Educational and Governance

Transformation:

The Pillars of School

Sustainability

Sustainability is everyone’s job

This afternoon we will:

Focus on the Board and the Director

Examine habits of financially successful

schools

Learn about Financial Equilibrium

Discuss the governance challenges you face

How do we blend educational

transformation and sustainability?

Educational

Transformation / School

Sustainability

First Thoughts

Hard vs. UncomfortableKicking the Nazis out of Europe was hard.

The Berlin airlift was hard.

Homesteading the Kansas prairie was hard.

Going to the moon.

Giving birth after twenty-four hours of labor.

Raising kids in poverty as a single mom.

Standing your post at a firebase in the grit of the

Kharangal Valley for a year.

Saying goodbye to your child as he deploys to spend

that year.http://www.grantlichtman.com/wp-

content/uploads/2014/07/Lichtman-intro-for-Grant.pdf

Hard vs. UncomfortableChange at most schools is not hard; it is

uncomfortable. Sometimes it might be very

uncomfortable for some people. It can be messy,

complicated, and tiresome. Uncomfortable means

making some tough decisions. But using the

excuse that we can’t change schools because “it is

hard”?—well, we need to get some perspective on

the difference between hard and uncomfortable.

http://www.grantlichtman.com/wp-

content/uploads/2014/07/Lichtman-intro-for-Grant.pdf

Magical Impossible Ideas!

Moonshot Thinking – short video

clip – thinking big / courage to try

and fail

https://www.youtube.com/watch

?v=0uaquGZKx_0

https://www.solveforx.com/

Disrupting Class by Clayton

Christensen, Michael Horn

Disrupting Class

One Room Schoolhouses

For nearly 150 years the country school was the

backbone of American Education. As late as

1913, one-half of children were enrolled in the

country’s 212,000 one-room schools.

Teaching in a one-room school was a heavy

responsibility for a single teacher who could

have a few students or up to 20 in the 8 grades.

The quality of education was determined by the

teacher’s abilities and the students themselves.

Disruptive Innovation

“… process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability characterize the industry.”

Disrupting Class, Christensen, Horn and Johnson

Disruptive Innovation

Disrupting Class

Role Of Technology – Student-Centric

(Individualized) Technology Allows Schools To

Customize The Learning Process

Technology Is The Tool To Allow Changes To

Happen In Our Schools

Technology Costs Must Be Viewed As An Ongoing

Part Of The Budget

Hybrid / Blended Learning

http://www.innosightinstitute.org/media-

room/publications/blended-learning/

Horizon Report K-12 2014

Annual collaborative effort with:New Media Consortium – www.nmc.org

Consortium for School Networking – www.cosn.org

Funded in part by HP

One of a number of studies each year including a similar report for higher education

Looks at the following:Key Trends – Fast, Mid-Range, Long-Range

Significant Challenges – Solvable / Difficult / Wicked

Important Developments – three time to adoption horizons

Key Trends Accelerating K-12 Ed

Tech AdoptionFast Trends – adoption in 1-2 years

Rethinking the Roles of Teachers

Shift to Deep Learning Approaches

Mid-Range Trends – adoption in 3-5 years

Increasing Focus on Open Content

Increasing Use of Hybrid Learning Design

Long-Range Trends – adoption in 5 or more years

Rapid Acceleration of Intuitive Technology

Rethinking How School Works

Significant Challenges Impeding

K-12 Ed Tech AdoptionSolvable Challenges – those that we understand

Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities

Integrating Personalized Learning

Difficult Challenges – solutions are elusive

Complex Thinking and Communication

Increased Privacy Concerns

Wicked Challenges – too complex to define (address)

Competition from New Models of Education

Keeping Formal Education Relevant

Important Developments in

Technology for K-12 Education

One Year or Less – time to adoption

BYOD

Cloud Computing

Two – Three Years – time to adoption

Games and Gamification

Learning Analytics

Four – Five Years – time to adoption

The Internet of Things

Wearable Technology

CoSN – Horizon K-12 Report

SMALLab LearningWhat is Embodied Learning?

Embodied learning is an

emerging field that blends the

learning sciences and human

computer interaction. Cognitive

scientists have discovered

compelling evidence that nearly

all of our experiences are in

some way grounded in the body.

This suggests that the embodied

experiences can lead to more

effective learning.

http://smallablearning.com/embodie

d_learning

SMALLab Learning

Embodied

Learning

Great Schools

How do you define a great school? What are

some examples of what Great Schools are

doing?

True to their mission in all decisions.

Have teachers who love and respect kids and

schools. Impassioned!

Honor the differences among children.

Leadership that is courageous.

Embrace change and engage everyone in it.

Great Schools

The Future of Education: Why Hawken Has To Lead, by D. Scott Looney

In my 28 years in education, I have never been more excitedor so fearful for the future of education and the future of this world.”

http://issuu.com/hawkenschool/doc

s/thefutureofeducation/0

Great Schools

Independent schools as an ‘industry’ are uniquely poised to lead the revolution in education for all sectors of K-12 education (perhaps even providing higher education with some ideas). Our schools have the resources, and the nimbleness to experiment, to innovate, to fail, and to lead. We have an obligation to ALL children to “swim against the tide of our misguided educational practices…”

There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a

dissident streak:

Source: Presentation by Matt Horne “ School Design – Be the Change” (Designshare.com)

Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a

hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by

what he sees.

Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes

around on electronic screens.

Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in

their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports,

hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles

him.

But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is.

"This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in

1907. Only now the blackboards are white."

Is School Relevant?

Unlike Enin, she is not going to college this fall —

she doesn't want to. She is, to put it bluntly, sick

of school and craves a break. The other day, about

a month before her graduation, I asked her: On a

scale of 1 to 10, how sick are you of school?

"Thirteen," she said.

Why?

"I just feel like it's the same thing over and over

again." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/30/voices-column-gap-

year/8513019/ Greg Toppo – USA Today 5-1-2014

Hiring a Milkshake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmbSpTJXozk

School of the Past?

School of the Future?

School of the Future?

The Future Of Education Was

Invented In 1906That’s the year Maria Montessori, who was the

first female medical doctor in Italy, opened her

revolutionary school.

People who talk about Montessori education

often talk about some of the specifics–no

grades, child-size objects, students choose

their own activities, the same set of materials

in every classroom, etc. but that’s missing the

point. Forbes Magazine, 1/22/2014

* Source: Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Indiana University

17%

66%of High School Students say they

are BORED in a class

EVERY DAY.

of High School Students

say they are BORED in

EVERY CLASS, EVERY DAY.

more real world learningmore support, individualizationadult relationships, advocates

parent involvementmore rigor, higher expectations

from a report by Civic Enterprises*

in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill

and Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2006.John M. Bridgeland,

John J. Dilulio and Karen Burke Morison.

What students want?

Student Engagement

Collaborative / Project-based Learning

Innovative Learning Environments

CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS

Collaborative / Project-based Learning

Innovative Learning Environments

CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS

Collaborative / Project-based Learning

Innovative Learning Environments

CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS

“We can’t solve

problems by

using the same

kind of thinking

we used when

we created

them.”

Albert Einstein

Enough said…..

Focus On Children /

Focus on Adults

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills

Triarchic Theory Of Intelligence

CREATIVE SKILLS

PRACTICAL SKILLS

CONTEMPLATIVE/WISDOM BASED SKILLS

Dr. Robert Sternberg

Creative Skills

NOVEL SITUATIONS

ORIGINAL, SPONTANEOUS THINKING

Practical Skills

IDEAS INTO PRACTICE

FROM IDEAS TO ACTION

Contemplative /

Wisdom Based Skills

COMMON GOOD

UNSELFISH DEDICATION

Khan Academyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynMS1jxBn4

The One World School House – Education

Reimagined by Salman Khan

Examples / Innovative

Schools

Lone Nuts!

Starting a movement:

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_

sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?l

anguage=en#t-4118

Max Ventilla, AltSchool

Think about how much smarter and more responsive the websites you use every day have gotten over the last 20 years. What if the science of educating children improved at a similar rate?

“I was shocked by the degree to which the best programs and the worse programs had barely changed since I went to school in any kind of foundational way, and by the degree to which we really have diseconomies of scale.”

AltSchoolhttps://vimeo.com/81212757

AltSchool is a collaborative community of micro-schools that uses

outstanding teachers, deep research, and innovative tools to offer a

personalized “whole child” learning experience for the next

generation.

Finland

• Only a small number of independent schools exist

in Finland, and even they are all publicly

financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees.

There are no private universities, either. This

means that practically every person in Finland

attends public school, whether for pre-K or a

Ph.D.

"Oh," he mentioned

at one point, "and

there are no

private schools in

Finland."

Innovation

Beaver Country Day School, Brookline, MA

http://www.bcdschool.org/

Innovation

Mount Vernon Presbyterian School,

Atlanta, Georgia

http://www.mountvernonschool.org/page

http://vimeo.com/78834107

http://cainesarcade.com/

Innovation

Philips Academy – Andover, Andover, MA

http://www.andover.edu/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.andover.edu/about/newsroom/pages/

andover-institute-launch-event-livestream.aspx

Launch of new innovation institute

InnovationHawken School, Cleveland, Ohio

http://www.hawken.edu/page/Homepage

http://www.hawken.edu/Page/Get-Ready/Global-

Online-Academy

http://issuu.com/hawkenschool/docs/thefutureof

education

http://www.hawken.edu/Page/Get-Ready/Making-

the-Most-of-Time (3:45 minute video)

High Tech High

http://gse.hightechhigh.org/ - graduate education program

http://www.hightechhigh.org/projects/ - projects

Financial Sustainability

Financially Secure Future:

Disciplined Decision Making (Collins)

Staffing Model – reducing the %

allocated to compensation

Staffing Model – Right people on the

bus in the right seats (Collins)

Reduce dependence on annual giving

(Soghoian)

Head of School / Admission Leader /

Business Officer Synergy

Disciplined Decision Making:

Balance with school culture

Staffing Model /Quality Teachers

Staffing Model / “Good To Great”

Get the right people on the bus!

Mind The Gap!

Resources

1) NAIS / Inspiration Lab: www.inspirationlab.org

2) Clayton Christensen Institute: Schools Using Hybrid / Blended Learning: http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-universe/

3) Grant Lichtman Blog / The Learning Pod: http://learningpond.wordpress.com/grant-lichtman/

4) Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.p21.org/

Marc Levinson

Executive Director, MISBO

marclevinson@misbo.com

Twitter - @marcll

www.misboblog.com

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