Leading Learning, Leading Change

Oregon Education Investment Board • October 2012

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Dr. Rudy CrewChief Education Officer

OREGON EDUCATION INVESTMENT BOARDObjectives and Initiatives

Design and implement

P-20 structure

Early Childhood Redesign

• Focus on early literacy

• Ensure K readiness implementation Assessment

Design/implement

initiatives to improve student

achievement

Reading• Intensify focus

on early literacy to prevent later need for remediation

• Increase K jump-start programs for ELL students

Affect policies for initiatives

and “loose/tight”

direction

Demand for Learning

• Parent & community engagement

• Empower parents to engage with school and intervene in learning difficulties

Create outcome-based budget,

aligned to initiatives

Professional Corps of Teachers

• Develop regional support centers

• Develop strong pipeline of instructional leaders

Build an informed, engaged

public

Student Transitions,

Essential Skills & Global

Readiness• Create partnerships

to develop career pathways

• STEM-based school network

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Oregon Compared to America’s Best-Educated and Worst-Educated State

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WV OR MABachelor’s degree or higher: 18.5% 28.7% 39.1%

Median household income: $38,482 $46,816 $62,859

Pct. below poverty level: 18.6% 17.5% 11.6%

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Worst-Educated State

Best-Educated State

Unstable Stable

The Tipping Point

Pre-K High School Graduate Meaningful Work in Global Economy

Knowledge is easy to use and readily available

Knowledge is unavailable and not valued

Tipping Point • System is efficient, equitable • Internal and External audiences advocate for system• Products from the system are highly valued

Educators, boards and parents are under greater pressure to show ROI for students meeting globally competitive standards against dollars spent

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Essential Links in the Chain of SuccessIf one link is missing, the chain will fall

Vision Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization No Followers

Philosophy Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization Confusion

Philosophy Vision Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization False Starts

Philosophy Vision Strategy Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization Anxiety

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization Frustration

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Resources Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization Bitterness

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Rewards & Sanctions Organization No

Closure

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Organization Hopelessness

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions No Coordination

Philosophy Vision Strategy Skills Resources Monitoring Evaluation Rewards & Sanctions Organization Success!!

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Artifacts

Behavior

Assumptions

• Slow pace of reform• Inclusion of stakeholders• Symbolism over substance

• Tension over learning new ways• Destabilizes internal systems and relationships• Organizes the opposition• Quickens the pace of reform and the building of new

knowledge

• Requires long term, consistent support, messaging and focus

• Builds upon passion and commitment, rather than control

• Moves beyond reform to transformation of what we do, how we do it and why.

Implications forLevel of Change Educators & Boards

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