Transcript Millennials - Lower Hudson Regional Information Center

Leadership for
Systemic Change
Susan D. Patrick
President and CEO
North American Council for Online
Learning
Thank you
“nature wears the color of the spirit”
 Environment vs. Leadership Strategy
 This morning’s talk about leadership:
understanding the environment and how
21st century leadership requires 21st
century tools: innovation, creativity and
technology
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1952
In the last 3 years
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Travelled to China
 Serious
about leapfrogging US for world dominance
 See technology and e-learning as the major strategy
to succeed
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Mexico
 Digitized
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all K-12 content: quality, online and free
45 of 50 U.S. States
 See
creative new models emerging from grassroots
GLOBAL
ECONOMY
Global Perspective
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China, India and Russia: 3 billion
Intel Science Competition 2004
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65,000 Americans entered
 6 million Chinese students
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Google news alert for e-learning, online learning
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10-15 articles daily
 China, India, Japan, Korea, European Union, Australia, UK, Ghana, etc.
 None are of the U.S. developing a new education strategy centered,
powered by online learning
68% H.S. Graduation Rate
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Prepare them for the world they are
entering
 68%
graduate high school
 26% make it to sophomore year
 80% of jobs require postsecondary education
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U.S.
 31%
proficiency in reading at the 3rd grade
Neil Postman
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“We start school as a question mark and
end as a period.”
System Design
System is doing what it was designed to
do
 B. Banathy writes on transformation and
systems design in education
 Industrial goal for education: 25% of
students to college
 Time and motion studies in the factory age
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Transformation vs.
integration
•Systemic Change; systems theory.
$8700/pupil – 31%
•21st century learning environments
-online
Aligning Environments to the
Real World
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From an agrarian, industrial to a
knowledge-based economy . . .
Students today are online, multitasking,
highly productive. Students learn
quickly, manage and are responsible for
their own learning. They are online and
ultra communicators. They learn new
communication skills, learn just-in-time,
and are digital. They are flexible,
critical and creative.
1900s
Picture a school; hardware store; farm;
hospital
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One Goal
Student Learning
 About the kids
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.”
Socrates
A phrase changed my life . . .
 “The unexamined life is not worth living”. –
Plato, The Republic
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Who Are Our Students?
Largest generation (36% of total
population).
 31% are minorities; more diverse than the
adult population.
 Have come of age along with the Internet.
 Information has been universally available
and free to them; community is a digital
place of common interest, not just a
shared physical space.
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Rise of the Millennials
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Studies show that they are a capable,
conscientious, concerned and optimistic
generation, determined to succeed:
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96 percent say that doing well in school is important to their lives.
94 percent say they plan to continue their education after high school.
90 percent of children between 5 and 17 use computers.
94 percent of teens use the Internet for school-related research.
Teens spend more time online using the Internet than watching television.
High school and college students spend nearly $400 billion a year.
And they increasingly are involved in making spending decisions for their
parents.
Internet Use by Age
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
2-5
2000
6-8
2002
9-12
12-15 16-18 19-24 25-35 36-45 46-55 56-65
Age
65+
Younger Children on a Fast
Track
12th Graders
Perceptions About School
60%
50%
39%
40%
28%
30%
21%
20%
10%
0%
School work is often or always
meaningful
1983
Courses are quite or very interesting
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1995
School learning will be quite or very
important in later life
2000
Millennials influence the present
and are the future.
Pay close attention to them, as
their usage of media influences
other demographic groups and
they literally represent the
world to come.
Yahoo: Born to Be Wired
What Are They Telling Us?
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Today’s students feel strongly about the positive value of
technology and use it in nearly every aspect of their
lives.
They are more comfortable with computers than their
parents – and their teachers.
What they are telling us is they want to help us
understand this great new world of technology and its
vast possibilities.
And they want us to listen to them.
What Are They Telling Us?
“We have technology in our
blood.”
-- High School Student
We are the adults
We’re in charge
 What are we going to do about it?
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The mind stretched to a new idea never
returns to its original dimension.”
Leadership = TIP
Trust
 Integrity
 Passion
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Creativity and Risk-taking
Your creativity is highest at 6
 Lowest point: terminal seriousness at 44
 Bounce at retirement
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C. Thompson
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What a Great Idea: “The software in your two and a half pound
brain spends twenty-four hours per day producing and processing
ideas. When your brain is in sleep mode we call the idea production
"dreaming." When you are awake and looking out the window, we
call it "daydreaming." When you are awake and focused on a task
we call it "thinking." Today, ideas are a currency of the future. For
example, exchange an idea with an associate at lunch. You both
walk away with two ideas. Ideas are additive in nature and allow us
to think in terms of abundance rather than in terms of scarcity.”
Be curious first
Add creative stimuli
Ask great questions
Think in opposites
Neurobics
From www.WhatAGreatIdea.com:
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Listen to a new radio station on the way to work.
Move your watch to your other arm.
Sit in a different seat in meetings or at the dining table.
Mix and match your clothes combinations.
Drive to/from work a different way.
Use the mouse with your other hand.
Start a new hobby.
Read aloud in bed to your partner.
After reading, use your imagination.
Try at least 1 new sport/hobby/activity every year in your “new
years list”
Top 10 Idea Friendly Places
From www.WhatAGreatIdea.com:
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In an ongoing survey, the top ten places where we get
our ideas are:
1. Cutting the grass.
2. Listening to a church sermon.
3. Waking up in the middle of the night.
4. Exercising.
5. Reading.
6. During a boring meeting.
7. Falling asleep or waking up.
8. Sitting on the toilet.
9. Driving.
10. Taking a bath or a shower.
Top 10 Killer Phrases
From www.WhatAGreatIdea.com:
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It'll never work.
I don't have time.
It's not in the budget.
The boss will never go for it.
We tried that before.
That sounds like something my kids would say.
Let's get a committee to look into this.
Because I said so.
Great idea, but not for us.
It's out of scope.*
*Consultanese for "We don't get paid to look here."
Madeline L’Engle
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“In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self control
which he normally clings to, and is open to riding the
wind. Something almost always happens to startle us
during the act of creating, but not unless we let go our
adult intellectual control and become as open as little
children. This does not mean to set aside or discard the
intellect, but to understand that it is not to become a
dictator, for when it does we are closed off from
revelation.” - Madeline L'Engle, Walking on Water, p75
"Changes in our lives may not come as abruptly as for the young; yet we grow and
change, and enter upon new journeys or new seasons, and are withal as much at sea (at
least, much of the time) as any novice facing the world."
Risk-taking "...is an old-fashioned theme, for nowadays we go to great lengths to avoid
risks.
....Yet something of an older bias lingers, and we are reminded now and then of times ...
when it seemed better to put all save honor in jeopardy than to look too long before taking
a leap. Somehow these seem to have been the best of times, and we would fain recapture
their zest and assurance."
People may "plod along without vision, being naively surprised when things turn out well,
and disillusioned or cynical if they go ill. They might be standing on the edge of a cliff
while remarking on how solid the road is; or they arrive at a little Eden and assume it is
only one more motel along the highway of life.“
August Heckschel, "The Risk-takers," C. S. Monitor, 6-19-81, p. 20.
BREAK
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Goals
Challenges or Issues
21st Century leadership
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What is your goal?
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What are the 3 biggest issues or challenges you have
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My goal is to enable every student to access the best educational opportunities regardless of
geography, background, time, place
Embrace diversity and celebrate it by customization and personalization
Align learning environments to the 21st century
Educentric iceberg
Resistance to change
Decision-making without listening to students
Think about what 21st century leadership means to you
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Ensuring every dollar spent is on 21st century learning environments
Preparing students to succeed in global economy
Giving every student the options available
Where We Are Today
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Over the past 20 years America invested hundreds of
billions of dollars in education, yet reading and math
scores remained essentially flat.
Today change is in the air. Innovative approaches. New
appreciation of technology.
We see a new excitement in the vast possibilities of the
digital age for changing how we learn and teach.
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NAEP Reading Scores (Age 9) and
ESEA Funding (in 2004 dollars)
ESEA Funding (constant
dollars)
Reading Score
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235
10
5
0
1984
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2000
2002
185
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NAEP Scale Score
Funding (in billions of dollars)
285
Change is in the air.
 There is a new fervor in American
education, a new creativity that bodes well
for the future of our country.
 Input from thousands of people; 210,000
students
We are already seeing remarkable results
through better use of technology and
online learning.
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Examples
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Montgomery County, MD: an elementary school: “one
principal told me –We can answer ANY question with
60 seconds. We have the data.”
We have a culture of data. Walk into a classroom.
MATURE DATA MODEL -- perishable
Can see how many days since the last assessment;
formative, for instruction
High Tech High
Broward County, FL – includes change management
in leadership training
St Louis
Tear Down Those Walls: The
Revolution is Underway
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Creative new teaching models are emerging that
embrace technology to redesign curricula and
organizational structures.
The results in educational achievement often have been
striking.
Over the past five years there has been an explosive
growth in online and multimedia instruction and “virtual
schools.”
Explosion in E-Learning and
Virtual Schools
Distance Education for Public Schools
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328,000 enrollments in 2002-2003
50% of districts offered Advanced Placement or collegelevel courses
Technologies
 Small districts/rural use 2-way video, synchronous
 Large and urban use Internet, asynchronous
Distance Education Growth
Distance education is gaining popularity
 One-third of public school districts have
students enrolled in distance education
courses
 Of these districts, 72% plan to expand
their distance education courses
 Distance education provides more course
options to public school students,
especially in rural areas
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Distance Education at DegreeGranting Postsecondary Institutions:
2000-2001
56% of all 2-year and 4-year institutions
offer e-learning courses
 3,077,000 enrollments in distance
education courses
 90% use asynchronous Internet based
courses
 51% use two-way interactive
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Chinese Proverb
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“Better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness.”
Success Stories from States, Districts
and Schools Leading the Way
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Chugach School District, Alaska
Poway Unified School District, California
Henrico County Schools, Virginia
Florida Virtual School
West Virginia Virtual School
Louisiana Online Professional Development
Virginia Online Assessment and Data Systems
New Mexico Reading First Handheld Assessment
Pennsylvania school-home connections
Toward a New Golden Age in
American Education:
How the Internet, the Law and Today’s Students
are Revolutionizing Expectations
National Education Technology Plan:
The Future is Now
Seven Action Steps and
Recommendations
1. STRENGTHEN LEADERSHIP
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Invest in leadership development programs to ensure a
new generation of tech-savvy leaders.
Retool administrator education programs to provide
training in data-driven decision making and
organizational change.
Develop partnerships between schools, higher education
and the community.
Encourage creative technology partnerships with the
business community.
Empower students’ participation in the planning process.
Leader Self-Audit:
Levels of Leadership
Stone Age
Relies on paper methods to
manage education enterprise
Nomad
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Manages
education enterprise
with inconsistent approaches to
educational goals
Identifies success and
manages “by anecdote”
Projects
Does not use data for
informing decisions
“Fad
Conqueror
One
time commitment to a
technology service or product
Broader
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come and go as
budget and staff move
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vision with no longterm process redesign; overlay
on existing structures and
methods
surfing”
Invests
Unsure or unwilling to change
or improve processes
Falls
Relies on old methods to “light
fires”
Tries
Goals:
 Basic access to computers
(5:1, computer labs)
 Achieving parity without tying it
to academic mission or systemic
changes
Goals:
 New pilots and experiments
with technology
 Adds individual components
 Not systemic
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into short-term traps, not
long-term solutions
to update through
established processes
in technologies and
training without going through
systemic change first
Revolutionary
Continuous
improvement and
process redesign for future
success aligned with school
reform and improvement plans
Clear
mission of student
achievement and accountability
Restructuring
and reallocation
to support process redesign
Overhauling
Delegates
change
management
and action for
systemic change
Boundary-less
Scans
environments, watches
presentations, fails to act on
systemic change
behavior;
openness, removes barriers to
new opportunities
Lower
Goals: “Tuning versus overhaul”
risks of experimentation
and innovation; rewards
innovators to accelerate learning
Goals: Success based on
student achievement and 21st
Century Skills; decision-making
empowered by real-time data
and continuous improvement
2. CONSIDER INNOVATIVE
BUDGETING
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Consider a systemic restructuring of budgets to realize
efficiencies, cost savings and reallocations. This can include
reallocations in expenditures on textbooks, instructional supplies,
space and computer labs.
Consider leasing with 3-5 year refresh cycles.
Create a technology innovation fund to carry funds over yearly
budget cycles.
Aligning Every Dollar
21st century leadership
 21st century learning environments
 21st century skills
 Every dollar spent on 21st century tools?
 Cost per student per day: 1:1 and digital
content
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 Cost
of textbooks vs. cost of laptop
3. IMPROVE TEACHER TRAINING
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Teachers have more resources available through
technology than ever before, but have not received
sufficient training in the effective use of technology to
enhance learning.
Teachers need access to research, examples and
innovations as well as staff development to learn best
practices.
Every teacher has online training
4. SUPPORT E-LEARNING AND
VIRTUAL SCHOOLS
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Provide every student access to e-learning.
Enable every teacher to participate in e-learning
training.
Develop quality measures and accreditation
standards for e-learning that mirror those traditionally
required for course credit.
Gallup Poll
October 2005
 40% of adults want students to take an
online class for graduating from high
school
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Opportunities in E-Learning and
Virtual Schools
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Online Courses
Online tutoring K-12
Professional Development and Teacher
Training
2006-2007 NCLB Restructuring
Identifying the “best” math courses and/or
content
Identifying the “best” science courses
5. ENCOURAGE BROADBAND
ACCESS
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Evaluate existing technology infrastructure and
access to broadband to determine its current
capacities and explore ways to ensure its reliability.
Ensure that broadband is available all the way to the
end-user for data management, online and
technology-based assessments, e-learning, and
accessing high-quality digital content.
Ensure adequate technical support to manage and
maintain computer networks, maximize educational
uptime and plan for future needs.
6. MOVE TOWARD DIGITAL
CONTENT
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Ensure that teachers and students are adequately
trained in the use of online content.
Encourage that each student has ubiquitous access
to computers and connectivity.
Consider costs and benefits of online content, aligned
with rigorous state academic standards, as part of a
systemic approach to creating resources for students
to customize learning to their individual needs.
7. INTEGRATE DATA SYSTEMS
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Establish a plan to integrate data systems so that
administrators and educators have the information they
need to increase efficiency and improve student
learning.
Use assessment results to inform and differentiate
instruction for every child.
Implement School Interoperability Framework (SIF)
Compliance Certification as a requirement in all RFPs
and purchasing decisions.
What would you never do?
Are you listening to students?
 Are you aligning every dollar to a 21st
century learning environment?
 Are you asking the right questions? To the
right people? Are you asking for the right
results?
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EMC CEO
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CEOs in European Union asking him:
“What will the U.S. look like in 20 years?”
 France?
 England?
 Greece?
The Road Ahead: The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted
wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In
leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost
Conclusions
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America’s students need the knowledge and
competence to compete in an increasingly
technology-driven world economy.
This need demands new tools and new models of
education facilitated by technology.
This is an exciting, creative and transforming era for
students, teachers, administrators, policymakers and
parents.
The next 10 years could see a spectacular rise in
achievement – and may well usher in a new golden
age for American education.
Thank You
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Books
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The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman
Good to Great – Jim Collins
Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
What A Great Idea – Chic Thompson
Systems Design of Education -- Bela
Banathy
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson