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School of One

School of One. Delivering Personalized Education in New York City. Chris.Hollander@Microsoft.com Senior consultant, Education. Pedagogy ~ 35 mins. How we did it ~ 15 mins. Tech ~ 10 mins. Pedagogy. Q: What does 21 st century education look like?.

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School of One

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  1. School of One Delivering Personalized Education in New York City Chris.Hollander@Microsoft.com Senior consultant, Education

  2. Pedagogy ~ 35 mins How we did it ~ 15 mins Tech ~ 10 mins

  3. Pedagogy

  4. Q: What does 21st century education look like? A: 19th century education

  5. Why hasn’t education been revolutionized the way that other industries have? • What makes teaching so hard? • If we were to “reboot” education, what would we do differently? • First, a quick quiz.

  6. How many square inches of Pizza are there in a New York City slice? • Common reactions: • I don’t know. • I don’t care. • I don’t even want to think about how to figure that out. • I could probably figure it out, but I think its going to be really hard. • ~31 square inches. • There are no square inches, new york pizza is ROUND.

  7. A typical 6th grade classroom.

  8. Teach each student exactly what they need to know, when they need to know it.

  9. Figure out exactly what each kid needs to know.

  10. School of One Skill Map

  11. Figure out the best way to teach each student.

  12. Figure out the best way to teach each student. Modalities

  13. spaces

  14. lessons lessons per modality total lessons modalities skills • School of One uses lesson content from dozens of partners. • All of the lessons are manually quality checked to ensure: • Proper “alignment” to standards • Appropriate lesson length • Overall lesson quality

  15. Group up the kids who need to learn the same things, in the same ways. • Figure out what resources to assign to each group of students.

  16. Diagnostic process

  17. How we did it

  18. How do you create a climate of innovation… …In a large school district?

  19. How large is large? Total population: 1.3 million Total population: 1.05 million ~1.2 million students ~21b 2009 budget. Also, Google’s profit over the last15 months. ~87k Teachers. Also total Microsoft employees

  20. How?

  21. Fail Fast. Find out what’s wrong, and fix it. Never let Perfect be the enemy of Done. Never commit to anything that you can’t fix in an all-nighter.

  22. Summer school pilot: Can we do this? Summer school

  23. After-School pilot: Can we centralize?

  24. in-School pilot: How do we adapt to school schedules?

  25. full-School program: How do we adapt to a full school year?

  26. Technology

  27. de·lib·er·ate– adjectivecareful or slow in deciding

  28. Interesting tech tidbits

  29. Choose your Adventure:

  30. Questions?

  31. Learn more

  32. Thank You!

  33. Stop the presses! • Last minute addition: • Yesterday, School of One was recognized by the Robin Hood foundation as a 2010 HERO. • http://www.robinhood.org/heroes/school-of-one.aspx

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