1. Kansas Leads the World in the Success of Each Student.
Dr. Randy Watson, Kansas Commissioner of Education

3. Kansas leads the world in the success of each student
A NEW Vision for Kansas ...
Kansas leads the world in the success of each student
Jay - This is the vision for education in Kansas and the redesign initiative is all about aligning school systems to this vision.
“Each” – personalizing learning for each student.
What do you want success to mean for your students?
KANSAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION |

4. From the first set of focus group responses, what characteristics of success were most frequently cited?
This result is a little surprising since about 66% of the respondents were educators, education administrators, or former educators—people who mostly teach, or used to teach, academic skills. Nevertheless, the soft skills—social-emotional, personality skills, or 21st century skills—they have lots of names—were cited 70% of the time.

5. The business and industry focal groups cited non-academic skills with greater frequency than the community groups:
Recall that the community groups cited non-academic skills 70% of the time and academic skills 23% of the time. These frequencies are remarkably similar to those expressed by the community groups. If volume can be equated with importance, the business and industry groups are saying that the non-academic characteristics are more important than academic skills, including applied skills, and that non-academic skills are at least as important to them as to the community groups, maybe more so.
One cited experience as a characteristic of the ideally prepared 24 year old (the tiny yellow line).

6. What Kansans want from their schools
Kansas children need quality preschool including all day kindergarten
Changes need to be made to address school culture
New dynamic roles for counselor and social workers
Collaboration between schools and businesses
Reorganize schools around students, not the system
Community service needs to play a bigger role
We also learned that Kansans believe
Every child needs access to quality preschool education
School culture needs to be addressed – we must value the student going to a two-year or certification program as much as a student attending a four-year institution.
Counselors need to be able to help students identify and explore career interests
Must be collaboration between schools and businesses to prepare students for postsecondary pursuits
Schools must be reorganized around the student, not the system to meet unique needs
Community service is an important part of preparing students for life after high school.

7. Education in Kansas in early 1900s
Over 8,000 organized school districts in In 1918, Kansas had 147,889 students in one room schools.

8. Elementary Schools in Kansas in the 1940s

9. Elementary Schools in Kansas in the 2017

10. What does this mean for our students?
In the Economic Report of the President (White House, 2016b), White House economists forecasted an 83 percent chance that workers earning less than $20 per hour will eventually lose their current jobs to automation.
Sheninger, Eric C.; Murray, Thomas C.. Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today (Kindle Locations ). ASCD. Kindle Edition.

11. Student Success
According to research at Gartner, some 65 percent of children in grade school today are predicted to work in jobs that have yet to be invented.
Given this technological revolution, how should educators respond to accelerating change? Educators and education leaders would do well to focus less on translating knowledge—notably transferring existing knowledge to students— and more on the processes of entrepreneurial learning and creativity.
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12. How Does an IPS flow into Post Secondary Success?

13. Defining Success A Successful Kansas High School Graduate has the
Academic preparation,
Cognitive preparation,
Technical skills,
Employability skills and
Civic engagement
to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.
A Successful Kansas High School Graduate has the
Academic preparation,
Cognitive preparation,
Technical skills,
Employability skills and
Civic engagement
to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.

14. Creating a Vision for Kansas – State Outcomes
Social Emotional Growth
Kindergarten Readiness
Individual Plan of Study
High School Graduation Rates
Post Secondary Completion
Among the outcomes being considered by the state board are:
High School Graduation Rates
Post Secondary Completion/Attendance
Remedial Rate of Students Attending Post-Secondary
Kindergarten Readiness
Individual Plan of Study Focused on Career Interest
Social/Emotional Growth Measured Locally
Education Commissioner Randy Watson and members of the State Board of Education will meet with business, education and state leaders to build agreement on how we will work together to achieve this vision for Kansas education.
Kansas schools are already doing tremendous work to address the needs of individual students, but in order to achieve this new vision we cannot expect schools to go it alone. This requires a unified effort with businesses, communities, parents, higher education, and elected officials working with educators to help provide the supports and experiences Kansas students need for their future success.

18. Partners in our redesign of Kansas education

19. Redesign? Personalized Project Based
Longer time with teachers (hours and years)
Immersion with parents and the community

20. Announcing...Gemini II – The Space Walk Begins

21. Gemini II Application Process
Agree to redesign one elementary and one secondary school.
Each district and school must provide evidence and have approval by school board with vote; faculty with a vote of 80 percent; and local Kansas-National Education Association or other professional organization support.
Be able and willing to completely redesign one elementary and one secondary school around the vision, outcomes and definition of a successful high school graduate.
Be able and willing to launch a new school design in the school year.

22. Gemini II Application Process
Window for application starts on February 5, 2018
Deadline for applications is April 2, 2018
Gemini II districts will be announced at the SBOE meeting on April 17, 2018

23. Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas
Today’s students are the future workforce and future leaders of Kansas. Kansans Can achieve anything and, together, Kansans Can lead the world in the success of each student.