A Partnership for Tomorrow

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A Partnership for Tomorrow April 2007 MDE School
Improvement Conference
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Who is AdvancED

• The unification of NCA CASI, SACS CASI, and NSSE
• Creates worlds largest education community
• 23,000 public and private schools and districts
• 30 states
• 65 Countries
• 15 million students
• 3.5 million educators
• 18,000 volunteers

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Reflecting
A decade ago Netscape was introduced to the
world. Today, are primary source of information
is through web browsing.
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Reflecting
Seven years ago Yahoo was born. Today, Yahoo web
site is accessed more daily than the nightly news
at ABC, NBC, or CBS.
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Reflecting
Three years ago Google was introduced to the
world. Today, Google is the worlds largest
search engine providing people around the world
with free access to information.
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Reflecting
Five years ago Our nation entered the No Child
Left Behind era. Today, every state in the nation
has implemented since 2002 unique accountability
systems to meet the state requirements for NCLB.
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Reflecting
Today We are seeking solutions to todays
challenges. Tomorrow we must demonstrate success
in meeting the challenges of today.
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Reflecting
In five years What will we be doing differently
and more successfully in our classrooms? Today we
must begin our journey to identifying solutions
to tomorrows challenges.
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The Education Map of the Decade
A Look at the Future of Education

• The Institute for the Future, which has a long
  history of studying trends and helping businesses
  and organizations plan for the future, and the
  Knowledge Works Foundation, an education
  foundation in Ohio, have come together to study
  how future trends will drive changes in education
  over the next decade.
• Together, they have developed an Education Map of
  the Decade that identifies Drivers of Change for
  education and Key Trends resulting from these
  drivers that will have a broad impact on
  education.
• We will explore these Drivers of Change and Key
  Trends and discuss their implications for
  AdvancED.

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Drivers of Change
Grassroots Economics From economies of scale to
economies of sociality Grassroots economics is an
emerging set of rules for creating value from
interaction more than transaction, from bottom up
rather than top down, and from shared resources
rather than private property.
Smart Networking From informed citizens to
engaged networkers At the intersection of
traditional social networking and connective
technologies is an emerging skill set of engaged
networking the ability to form ad hoc groups
and catalyze communities of action using social
media.
Source KWF/IFTF Education Map of the Future,
Draft, July 2006.
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Drivers of Change Continued
Strong Opinions, Strongly Held From a global
media culture to splintered fundamentalism As
media channels fragment and subcultures form
around strong common interests, strong opinions
will be reinforced by strong social networks
with a tendency toward more fundamentalist views
of complex problems.
Health Distress From steadily improving quality
of life to increasing signs of distress With
population density increasing dramatically,
environmental crises looming, and a more
interconnected global society that buffers
population less, there are increasing signs that
the human race is not healthy.
Source KWF/IFTF Education Map of the Future,
Draft, July 2006.
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Drivers of Change Continued
Urban Wilderness From rural to predominantly
urban spaces As the urban population surpasses
the 50 threshold worldwide, megacities and
rapidly growing smaller cities will face
unprecedented challenges in managing wealth,
health, infrastructure, and social discontent.
The End of Cyberspace From physical versus
digital to seamlessly physical and
digital Intelligence is becoming increasingly
embedded in places and objects at the same time
as connective media link that intelligence to
social networks. The result is the end of the
distinction between cyberspace and real space.
Source KWF/IFTF Education Map of the Future,
Draft, July 2006.
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Key Trends

• Emerging Learning Economy
• diverse providers, products, services
• Explosion of Learning Agents
• expanded careers, roles, businesses
• Deep Personalization
• self-directed, individualized, customized
• Media-Rich Learning
• learning occurs anytime.anyplace
• VUCA Communities
• schools are anchors for health, safety, life-long
  learning

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The Power of Connections
One One Three

• The Partnership between MDE and AdvancED
• Unified School Improvement System
• Accreditation and School Improvement management
• Meets requirements for MDE and NCA CASI
• Eliminates duplication for all Michigan schools
• Recognizes the volunteer commitment to NCA CASI
  accreditation
• Provides a seamless pathway to managing
  improvement efforts

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MDE/AdvancED School Improvement Portal
NCA CASI Accredited Schools MDE Schools not accredited by NCA CASI
Conduct periodic self-assessments to guide and stimulate continuous improvement and participate in professional peer review Conduct periodic self-assessments to guide and stimulate continuous improvement
Monitor and assess improvement progress annually (meets EdYes requirement) Monitor and assess improvement progress annually (EdYes)
Implement continuous improvement activities (unified MDE/AdvancED web-based template) Implement continuous improvement activities (unified MDE/AdvancED web-based template)
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The Power of Knowledge
Human beings have an infinite ability to create
knowledge. Add the convenient fact that unlike
conventional assets, knowledge grows when it is
shared, and you have the two most powerful
features, which will change how we manage in the
Knowledge Era.Karl-Erik Sveiby
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The Power of One
Strength lies in unity.
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The Power of Us All
Our Partnership is a Gateway to the World