SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION: LEARNING FAST TO IMPLEMENT WELL Office of Innovation for Education December 9, 2014 Denise T. Airola ://innovativeed.org.

SCHOOLS OF INNOVATION: LEARNING FAST TO IMPLEMENT WELLOffice of Innovation for EducationDecember 9, 2014Denise T. Airola http://innovativeed.org

Improving

teaching and

learning

Accountability for

outcomes

Change—innovation efforts

Schools of Innovation: Balancing Tension with Opportunity

Mission of the Office of Innovation for Education

Change requires individuals and groups to trust and to risk. Our mission is to be partners with you in the process—to help minimize the risk and maximize the benefits to students, educators, and communities.

It’s natural to be attached to memories of simpler times in education…even as we expect that change must come.

Often, what is not expected are the pace, magnitude and multi-dimensionality of change.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gK5MWQ__Ns

Innovation doesn’t mean you abandon what is working or what fits your community!

Where do you start? Logistics: timing and requirements. • Commissioner’s Memo 15-039 posted 11-

18-14

• Technical Assistance PPThttp://www.arkansased.org/divisions/learning-services/schools-of-innovation

• January 30, 2015 submit to ADE for review and feedback• March 16, 2015 final applications due. • Don’t forget course approval deadlines!

Form Your Council of Innovation: Don’t try to go it alone!• Generate innovative ideas and proposals of its own; • Determine a method for requesting innovative ideas and proposals from school employees, community members, and other stakeholders to be submitted to the council; • Survey, focus groups, informal interviews (one-legged)

• Receive innovative ideas and proposals from school employees, community members, and other stakeholders; • Consider all innovative ideas and proposals submitted by community members and other stakeholders; and • Determine the content and format of the plan that will be voted on by the eligible employees.

Act 601

Establish a Shared Definition of “Innovation”

• Means leveraging new or unproven methodsor tools to improve practice or solve persistentProblems;• Includes identifying tools or practices fromanother field to be applied in a new context;• Often represents an entirely new way ofThinking;• Has no rules: There is no “right” or “wrong”way to innovate; and, • Always forces important choices andtrade-offs.

Focus Beyond Compliance

Duty & Kern, 2014, So You Think You Want to Innovate? http://www.2revolutions.net/news/2Rev-TLA_Assessing_Culture_of_Innovation.pdf

Duty & Kern, 2014, So You Think You Want to Innovate? http://www.2revolutions.net/news/2Rev-TLA_Assessing_Culture_of_Innovation.pdf

Seven Factors Driving Innovation

Duty & Kern, 2014, So You Think You Want to Innovate? http://www.2revolutions.net/news/2Rev-TLA_Assessing_Culture_of_Innovation.pdf

Duty & Kern, 2014, So You Think You Want to Innovate? http://www.2revolutions.net/news/2Rev-TLA_Assessing_Culture_of_Innovation.pdf

Getting the Right Fit is Key to Success

Early innovators’ lessons learned:1. Figure out what, or whose, needs you are trying

to meet with the innovation.2. Figure out your innovative learning solution

before you select your technology.3. Consider student fit, teacher fit and leader fit—

one size does not fit all!4. Monitor and measure your efforts and results.

For more details go to: http://www.innovativeed.org/getting-right-fit-key-successful-innovation/

How do you feel about the opportunity?

Schools of

Innovation

Dream?

Design?

Dread?

Source: 2revolutions Future of Learning available at http://www.2revolutions.net/index.html

Innovative Design Parameters: Anchor Design in Core Principles

Source: 2revolutions Future of Learning available at http://www.2revolutions.net/index.html

Levers for Building: Key categories for innovating learning models

Source: 2revolutions Future of Learning available at http://www.2revolutions.net/index.html

How might you innovate to allow for more overlap among these program sectors to expand learning opportunities?

Source: 2revolutions Future of Learning available at http://www.2revolutions.net/index.html

*Ackoff on Improving Systems• Performance of the system depends on how the parts fit in the system, not on the parts individually.• Improve the parts only to improve the whole.

• Improvement must be directed at what you want—not at what you don’t want.• “What could you do right now if you could do whatever

you want?” The constraints are introduced later!

• What are the parts of your system and how well are they working together? What could you do to improve the system?

*Shared in training ADE training PPT for SOI

Where should you focus your innovation?

• Start by understanding your system.• Use your data to understand what is working and not working well in your current system. • Achievement data: strengths, concerns, gaps, opportunities• Perceptual data: students, staff, parents, community• Satisfaction with opportunities, choices, responsiveness• Perceived support and resources• Perceived engagement

• Behavioral data: engagement, attendance, tardiness, management and discipline, health, etc.

HOW DO YOU DECIDE ON SCOPE AND SCALE?Learning Fast to Implement Well

Improving: Joining improvement science to networked communities

• Anthony S. Bryk, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

• Education—We move fast and learn slow• Need a shift—Learning fast to implement well

• Engage in disciplined inquiry• Learn fast, fail fast, improve fast

Learning to ImproveCurrent Situation

Capacity Resistant Indifferent Ready

Low Confidence:Good idea, but how do we make it work?

Limited Capacity 

Very Small Scale Test 

Very Small Scale Test 

Small Scale Test  

Good Base Capacity

Very Small Scale Test

Small Scale Test

Modest Scale Test

High Confidence:Good Idea, we can make it work!

Limited Capacity 

Small Scale Test  

Modest Scale Test  

Large Scale Test 

Good Base Capacity

Modest Scale Test

Large Scale Test

Implement Wide-Spread

Office of Innovation’s RoleResource for exploring, investigating, and designing ideas and opportunities for innovation.• Connecting you to others doing/pursuing similar opportunities. • Facilitating your design process.• Researching and sharing conditions that support successful innovative solutions for students.

What we’re investigating:Blended Learning Opportunities & ChallengesPersonalizing instruction (pace, path, preference options)

Digital content & learning management systems

Competency-Based Education: Who is doing what and with what kind of results?

Reimagining college and career readiness and connecting to relevance.

QUESTIONS

Contact Us!

OIE Phone: (479) 575-4499email: [email protected] website: http://innovativeed.org