EDUPRENEURS: Lessons from educational pioneers on how to lead future-focused change

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Do you think it is time for leaders to challenge the status quo, embrace fresh thinking and adapt for the future? The thinking and practices of educational leadership that have secured improvement in the past will not be sufficient for the challenges of the future. To keep pace with a rapidly shifting, globalised world, C21st educational leaders at all levels must adopt flexible mindsets and develop the competencies to make change happen. EDUpreneurship represents an action-oriented and solution-focused philosophy of educational leadership that seeks to break free from ‘schooling-as-usual’. As courageous leaders, at all levels, step into EDUpreneurship they seek to embrace change, think counter-intuitively and execute on innovative solutions to improve student learning.

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EDUpreneurship!!

@simonbreakspear

LEARNLABS

www.simonbreakspear.com

Simon BreakspearFounder and CEO of LearnLabs!!Simon Breakspear is recognised internationally as a leading thinker on the future of learning and educational innovation. Simon is the founder and CEO of LearnLabs, a global learning strategy and design agency, that helps school, system, policy and business leaders design and deliver high-impact strategies to enable 21st Century learning at scale. He has worked with and spoken to leaders across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the UK, Europe, Canada, Israel, Hong Kong and India. !!As a passionate educator and learning strategist, Simon works on systemic challenges in education reform and redesign. He also advises EdTech start-ups around the globe that are seeking to develop disruptive education models to improve the quality and equity of student learning. Simon holds a first class honours degree in Psychology, a Bachelor of Teaching, a MSc. in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford, and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. He was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford

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LEARNING HAS NEVER !BEEN MORE !IMPORTANT

EDUCATION MUST!BE REDESIGNED

WHO WILL WRITE THE FUTURE LEARNING STORY? !!

NETWORKED EDUPRENEURS WITH A COMPELLING VISION FOR LEARNING

THE FUTURE OF LEARNING WILL BE CO-CREATED!

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5 COMPETENCIES!of EDUpreneurs![Designed For Action not Reflection]

What can we learn from education pioneers and innovators from around the globe?!

2. EXPLORE

PURPOSE DRIVEN IMPACT

1. Question

3. ITERATE

4. SCALE5. HUSTLE

QUESTION1

Become relentless and insistent on shifting the status quo

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What if … ?!!

How might we …?

Disruption Over Delivery Questions

Harness Passion as a Driver for Change

Continually learn from the best ideas inside and outside of education.

EXPLORE2

Stuck in same...

Tinkering towards Utopia

A new vision for learning and teaching !

Rapidly accelerate ideation through connecting with the best educational ideas on the planet

The cost of being on the leading-edge is $0

Meet Stephen Harris, Principal, !Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning

Strategically seek out ideas from outside education

Medici effect: Breakthrough insights come at the intersection of ideas, disciplines, perspectives, concepts and cultures.

Be PERPETUALLY

Create & improve new solutions through rapid prototyping.

ITERATE3

MAKE and DO rather than think

& meet

Launch, launch and reiterate

Ship it.

Bias towards action

Go. Go. Go

PIVOT or PERSEVERE

Reframe Failure as Learning

Scale your idea to impact the lives of as many learners as possible.

SCALE4

10xMultiply your vision

Fazle Hasan Abed

--> Reaches 138 million of the poorest people in nine countries in Asia and Africa

"Small may be beautiful, but big is necessary"

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!We need to let go of your ideas

Make your idea contagious

Leverage the new tools for mass organisation

without hierarchy

Scale a movement: Networks over hierarchy

PioneersLone

EcosystemInnovation

Demonstrate resourcefulness and ingenuity to find a way forward.

HUSTLE5

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

- Thomas Edison

Execute. Execute. Execute.

Embrace Constraints as Drivers

2. EXPLORE

PURPOSE DRIVEN IMPACT

1. Question

3. ITERATE

4. SCALE5. HUSTLE

Steward of the Status Quo !

OR

Architect of New Learning Designs

Go. Make Innovation Happen.

"Unless someone like you.... cares a whole awful lot, ....nothing is going to get better...... It's not." ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Dr. Seuss!

Let’s redesign learning

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