3M, Retired
Friday, November 199:00 a.m.
Today’s discussion
• Define innovation and its elements.• Demonstrate how it relates to both the purpose
of the Huether Conference and to your work at home.
• Remind ourselves that we “must be the change we seek.”
Conference purpose
• “create greater synergies”
• provide opportunities for– collaboration– mutual enrichment
• promote innovative STEM initiatives in Lasallian schools
• What does innovation look like in the world of education?
1st take-home message:
To be innovation, it must be transformational!
Creativity:Creativity:The aptitude of the mind to construct or formulate ideas, The aptitude of the mind to construct or formulate ideas, concepts or images in which the essential newness or concepts or images in which the essential newness or freshness is embodied in new relationships, associations or freshness is embodied in new relationships, associations or linkages.linkages.Discovery:Discovery:The uncovering, elucidation, recognition or advancement in The uncovering, elucidation, recognition or advancement in understanding of new scientific phenomena or knowledge. understanding of new scientific phenomena or knowledge. (Some preexisting state of affairs is now somehow known to (Some preexisting state of affairs is now somehow known to us.)us.)Innovation:Innovation:Is the use of knowledge, either from discovery or from some Is the use of knowledge, either from discovery or from some widely known knowledge base, to achieve an widely known knowledge base, to achieve an outputoutput that is that is new or novel (e.g., a new product or process). (Pragmatic.)new or novel (e.g., a new product or process). (Pragmatic.)
2nd Take-home message:
Innovation is….
NOT an accident
It is driven by a system of principles and practices which support and encourage the coupling of systems and creativity to solve a problem.
Elements of Innovation
• Values/Vision
• Culture
• Networks
• Personal expectations
• Metrics
• Customer/Market need
• Differentiation (transformation)
Role of innovative leaders (traditional)
• Come from the trenches
• Champion
• Understand innovation culture
• Prioritization/efficiency not dominant
• Informal
• Role model: William McKnight
“As our business grows, it becomes increasingly necessary to delegate responsibility and to encouragemen and women to exercise their initiative. This requires considerable tolerance. Those men and women… are going to want to do their jobs in their own way.
McKnight Principles (3rd take-home message)
- William McKnight, 1948
Mistakes will be made. But if a person is essentially right, the mistakes he or she makes are not as serious in the long run as the mistakes management will make if it undertakes to tell those in authority exactly how they must do their jobs.
Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it is essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.”
(Risk takers)
What’s expected of today’s leaders
• Recognize (and declare) what works and doesn’t work…not always easy.
• Global perspective.• Model “change in the face of change.”• Goal: sustainable innovation in a rapidly changing world
(customers, employees, nature of org.).• Much is about metrics, incentives, role models.• Role of spending.
How does this drive innovation?
“Curriculum” of Innovation
The purpose of these so-called courses is
to fix in your minds the basic elements
understood and practiced around the world by the most innovative organizations.
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Innovation 101
Just because you can doesn’t Just because you can doesn’t mean that you should!mean that you should!
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Innovation 201
• Resign yourself to the fact that there is no such thing as an LTQF.
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Innovation 301
• Be multilingual
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Innovation 401
• Be clear about the context in which you are working
• Keep your perspective.
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Innovation 501 (graduate)
• Know when to think in Black and White and when to think in Color.
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ApproachBlack
White
Grey
Rainbow
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Innovation 601 (graduate)
• The thing you should work hardest at is to build confidence in your people.
• Be a teacher.
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Innovation 701
• Be personally committed to making yourself and those around you excited about innovating.
• Be positive.
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Be . . .
• Open to change
• Hungry to learn
• Anxious to move quickly on a new idea
© 3M 2008. All Rights Reserved.
Questions to Ask Yourself About Innovation
Does everyone in your organization know how to define innovation?
Who are the innovators in your organization?
Does your organization have an oral history that helps employees learn about innovation?
What are your platforms (content, process, culture, capabilities)?
Do you have both a long and short term mindset (bi-visual)?
What volunteer activities foster innovation and how can these activities be encouraged for your members?
Does your organization recognize and reward innovative achievements in a meaningful way?
…foster greater interest in STEM
Disclaimer:
It’s important to state that we don’t expect every student to become a scientist or engineer, but that every Lasallian trained student will have a greaterunderstanding and appreciation for STEM than
their predecessors.
We also want more scientists and engineers!
Keys to getting students interested in STEM
• Role of– Parents– Teachers – Science community (actions, role models)– Local communities & leaders– Press– Media (TV, movies, advertising)– Etc.
Some program examples to consider…
• 3M STEP Program
• 3M TWIST
• 3M Ingenuity Grants
Some partnerships to consider…
• Project Lead the Way
• FIRST Lego League & FIRST Robotics
• Teacher Resource Centers (e.g. SMM)
In summary…
• We won’t have innovation in our schools unless you embody it.
• Leadership, cross cultural capability, and communication skills are part of STEM.
• Partnerships give necessary leverage.
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Morning Prayer
Saturday,
November 20, 2010
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Morning Prayer
Playing for Change
Stand By Me
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Spaceflight: The Beauty, the Glory and the Sacred
Story MusgraveNASA Astronaut, Retired
Saturday, November 209:15 a.m.
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Panelist of Lasallian Alumni with
Successful STEM Careers
Saturday, November 2010:45 a.m.
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
What Have We Learned?
Saturday, November 2012:00 p.m.
2011 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
See YOU in the Nation’s Capital!
November 17-19, 2011Washington, DC
.
2010 HUETHER LASALLIAN CONFERENCE
Promoting Innovative STEMInitiatives in Lasallian Education
Regional Lasallian Education Branding Session
or Free Time
Rex WhismanPrincipal, BrandED Consultants Group
Martin MendlesburgCreative Consultant, BrandED Consultants Group
Saturday, November 201:30 p.m.
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