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Educational and Governance
Transformation:
The Pillars of School
Sustainability
Sustainability is everyone’s job
This afternoon we will:
Focus on the Board and the Director
Examine habits of financially successful
schools
Learn about Financial Equilibrium
Discuss the governance challenges you face
How do we blend educational
transformation and sustainability?
Educational
Transformation / School
Sustainability
First Thoughts
Hard vs. UncomfortableKicking the Nazis out of Europe was hard.
The Berlin airlift was hard.
Homesteading the Kansas prairie was hard.
Going to the moon.
Giving birth after twenty-four hours of labor.
Raising kids in poverty as a single mom.
Standing your post at a firebase in the grit of the
Kharangal Valley for a year.
Saying goodbye to your child as he deploys to spend
that year.http://www.grantlichtman.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/07/Lichtman-intro-for-Grant.pdf
Hard vs. UncomfortableChange at most schools is not hard; it is
uncomfortable. Sometimes it might be very
uncomfortable for some people. It can be messy,
complicated, and tiresome. Uncomfortable means
making some tough decisions. But using the
excuse that we can’t change schools because “it is
hard”?—well, we need to get some perspective on
the difference between hard and uncomfortable.
http://www.grantlichtman.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/07/Lichtman-intro-for-Grant.pdf
Magical Impossible Ideas!
Moonshot Thinking – short video
clip – thinking big / courage to try
and fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=0uaquGZKx_0
https://www.solveforx.com/
Disrupting Class by Clayton
Christensen, Michael Horn
Disrupting Class
One Room Schoolhouses
For nearly 150 years the country school was the
backbone of American Education. As late as
1913, one-half of children were enrolled in the
country’s 212,000 one-room schools.
Teaching in a one-room school was a heavy
responsibility for a single teacher who could
have a few students or up to 20 in the 8 grades.
The quality of education was determined by the
teacher’s abilities and the students themselves.
Disruptive Innovation
“… process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability characterize the industry.”
Disrupting Class, Christensen, Horn and Johnson
Disruptive Innovation
Disrupting Class
Role Of Technology – Student-Centric
(Individualized) Technology Allows Schools To
Customize The Learning Process
Technology Is The Tool To Allow Changes To
Happen In Our Schools
Technology Costs Must Be Viewed As An Ongoing
Part Of The Budget
Hybrid / Blended Learning
http://www.innosightinstitute.org/media-
room/publications/blended-learning/
Horizon Report K-12 2014
Annual collaborative effort with:New Media Consortium – www.nmc.org
Consortium for School Networking – www.cosn.org
Funded in part by HP
One of a number of studies each year including a similar report for higher education
Looks at the following:Key Trends – Fast, Mid-Range, Long-Range
Significant Challenges – Solvable / Difficult / Wicked
Important Developments – three time to adoption horizons
Key Trends Accelerating K-12 Ed
Tech AdoptionFast Trends – adoption in 1-2 years
Rethinking the Roles of Teachers
Shift to Deep Learning Approaches
Mid-Range Trends – adoption in 3-5 years
Increasing Focus on Open Content
Increasing Use of Hybrid Learning Design
Long-Range Trends – adoption in 5 or more years
Rapid Acceleration of Intuitive Technology
Rethinking How School Works
Significant Challenges Impeding
K-12 Ed Tech AdoptionSolvable Challenges – those that we understand
Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities
Integrating Personalized Learning
Difficult Challenges – solutions are elusive
Complex Thinking and Communication
Increased Privacy Concerns
Wicked Challenges – too complex to define (address)
Competition from New Models of Education
Keeping Formal Education Relevant
Important Developments in
Technology for K-12 Education
One Year or Less – time to adoption
BYOD
Cloud Computing
Two – Three Years – time to adoption
Games and Gamification
Learning Analytics
Four – Five Years – time to adoption
The Internet of Things
Wearable Technology
CoSN – Horizon K-12 Report
SMALLab LearningWhat is Embodied Learning?
Embodied learning is an
emerging field that blends the
learning sciences and human
computer interaction. Cognitive
scientists have discovered
compelling evidence that nearly
all of our experiences are in
some way grounded in the body.
This suggests that the embodied
experiences can lead to more
effective learning.
http://smallablearning.com/embodie
d_learning
Great Schools
How do you define a great school? What are
some examples of what Great Schools are
doing?
True to their mission in all decisions.
Have teachers who love and respect kids and
schools. Impassioned!
Honor the differences among children.
Leadership that is courageous.
Embrace change and engage everyone in it.
Great Schools
The Future of Education: Why Hawken Has To Lead, by D. Scott Looney
In my 28 years in education, I have never been more excitedor so fearful for the future of education and the future of this world.”
http://issuu.com/hawkenschool/doc
s/thefutureofeducation/0
Great Schools
Independent schools as an ‘industry’ are uniquely poised to lead the revolution in education for all sectors of K-12 education (perhaps even providing higher education with some ideas). Our schools have the resources, and the nimbleness to experiment, to innovate, to fail, and to lead. We have an obligation to ALL children to “swim against the tide of our misguided educational practices…”
There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a
dissident streak:
Source: Presentation by Matt Horne “ School Design – Be the Change” (Designshare.com)
Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a
hundred-year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by
what he sees.
Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes
around on electronic screens.
Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in
their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports,
hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles
him.
But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is.
"This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in
1907. Only now the blackboards are white."
Is School Relevant?
Unlike Enin, she is not going to college this fall —
she doesn't want to. She is, to put it bluntly, sick
of school and craves a break. The other day, about
a month before her graduation, I asked her: On a
scale of 1 to 10, how sick are you of school?
"Thirteen," she said.
Why?
"I just feel like it's the same thing over and over
again." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/30/voices-column-gap-
year/8513019/ Greg Toppo – USA Today 5-1-2014
Hiring a Milkshake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmbSpTJXozk
School of the Past?
School of the Future?
School of the Future?
The Future Of Education Was
Invented In 1906That’s the year Maria Montessori, who was the
first female medical doctor in Italy, opened her
revolutionary school.
People who talk about Montessori education
often talk about some of the specifics–no
grades, child-size objects, students choose
their own activities, the same set of materials
in every classroom, etc. but that’s missing the
point. Forbes Magazine, 1/22/2014
* Source: Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Indiana University
17%
66%of High School Students say they
are BORED in a class
EVERY DAY.
of High School Students
say they are BORED in
EVERY CLASS, EVERY DAY.
more real world learningmore support, individualizationadult relationships, advocates
parent involvementmore rigor, higher expectations
from a report by Civic Enterprises*
in association with Peter D. Hart Research Associates for the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, March 2006.John M. Bridgeland,
John J. Dilulio and Karen Burke Morison.
What students want?
Student Engagement
Collaborative / Project-based Learning
Innovative Learning Environments
CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS
Collaborative / Project-based Learning
Innovative Learning Environments
CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS
Collaborative / Project-based Learning
Innovative Learning Environments
CAPS, OVERLAND PARK KS
“We can’t solve
problems by
using the same
kind of thinking
we used when
we created
them.”
Albert Einstein
Enough said…..
Focus On Children /
Focus on Adults
21st Century Skills
21st Century Skills
Triarchic Theory Of Intelligence
CREATIVE SKILLS
PRACTICAL SKILLS
CONTEMPLATIVE/WISDOM BASED SKILLS
Dr. Robert Sternberg
Creative Skills
NOVEL SITUATIONS
ORIGINAL, SPONTANEOUS THINKING
Practical Skills
IDEAS INTO PRACTICE
FROM IDEAS TO ACTION
Contemplative /
Wisdom Based Skills
COMMON GOOD
UNSELFISH DEDICATION
Khan Academyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VynMS1jxBn4
The One World School House – Education
Reimagined by Salman Khan
Examples / Innovative
Schools
Lone Nuts!
Starting a movement:
http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_
sivers_how_to_start_a_movement?l
anguage=en#t-4118
Max Ventilla, AltSchool
Think about how much smarter and more responsive the websites you use every day have gotten over the last 20 years. What if the science of educating children improved at a similar rate?
“I was shocked by the degree to which the best programs and the worse programs had barely changed since I went to school in any kind of foundational way, and by the degree to which we really have diseconomies of scale.”
AltSchoolhttps://vimeo.com/81212757
AltSchool is a collaborative community of micro-schools that uses
outstanding teachers, deep research, and innovative tools to offer a
personalized “whole child” learning experience for the next
generation.
Finland
• Only a small number of independent schools exist
in Finland, and even they are all publicly
financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees.
There are no private universities, either. This
means that practically every person in Finland
attends public school, whether for pre-K or a
Ph.D.
"Oh," he mentioned
at one point, "and
there are no
private schools in
Finland."
Innovation
Beaver Country Day School, Brookline, MA
http://www.bcdschool.org/
Innovation
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School,
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.mountvernonschool.org/page
http://vimeo.com/78834107
http://cainesarcade.com/
Innovation
Philips Academy – Andover, Andover, MA
http://www.andover.edu/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.andover.edu/about/newsroom/pages/
andover-institute-launch-event-livestream.aspx
Launch of new innovation institute
InnovationHawken School, Cleveland, Ohio
http://www.hawken.edu/page/Homepage
http://www.hawken.edu/Page/Get-Ready/Global-
Online-Academy
http://issuu.com/hawkenschool/docs/thefutureof
education
http://www.hawken.edu/Page/Get-Ready/Making-
the-Most-of-Time (3:45 minute video)
High Tech High
http://gse.hightechhigh.org/ - graduate education program
http://www.hightechhigh.org/projects/ - projects
Financial Sustainability
Financially Secure Future:
Disciplined Decision Making (Collins)
Staffing Model – reducing the %
allocated to compensation
Staffing Model – Right people on the
bus in the right seats (Collins)
Reduce dependence on annual giving
(Soghoian)
Head of School / Admission Leader /
Business Officer Synergy
Disciplined Decision Making:
Balance with school culture
Staffing Model /Quality Teachers
Staffing Model / “Good To Great”
Get the right people on the bus!
Mind The Gap!
Resources
1) NAIS / Inspiration Lab: www.inspirationlab.org
2) Clayton Christensen Institute: Schools Using Hybrid / Blended Learning: http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-universe/
3) Grant Lichtman Blog / The Learning Pod: http://learningpond.wordpress.com/grant-lichtman/
4) Partnership for 21st Century Skills: http://www.p21.org/
Marc Levinson
Executive Director, MISBO
Twitter - @marcll
www.misboblog.com
404.921.3811 – office
303.250.3338 – cell