1. Future Ready Schools: Creating Your Vision, Crafting Your Plan
FETC Concurrent Session January 26, :20 PM to 4:00 PM Orange County Convention Center South 330E
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Presented by Ann McMullan
@Ann_McMullan @fetc #FETC @FutureReady #FutureReady

3. Sept. 2013
Survey Participants to learn more about their backgrounds.

4. Learning Strategies for Today’s Session:
Listen
Think
Share
Inspire

5. Sometimes the smartest person in the room… is “THE ROOM”!!
None of us is as smart as ALL of US.

6. Focus for Today’s Session
Why & What of Future Ready
Future Ready Schools Process
Future Ready Schools Dashboard Overview
Leadership and the Seven Gears
Next Steps

7. Community Consolidated School District 59 Arlington Heights, IL
What does it mean to be “Future Ready”?
Community Consolidated School District 59 Arlington Heights, IL

8. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
A goal without a plan is just a wish. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb

9. Nationwide, more than 2,100 school district superintendents have taken the Future Ready District Pledge—a promise to personalize learning for students through a systemic digital transformation

10. The Future Ready Framework TARGET : Personalized Student Learning
“Personalized pathways for student learning through active and collaborative learning activities, which are aligned with standards, chosen through ongoing assessment of students’ progress and preferences, and supported by the use and creation of rich content and robust tools” Characteristics of Future Ready Leadership A Research Synthesis US Department of Education – Office of Educational Technology

11. The Future Ready Framework ONGOING CYCLE OF TRANSFORMATION :
Vision
Plan
Implement
Assess
Refine

12. The Future Ready Framework COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP:
A Shared, Forward-Thinking Vision for Digital Learning
A Culture of Collaboration, Innovation, Capacity Building, and Empowerment
High Expectations for Evidence-Based Transformations to Digital Learning
Transformative, Coherent Thinking, Planning, Policies, and Implementation

13. The Future Ready Framework
THE SEVEN GEARS
Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Use of Space and Time
Robust Infrastructure
Data and Privacy
Community Partnerships
Personalized Professional Learning
Budget and Resources

14. THE FLOW OF THE FUTURE READY PROCESS
Peruse the framework
Take the digital learning readiness assessments as a leadership team
Review the initial report and discuss plans to close any gaps
Take the assessments by gear
Explore the identified gaps
Browse resources and consider the suggested strategies
Set goals and build a customized Future Ready Implementation plan
Assign responsibilities, meeting times and actions
Share, iterate and celebrate!

15. Getting Started

16. Let’s Review:

17. Let’s Explore Together

18. Let’s Explore Together
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Let’s Explore Together
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19. Let’s Explore Together Select Framework & Resources
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Let’s Explore Together
Select Framework & Resources

20. Let’s Explore Together
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Let’s Explore Together
WORK WITH A PARTNER OR ON YOUR OWN
Click on one of the “7 Gears”
Read the information
Click on the link to the self-assessment for that gear.
Make note of one or two “a-ha’s”
Be ready to share with the whole group.

21. Let’s Explore Together
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Let’s Explore Together
SHARE WHAT YOU LEARNED.
What did you learn or discover about the Future Ready Schools Framework?
How do you see your school implementing any or all of the seven gears?
Other thoughts or comments?

22. Beyond the Framework - Collaborating for Success: Future Ready Schools Summits & Workshops

24. ANNOUNCING: FUTURE READY LIBRARIANS
As schools seek to become Future Ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership beyond district and building leaders. School librarians lead, teach and support the Future Ready goals of their school and district in a variety of ways through their professional practice, programs and spaces. If properly prepared and supported, school librarians are well-positioned to be at the leading edge of the digital transformation of learning.

26. Future Ready Librarian:

27. REGISTER HERE

28. What’s next for you?
Jot down 3 ideas that you will act on in 2017 to assure that your school or district is Future Ready!

29. Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby For Leaders Ages 8 to 88
By Ann McMullan & Michael Barrett

30. Ann McMullan amcmullan@outlook.com
Please feel free to contact me if I can be of help.
Ann McMullan

31. Presented by Ann McMullan
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FETC Concurrent Session #C504 Future Ready Schools: Creating Your Vision, Crafting Your Plan January 26, :20 PM to 4:00 PM Orange County Convention Center South 330E
Presented by Ann McMullan