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The Next Chapter of Education: Where Best Practices Meet Next Practices

Raymond McNulty

Dean, School of Education

Senior Fellow SPN

r.mcnulty@snhu.edu

@ray_mcnulty

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2018 International University serving

more than 136,000 students

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Collaboration for Innovation and

Transformational Leadership AASA

Deb Light

AASACollaborative@SPNetwork.org

518.723.2051

#MODELSCHOOLS

Agenda

1. Setting the Stage

2. Education Landscape

3. A New Model to Think About

4. Strategies

5. Advice

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Agenda

Setting the Stage

The primary aim of

education is not to enable

students to do well in

school, but to help them

do well in the lives they

lead outside of school.

Education is not preparation for life; It is life itself.

• John Dewey

Would you agree with me, that the pace of

change is amazingly fast?

Well, the pace of change today will be the

slowest it will be for the rest of your life!

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We Live in a VUCA World!

Volatile

Uncertain

Complex

Ambiguous

There are two types of performance we must

be concerned with in a VUCA world.

•Tactical Performance

•Adaptive Performance

Operating Excellence Innovation

Tactical Performance Adaptive Performance

1. Do what we

“Already” do

even better?

2. How to invent

a different future

for the student?

Best Practices Next Practices

1. Do what we

“Already” do

even better?

2. How to invent

a different future

for the student?

School of Education

System Innovation

Next Practice

Sustaining Innovation

Disruptive Innovation

My Key Messages

Some things that were nice to have are now essential to the education system..

A Growth Mindset for Everyone in the System

Innovation is Essential/Next Practices

Compass Not a Map

There is no Finish Line

My Key Messages

Some things that were nice to have are now essential to the education system..

A Growth Mindset for Everyone in the System

Innovation is Essential/Next Practices

Compass Not a Map

There is no Finish Line

Transformation is necessary

Without “transformation” all we are getting in our schools is the digitization of past practice!

The hardest part of change is not accepting the new….

It’s in letting go of the old!

Our biggest challenge is..

The “Status Quo”

We can’t build

the future by

perfecting the past!

Change almost never fails

because it is too early.

It almost always fails

because it is too late.

Agenda

Education Landscape

Learning Has Changed Forever

eLearning isn’t the only way: Learners want to learn from multiple devices

Learners are ignoring books and learning from smartphones

Learners are learning in different ways, mostly at the point of need

Learners prefer self-paced learning, so search engines are very popular

Learners want quality information, but also value speed and convenience

Learners are prioritizing their own professional development

In the World of Education We Are Currently Witnessing an

Epic Collision of Many Trends

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• Explosive Growth in Technology

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Technology

Technology cannot do everything humans can do.

Technology is good at convergent thinking.

It is not good at divergent thinking.

“Humanics”

Uniquely human literacies such as creativity, entrepreneurship, ethics, cultural agility and the ability to work with others..

Self-directed learning

Technical literacies such as coding and data analytics.

Humanics

Consider “Content Moderation” at Facebook and other social media sites.

Technology can’t understand if a user is posting a racist review or is describing racist behavior.

• Explosive Growth in Technology

• Shifting Policy Environment

• Major Leaps in Learning Sciences

• The Drive Toward Personalization

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1. Whole Class Instruction

2. Differentiated Instruction

3. Personalized Learning

4. Personal Learning

5.Precision Learning

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• Explosive Growth in Technology

• Shifting Policy Environment

• Major Leaps in Learning Sciences

• The Drive Toward Personalization

• Economic Pressure on Our Traditional

Delivery Model

• Widespread Dissatisfaction with the

Status Quo

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Almost everyone wants schools to be better,

but almost no one wants them to be different!

First Different - Then Better

What kind of education

is needed

at this moment in

history?

First practice must change, then results,

then policy.

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Learning has expanded

at a rate that has

far outpaced our

conceptions of teaching.

Agenda

A New Model

HOW DO YOU LEARN?

How most school systems are designed

and how most of us were trained.

1 2 3PERVASIVE

CURRENT MODEL Content: Process: Mindset:

Standards Teach, Practice, Test “Will it be on

the test?”

Process drives mindset drives content.

The mindsets of the learner enable absorption of content.

1 2 3 NEXT GEN

LEARNING Process:

Personalized,

experiential,

Mindset:

“I am learning

with purpose.”

Content:

Richer/deeper definitions

of student success

discovery, embedded,

authentic

Self-Learning

I tweeted this recently…

A teacher who teaches a

student to learn without them,

prepares the student for

success in the 21st century…. @Ray_McNulty

“In the next 20 years, power will shift to the customer –

for the simple reason that the customer now has full access to

information worldwide.”

-Peter Drucker

Perhaps a change in how we think?

How would I teach this?

How would I learn this?

1:1

1:MANY

MANY:MANY

SELF-HELP

Dependence

Pedagogy

Children’s Learning Androgogy

Adults’ Learning Heutagogy

Self-directed Learning

The learner is a

dependant personality.

Teacher determines

what, how, and when

anything is learned.

Adults are independent.

They strive for autonomy

and self-direction in

learning.

Learners are

independent. They

identify the potential to

learn from unique

experiences as a matter

of course. They are able

to manage their own

learning.

Motivation

Pedagogy

Children’s Learning Androgogy

Adults’ Learning Heutagogy

Self-directed Learning

Motivation comes from

external sources - usually

parents, teachers, and a

sense of competition.

Motivation stems from

internal sources - the

increased self-esteem,

confidence, and

recognition that come

from successful

performance.

Self-efficacy, knowing

how to learn, creativity,

ability to use these

qualities in novel as well

as familiar situations and

working with others.

Role of The Teacher

Pedagogy

Children’s Learning Androgogy

Adults’ Learning Heutagogy

Self-directed Learning

Designs the learning

process, imposes

material, and is assumed

to know best.

Enabler or facilitator,

climate of collaboration,

respect, and openness.

Develop the learner’s

capability to:

● Know how to learn

● Create

● Have a high degree of

self-efficacy

● Apply competencies

● Work with others

Agenda

Strategies/Skills

ICE

School of Education

The Big Mistake

• They define themselves by what they do, rather than what they “provide”.

• You limit your ability to innovate if you define yourself by what you do.

School of Education

Delivery Skills

• Analyzing

• Planning

• Detailed Oriented Implementing

• Disciplined Executing

Discovery Skills

• Questioning

• Observing

• Networking

• Experimenting

• Associational Thinking

School of Education

Market Leader Thinking

• Dominant logic: “That’s the way we do things here.”

Shown below is the Roman

numeral seven. By adding only a

single line, turn it into an eight.

VII

• Shown below is a Roman

numeral nine. By adding only a

single line, turn it into a six.

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SIX

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• The Right Answer

Five beautiful and well-dressed women are

standing in a tight group. One is crying and

she has never been happier. The other

four are smiling and they have never been

more disappointed. Why?

The Second Right Answer

• What is the answer?

• What are the answers?

• The Right Answer

• That’s not logical

• SOFT • HARD

• Logic

• Metaphor

• Dream

• Reason

• Precision

• Humor

• Consistency

• Ambiguity

• Play

• Work

• Exact

• Approximate

• Direct

• Focused

• Fantasy

• Reality

• Paradox

• Diffuse

• Analysis

• Hunch

• Generalization

• Specifics

• Child

• Adult

• SOFT

• Metaphor

• Dream

• Humor

• Ambiguity

• Play

• Approximate

• Fantasy

• Paradox

• Diffuse

• Hunch

• Generalization

• Child

• HARD

• Logic

• Reason

• Precision

• Consistency

• Work

• Exact

• Reality

• Direct

• Focused

• Analysis

• Specific

• Adult

• SOFT

• Shades of gray

• Hard to pick up

• Many answers

• Flood light,

diffused

• HARD

• Black and white

• Easy to pick up

• Right answer

• Focused like a spot

light

Cat - Refrigerator

Agenda

ADVICE

Perfection is the enemy of success!

Entryways change at different points on the curve. While mindsets, processes, and content are optimally connected and reinforcing in a continuous

cycle, we believe educators and education systems use different points in that cycle as entryways,

depending on where they are in the Adoption Curve. We believe this understanding is crucial to

maximizing NGPL for impact.

the way to next gen content

Innovators Early Adopters Early Majority Late Majority

2.5% 13.5% 34% 34%

Trailers

16%

Early Adopters/Assemblers:

PROCESS > MINDSETS > CONTENT

(overt)

Early adopters look for a process to

engage content, but that process shifts

mindsets first.

Early and Late Majority:

CONTENT > PROCESS > MINDSETS > CONTENT

(covert)

Early/late majority look for content and recognizable

entryways but can use NGPL to absorb process on

Innovators:

MINDSETS > PROCESS >

CONTENT

Innovators come in with the mindsets,

then work on their process to engage

content meaningfully.

#MODELSCHOOLS

Collaboration for Innovation and

Transformational Leadership AASA

Deb Light

AASACollaborative@SPNetwork.org

518.723.2051

#MODELSCHOOLS

The Next Chapter of Education: Where Best Practices Meet Next Practices

Raymond McNulty

Dean, School of Education

Senior Fellow SPN

r.mcnulty@snhu.edu

@ray_mcnulty