Delaware Schools Go Flat: Redesigning Schools for 21st Century Learning

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Delaware Schools Go FlatRedesigning Schools for
21st Century Learning

• Tom Welch
• April 10

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The upfronts . . .

• Wheres Pat?
• All of my Ppts will be left with Wendy
• They will also be on my website
• Cell Phone instructions
• The 3 column Graphic Organizer
• Oh.
• Aha!
• OMG!!!!(
• 5. The Squirm factor

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• The alternative 3 Column Graphic organizer
• Uh huh
• Yeah Right!
• OMDB!

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• My goals for the session
• 1. That everyone knows the answer to the
  Essential Question
• --by heart!
• And everyone has 3 concrete ideas about what the
  answer means for them.

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• The Question you might have thought I was going
  to ask . . .
• Whats Delaware being flat got to do with
  anything?

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• Time for todays Essential Question . . .
• (No fair calling a friend or trying to Google
  it!)

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• What Year Is It?

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• Most of you KNOW its 2008,

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• That wasnt the essential question
• It was only the lead up to it.

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• How many of you BELIEVE its 2008??
• Many of you believe its still 1996 . . .
• with a different set of toys

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• Ive decided the modern world can best be
  described by . . .

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• Haircuts and Hairdos
• And donts

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• According to Friedman . . .

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• Some people say the world is still . . .

Spiky
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• Scary to think but maybe the best exemplar is
  that classic American icon . . .

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• Because maybe the world really is . . .
• beehived

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Friedmans Brief History of the 21st century

• Globalization 1.0
• 1492 1800
• Shrank world from a size Large to a
  Medium
• Was about countries and muscle
• The Old World

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• Globalization 2.0
• 1800 2000
• Shrank the world from medium to small
• Multinational companies
• The New World

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• Globalization 3.0
• 2000
• Size small to a size tiny
• individuals collaborating and
• competing globally
• The Next World

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• What will a changing world mean in your school
  and your district?
• Will you continue as if your responsibility for
  student learning is continuous improvement for a
  2.0 world?

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• OR
• Will you see that your responsibility is for each
  student in your school to be successful in a 3.0
  world?

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• So whats holding us back?

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Cai Guo-Qiang
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• One of the greatest difficulty is that we dont
  really see the difference between 2.0 and 3.0
• And glass walls are the hardest to cross.

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• The 3.0 learning world is . . .
• Beehived!

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• Raise your hand if, in the last 3 months, your
  students have been learning directly . . .
• With students from another country!
• With students from another state.
• With students from another Delaware school.
• With students from another school in your
  district.
• With students in another class in YOUR school

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• Uhhhh . . .
• May I ask the obvious?
• Why not?

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• The ability of the individual students in your
  school to collaborate and compete will directly
  affect the quality of your schools, as well as
  the very life and health of your individual
  communities.

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• Sooooo
• Hows your 2.0 world working for you?

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• If youre a teacher the answer is . . .
• Pretty darn well
• (Cause for you its still 1982!)

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• Just a quick sober-upper
• Whats the US High School graduation rate?

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• Three aspects to consider
• Low educational attainment lost personal
  opportunities in life
• Lost earnings lost tax revenue
• Loss of opportunity is a problem that not only
  threatens the welfare of the individual, it
  threatens the welfare of the entire country.

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• So let me ask again
• Delaware . . .
• Hows it workin for you?

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• If youre a student or a community member
• Its stuck
• Cause it hasnt changed since 1982
• Make that 62
• Make that 32!

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• While education attainment levels are crucial to
  Delaware communities,
• Globalization 3.0 is bringing other shifts to our
  schools and communities . . .

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• So I ask . . .
• As Ed Tech leaders, how are you preparing for,
  and handling the shift?
• (Apologies to Lisa Mims and Scott Richardson . .
  .)

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This is a challenging shift for everyone in
education
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• My Hero . . .Lilian

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• As if all this werent enough . . .
• Larger changes are on the horizon and
• headed our way. . .

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• Teachers in Delaware must come to understand that
  they are part of a world economy, and the world
  is changing faster than ever before.
• Huge shifts are taking place now that will be
  felt for many decades.

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• The only sustainable competitive advantage is
  the ability to be able to learn faster than your
  competition.
• --Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

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• How might you anticipate and support coming
  changes?

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• What about policy issues for Delaware educators?
• Oh! We already have our AUP policies
• And our No No policies!

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• No, Not No No
• No Know

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• No Know Policies?
• NO accessing unapproved sites
• NO cell phones
• NO iPods
• NO YouTube
• No TeacherTube
• And above all . . .
• NO unapproved learning

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• The beatings will continue
• Until morale improves!

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• Students and Teachers shall
• Know Nothing . . .
• But approved instructional technologies

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• No, not instructional technology issues
• Shouldnt you only be talking about
• Learning technology?

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• Why I hate instructional Technology
• By Tommy Welch

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• OK, what policies?

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• A sensible ET policy
• (Emerging Technology)
• Implement Performance-based credit policy

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• And raise your hand if you think
• All technology has been invented?
• No?
• Then

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• Implement policies leading to the responsible use
  of emerging technologies

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• After all . . .
• If you arent taking a leadership role here . . .
• Who will?

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• Besides,
• Dont you want your students prepared at the
  highest levels being targeted for students in
  other states and countries?

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• Start thinking about the future of education in
  your districts . . .

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• The coming tsunami in public education

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• The three factors that will change the future of
  education . . .

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• The identification of standards
• -- agreement on the product

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• The use of Common End of Course Assessments
• --the first ever introduction of a quality
  guarantee

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• Technology
• Even the education world is going to go flat

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• Is your school making plans or forming policies
  for the learning opportunities available with
  100 laptops??

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• Technology will continue to drive outsourcing in
  public education.
• Why would we think that public education will
  forever remain immune to outsourcing?

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• Talk about the reallocation of resources . . .
• 2.0
• 3.0
• Think of the decisions for allocating resources
  when the goal is individual student achievement
  at high levels, and outsourcing is possible.

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• Are you anticipating change at the speed of
  blur by thinking of policy changes today?

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• What will
• Rigor
• Relevance
• and Relationships
• look like in your schools in the 21st century?

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• When the rate of change on the outside exceeds
  the rate of change on the inside, the end is in
  sight.
• -- Jack Welch, CEO General Electric

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• What are the implications for you?

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• How do you go from facilitating powerful
  teaching, (the 20th century option . . .)
• to focusing on great learning, the 21st century
  need?

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Changing the Essential Questions

• You used to ask How do we change our school to
  make it better?
• Now you must ask How can I provide the best
  learning opportunities for each individual
  student?

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• Remember my goals for the session?
• 1. That everyone knows the answer to the
  Essential Question
• --by heart!
• And everyone has 3 concrete ideas about what the
  answer means for them.

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• 1.
• 2.
• 3.

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• Talk to your administrator about the school cell
  phone use policy
• 3.

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Remember Rex?
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• If you dont
• know how to do something . . .
• START!

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We can do it!
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