A presentation to INSEAD Education Group (Singapore) on renaissance leadership in education.

1. Renaissance Leadership & The
Future of Schooling
Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FBPsS FRSA
INSEAD ASIA, Education Club
April 10th 2015

2. This Presentation
Setting the Context
Defining the Challenge
Understanding Leadership

3. CONTEXT

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
School and
Community / 4th
Way Policies
Paradigm Shi
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

9. CHALLENGE

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

13. LEADERSHIP

14. No Doubt You Have Studied..

15. Renaissance Leadership

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..

18. But Can we Make this Even Simpler?

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

21. We’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
School and
Community / 4th
Way Policies
Paradigm Shi
The Future School in the In Between
Time

22. @murgatroydsteph
murgatroydstephen@gmail.com