Education Writers Association

1. Education Writers Association Nicholas C. Donohue, President & CEO Nellie Mae Education Foundation Nashville, Tennessee May 20, 2014 @NickDonohueNMEF

2. Education Situation Post Secondary Skills and Knowledge A Must Attainment Today – @40% High School Graduation Increasing – 80% Readiness Flat - 50% 2178 Worse for The New Majority - 2300?

5. And BTW… …The Bar is Being Raised Every Day Collaboration Communication Problem Solving Problem Predicting Deep Analytics Pattern Recognition Making Smart Choices Grit – Try, Try Again

6. It’s 2014…. Why are we still acting like it’s 1914?

8. Antiquated Practices

9. Public Education: A 19th Century Factory Model Source: Wikimedia Commons

11. Student-Centered Learning Learning Is Personalized Learning Takes Place Anytime, Anywhere Learning Is Competency-Based Students Exert Ownership Over Their Learning

12. Customization: A one-size fits all approach to education is becoming irrelevant… and non-competitive. Source: University of Maryland

13. Where learning happens…

16. Student Ownership

18. Learning is Like Cooking Recipes Various Ingredients Exemplars Complex Risk, Mistakes and Improvement Messy Performance Oriented Rewarding

21. Student-Centered Learning in the Region • NMEF Grantees • New Haven Public Schools (Metropolitan Business Academy, New Haven Academy, The Sound School, Cooperative Arts, Wilbur Cross & Humanities Magnet High School; New Haven CT) • Danbury High School (Danbury, CT) • Meriden Public Schools (Maloney High School, Platt High School; Meriden, CT) • Manchester High School (Manchester, CT) • Chelsea High School (Chelsea, MA) • Revere High School (Revere, MA) • Providence Public Schools (Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School, E-Cubed Academy, Juanita Sanchez Complex; Providence, RI) • Burlington & Winooski Public Schools (Burlington High School, Winooski High School) • Portland Public Schools (Casco Bay High School, Portland High School, Deering High School; Portland, ME) • Sanford Public Schools (Sanford High School, Sanford, ME) • Pittsfield Public Schools (Pittsfield Middle High School, Pittsfield, NH) • Hartford Public Schools (Hartford, CT) • Vergennes-Union High School (Vergennes, VT) • Norwalk Public Schools (Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk High School, Briggs High School, Norwalk, CT) • Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (Exeter, NH) • Diploma Plus at Charlestown High School (Charlestown, MA) • Boston Day & Evening Academy (Boston, MA) • Diploma Plus at Champion High School (Brockton, MA) • Medical Professions & Teacher Preparation Academy (Hartford, CT) • Newfound Regional High School (Bristol, NH) • Raymond High School (Raymond, NH) • Plymouth North & South High Schools (Plymouth, MA) • Nashua North High School (Nashua, NH) • Nute Middle High School (Milton, NH) • Lanconia High School (Lanconia, NH) • Manchester West High School (Manchester, NH) • Nobel High School (North Berwick, ME) • Kearsarge Regional High School (North Sutton, NH) • Other • Codman Academy (Dorchester, MA) • Boston Arts Academy (Boston, MA) • Champlain Valley Union High School (Hinesburg, VT) • Springfield Renaissance School (Springfield, MA) • The Francis W. Parker Charter School (Devens, MA) • Big Picture Rochester (Rochester, VT.) • Big Picture Depot Campus (Storrs-Mansfield, CT) • MSAD 15 (Gray-New Gloucester, ME) • Our Piece of the Pie (Hartford, CT) • King Middle School (Portland, ME) • High School in the Community (New Haven, CT) • Spaulding High School (Rochester, NH) • Sanborn Regional High School (Kingston, NH) • MSAD 60 (Berwick,ME) • Searsport High School (Searsport, ME) • Flanders Bay Consolidated School District (North Sullivan, ME)

22. Improvement vs. Systems Change Technical Cultural Beliefs Values Purposes Authorizers Standards Processes Structures Practices Practitioners

23. Purpose!

24. Universal Attainment Of The New Basics Each One Ready For The Public Good

25. Putting the “Public” Back in Education Reform • For Too Long We Have Tried to Make Ed Reform “Public Proof” • Change Will Never Occur Without Growing Full Public Demand • People Hope For What We “Had” Educationally… • This Last Situation is Real But Not Permanent • It Is Possible and Necessary to Reframe the Debate Using Research Tested Approaches

26. THE PHILOSOPHICAL TENETS OF SCL ARE GENERALLY COVERED VERY POSITIVELY. THEY’RE SIMPLY LOST IN THE SHUFFLE TOO OFTEN. • Transparency & speed of implementation Low Prominence High Prominence • Learning outside classroom • Parents’ roles in creating demand • Students demonstrating mastery • Students learn in different ways • Local school board relationships w/ parents • Students well prepared for college • Skills for success • Students • learn at own pace • Process • Substance

28. Need to Keep Developing and Showing Effective Examples

29. Work To Do Culturally

30. How We Frame Determines Which Values Reign

31. Individual Success Will Power A Failing System The Basics Passive Learning The Triad Will-Power Quality Education=Caring Teacher Standardized Test Financially Successful Individuals Compartmentalized Skills We Can’t/ Get Back to the Basics Make the Triad Care More Unions Make Ed More Like a Business Teachers/Students/Parents Who Don’t Care What is at stake and why should I care? What are the outcomes, how do they happen and why do they matter? Who is involved and how does it work? How do we know whether the outcomes have happened or not? When and where does it happen? How do we improve ed and learning? What threatens the outcomes?

32. Research on How to Shift the Conversation Metaphors That Work Orchestra Woven Rope Polination Cooking House

33. How does learning happen? What is at stake and why should I care? Future Preparation Weaving Skill Ropes Workforce Preparation Cooking with Information Progress Information Drivers Human Potential Who is involved and how does it work? How do we know whether the outcomes have happened or not? The Educational Orchestra Dashboard When and where does it happen? How do we improve ed and learning? Pollination Points What threatens the outcomes? Pragmatism Remodeling Lack of Scaffolding Ingenuity Spotty Charging Stations

34. Change in the Narrative Failing System/Individualism Fix the Crisis Will Power Caring Teachers Discrete Skills Bad People The Basics Endurance Passive Tests/ $$$$ Can’t Improve/Basics Fix The People Make It Like Business “Turn It Around” Future Ready/Social Progress Orchestra Like Pollination Lack of Orchestra Skill Ropes Kind of Like Cooking Driver’s License Dashboard Pragmatism Fairness Ingenuity Remodeling

35. Media Matters McCarthyism Civil Rights Watergate NSA Climate Change Education For Our Country’s Future?

36. Media MattersUnbiased IntegrityRooted in Good InformationPublic Discourse

37. Resources Available www.frameworksinstitute.org www.competencyworks.org www.studentsatthecenter.org www.nmefoundation.org

38. Public Education: A 19th Century Factory Model Source: Wikimedia Commons

43. Learning is the Variable Time and Place are the Constants Learning is the Constant Time and Place are the Variables

44. Universal Attainment Of The New Basics Each One Ready For The Public Good

45. Transformation

46. nmefoundation.org @NickDonohueNMEF • Photo Credits • https://begood.good.com/community/getting-started/blog/2012/10/18/how-to-change-your-username • http://simplelifestrategies.com/slsreframe/