Ray McNulty

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SUCCESS BY DESIGN NOT BY CHANCE

• Ray McNulty

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Many involved in school re-invention work would
argue that change is the most talked about and
least acted upon concept in education today.
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EDD
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Educator Deficit Disorder

• A sense of hopelessness
• A sense of exhaustion when confronted by problems
  and challenges that seem to be more difficult
  than in the past
• Challenges are not responding to traditional
  medicine (approaches)
• Cynicism as a result of reform efforts coming and
  going

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The disease is based on the damaging belief that
all efforts at school reform are doomed.
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We live in a world of possibilities . . .
when we believe it,
well see it.
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Stop waiting for the cure you are the cure!!
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Three Resistance Factors
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1. Clutter and Doubt
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2. TO BE NORMAL

• Our evolution as humans has provided us a
  powerful survival tool. Routines, Habits,
  Protocols..
• This is all a good thing except for when we must
  change or innovate.

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Short term survival requires routines. Long term
survival requires significant change.
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Why arent there more students achieving at
higher levels?
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3. Innovation depends on a healthy dose of
failure.

• Baby walking

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There can be no keener revelation of a societys
soul than the way in which it treats its children.

• Nelson Mandela

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So let me offer some suggestions for success.
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BEING EXTRAORDINARY
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BEING EXTRAORDINARY

• Committed to the truth
• Be committed to delaying gratification
• Be someone who always has the chance of saying
  yes
• Live a life where you do not make others wrong

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BEING EXTRAORDINARY

• Be committed to courage
• Be someone who produces results with absolutely
  no force
• Be a person who is peaceful in chaos

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BEING EXTRAORDINARY

• Be committed to courage
• Be someone who produces results with absolutely
  no force
• Be a person who is peaceful in chaos
• Be committed to managing success, while being
  aware of its dangers (lottery winners and GM)

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Listen to the children

• To take children seriously is to value them for
  who they are now rather than seeing them as
  adults in the making.

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KEY QUESTIONS TO GUIDE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
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Who needs to understand what? How can teachers,
parents, students, and the community own the
problem and support the strategies were
implementing?
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Is my desire for success to improve my system or
classroom strong enough to prompt me to change my
thinking?
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Whats our theory of action our strategy for
solving this problem and the reason it will bring
about the desired outcome?
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Strategy

• A GAME PLAN

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Learning Criteria to Support 21st Century
Learners
Rigor/Relevance Framework Supported by
Relationships
Student Aspirations
Foundation Learning Stretch Learning Learner
Engagement Personal Skill Development

• EIGHT CONDITIONS

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The things we fear most in organizations,
fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances are the
primary sources of innovation.

• - Meg Wheatley

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The Invisible Difference
Passion
Commitment
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K-12 Fall SymposiumOctober 23-25, 2009San Diego
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Mark Your Calendar!
18th Annual Model Schools Conference June 13-
June 16, 2010 Orlando
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SUCCESS BY DESIGN NOT BY CHANCE

• Ray McNulty