The document discusses the challenges facing schools and leadership in education. It identifies 7 key contextual issues, including declining funding for public education and a lack of focus on the emerging future economy. It also outlines 5 key challenges for schools, such as building adaptive capacity and ensuring equity of outcomes. The document argues that educational reforms have had little measurable impact. It advocates for Renaissance leadership approaches in schools that practice personal mastery, have a global mindset, enable collaborative professional autonomy among teachers, and focus on equity. The document concludes with 5 big messages, including that schools need less state control and more support for leadership and teachers.
4. 7 Key Contextual Issues
• Declining per capita funding of public education linked
to economics / demography
• Lack of future focus on the emerging future economy
linked to the global “war” for talent – STEM versus
STEAM
• Misunderstanding “public good” as “business good”
and the role of private enterprise in shaping policy –
the “Pearsonalization” of education
5. • The march of anti-professionalism in science,
education and Government and the end of the
“public” service
• The vendor driven technology strategy for
schools – the management of learning
• Growing inequality in the developed world
• Political demands for accountability – PISA envy
6. The In Between TimeWe’re in the midst of a significa nt
change.A..
In Between
Time
Time and the Investment of Energy and Effort
SystemMaturity
Industrial
Form of
Schooling / 3rd
Way Policies
21st Century for
of Personalized
Learning in
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Community / 4th
Way Policies
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The Future School in the In Between
Time
INTASE APRIL 2015
7. The 2 Solitudes of Educational Policy
GERM
• Standardized curriculum –
STEM, 21st Century Skills
• Frequent testing
• De-professionalized
teaching
• Market based systems
• Competition
Equity Movement
• Liberal curriculum – STEAM
and social science
• Assessment for learning
• Collaborative professional
autonomy
• Public systems
• Collaboration
8. Only 1 in 10 of the 450 educational
reforms implemented in OECD have
produced any measurable outcomes -
OECD
10. 5 Key Challenges for Schools
• Building adaptive capacity and resilience
• Equity of outcomes – a great school for all
• Strengthening collaborative professional autonomy and
building the design capacity of teachers
• Securing the conditions of practice needed for
effective, engaged and mindful learning
• Enabling leaders to lead at the level of the school
• The challenge of public assurance
11. 5 Key Challenges for P-Secondary
• Equity for access, outcomes and impacts
• Rethinking the design of learning and the extent of
student engagement – rebalancing the teaching :
research roles of the university
• Restoring the independence of institutions and
securing strategic intent
• Strengthening collaboration
• Minimizing the role of business and admitting that
universities are not the engines of commercialization
12. Under-Determining Issues
• The role of the state and public policy in shaping
practice at the level of the school, college and
university – 3rd Way versus 4th Way policies
• Money – and the (re)purposing of funding
• Markets – the role of capital and business in
shaping the “what” and “how” of schools,
colleges and universities
• The status of teaching as a profession
16. Six Characteristics
• Practice Personal Mastery
• Have a glocal mindset
• Practice cross-boundary learning
• Think Back from the Future
• Lead Systematic Change
• Drive performance with a Passion
17. This what I see Jean P Stiles do…
• Build and empower teacher
teams..
• Build and empower supports for
learners and learning
• Enable the student voice to be
heard
• Connect to others around the
world..collaborate
• Focus, focus, focus on equity as
an ambition in terms of outcomes
• Never let a crisis go to waste..
19. 5 Big Messages
• Schools matter and schools need less State
control and more support for leadership and
teachers – also need predictable funding
• Teachers do not impact standardized test
scores – they change the lives of students
• Professional teachers are worth investing in as
professionals
20. • Worry less about skills and more about
creative talents, a great school for all and
equity
• Stop reforming education and lets practice
designed, engaged learning
