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Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President, International Center for Leadership in Education

May 14, 2008 Burlington, Vermont. Trends and Challenges in Education. Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President, International Center for Leadership in Education. ICLE Program of Work. Identify the essential characteristics of successful schools Best Practices/Research to assist schools

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Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President, International Center for Leadership in Education

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  1. May 14, 2008 Burlington, Vermont Trends and Challenges in Education Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President, International Center for Leadership in Education

  2. ICLE Program of Work • Identify the essential characteristics of successful schools • Best Practices/Research to assist schools • Organize into useful tools

  3. Themes • General Thoughts • Change • 21st Century Skills 4. Focus and Closing Advice 2020

  4. General Thoughts

  5. 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.

  6. Applied Skills • Critical Thinking/Problem Solving • Oral Communication • Written Communication • Teamwork/Collaboration • Diversity • Information Technology Application • Leadership • Creativity/Innovation • Lifelong Learning/Self Direction • Professionalism/Work Ethic • Ethics/Social Responsibility • Basic Knowledge/Skills • English Language (spoken) • Reading Comprehension • (in English) • Writing in English • (grammar, spelling, etc.) • Mathematics • Science • Government/Economics • Humanities/Arts • Foreign Languages • History/Geography “Are They Really Ready To Work?”

  7. We’ve created false proxies for learning… • Finishing a course or textbook has come to mean achievement • Listening to lecture has come to mean understanding • Getting a high score on a standardized test has come to mean proficiency

  8. Learning should have its roots in.. • Meaning, not just memory • Engagement, not simply transmission • Inquiry, not only compliance • Exploration, not just acquisition • Personalization, not simply uniformity • Collaboration, not only competition • Trust, not fear

  9. A few years ago, we got a wake up call when the 1999 PISA results were published.

  10. US 15 Year-Olds Rank Near Middle Of The Pack Among 32 Participating Countries: 1999

  11. The new ones?

  12. PISA 2003:US 15 Year-Olds Rank Near The End Of The Pack Among 29 OECD Countries Source: NCES, 2005, International Outcomes of Learning in Mathematics, Literacy and Problem Solving: 2003 PISA Results. NCES 2005-003

  13. Problems are not limited to our high-poverty and high-minority schools . . .

  14. “We’re No. 1! We lead the world in prison incarcerations. If only we were No. 1 in education.” Tom Carroll, “Education Beats Incarceration” in Education Week, March 26, 2008 (p. 32) referring to a recent Pew Center study showing that one in every 100 Americans is behind bars; the figure for African-American men between 20 and 34 is one in nine.

  15. Many involved in “school re-invention work” would argue that change is the most talked about and least acted upon concept in education today.

  16. What got us to where we are in education today,will not get us to where we need to be!

  17. Educators need to become the agents of change.

  18. Leadership is about action, not position.

  19. Change

  20. THE IMPLEMENTATION DIP…. THE POSSIBILITY CURVE.. Fullan--1990

  21. BANKING • Sears • IBM • Digital…. “In Search of Excellence” • Xerox

  22. Education exists in the larger context of society.

  23. When society changes – so too must education if it is to remain viable!

  24. 1983 - A Nation at Risk • E-mail • Web pages • Google • iPODs • Laptops • Digital cameras • Doppler radar • Cell Phones • Debit cards

  25. 2000 • Blogs • Wikis • Tagging • Text messaging • MySpace • Podcasts • PDAs • Genetic code

  26. Millennial-oriented Technology Blogs Wikis Tagging Instant Messaging MySpace Podcasts

  27. STUDENT ASPIRATIONS / PARTICIPATION GAP Belonging SELF WORTH Heroes Relationships Sense of Accomplishment ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT Fun & Excitement Curiosity & Creativity Relevance Spirit of Adventure PURPOSE Leadership & Responsibility Confidence to Take Action Rigor

  28. Three Question Exercise • What will the world be like 20 years from now? • What skills will your child need to be successful in that world? • What would learning look like if it was designed around your answers?

  29. We can complain about the troubling inadequacies of the present ----

  30. or we can face them.

  31. We can talk and dream about the glorious schools of the future ---

  32. OR WE CAN CREATE THEM!

  33. International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc. 1587 Route 146 Rexford, NY 12148 Phone (518) 399-2776 x 221 Fax (518) 399-7607 E-mail – info@leadered.com PowerPoint - http://www.leadered.com/keynoterPP.shtml

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