FUTURE READY TODAY: WHERE BEST PRACTICES MEET NEXT PRACTICES Raymond J. McNulty, President @ray_mcnulty

FUTURE READY TODAY:WHERE BEST PRACTICES MEET NEXT PRACTICES

Raymond J. McNulty, President

@ray_mcnulty

“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we arecreating. The paths are not found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”

--John Schaar

Schools are Improving

School

Improvement

Schools are Improving

School

Improvement

Changing

World

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.

Making a better “20th Century School”

is not the answer.

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

Current Standards

and Assessments

CCSS and NGA

Systems are challenged today like never before and the key challenge that we face is results.

Reading Risk

Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

Reading Risk


Math Risk


Math Risk


The best strategy to use in this environment of results is to “DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE.”

Broaden the definition of learning in your system to include adults.

The focus must be on the way we work.• Cooperation is a hallmark way of doing

from the past. It is about efficiency, you do this and I will do that.

• Collaboration is what we need to focus on in our work. Collaboration is the process of shared creation. Collaboration is not anchored in the process, it’s focus is all about the specific result.

WE need to become the AGENTS of change.

First Different - Then Better

Why I Do This Work?

Themes

• Three Key Trends Impacting Us

• Non-Techie Stuff

• Best and Next Practices

• It’s About A System

• Closing Remarks

Themes


First Key Trend

• Easy access to an abundance of resources and challenges, changes our roles as educators.

• Sense Making

• Coaching

• Credentialing

Second Key Trend

• People expect to be able to learn, study and work whenever and wherever they want.

Effective and Efficient Practices

John Hattie…. Visible Learning

Synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement.

Third Key TrendThird Key Trend

Effect Size

• 1.0 indicates one standard deviation typically associated with advancing children’s achievement by two or more years (improving the rate of learning by 50%)

• Hattie set a bench mark of .40 as the minimal desired effect

Some data• Student expectations of self 1.44

• Providing formative evaluation .90

• Formative Processes

• Teacher Clarity .75

• Class size .21

• Retention .16

Themes


Intentionally Non-Compliant Student

The Fundamental Attribution Error

• When we look at our own behavior we tend to situation that surrounds our action.

• When we look at the behavior of others we tend to make assumptions about their personal qualities.

The Effects of Praise

• Fixed Mindset / Growth Mindset

• Can’t hand confidence to learners on a silver platter.

Social Skills• We are really good at things like content

skills, rules, regulations, strategies, etc. but we are terrible at discussing and coaching on social skills.

• David Brooks, “The Social Animal”

Talking with kids…

It’s not us against them!

CULTURE DRIVES STRATEGY

TO DO THE JOB WELL

• QUANTITATIVE DATA

• QUALITATIVE DATA

• GREAT QUESTIONS…

Teacher – Student Comparisons

T – I encourage students to explore things they find interesting. 94%

S – I’m encouraged to explore things I find interesting. 68%

Teacher – Student Comparisons

T – I am aware of my students’ interests outside of school.

85%

S – My teachers know my interests outside of school.

29%

• Technical Challenges

• Culture Challenges

• Leading and Lagging Indicators

Themes


Best practices allow you to do what you are

currently doing a little better.

Best practices allow you to do what you are

currently doing a little better.

Next practices increase your organization’s capability

to do things it has never done before.

System Innovation

Sustaining Innovation

Next Practice

Disruptive Innovation

A Story….• Not a bad idea, but to

earn a grade more than a C+, the idea has to be viable! (Yale Professor)

• Fredrick Smith

• The idea FedEx

-Shurnyu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the

expert’s mind there are few.”

First practice must change, then results, then policy.

It’s All About a System!

Third Key TrendTheme

Aligned for Success

• Doctors/Nurses in Hospitals• Pilots in Flight• Teachers in a School System

Teaching

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Leadership

Student Achievement

Rigor and relevance

Relationships

Content

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Current Assessments

Next Generation Assessments

Culture

Vision

Structure and

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Organizational Leadership

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Organizational Leadership

1. Create a culture 2. Establish a shared vision 3. Align organizational structures and

systems to vision4. Build leadership capacity 5. Align teacher / administrator selection,

support, and evaluation 6. Support decision making with data systems

High expectations

Curriculum

Literacy and math

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Instructional Leadership

Use Data to set High

Expectations

Align C

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Standards

Integrate Literacy and Math

across Curriculum

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Instructional Leadership

1. Use research to establish urgency for higher expectations

2. Align curriculum to standards3. Integrate literacy and math across all content

areas4. Facilitate data-driven decision making to

inform instruction 5. Provide opportunities for focused professional

collaboration and growth

Teaching

Organ

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Leadership

Student Achievement

Themes




• It’s About A System

• Closing Remarks

IF WE WANT..• Children to be learners who think, read,

reason and express themselves effectively in multiple ways…

• Then we must show them thoughtful people eager to take in and use new information.

IF WE WANT..• Our children to be brave and resourceful

when confronted with the unknown…

• Then they must see us taking risks and finding new ways to move ahead.

IF WE WANT..• A new and better educational system that

educates all our children for success in the 21st Century….

• We will have to be new and better leaders in our profession so that we can be “Develop the Next Practices needed to educate our students well”

• Effective and efficient approaches to increasing student achievement • Successful practices for teaching and learning from the nation’s most rapidly

improving schools• Practical strategies for using rigor, relevance, and relationships to increase

instructional effectiveness• Innovative tools and resources to support the transition to more rigorous

assessments

www.modelschoolsconference.com

Current System

Something Different

The Horse

The Automobile

Henry Ford quote…

“If I had asked the public what they wanted,

they would have said a faster horse.”

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FUTURE READY TODAY: WHERE BEST PRACTICES MEET NEXT PRACTICES Raymond J. McNulty, President @ray_mcnulty