My unedited notes that I shared with my administrative team about some of what I learned at the School CIO Summit in October 2014.

2. Standford’s Design School
 Design Thinking
 Five Step Process

3. Examples
 Miami’s ABCDs
 Applications
 Bandwidth
 Communication
 Devices
 Whiteboards for most schools
 US history students all have class sets
of laptops
 1:1 isn’t sustainable [?]

4. Examples 2
 Milpital LCS, CA
 4 Cs of facilitation
 Collaboration, communication, critical thinking
and creativity
 Less need to focus on the front of the room
 Visual openness
 Support 100+ students in large group spaces
 Glass garage doors
 So engage your students they don’t bother
looking through the glass

5. Examples 3
 San Francisco Unified
 School lunch revision
 Storage was an issue with the large group
spaces.
 Next trying to go to maker spaces with sinks,
no carpet, etc.
 Next will integrate the primary learning centers
by collocating them with the libraries? Why
wasn’t that an initial thought?

6. More questions/ideas
 Rocketship’s Large Group rotational model
 Culture always eats strategy
 Barriers are a function of resources
 How are you engaging students in new facilities
 Change management – process matters
 Provide more co-teaching and large space
environmental practice for student-teachers and in-service
teachers

7. Preparing students for the
future
 KIPP-Austin
 162 free public charters nation-wide
 Blended rotational model with 15:1 ratio
 Goal is to increase college access for lower
SES students by 5x. E.g. 5 of 10 go to
college
 30 students 10 work on cpus
 10 work independently or small group
 5 work with teacher x 2
 Incubation projects – not pilots….

8. Maine THSD Teacher
Leadership Program
 Johnson & Johnson Cooperative Learning
Training
 Google Certified Teachers
 Each teacher needs a coaching plan in
plan; operational conversations about
instruction
 Judy Willis – Brain based teachers
 Provide for a four year mentoring program
 Remove behavior from the grading process
 College & Career readiness skills every
four weeks are reported

9. Maine THSD Teacher
Leadership Program 2.
 Taking teaching as serious as football
 The Smartest Kids in the World
 We need to stop being failure adverse in
K-12 schools, but it is the students’ only
opportunity
 Evaluations went from 97% excellent to
abut 30% excellent
 Evaluators have to have the guts to be
strong Tony Wagner & Michael Fullan

10. Major Changes / Other
Thoughts
 Full day kindergarten
 Testing ubiquitous access
 Kid skills – independence and creativity
 Tech and teacher openness =
Improvement
 Equity issues can kill pilots
 E-rate dial tone reimbursement to drop
20% per year

11. Vendor Issues
 Teaching Channel Videos for Inservice
 200+ videos
 Voice and choice for student
assessment
 Rand Study showed 8% gains in
Algebra 1 by using blended learning
 Common themes – create and
personalize learning experiences

12. Philadelphia Inquiry Method
 Vision for learning
 Learning Platforms
 PD/Professional learning
 Infrastructure
 Management of data
 TeachingChannel
 www.teachingchannel.org