Common Core Standards Ready for College, Work, and Life

Common Core StandardsReady for College, Work, and Life

A framework around which teachers can create a collectively built body of effective knowledge and practice.

A framework for education workforce talent development from preparation through accomplished teaching.

A Game Changer: From Artisan Teaching

to Professional Collaboration in Genuine Learning Organizations

Fiscal Shift

Demographic Shift

Open Learning Ecosystem

Driving Forces Will Transform the Culture of Teaching and Learning

Stop Fixing the Schools We Have…….And Create the Schools We Need

Focus on redesigning core structures and processes and creating new roles, rules, relationships, and tools.

Focus on balancing individual capacity building with organizational capacity building.

Focus on system alignment that supports collaborative policy and practice development across levels.

Quality Teaching is a Team Sport.

Learning is no longer preparation for a job…learning is the job.And teamwork is the way the job gets done.

We need to remodel our schools into learning organizations that support:

deeper learning; more effective teaching; higher impact community engagement.

We Are Living in the Learning Age

College, Careers, and Civic Engagement

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Next Generation Learning TeamsNext Generation Talent Development Next Generation AssessmentNext Generation Accountability

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Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

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Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

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Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

2007-08

Source: Richard M. Ingersoll. University of Pennsylvania, original analyses for NCTAF of Schools and Staffing Survey.

From Perry Mason…to Legal Teams

From Dr. Kildare…to Medical Teams

From the Stand-Alone Teacher of the 1950s…

…to the Stand-Alone Teacher of the 21st Century

From Good Teachers to Great Teaching

Effective Teaching is a Team Sport.NCTAF: Highly Qualified Teachers

in Schools Organized for Success. Fullan: Individual AND Collective

Capacity Building.

Teams Are Not CommunitiesTeacher Artisans: Solo Practitioners.

Professional Learning Communities (Guilds and Independent Teams): Artisan Teachers Collaborate to Improve Individual Capacity & Performance.

Learning Teams: Teachers Orchestrate Diverse Knowledge and Skills of Interdependent Members to Achieve Greater Impact Than Solo Artisans.

Principles of Effective Learning Teams

Shared Values & Goals

Self-Directed Reflection

Authentic Assessment

Stable Settings

Collective Responsibility

Strong Leadership

National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future

Learning Studios: Deeper Learning, More Effective Teaching, Higher Impact Community Engagement.

Educator Development Studios: Competency-Based, Inquiry Projects (PBL), Support Educator Talent Development.

Networked Learning Studios: Socially Networked Innovation Space.

1420 K Street, NW Suite 1000Washington, DC 20005

Tom Carroll, President [tcarroll@nctaf.org]

Elizabeth Foster, Director, Next Generation Educators [efoster@nctaf.org]

www.nctaf.org