The Changing Landscape of Education: Leadership in Wisconsin Raymond J. McNulty,

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 20 th Century School is not the answer.

We are getting better at things that do not matter as much anymore.

Unless we unlearn some of our traditional practices, we will never get beyond an improvement mindset.

The Boston Globe Ray, reading the paper on your Kindle or online just isnt the same!

Almost everyone wants schools to be better, but almost no one wants them to be different.

Teacher – Student Comparisons T – I make learning exciting for my students. 86% S – My teachers make learning fun. 41%

First Different - Then Better

Why I do this work…..

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination. --John Schaar

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

In an environment driven by results, the best strategy is to DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE. Broaden the definition of learning in your system to include adults.

I believe the future is not about the latest gadgets, it is about something more than gadgets, its about … LEARNING

Adult Learning Year! 2011

The focus must be on the way we work. Cooperation is what was valued in the past. It is about efficiency: You do this and I will do that. Collaboration is where we should focus. It is about shared creation, in which the focus is not on the process but on the specific results.

WE need to become the AGENTS of change.

First practice must change, then results, then policy.

Themes 1.Best and Next Practices 2.Some key trends 3.Why is change so hard? 4.Closing remarks

Theme Best and Next Practices

Best practices allow you to do what you are currently doing a little better. Next practices increase your organizations capability to do things it has never done before.

SystemInnovation

Sustaining Innovation Next Practice

Disruptive Innovation

Expertise (the way we do things around here) can be a road block to problem solving and to the development of Next Practices.

We have a flawed perspective of always listening to our best customers… They tell us how good the system is working for them!

BANKING Sears IBM Xerox

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 beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there are few.

A Common Mistake Mount Rainier

Solid Implementation Focus… positive change is more likely when you simplify the number of initiatives you undertake Fidelity of Implementation… do an incredible job of monitoring Leading and Lagging Indicators

The work becomes more difficult. School improvement is a process of uncovering and solving progressively more difficult challenges around student learning (low hanging fruit theory) This requires new learning from the adults.

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.

Theme Some key trends

First Key Trend Our roles as educators is challenged by easy access to an abundance of resources Sense Making Coaching Credentialing

Second Key Trend People expect to be able to learn, study and work whenever and wherever they want.

The world outside of school is increasingly collaborative. We must reflect upon the way student projects are structured and graded and how teachers work. Third Key Trend

Effective and Efficient Practices John Hattie…. Visible Learning Synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. Third Key Trend Fourth Key Trend

Effect Size 1.0 indicates one standard deviation typically associated with advancing childrens 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 Teacher Clarity.75 Class size.21 Retention.16

Intentionally Non-Compliant Student

The Fundamental Attribution Error When looking at our own behavior, we tend to view the situation in the environment that surrounds our action. When looking at the behavior of others, we make assumptions about their personal qualities.

The Effects of Praise Fixed or Growth Cant hand confidence to learners on a silver platter.

David Brooks, The Social Animal

Theme Why it is so hard to change?

Why is it so hard to change? The more successful a system is, the more difficult it is to recognize when it must change. By example, market leaders are the last ones to transform. The American Education System, The market leader during the industrial era!

Market Leader Thinking Dominant logic: Thats the way we do things here.

VII Shown below is the Roman numeral seven. By adding only a single line, turn it into an eight.

IX Shown below is a Roman numeral nine. By adding only a single line, turn it into a six.

SIX

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Mental Locks We dont need to be creative for most of what we do (driving, shopping, business of living). So staying on routine thought paths enables us to do many things without having to think about it. Our training in school has taught us that there is one right answer.

The Right Answer

Five beautiful and well-dressed woman are standing in a tight group. One is crying and she has never been happier. The other four are smiling and they have never been more disappointed. Why?

The Second Right Answer What is the answer? What are the answers?

The Right Answer Thats not logical

SOFTHARD

Logic Metaphor Dream Reason Precision Humor Consistency Ambiguity Play Work Exact Approximate Direct Focused Fantasy Reality Paradox Diffuse Analysis Hunch Generalization Specifics Child Adult

SOFT Metaphor Dream Humor Ambiguity Play Approximate Fantasy Paradox Diffuse Hunch Generalization Child HARD Logic Reason Precision Consistency Work Exact Reality Direct Focused Analysis Specific Adult

SOFT Shades of gray Hard to pick up Many answers Flood light, diffused HARD Black and white Easy to pick up Right answer Focused like a spot light

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Themes 1.Best and Next Practices 2.Some key trends 3.Why is change so hard? 4.Closing remarks

The Changing Landscape of Education: Leadership in Wisconsin Raymond J. McNulty,