The Next Chapter of Education: Join the Revolution or Accept the Status Quo Raymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLE Chief Learning Officer, Penn Foster [email protected]
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Mar 26, 2015
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The Next Chapter of Education: Join the Revolution or Accept
the Status QuoRaymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLE
Chief Learning Officer, Penn [email protected]
Do You Really Believe…
• We just need to be a little bit better?
• CCSS and NGA is all the change we need?
• Students are getting what they need to be successful in the 21st Century?
Current System
Something Different
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.
“EPIC WIN”
Against all odds you create
breakthrough.
Themes• The World Today• Next Practices• System Change• Challenges Ahead• Variety of Leadership Skills• Some Straightforward Advice• Final Point
Themes
• The World Today
Apps
More than 1 million mobile applications, from games to
life- saving apps that monitor every heartbeat
Why did apps succeed?
• Apps are personal and niche.• Users customize their smartphones with
the apps that appeal to them most, often sharing their favorites with friends.
• Apps are interactive.
Does this apply in education?
• Apps are personal and niche.• Users customize their smartphones with
the apps that appeal to them most, often sharing their favorites with friends.
• Apps are interactive.
Blended Learning
Blended Models
Sit back and let the wind fill your sails for the next few minutes!
THINK DIFFERENTLY
RE-IMAGINE
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Our History
Thomas J. Foster
• In 1890, Thomas J. Foster identified an
untapped market of blue collar workers
looking to improve their lives and offered
distance learning as a way to achieve these
outcomes
• Mission: “Provide practical men with a
technical education and technical men with
a practical education.”
• His courses opened the door to job
advancement and an improved
socioeconomic status for the students
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Penn Foster: The Leading Provider of Affordable Distance Learning
“EPIC WIN”
Education
If you are focused on seat time you are focused on
the wrong end of the student.
Education
The education industry thinks technology adds
cost; all other industries use technology to drive
down costs.
EducationEducation does everything that it always has and then bolts on technology, which is where the added cost comes from. Other industries use technology to
change the way they do things, which is where the cost savings
comes from.
Kids Today• Learn anywhere, anytime, with
and from anyone• Always on, always connected,
expecting collaboration• Need to be engaged and
involved• Demand personalized learning
experiences
Theme
Next Practices
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
Theme
System Change
Making a better “20th Century School”
is not the answer.
Current System
Something Different
Simply said, we get what we design for!
SUCCESS BY CHANCE
SUCCESS BY DESIGN
Too many schools, districts, and systems
are reactive rather than strategic.
COREOptimizing existing systems
TRANSFORMATIONAL
ADJACENTExpanding from existing to new ways of working
Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now
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TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM
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Practices
Next
Practices
CB
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A – Incremental Change
B – Innovative Change
C – Transformative Change
COREOptimizing existing systems
TRANSFORMATIONAL
ADJACENTExpanding from existing to new ways of working
Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now
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TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM
•Dennis Littky•Russ Quaglia•Sue Zach•Bill Daggett•Sue Gendron
•Nai Wang
Theme
Challenges Ahead
Challenges Ahead
• The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported in current systems.
• Training in the use of digital media is lacking.
• Institutional barriers present formidable challenges.
• Blending of formal and “informal” learning.
Challenges Ahead
• Learning that incorporates real life experiences is undervalued.
• Many activities related to learning and education take place outside the walls of the classroom and are not part of traditional metrics.
Bloom’sBloom’s
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
(NOUNS)
Revised Bloom’sRevised Bloom’s
Applying
Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Understanding
Remembering
(VERBS)
Rigor/Relevance Framework®
What does it take to “lead” in this environment?
Theme
A Variety of Leadership Skills
• Being on top of your game today requires a balance of traditional skills mixed with innovation skills
• Stability, control, and standardization mixed with uncertainty, ambiguity, innovation, and disruptive thinking
The skill set to do this:
We all work hard to efficiently deliver the next thing that should be done given the existing system we are in…..
Delivery Skills
• Analyzing
• Planning
• Detailed-Oriented Implementing
• Disciplined Executing
The transformative leader incorporates skills from a far different dimension.
• Why accept the status quo?
• Look for new and better ways!
• Steve Jobs: “I want to put a ding in the universe!”
Discovery Skills
• Questioning
Question Storming
• What is…
• What caused…
• Why… Why not…
• What if…
Why do we breakup content into disciplines and structure learning that way?
Discovery Skills• Questioning
• Observing
• Networking
• Experimenting
• Associational Thinking
• Delivery Skills
• Analyzing
• Planning
• Detail Oriented Implementing
• Disciplined Executing
• Discovery Skills
• Questioning
• Observing
• Networking
• Experimenting
• Associational Thinking
• Are you good at generating innovative ideas?
• Do you know how and where to find innovative people in your system?
Theme
Some Straightforward Advice
Ignore the real world
The inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair.
They expect new ideas to fail.They assume society isn’t
ready.
Planning is guessingUnless you are a fortune teller
“long-term planning” is a fantasy.
Timing of long-range plans are backwards; you have better information when you are doing something, not before you do it.
Live it or leave it
There’s a world of difference between truly standing for something and having a mission statement that “says” you stand for something.
Embrace Constraints
We do not have enough money, time, people, or experience.
Less is a good thing as limited resources force us to make good decisions with what we have. There’s no room for waste.
Effectiveness and Efficiency Framework
High Cost
Low Cost
High Student Performance
CC DD
AA BBLow Student Performance
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Culture
Culture is a by-product of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, sharing will be built into the culture.
As will be trust, etc.
Themes• The World Today• Next Practices• System Change• Challenges Ahead• Variety of Leadership Skills• Some Straightforward Advice• Final Point
COREOptimizing existing systems
TRANSFORMATIONAL
ADJACENTExpanding from existing to new ways of working
Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now
TR
AD
ITIO
NA
LL
Y S
UC
CE
SS
FU
L L
EA
RN
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S T
O M
OS
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IST
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TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM
CB
A
A – Incremental Change
B – Innovative Change
C – Transformative Change
Our Focus
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt32nd President of the United States
of America
“EPIC WIN”
New Daily Plan•Wake Up
•Be Amazing
•Go To Bed
The Next Chapter of Education: Join the Revolution or Accept
the Status QuoRaymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLE
Chief Learning Officer, Penn [email protected]
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