What is needed to make real change?

Many efforts to transform education look like the same old system!

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To become

real AGENTS of change

We need Vision

A Common Mistake - Lack of a Complete Vision

Climbers consume all their energy and focus to accomplish their lifelong goal to reach the top—but fail to focus on the entire procedure.

In the process of climbing Mount Rainier, where do most deaths occur?

Most deaths occur on the descent because many lack sufficient strength for this equally or more difficult task.

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So what’s stopping us?

Best Practices

versus

Next Practices: Innovation

Best Practices allow you to do a better job at what you are currently doing.

Next Practices increase your organization’s capability to do things that it has never done before.

the “Global Achievement Gap”

The Global Achievement Gap is the gap between our Best Practices School System --what our

best schools are teaching and testing

Versus

Our Next Practices School System --the skills all students will need for college, careers, and

citizenship in the 21st Century

Why is it so hard to change?

The more successful a system is, the more difficult it is to recognize when it must change.

By example, many Market Leaders are the last ones to transform.

The American Education System

“The market leader during the Industrial Era!”

Dominant logic of Market Leaders . . .

“That’s the way we do things here.”

“The way we do things here”

Expertise can sometimes be a road block to problem solving and the development of

“Next Practices”

Marshmallow Challenge: Kindergartners vs. Expert MBA’s

20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow.

Build the tallest standing structure.

MBA's performed the worst

Kindergartners were the most successful

Marshmallow Challenge

Why?

The Plan of Attack!!

Kindergartners work in prototypes.

Not one way to do it.

They launch version 1, then 2, then 3...They start building then make adjustments.

MBA's think, plan, sketch, have leadership power struggles, then build one thing...like there is only one right answer.

For Innovation

We must look at the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th best answer.

Then innovation will come.

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few."

Innovation & Change

Where do we start?

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than the solution.” - Einstein

What is the “crisis” in American education really all about ? Do we know what the “problem” really is?If it ain’t

broke don’t fix it!

Their schools

are the

problem, not

ours!

Incremental change is the only way to go!

School reform is

just another

fad.

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How many hours does the Net Generation (ages 8-18) spend per day on digital devises . . . outside of school time?

the Net Generation’s World

7 hours 38 minutes per day

What Motivates the “Net” Generation?

• Accustomed to instant gratification and “always-on” connection.

• Use the web for: (1) extending friendships, (2) interest-driven, self-directed learning, and (3) as a tool for self-expression.

• Constantly connected, creating, and multitasking in a multimedia world. . . everywhere except in school.

• Less fear and respect for authority – accustomed to learning from self and peers; want coaching, but only from adults who don’t “talk down” to them.

• Want to do interesting and worthwhile work to make their presence known in their world.

Seven Skills for College, Careers, and Citizenship

1. Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving2. Collaboration Across Networks and

Leading by Influence3. Agility and Adaptability4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism5. Effective Oral and Written Communication6. Accessing and Analyzing Information7. Curiosity and Imagination

-Harvard University Graduate school of Education -

The New Educational Challenges:“The Rock and the Hard Place”

The Rock:

The convergence of new and necessary skills for college, careers, and citizenship in a 21st Century Global World.

The Hard Place: The “Net Generation” of students who are motivated differently in their learning.

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Re-Framing the Problem

Reform or ReinventionTeaching ALL students NEW skills in their learning style is an educational challenge that requires development of new accountability structures, different ways of teaching and testing, and new ways of working together with our students.

-Harvard University Graduate school of Education -

Harvard is Redefining Rigor

• Require all students to have digital portfolios, work internships, and service learning projects.

• Doing new work in new ways, "Isolation is the enemy of improvement.”

• Every student has an adult advocate.• Transparency: Videotape teaching, supervision,

and meetings (for study, not evaluation).• Every teacher on teams for collaborative inquiry

—reviewing both student and teacher work.• Digital portfolios for teachers and leaders.

-Harvard University Graduate school of Education -

New Technology Motivates the "Net" Generation

-Harvard University Graduate school of Education -

• On-line technology must be incorporated into the classroom.

• Harvard University is attempting to redefine rigor.– Students create and submit YouTube videos to

demonstrate learning• Moving from an Information-based Learning

System to a Transformation-based Learning System.

New Technology Motivates the "Net" Generation

-Harvard University Graduate school of Education -

We must find new and creative ways to leave

our world and teach in their world.

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The Net Generation isLearning to Ask the Right Questions

• Weighing Evidence– How do we know what’s true and false? What is the evidence, and is it

credible? How does it compare to my research?• Awareness of Varying Viewpoints

– What viewpoint are we hearing? Who is the author, and what are his or her intentions? How might it look coming from someone with a different history?

• Seeing Connections/Cause and Effect– Is there a pattern to this? How are these things connected? Where have we

seen this before?• Speculating on Possibilities/Conjecture

– What if? Supposing that? Can we imagine alternatives?• Assessing Value – Both Socially and Personally

– What difference does it make? Who cares? So What?

“Times have changed. When selecting a student, I don't look at their GPA, I ask:

'What is a tough problem you have had to deal with and how did you solve it?‘”

-Tony Wagner, Innovation Education Fellow- Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard University

QUESTION?

Five beautiful and well-dressed women are standing in a tight group. One is crying, but she has never been happier. The other four are smiling, but they have never been more sad.

Why? There is more than one right answer: Beauty Pageant; Wedding Line; Neighborhood Farewell; Funeral Graveside Service (Knowing what’s in the Will)...

Cat and Refrigerator

Similarities?

Cat and Refrigerator What are the similarities?

They both purr

You can find a mouse under both

They have four legs

You can put milk in both

Both are warm on the outside and cold on the inside

Both are cold and uncaring

Both can get pretty smelly

Both emit heat

Some people say that about superintendents . . .and sometimes legislators

SB1108—Contract LawSB1110 – Pay For PerformanceSB1184 – Education Reform

However, it is usually when there is disagreement on a decision . . .

or possibly New Legislation

Pay for Performance

Salary = Base Pay + Pay for Performance

Based on Student Achievement, Growth, and Excellence

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A choice must be made. We can protest the troubling inadequacies of the present ----Or we can face them

We can talk and dream about the glorious schools of the future ----

OR TOGETHER WE CAN CREATE THEM!

Our Dilemma at the Moment:

Can we afford to move toward the Next Practices in Education?

orCan we afford not to?

We are a blessed people in education!

We are Creating“Next Practices”

In Bonneville School District 93