Making It Happen: How Our
Imaginations Can Give Us the
Schools We Want
TechForum Northeast 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Saturday, October 24, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/superkimbo/3318904030/
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Who are the students you want leaving your classrooms
every day?
Saturday, October 24, 2009

What do you hope they know how to do with what
they've learned?
Saturday, October 24, 2009

What do you hope they care about?
Saturday, October 24, 2009

What do you hope they know how to do with what
they've learned?
Who are the students you want leaving your classrooms
every day?
What do you hope they care about?
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Find Someone Who
Saturday, October 24, 2009

What Does it Mean to Be Well-Educated
in Today’s World?
Saturday, October 24, 2009

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traditional?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

New?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/penmachine/98352836/
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

A school's culture has far more influence on life and learning in the
schoolhouse than the president of the country, the state department of
education, the superintendent, the school board, or even the principal,
teachers, and parents can ever have."
Roland Barth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leecullivan/143388036/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Building Out Excuses
Establish sharing within the community
Give to Get
Don’t Waste Their Time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbaltimore/9276178/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Reform
does not
equal
Transformation
Saturday, October 24, 2009

What is
the
“mission”
or “goal” of
your
school or
district?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/massenpunkt/47436435/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Systems
Have
Meaning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24287082@N02/2303856891/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Positive
Deviance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovehate/3061895133/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Divergent Thinking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dominik99/1403329318/
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Convergent Thinking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/electrobrain/4018695523/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Effechnology
Leaderschoolship
-Michael Ashton
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Positive
Deviants
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovehate/3061895133/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Curriculum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Disruptivetechnology.gif
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Kill the Mothership
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jongorr/203440092/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

It Begins With You
http://www.flickr.com/photos/humanoide/138782217/
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Image Credits
Seth Tisue's photostream
carf's photostream
nerovivo's
photostream
Cocoabiscuit's photostream
carf's photostream
mamako7070's
photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenpoff/2217604379/
Saturday, October 24, 2009