Blending the best acsa workshop 11 8 13

Blending the Best Ingredients

ACSA Leadership Summit – 2013 San Jose, CA

Introduc?ons

•  Cary Matsuoka, Superintendent •  Cheryl Jordan, Asst Supt of HR •  Damon James, Principal

• Milpitas Unified School District – Milpitas, CA –  Santa Clara County –  PK-‐12, 10,100 ADA

Weller Elementary School

•  En?re school conversion to blended learning •  Started in 2012-‐13, now in their second year •  Damon James, Principal

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Weller’s Learning Lab Model (simplified) -‐ Damon

•  Teachers specialize, ELA or math •  Students have two blocks of instruc?on, am and pm

•  Three learning sta?ons for a student – Direct instruc?on with a teacher in a classroom –  Independent collabora?ve learning in a classroom – Online instruc?on in a lab

Why Blended Learning? -‐ Damon ●  Increase Student Engagement. ●  Create Small Learning Environments. ●  Increase Student Achievement.

●  Encourage Teacher Collabora?on & Innova?on. ●  Accelerate Learning.

●  Decrease Discipline Incidents. ●  Common Core Standards

●  Build Community.

How Did We Change a School?

•  Three different perspec?ves –  Superintendent – Human Resources –  Principal

Superintendent Perspec?ve

•  Blending old and new tools •  Design thinking •  Defined autonomy

Design Thinking - Learning by Doing

Empathy - Define - Ideate - Prototype - Test A bias towards action, faster planning cycles

Defined Autonomy •  Leaders define the broad design principles •  Our 4 principles:

–  Integrate the 4 C’s –  A more student-‐centered learning experience –  Flexible use of ?me, space, and grouping of students –  Collect and use data more effec?vely

•  Then lead with ques?ons – “if you could design a school of the future, what would it look like?”

•  Resist the tempta?on to answer the ques?on for staff

Posi?ve Outcomes

• We moved really fast –  designed the plan in 3 months in spring 2012 –  Implemented in August 2012

• We learned from our mistakes, year 2 is beder •  Teachers stayed the course, it was their plan

Impact on the District

•  In 2012-‐13, two elementary schools used BL (900 students)

•  In 2013-‐14, we have about 66% of our elementary students in a BL classroom (3,500 students)

•  We have 7,000 students (K-‐8) using iReady for online learning

•  Our students have completed 200,000 lessons in the first 10 weeks of school

•  We are almost done collec?ng benchmark assessment data on 7,000 students this week

Human Resources Perspec?ve

Change the Paradigm… HR as Partner in Instruc?onal Leadership.


Professional Capital

Social ❖  Collaborative ❖  Push/Pull ❖  Trust

Human ❖  Skills ❖  Knowledge ❖  Application ❖  Synthesis

Decisional ❖  Evidence ❖  Data ❖  Judgement

Resource: Professional Capital Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan


Making it work: Trust & Teamwork

Principal’s Perspec?ve -‐ Change and Design Thinking

Instruc2onal Leadership was...

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Single Plans Yard Duty Supervision Evaluations Family Night Events SARC Meetings Conferences Time Cards Email messages Letters

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Instruc2onal Leadership is... ●  Learner ●  Collaborator ●  Facilitator ●  Delegator ●  Shared Leadership



What we are taught in school?

What happens in real life?

Mistakes are punished. Failure is not tolerated.

Mistakes are learning experiences. Failure breeds success.

Given the questions; find the right answers.

Ask great questions; find the best answers.

Knowledge and certainty foster confidence.

Intuition and imagination create potential for using knowledge.


Empathize

Test Define

Ideate Prototype

Empathy ➢ Observe, Engage, Immerse

Do research. ●  20th Century versus a 21st

Century Educa?on ●  Blended Learning Training ●  Book Studies ●  Design thinking.

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Communica2on Skills

➔ Coaching and Support ➔ PLC with Admin Peers ➔ Teacher Leaders ➔ PLC for Teachers ➔ Regular Mee?ng Structure ➔ Union Problem-‐Solving Mtg. ➔ Board Updates

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❖  Explicitly expresses the problem you are trying to fix. ➢  Ex) All students are not being given the opportunity to learn what is needed due to varying needs.

Principal’s Perspec2ve -‐ Change and Design Thinking

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Brainstorming ➔  Provide focus. ➔  Defer judgment.

➔  Build on the ideas of others. ➔  Encourage wild ideas.

➔  One conversa?on at a ?me. ➔  Go for quan?ty not quality.

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Build. Visualize.



❖  To refine our prototypes and solutions.

❖  To learn about our user.

❖  To test and refine our Point of View.

Be Visible & Accessible

❖ Positive ❖ Vibrant ❖ Visible

Site Visits ❏  Validates work. ❏  Allow for more reflec?ve insight.

❏  Honor risk-‐taking.

B I U L D

Instruc?onal Resources

★ Superintendent Vision and Coaching ★ Assistant Superintendent HR Coaching ★ Director of Technology Chats ★ Pearson Conference Tech & Innova?on ★ Innosight (Christensen) Cohort ★ Charter School Visits (Rocketship, Aspire) ★ Literature (5 Principles of PLC Leaders, Switch,

21st Century Skills, Ethic of Excellence, What Great Principals Do Differently, DisrupEng Class, Good to Great , Drive, Professional Capital)

Ques?ons?

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