FUTURE READY TODAY: WHERE BEST PRACTICES MEET NEXT PRACTICES Raymond J. McNulty,

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 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.

Making a better 20 th Century School is not the answer.

Many of our efforts to transform education look like the same old system!

Current Standards and Assessments CCSS and NGA

Systems are challenged today like never before and the key challenge that we face is results.

Reading Risk Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

Reading Risk Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

Math Risk Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

Math Risk Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

The best strategy to use in this environment of results 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 a hallmark way of doing from the past. It is about efficiency, you do this and I will do that. Collaboration is what we need to focus on in our work. Collaboration is the process of shared creation. Collaboration is not anchored in the process, its focus is all about the specific result.

WE need to become the AGENTS of change.

First Different - Then Better

Why I Do This Work?

Themes Three Key Trends Impacting Us Non-Techie Stuff Best and Next Practices Its About A System Closing Remarks

Themes Three Key Trends Impacting Us

First Key Trend Easy access to an abundance of resources and challenges, changes our roles as educators. Sense Making Coaching Credentialing

Second Key Trend People expect to be able to learn, study and work whenever and wherever they want.

Effective and Efficient Practices John Hattie…. Visible Learning Synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. Third Key Trend

Effect Size 1.0 indicates one standard deviation typically associated with advancing childrens achievement by two or more years (improving the rate of learning by 50%) Hattie set a bench mark of.40 as the minimal desired effect

Some data Student expectations of self 1.44 Providing formative evaluation.90 Formative Processes Teacher Clarity.75 Class size.21 Retention.16

Themes Non-Techie Stuff

Intentionally Non-Compliant Student

The Fundamental Attribution Error When we look at our own behavior we tend to situation that surrounds our action. When we look at the behavior of others we tend to make assumptions about their personal qualities.

The Effects of Praise Fixed Mindset / Growth Mindset Cant hand confidence to learners on a silver platter.

Social Skills We are really good at things like content skills, rules, regulations, strategies, etc. but we are terrible at discussing and coaching on social skills. David Brooks, The Social Animal

Talking with kids… Its not us against them!

CULTURE DRIVES STRATEGY

TO DO THE JOB WELL QUANTITATIVE DATA QUALITATIVE DATA GREAT QUESTIONS…

Teacher – Student Comparisons T – I encourage students to explore things they find interesting. 94% S – Im encouraged to explore things I find interesting. 68%

Teacher – Student Comparisons T – I am aware of my students interests outside of school. 85% S – My teachers know my interests outside of school. 29%

Technical Challenges Culture Challenges Leading and Lagging Indicators

Themes Best and Next Practices

Best practices allow you to do what you are currently doing a little better.

Next practices increase your organizations capability to do things it has never done before.

SystemInnovation

Sustaining Innovation Next Practice

Disruptive Innovation

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 beginners mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind there are few.

First practice must change, then results, then policy.

Its All About a System! Third Key Trend Theme

Aligned for Success Doctors/Nurses in Hospitals Pilots in Flight Teachers in a School System

Teaching Organizational Leadership Instructional Leadership Student Achievement

Rigor and relevance Relationships Content Teaching How students learn Instructional strategies Assessment to guide instruction

Blooms Application C D A B Current Assessments Next Generation Assessments

Culture Vision Structure and systems Selection, support, evaluation Organizational Leadership Data systems Build leadership

Adjust the Organizational Structure Leverage Data Systems Organizational Leadership 1.Create a culture 2.Establish a shared vision 3.Align organizational structures and systems to vision 4.Build leadership capacity 5.Align teacher / administrator selection, support, and evaluation 6.Support decision making with data systems

High expectations Curriculum Literacy and math Data-driven Provide professional growth Instructional Leadership

Use Data to set High Expectations Align Curriculum to Standards Integrate Literacy and Math across Curriculum Use Data to Guide Instruction Create Teacher Selection, Support and Evaluation System Instructional Leadership 1.Use research to establish urgency for higher expectations 2.Align curriculum to standards 3.Integrate literacy and math across all content areas 4.Facilitate data-driven decision making to inform instruction 5.Provide opportunities for focused professional collaboration and growth

Teaching Organizational Leadership Instructional Leadership Student Achievement

Themes Three Key Trends Impacting Us Non-Techie Stuff Best and Next Practices Its About A System Closing Remarks

IF WE WANT.. Children to be learners who think, read, reason and express themselves effectively in multiple ways… Then we must show them thoughtful people eager to take in and use new information.

IF WE WANT.. Our children to be brave and resourceful when confronted with the unknown… Then they must see us taking risks and finding new ways to move ahead.

IF WE WANT.. A new and better educational system that educates all our children for success in the 21 st Century…. We will have to be new and better leaders in our profession so that we can be Develop the Next Practices needed to educate our students well

Effective and efficient approaches to increasing student achievement Successful practices for teaching and learning from the nations most rapidly improving schools Practical strategies for using rigor, relevance, and relationships to increase instructional effectiveness Innovative tools and resources to support the transition to more rigorous assessments

Current System Something Different

The Horse The Automobile

Henry Ford quote… If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.