Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President bassett@nais

1. NAIS’s First 50 Years… and The Next 50 Years Annual Conference, Thursday, March 1st, 2012 Seattle, Washington INNOVATION NAIS Annual Conference Thursday, March 1st, 2012 Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS Presidentbassett@nais.org Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President bassett@nais.org

2. What It Means To Be Fifty • Over 300 years old: NAIS-member schools founded in 1600s: 7 (vs. 0 Fortune 500 companies)• Over 200 years old: NAIS-member schools founded in 1700s or earlier: 37 (vs. 3Fortune 500 companies)• Over 100 years old: NAIS-member schools founded in 1800s or earlier: 315 (vs. 157 Fortune 500 companies)• Over 50 years old: NAIS-member schools founded 1961 or before: 695 (vs. 294 Fortune 500 companies). What institutions are really “built to last”? The Good News : If you make it to 50….you have a great shot at making 100 years

3. Innovation: Prep for the Big Shifts MacArthur Foundation, 21st. C. Learning) The Big Shifts • Knowing……………..Doing (Project-based Learning) • Teacher-centered…… Student-centered • The Individual……….The Team • Consumption of Info…Construction of Meaning • Schools……………….Networks (online peers & experts) • Single Sourcing………Crowd Sourcing ------------------------------------------------------------------- • High Stakes Testing….High Value Demonstrations

4. What School & Class Have Looked Like for 1000 years What independent schools and class are starting to look like in “schools of the future”….

5. Continuity + Vision: A Plan for the FutureWilliam Penn Charter Strategic Vision Approaching its 325th Anniversary, the school’s strategic vision: • Core Values: Excellence. Innovation. Collaboration. • Goals around… • Quaker Values: Invest in character -“Let your life speak” • Faculty Growth: Invest in professionalizing the profession • Innovation: Re-imagine time & re-purpose space • Re-engineering Teaching & Program: meaningful engagement, project-based approaches, and differentiated instruction • Achieving Financial Sustainability

6. Teacher as Innovator: Cushing Academy’s iClass Table Design to make science more engaging, inquiry-based, and accessible.

7. School Architects as Innovators Obsolete Schools & Classroom Design • Beyond sustainability to generation • Net zero use of water & energy • Garden to table • Living wall cleans H2O • Building building change in kids • Empowering kids to choose green • Lawrenceville’s dining room = inconspicuous classroom Bertschi School, WA “A river runs through it”

8. Creativity, Robotics, Teaming and STEM Falmouth Academy’s Submersible Robot Return Return 2

9. 20/20 Fay School Entrepreneurship:Global Problem: Water DeficitsGlobal Solution: WaterWalker Fay School (MA) 8th graders

10. Challenge 20/20: Montessori School of Denver Return

11. What’s your PS-12 curriculum map for critical thinking? Your problem-solving/project-based learning map? How do you document “demonstrations of learning”? How would your preschoolers tackle moving a 35-pound pumpkin from the parking lot into the pre-school classroom and up onto a table? The Film (1:40, 7:40, 9:40) Return

12. U-MD Medical & Space Centers: Simulating Weightlessness & Emergency Care Hands on “learning by doing” (internships and apprenticeships and “city center immersions”) rooted in problem-solving that is real…

13. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129914162http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129914162

14. Gaming X-box & iPad Apps

15. Project-Based Learning (Edutopia) Run Return

16. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czhIrPSlio Run Return

17. Future of Schools – Parish Profile

18. Top 10 Promising Innovations • Adopting backward design & mapping of curriculum around skills rather than subjects(“The 6 Cs”: character, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, and cosmopolitanism/cross-cultural competency) • Documenting student outcomes via formative assessments & “demonstrations of learning” (captured in PS-12 schools over 13 years via digital portfolios) • Connecting appreciative inquiry, the strengths approach, and growth mindsets -- all subsets of the positivist psychology movement(for strategic planning, diversity training, learning differences strategy, problem-solving, etc.) • Globalizing Independent Schools (recruiting international students for day schools, NAIS Challenge 20/20 partnerships, sister schools & satellite campuses overseas, etc.) • Stage II greening of independent schools(net zero energy and water, LEED-certified school buildings and school-wide carbon footprint competitions)

19. STEM & beyond signature programming (robotics, Rube Goldberg & inventors competitions, mock primaries/elections, student slam poetry & one-act play symposia, videotaping oral histories of the locale, ISEEN expeditionary learning, etc.) Professionalizing the profession(rotating schedules to free groups of faculty/researchers; online PLCs like ISEnet for the research-based topics within a large network of colleagues; creating the conditions for a culture of innovation within the faculty to emerge) Public Purpose of Private Education Initiatives (The Global Student News Network; Green Cup Challenge; Solar Car Challenge; PSPP - Private Schools with Public Purpose network; etc.) Online Learning Consortia for Independent School-branded Courses(Online School for Girls; Global Online Academy; e-School at Tower Hill) Design Thinking (incorporating MIT & Stanford Design Labs – complete with 3-D fabricators – to transform the means, tools, and approaches to learning) Top 10 Promising Innovations

20. A Framework for Discussions & Strategy on Big Shifts in Education Four Essential Questions for Schools of the Future: • “What should we teach?” (The content/skills/ canon/curriculum/standards question) • “How should we teach?” (The pedagogy question: teacher-centric or student-centric?) • “How should we assess?” (The performance /outcomes / demonstrations question). • Howshould we embed the vision? (The leadership question.)