The Next Chapter of Education: Join the Revolution or Accept the Status Quo Raymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLE Chief Learning Officer, Penn Foster

Do You Really Believe… We just need to be a little bit better? CCSS and NGA is all the change we need? Students are getting what they need to be successful in the 21 st Century?

Current System Something Different

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.

EPIC WIN

Against all odds you create breakthrough.

Themes The World Today Next Practices System Change Challenges Ahead Variety of Leadership Skills Some Straightforward Advice Final Point

Themes The World Today

Apps More than 1 million mobile applications, from games to life- saving apps that monitor every heartbeat

Why did apps succeed? Apps are personal and niche. Users customize their smartphones with the apps that appeal to them most, often sharing their favorites with friends. Apps are interactive.

Does this apply in education? Apps are personal and niche. Users customize their smartphones with the apps that appeal to them most, often sharing their favorites with friends. Apps are interactive.

Blended Learning Blended Models

Sit back and let the wind fill your sails for the next few minutes!

THINK DIFFERENTLY

RE-IMAGINE

35 Our History Thomas J. Foster In 1890, Thomas J. Foster identified an untapped market of blue collar workers looking to improve their lives and offered distance learning as a way to achieve these outcomes Mission: Provide practical men with a technical education and technical men with a practical education. His courses opened the door to job advancement and an improved socioeconomic status for the students

36 Penn Foster: The Leading Provider of Affordable Distance Learning

EPIC WIN

Education If you are focused on seat time you are focused on the wrong end of the student.

Education The education industry thinks technology adds cost; all other industries use technology to drive down costs.

Education Education does everything that it always has and then bolts on technology, which is where the added cost comes from. Other industries use technology to change the way they do things, which is where the cost savings comes from.

Kids Today Learn anywhere, anytime, with and from anyone Always on, always connected, expecting collaboration Need to be engaged and involved Demand personalized learning experiences

Theme 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

Theme System Change

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

Current System Something Different

Simply said, we get what we design for!

SUCCESS BY CHANCE

SUCCESS BY DESIGN

Too many schools, districts, and systems are reactive rather than strategic.

CORE Optimizing existing systems TRANSFORMATIONAL ADJACENT Expanding from existing to new ways of working Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now TRADITIONALLY SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS TO MOST DISTANT LEARNERS TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM Best Practices Next Practices

C B A A – Incremental Change B – Innovative Change C – Transformative Change

CORE Optimizing existing systems TRANSFORMATIONAL ADJACENT Expanding from existing to new ways of working Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now TRADITIONALLY SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS TO MOST DISTANT LEARNERS TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM Dennis Littky Russ Quaglia Sue Zach Bill Daggett Sue Gendron Nai Wang

Theme Challenges Ahead

The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported in current systems. Training in the use of digital media is lacking. Institutional barriers present formidable challenges. Blending of formal and informal learning.

Challenges Ahead Learning that incorporates real life experiences is undervalued. Many activities related to learning and education take place outside the walls of the classroom and are not part of traditional metrics.

Blooms Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension Knowledge (NOUNS) Revised Blooms Applying Creating Evaluating Analyzing Understanding Remembering (VERBS) Rigor/Relevance Framework ®

What does it take to lead in this environment?

Theme A Variety of Leadership Skills

Being on top of your game today requires a balance of traditional skills mixed with innovation skills Stability, control, and standardization mixed with uncertainty, ambiguity, innovation, and disruptive thinking

The skill set to do this: We all work hard to efficiently deliver the next thing that should be done given the existing system we are in…..

Delivery Skills Analyzing Planning Detailed-Oriented Implementing Disciplined Executing

The transformative leader incorporates skills from a far different dimension. Why accept the status quo? Look for new and better ways! Steve Jobs: I want to put a ding in the universe!

Discovery Skills Questioning

Question Storming What is… What caused… Why… Why not… What if…

Why do we breakup content into disciplines and structure learning that way?

Discovery Skills Questioning Observing Networking Experimenting Associational Thinking

Delivery Skills Analyzing Planning Detail Oriented Implementing Disciplined Executing Discovery Skills Questioning Observing Networking Experimenting Associational Thinking

Are you good at generating innovative ideas? Do you know how and where to find innovative people in your system?

Theme Some Straightforward Advice

Ignore the real world The inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect new ideas to fail. They assume society isnt ready.

Planning is guessing Unless you are a fortune teller long-term planning is a fantasy. Timing of long-range plans are backwards; you have better information when you are doing something, not before you do it.

Live it or leave it Theres a world of difference between truly standing for something and having a mission statement that says you stand for something.

Embrace Constraints We do not have enough money, time, people, or experience. Less is a good thing as limited resources force us to make good decisions with what we have. Theres no room for waste.

Effectiveness and Efficiency Framework High Cost Low Cost High Student Performance CDCDABABCDCDABAB Low Student Performance EfEffecfecttivenessivenessEfEffecfecttivenessivenesst

Culture Culture is a by-product of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, sharing will be built into the culture. As will be trust, etc.

Themes The World Today Next Practices System Change Challenges Ahead Variety of Leadership Skills Some Straightforward Advice Final Point

CORE Optimizing existing systems TRANSFORMATIONAL ADJACENT Expanding from existing to new ways of working Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now TRADITIONALLY SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS TO MOST DISTANT LEARNERS TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM

C B A A – Incremental Change B – Innovative Change C – Transformative Change

Our Focus We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32 nd President of the United States of America

EPIC WIN

New Daily Plan Wake Up Be Amazing Go To Bed

The Next Chapter of Education: Join the Revolution or Accept the Status Quo Raymond J. McNulty, Senior Fellow, ICLE Chief Learning Officer, Penn Foster