ELF14 Margaret Paiti Principal Linwood College
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Education Leaders Forum - Enhancing Learning Culture, 21&22 August 2014 Christchurch Strengthening the culture of stakeholder engagement
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ELF14 Margaret Paiti Principal Linwood College
- 1. Margaret Paiti - Principal Richard Jolly - STEM Coordinator Peter Helms - Chief Operations Manager
- 2. Strengthening the Culture of Stakeholder Engagement “What are some new secondary and tertiary learning pathways designed for real world opportunities and expectations”
- 3. REALITY CHECK - These were huge questions 1. Culture of Stakeholder Engagement 2. Secondary and Tertiary Learning Pathways 3. Real World Opportunities and Expectations
- 4. "Our mission is to empower students with the courage, creativity critical thinking, and communications skills to be creators of their own worlds. We want Linwood College to be an incubator for tomorrows innovators and leaders"
- 5. OUR VISION FOR • A world class centre for innovation in education • A place of transformation • An international network of people opportunities and ideas • Breaking down the walls between the school and outside world We realised that Linwood College was going to need help.
- 6. To build strong connections between our school and the world, and to make education relevant to all of our students. “Culture, Learning Pathways, Real World"
- 7. STEM SEEMED TO PROVIDE A NEW CULTURE, NEW WAYS OF LEARNING AND GROUNDED IN THE REAL WORLD. HOW? We started a conversation with the community to: • Find out if this is something people understood. • To see if people wanted to engage • To explore new secondary and tertiary learning pathways • To explore Real World Opportunities and Expectations
- 8. A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION STARTER A series of articles written by Elizabeth Connor, Prime Minister’s Science Prize Winner 2009 Introducing New Zealand to STEM EDUCATION Launched 13 June 2014 - Keynote Speaker: Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
- 9. VISIONS
- 10. VISIONS
- 11. VISIONS
- 12. VISIONS
- 13. OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE RESPONSE Tertiary Sector were Earliest Adopters - Living "secondary and tertiary learning pathways” Industry is Excited and Onboard – “Real World Opportunities & Expectations” Very positive reaction from international experts, Maori, and government agencies Introducing a Culture of Stakeholder Engagement
- 14. WHAT NEXT? This year we will: • Develop relationships with community and students • Introduce STEM projects • Establish an external advisory committee • Collaborate with the Canterbury Tertiary Cluster • Collaborate with businesses • Develop international relationships
- 15. NEWS • Linwood College STEM Advisory Committee • Emeritus Professor Ian Town - Chair • Expect forthcoming announcement of members of the committee including members from - Business - Canterbury Tertiary Alliance - Maori and Pasifika - International Experts “The key idea is partnership” - Professor Sir Paul Callaghan
- 16. By introducing STEM Education Linwood College and our partners hopes to foster: 1. A Culture of Stakeholder Engagement 2. Secondary and Tertiary Learning Pathways 3. Real World Opportunities and Expectations “Our children are going to be faced with enormous challenges over their lives - environmental, economic and social. The future of our country will depend on their ability to understand how the world works and find solutions.” - Professor Sir Paul Callaghan
- 17. Thank you for your interest in STEM Education
Editor's Notes
- Tena Kou tou I am Peter Helms, Chief Operations Manager at Linwood College. It is my pleasure to introduce to you Margaret Paiti our Principal and Richard Jolly our STEM Coordinator. We are here today to introduce an exciting initiative we have been working on that just happens to be an answer to the questions we were given.
- First of all, we are from Linwood College, located about two Kilometers from here on the East side of Christchurch. So our presentation addresses how a sixty year old Decile 2 school that is 25% Maori and Pasifika with almost 100 children who use English as a second language, in post earthquake Christchurch go about - Strengthening the Culture of Stakeholder Engagement Offer some new secondary and tertiary learning pathways Designed for realworld opportunities and expectations And lead from a modern learning to a modern earning environment EASY!
- We did a reality check on these questions and as you can imagine these are huge. In fact these things needed to be created for our unique environment. Culture, as we learned yesterday is something that an organisation needs to work at and that is the first thing that needs to be developed. Learning pathways and making them real for every student is the goal but How? Real World Opportunities and Expectations? That is easy to say and sounds good but How?
- Linwood College has clear mission
- And Linwood College a clear vision of what it wants to be. These are laudable and exciting visions. These are incredibly challenging visions. There is not a world leading school anywhere that does not not have these visions. We do live in the real world though and this made us realised, as Professor Sir Paul Callaghan used to say, “A vision without funding is an hallucination” Linwood College realised it need help AND to secure help we were going to have to do things very differently to earn it. We Were going to have to introduce a philosophy that would drive a culture of stakeholder engagement to unprecedented levels We needed to create new secondary and tertiary pathways with a completely new approach. We realised that securing Real world opportunities would only be possible by working in paertnership with – Where? The Real World! I will hand over to Margaret Paiti – our principal to Linwood’s Approach. Its something new for New Zealand.
- Kia Ora everyone. For the past three years I have been thinking about how we answer the questions around Engagement Culture, Learning Pathways and making the school part of the Real World so students can benefit. This is the only reason for change and change is well needed. In my reading I became aware of an exciting successful program from the USA designed to help “STEM” if you will pardon the pun, students drifting away from subjects in Science Technology Engineering and Maths. This was seen as such a huge strategic problem that in the USA Stem schools have been set up by government in order to increase stakeholder engagement, improve new secondary and tertiary learning pathways and get children into real world opportunities where they can prosper and fulfill themselves. In the USA STEM is a billion dollar government led, industry endorsed educational initiative designed to secure national strengths in technology based industries. Where all the money comes from. Would it be applicable to New Zealand? We decided to find out.
- I initially met with Professor Sir Peter Gluckman and his advice was to ensure that the school communicated with the community. So we embarked on a project that would verify if out community “Got” stem and wanted to engage.
- We commissioned Elizabeth Connor, winner of the Prime Minister’s science prize, to interview a cross section of our community and stakeholders in New Zealand. She created a publication, which I have here for you to see, that explains STEM education from a New Zealand context, A Linwood College approach, and the perspectives of the tertiary sector, business, international experts, teachers, students alumnai and more. This publication we call a community conversation starter. Let me introduce you to some of the people Elizabeth interviewed.
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- Talk to page 15 seconds I WOULD NOW LIKE TO HAND OVER TO LINWOOD COLLEGE’S STEM COORDINATOR RICHARD JOLLY TO TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE WE ARE GOING NOW
- Richard – Kia Ora Well in a nut shell STEM was met with an overwhelmingly positive response from EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS Linwood College is amazed by the support we have seen from all sectors. There is a huge gap in potential for stakeholder engagement and everyone we have spoken to wishes to help. STEM is seen as pivotal to the future success of New Zealand. This idea is nationally significant.
- We have been very busy and have been since the launch of the STEM pu8blication in June. Let me summarise some of the things we are doing. Its all about relationships, community and the students. We are establishing the STEM Projects as a different style of teaching. We are creating a stakeholder STEM Advisory Group
- We are setting up the STEM Advisory Committee
- Closing – This is how we are addressing the questions and a telling quote from the late Pau Callaghan