School 2.0 advocates for a progressive, student-centered vision of education that prepares students for citizenship, not just workforce skills. It argues current schools are outdated and fail to meet the needs of today's world. The presentation calls for schools with a clear vision focused on inquiry, collaboration, reflection and presentation. It emphasizes making learning meaningful and relevant to students' lives through projects, questions and passion, using technology as a tool rather than an end. The goal is to empower students and transform education through community involvement, understanding-driven assessment and thinking about thinking.

1. School 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA

2. Who Is This
Guy?

3. Why This Matters

4. What should our
schools be about?
And why aren’t they that way?

5. My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive
Education with 21st
Century Tools

6. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

7. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

8. What They Say About Us
Obsolete
Broken
Wasteland
Money Pits
Failing

9. The Problem Is...
If we keep down our current path, they’re right.

10. STOP!

11. The Great Big
Question:
How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and
still have so many problems?

12. Fix the System:
Put a good person into a bad system
and the system will win every time.

13. The World In Which We Live:
The Maddening Paradox of Education 2010.

14. Data Driven Decisions
Assume that you use good data -- and
good data ain’t cheap.

15. Accountability = External
Responsibility = Internal

16. Our Biggest Problem:
A Lack of Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

17. Another Big Problem:
A Lack of Humility

18. A Related Problem:
We’re Too A-Historical

19. What the school system needs to understand is that its
strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization,
but in the strength of the individual school, not in making one
school like another, but in making each school a distinct unit.
The need of the system is the preservation of its units, so that
each school can keep itself alive, wide awake, responsive to
its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City

20. You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

21. “What’s Good?”
Is Better than “What’s New?”

22. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

23. If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/
838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

24. Things Are Different
Know The Difference Between
Change and Innovation

25. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

27. Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

28. If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey

29. So Now What?

30. There is no silver bullet.
What do we need?
What do we value?

31. Step One:
Have a vision

32. Science Leadership Academy
• Inquiry
• Research
• Collaboration
• Presentation
• Reflection

33. Gates Foundation
• Rigor
• Relevance
• Relationships
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/UnitedStates/Education/TransformingHighSchools/

34. Coalition of Essential
Schools
• Learning to use one’s mind well.
• Less is More, depth over coverage
• Goals apply to all students
• Personalization
• Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
• Demonstration of mastery
• A tone of decency and trust
• Commitment to the entire school
• Resources dedicated to teaching and learning
• Democracy and equity
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/phil/10cps/10cps.html

35. High Tech High
• Personalization
• Adult World Connection
• Common Intellectual
Mission
http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/design-principles.php

36. Christian Long’s Learning Manifesto
• “Playing Small Does Not Serve The World:” Your Brain Is Your Brand.
• What Would Socrates Do?
• Nobody Cares That You Walked Uphill Both Ways in the Snow.
• Got Passion? If Not, I’ll Tell You What To Care About.
• My Memory Is Only As Big As My Heart, Otherwise I’ll Stick With
Google.
• Look It Up Or Die.
• Collaboration Ain’t About Holding Hands. It’s About Going Places Fast.
• This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record.
• It Ain’t About the Technology, It’s About Being Inside the Story
• Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy With the Questions.
http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/01/the_future_of_l.html

37. My Two Cents:
• Thoughtful
• Wise
• Passionate
• Kind

38. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

39. Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

40. Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.

41. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

42. Community-Based
We can learn from many

43. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

44. Passionate
And it has to matter.

45. Integrated
The day has to make sense

46. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

47. Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

48. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

49. Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

50. The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Driven Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

51. What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

52. But what about tech?

53. Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

54. Relevance?

55. Paraphrasing
Neil Postman:
Certain Technologies Are
Not Additive, They Are
Transformative

56. Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

57. A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy
Research Collaborate Create Network Present
RSS Wikis Blogging Twitter uStream
Google
Del.icio.us Docs Drupal Skype Flickr
Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U
Wikipedia Digital Films IM Voicethread
Email

58. Transparent
We Can Invite the World To Our Schools

59. How Do We
Change the
World?

60. Be Humbled By
The Task
And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’t

61. Keep Asking
Questions
And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers

62. Continue the
Conversation
Dream big in every community

63. Speed Up to
Slow Down
Be intentional in the use of tools and time

64. Empower
the Kids
It is their education, and it will be their world

65. Be a Learner
And be willing to be transformed

66. What is the role of school
in the age of Google?

67. Wisdom.

68. Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann
EduCon 2.3 -- Jan. 28-30, 2010
http://educon22.org