Learning from Extremes OECD Education, Public Forum, Paris, November 2010

1. Learning from Extremes OECD Education, Public Forum, Paris, November 2010 Charles Leadbeater

2. Your vantage point determines what you can see…

3. To see the future of education we all go to Finland

4. But radical innovation usually comes from the margins, entrepreneurs with few resources meeting huge need

9. Everyone believes in education

10. Education + technology = hope

11. But lots of people think education is dysfunctional and fails too many

12. Most reform starts from the supply side

13. Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

14. Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

15. Better versions of the schools we have… Increasing productivity, yield, effectiveness…

16. Good people teaching, well trained, well motivated and supported in the right conditions, measures, accountability

17. Improve is essential but not enough…

18. Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

19. Creating radically different kinds of school

20. Learning with and by not to and from

21. Personalised learning by… Place,Timing, Pace, Space, Curriculum, Assessment

22. Big schools that feel small Teachers as coaches Pupils as self-reflective protagonists Problem/question oriented learning Collaborative and real world

23. Philosophy of learning/shared vision Collaborative culture Flexible use of resources Knowledge and information sharing Constant learning

24. But… There are lots of obstacles and traps on the journey from improve to reform

25. And… Even that may not get all you need because what happens outside school matters so much

26. Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

27. Schools working in conjunction with parents, families, community development

28. Social and emotional pre-conditions for learning

29. Aspiration and ambition Cultural change in communities

30. Challenges… Where do you invest? What people and skills do you need? Are schools the right vehicle?

31. Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

32. Learning new things in new ways in new settings…often without teachers, schools, textbooks …

33. Pull not push

34. Motivation is key: extrinsic and intrinsic

35. Learning through…

36. Different people, technologies, places for learning

37. Learning as making, doing, earning activity

38. Diffusion Scaling Spreading

39. Competing and complementary strategies Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

40. Competing and complementary strategies Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining System Change Disruptive

41. Leading: four styles, we need all of them Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

42. Where learning happens Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

43. Who leads learning Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

44. What is learned Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive

45. All our efforts go into scaling improvement strategies that push learning

46. To meet the really big needs we need transformative innovation that pulls people to learning because it motivates them and spreads by word of mouth