Making It Happen

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Making It Happen

• CEA Symposium 2007
• Ben Levin
• OISE

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The Next Hour

• Lots of commonality in ideas

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The Next Hour

• Lots of commonality in ideas
• Weaker on strategies
• These are not new ideas

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The Next Hour

• Lots of commonality in ideas
• Weaker on strategies
• These are not new ideas
• How can we actually advance this agenda?
• Push you to think this through

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Topics

• What are the tough questions we did not ask?
• How do we get real change at scale?
• What are the constraints and barriers
• What happens next?

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What tough questions did we not ask?

• 2 minutes for discussion at tables
• 5 minutes debrief

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The Challenge of Scale

• Ontario
• 72 boards
• 4900 schools
• 120,000 teachers
• 2 million students
• Change in one school or 20 schools just is not
  enough

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The Challenge of Scale

• What are options for change at scale?
• 2-3 minutes at tables
• Then debrief

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• Courtesy of Michael Fullan

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Barriers and Constraints

• What is in the way of change?
• Internal/external?
• Will/skill?
• Avoid if only

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Habits and Attitudes
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What Next?

• For your next discussions
• What is the most important thing to do?
• What is the first thing to do?
• What can we do to improve the chances of success?

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Learning
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The Need for Balance

• Vision
• Realism
• Optimism

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Thank you and good luck!