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Creating the Education System We Need : Closing the Gaps
Raymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLEChief Learning Officer, Penn Foster
I Am Not An Expert!
• I am not smarter than you…..
• I have a different job…….
• I do not have all the answers……
“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
Schools are Improving
School
Improvement
Schools are Improving
School
Improvement
Changing
World
The one size fits all school that took its present shape in the 1930’s was a poor fit with the reality even then. In the twenty first century, it belongs in our romantic memories of once upon a time. John I. Goodlad
Current System
Something Different
Do You Really Believe…
• We just need to be a little bit better?
• New Standards and assessment is all the change we need?
• Students are getting what they need to be successful in the 21st Century?
•The Emergence of•Multiple e-Dentity Disorder
•Find All of “Me” Online
•Photo credit : Amber Mayhem
"The concept of an 'average American' is
gone, forever. The average American
has been replaced by a complex,
multidimensional society that defies
simplistic labeling.”- demographics expert Peter Francese
“Ideals not Norms”
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.
Systems are challenged today like never before and 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.
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 and shared solutions, in which the focus is not on the process but on the specific results, and everyone in the system has responsibility for the results.
Making a better “20th Century School”
is not the answer.
The Boston Globe
Ray, reading the paper on your “Kindle” or online just
isn’t the same!
Almost everyone wants schools to be better,
but almost no one wants them to be different.
First Different - Then Better
WE need to become the AGENTS of change.
Why I do this work …..
1995
Themes• The World Today• Best and Next Practices• Why Is It So Hard To Change?• Relationships• Final Points
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 think!
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”
"You don't have to change the student population to get results; you simply have to change the conditions under
which they learn." - Pedro Noguera
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
Best Practices and 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
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 beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the
expert’s mind there are few.”
•Rigor
•Relevance
•Relationships
•Relationships
•Relevance
•Rigor
Theme
Relationships
Intentionally Non-Compliant Child
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
Can’t hand confidence to learners on a silver platter.
• We live in a world obsessed with predictability and control, some people believe that if we can’t truly measure something it must not matter.
• We must consider the possibility that if we can’t truly measure something, it may be the most important thing.
Talking with kids…
It’s not us against them!
•David Brooks, “Social Animal”
CULTURE DRIVES STRATEGY
1. Technical Challenges
2. Culture Challenges
3. Leading and Lagging Indicators
New Daily Plan•Wake Up
•Be Amazing
•Go To Bed
“EPIC WIN”
The Invisible Difference
Passion Commitment
Creating the Education System We Need : Closing the Gaps
Raymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLEChief Learning Officer, Penn Foster