Insead

Renaissance Leadership & The Future of Schooling

Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FBPsS FRSAINSEAD ASIA, Education Club

April 10th 2015

This Presentation

Setting the Context

Defining the Challenge

Understanding Leadership

CONTEXT

7 Key Contextual Issues

• Declining per capita funding of public education linked to economics / demography

• Lack of future focus on the emerging future economy linked to the global “war” for talent – STEM versus STEAM

• Misunderstanding “public good” as “business good” and the role of private enterprise in shaping policy –the “Pearsonalization” of education

• The march of anti-professionalism in science, education and Government and the end of the “public” service

• The vendor driven technology strategy for schools – the management of learning

• Growing inequality in the developed world

• Political demands for accountability – PISA envy

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The 2 Solitudes of Educational Policy

GERM

• Standardized curriculum –STEM, 21st Century Skills

• Frequent testing

• De-professionalized teaching

• Market based systems

• Competition

Equity Movement

• Liberal curriculum – STEAM and social science

• Assessment for learning

• Collaborative professional autonomy

• Public systems

• Collaboration

Only 1 in 10 of the 450 educational reforms implemented in OECD have

produced any measurable outcomes -OECD

CHALLENGE

5 Key Challenges for Schools• Building adaptive capacity and resilience• Equity of outcomes – a great school for all• Strengthening collaborative professional autonomy and

building the design capacity of teachers• Securing the conditions of practice needed for

effective, engaged and mindful learning• Enabling leaders to lead at the level of the school• The challenge of public assurance

5 Key Challenges for P-Secondary• Equity for access, outcomes and impacts• Rethinking the design of learning and the extent of

student engagement – rebalancing the teaching : research roles of the university

• Restoring the independence of institutions and securing strategic intent

• Strengthening collaboration• Minimizing the role of business and admitting that

universities are not the engines of commercialization

Under-Determining Issues• The role of the state and public policy in shaping

practice at the level of the school, college and university – 3rd Way versus 4th Way policies

• Money – and the (re)purposing of funding• Markets – the role of capital and business in

shaping the “what” and “how” of schools, colleges and universities

• The status of teaching as a profession

LEADERSHIP

No Doubt You Have Studied..

Renaissance Leadership

Six Characteristics

• Practice Personal Mastery

• Have a glocal mindset

• Practice cross-boundary learning

• Think Back from the Future

• Lead Systematic Change

• Drive performance with a Passion

This what I see Jean P Stiles do…• Build and empower teacher

teams..• Build and empower supports for

learners and learning• Enable the student voice to be

heard• Connect to others around the

world..collaborate• Focus, focus, focus on equity as

an ambition in terms of outcomes• Never let a crisis go to waste..

But Can we Make this Even Simpler?

5 Big Messages

• Schools matter and schools need less State control and more support for leadership and teachers – also need predictable funding

• Teachers do not impact standardized test scores – they change the lives of students

• Professional teachers are worth investing in as professionals

• Worry less about skills and more about creative talents, a great school for all and equity

• Stop reforming education and lets practice designed, engaged learning

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