1. The Full Promise of Schools Breakout Session:
Addressing the Practical, Nuts-and- Bolts Challenges of Social and Systems Change

2. Background The Age of Discovery vs. The Age of Implementation
Up hill and against the current

3. Social Movements and Systems Change
American Revolution/Civil War
Worker’s Rights
Women’s Rights
Civil Rights
LGTBQ Rights
Educational Reform – Establishment of Public Schools to NCLB/ESSA
Wave elections of all kinds

4. Initial Lessons from Social Movements
Embracing the politics of getting things done (not partisan)
The opposition isn’t like us (experience, expertise, priorities, tactics)
Educating around an idea vs. Wartime strategic thinking
Incentives, Punishment
Misdirection, Surprise
Sacrifice, Delay tactics
Seizing unexpected opportunities, including tragedy
Accepting failure as a step… IF…

5. Initial Lessons from Social Movements
If… Learning Machines. Increasing skills, capacity, connectivity, and organization = Critical successes, even if rooted in failure
Numbers matter. The only reliable counterweight to power, position, and financial resources.
Maintaining unrelenting pressure
Recognizing and accepting a win… especially if it sets up Wins!
Maintaining URGENCY

6. What Next? Adding a new job requirement… 5% of your professional time.
New job requirement demands new skills…
Accurately diagnose the root causes of challenges to implementation as they occur within the broader social context and the unique ecology of the education system.
Propose social and system-level solutions, policies, and practices that support and elevate the effectiveness of individual teachers and schools.
Expanding efforts to ensure proper accountability by including evaluations of policymakers, administrators, and systems at the highest levels, instead of merely focusing the performance of individual health educators and school administrators.
Collectively recognize, collaborate, and coordinate working together on issues too large and complex to be changed through isolated, individual efforts alone.

7. Actually, who are you not to be 
What Next?
More educators/school health professionals:
With PoliSci knowledge and degrees
With political experience
Leading at highest levels of education system
Serving as elected officials and other policy makers
You may be asking…
Who am I to do all this?
Actually, who are you not to be 