Beyond Tools - Thoughtful 21st C. School Reform

Beyond Tools: Thoughtful 21st Century School Reform Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy Philadelphia, PA

Why This Matters

The World In Which We Live: The Maddening Paradox of Education 2010.

Things Are Different Know The Difference Between Change and Innovation

Neil Postman: Certain Technologies Are Not Additive, They Are Transformative

Technology Like Oxygen Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

Technology Transforms: Creation Research Collaboration Presentation Networking

A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy Research Collaborate Create Network Present RSS Wikis Blogging Twitter uStream Google Del.icio.us Docs Drupal Skype Flickr Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U Wikipedia Digital Films IM Voicethread Email

Tell A Better Story: We Must Have Vision http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

Caring Institutions We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

Inquiry Driven What are the questions we can ask together?

Student Centered It’s Not About Us.

Teacher-Mentored Kids Need Adults

Community-Based We can learn from many

Collaborative Synthesis Works

Passionate And it has to matter.

Integrated The day has to make sense

Meta-Cognitive We need to think about thinking.

The Goal Thoughtful Passionate Wise Kind

Discussion: What Is Your Vision For Your School?

How Do We Innovate?

Be Humbled By The Task

Ideas Must Live In Practice Build Systems and Structures that Reﬂect Your Vision

Common Language of Teaching and Learning

Common Inputs

Common Process

Common Outputs

Traditional Classrooms: Recall-Based Tests Homework Projects Class Participation

SLA: Understanding- Driven Projects Homework Class Participation Tests & Quizzes

ILPs and Capstones

The Schedule

Hiring

Discussion: Examine One System or Structure of Your School or Classroom. How can you change it to better reﬂect your values / mission?

Continue the Conversation Dream big in every community

Empower the Kids It is their education, and it will be their world

Conversations: • Who are the stakeholders? • How can they be brought into this vision? • What fears do you need to address? • How will the student voice be part of the discussion?

Keep Asking Questions And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers

Hard Questions: • What is the worst consequence of your best idea? • How can you mitigate them? • What are the obstacles to this change? • How can you overcome them?

Don’t Forget to Slow Down Be intentional in the use of tools and time

Life Questions: • How are the lives of teachers different in this model? • How are the students’ lives different? • How will you deal with the change?

Be Willing to Be Transformed We Have So Much Left to Learn

Keep In Touch: Chris Lehmann Science Leadership Academy chris@practicaltheory.org http://www.practicaltheory.org Twitter: chrislehmann Skype: chrislehmann EduCon 2.3 -- Jan. 28-30, 2011 http://educon22.org

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