meet malcolm

his world…

is changing…

IS
HIS
SCHOOL
CHANGING?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need for
Twenty-First Century Learning Environments…
• “We have a passion deficit. I think it is very important that we focus on
getting our students, all of our students, regardless of ability, to be
passionate about education. Education is not about filling an empty
vessel; it’s about lighting a fire.”
- School Board Member, Columbus, Ohio
• “Not all kids will go to college, but they do need advanced skills and need
to be life-long learners.”
- Principal, Cincinnati, Ohio
• “I think the reason many students drop out is because they can’t connect
it [their classroom experience] to something they can use.”
- Student, South Webster High School

malcolm will need…

knowledge
for jobs
that don’t yet exist Jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology
that hasn’t yet been created to solve
using technology
problems that we don’t even know exist yet?
that hasn’t yet been created
to solve problems that
she loves…
we don’t even know exist

IS
THERE
ENOUGH
TIME?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need for
Expanding Learning Opportunities…
• “I would like to see someone be able to stir up something in these youth.
You can lock them up, but they are still the future. You know, the ones we
have pretty much forgotten, but are children. Some of them have gotten
felonies in middle school… I would like to see something in place to let
these youth know, especially the black males and the Hispanics, that it’s
not hopeless.”
- Parent, Columbus, Ohio
• “I think that if we are going to look at education…we need to provide
children with [pre-K early education] services regardless of income.”
- Woman from Early Action Initiative, Lima, Ohio
• “One of my big problems with students not being successes is
attendance…It seems to be a problem we don’t have any good answers
for.”
- Teacher, Jackson High School

malcolm’s teachers…

are designing learning
in a world
where the amount of information in
one week of Wall Jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology
Street Journals
that hasn’t yet been created to solve
problems that we don’t even know exist yet?
is more than
a citizen would confront in a life
time in the 18th Century
she loves…

CAN
THEY
KEEP UP?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need for
High Quality Educators…
• “Until and unless we find ways to attract the best and brightest to [the
education] profession, we have a long way to go to making it a world class
operation.”
- School Board Member and Professor of Education
• “I would propose a new system of how we reward our teachers and look
at a different way to be more robust in how we manage and utilize our
teachers.”
- Businessman, Parent, Cincinnati, Ohio
• “Every child deserves highly qualified teachers, but they also need
counselors, social workers, and nurses…We all compliment teachers in
the classroom…I would like to suggest a mandate for school nurses for
the State of Ohio.”
- School Nurse, Southeast Region

malcolm’s peers…

are around the world…

their performance varies…
she loves…

WHAT
DOES HE NEED TO
THRIVE?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need to
Measure Ohio Students Against the World…
• “Your mission is a bold step, not only in Ohio, but in the United States to
think about educating all children at very high levels.”
- Superintendent, Columbus Ohio
• “We need to start early…to bring a child up in the information age…[so]
they’ll be able to compete.”
- Volunteer with Arts Program and Former City Councilman
• Ohioans appear to like broadening graduation requirements to include
more than a single measure, but are less certain about specific tests.
They support adding factors such as community service and senior
projects as graduation requirements (66% - 27%).
- Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

malcolm’s community…

is curious
about performance …

WHAT
WILL WE
MEASURE & DISCUSS?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need for
School District Accountability…
• Ohioans also appear to want local accountability and control. A distinct
majority likes the idea of annual fiscal report cards that show how districts
spend money (90%), but only half favor the state taking control of districts
with poor academic records that do not implement the proposed policies.
- Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

malcolm’s
future…

depends on education…

WHAT
ARE WE WILLING
TO
INVEST?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about
Effective Funding for a 21st Century System of Education…
• “With the economy weighing heavily on everyone’s minds, we’re also
seeing some real concern about how to pay for proposals the public
clearly believes in.”
- Andrew Benson, Director of Public Policy, KnowledgeWorks Foundation
• “We need to build into a funding system the understanding that needs are
different.”
- Representative, Ohio Association for Gifted Children
• While 6 out of 10 Ohioans say they don’t know enough about an
evidence-based approach to school funding to have an opinion, those
who expressed an opinion were supportive of the philosophy that
underpins the governor’s plan. Nearly 35% of respondents favor basing
funding on research data and evidence of what works while just 3.9%
oppose the idea.
- Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

WHAT
DO YOU
THINK?

credits
Created by the Grassroots Engagement for Education Reform (GEER) Partnership:
Prepare the Future Ohio
Education Voters Institute
Institute for Creative Collaboration at KnowledgeWorks Foundation
Ohio Grantmakers Forum
The Judith Herb College of Education, The University of Toledo
For Additional Information Visit: www.GEEROhio.com
or
Contact: Dr. Jillian Darwish
Executive Director
Institute for Creative Collaboration at KnowledgeWorks Foundation
darwishj@kwfdn.org
(513)929-1128
Visually inspired by Meet Henry by Cheree Moore of Ethos3 Communications.
Available : http://www.slideshare.net/chereemoore/meet-henry
Slides 7 and 11 from Karl Fisch, Did You Know presentation.
Available: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html