The document discusses the need to reimagine and reform public education by moving away from traditional classroom models focused on recall and standardized testing towards a more student-centered, project-based, and understanding-driven approach. It advocates for integrating new technologies, empowering student voice, and creating schools that foster collaboration, inquiry, and real-world learning experiences. The overall vision is of an education system that cultivates agency, wisdom, and lifelong learning skills in students.

1. Creating School 2.0
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA
@chrislehmann

2. Why This Matters

3. My Bias:
Old Ideas and New Tools

4. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

5. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

6. Agency

7. Head

8. Heart

9. Hands

10. Voice

11. Our Current Model
And this isn’t relevant.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2178404705/

12. The Paradox of Education 2012:
Create New Things,
Measured Old Ways

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

14. A Big
Problem:
Lack of
Humility

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

16. 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

17. Reclaim Our Language
Reclaim Education

18. Deliver Pizza
Not Instruction
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracyhunter/104435268/

19. Education
Not Training
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/998243013/

20. Dream Bigger

21. 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/

22. What Will You
Unlearn?

23. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

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

25. Tell A Better Story:
We Must Have Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

26. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

27. Inquiry Driven
Ask Questions We Don’t
Know The Answers To

28. Student Centered
It’s Not About Us.

29. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

30. Community-Based
We can learn from many

31. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

32. Passionate
High School Is Real Life

33. Integrated
The day has to make sense

34. Meta-Cognitive
Think about thinking.

35. Discussion:
What Is Your Vision
For Your School?

36. Ideas Must Live In Practice
Build Systems and Structures that Reflect Your Vision

37. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

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

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

40. Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

41. Common Inputs

42. Common Process

43. Common Outputs

44. Advisory
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

45. ILPs and Capstones
What if High School Was Real Life?

46. The Schedule

47. Hiring

48. Discussion:
Examine One System or Structure of
Your School or Classroom.
How can you change it to better reflect
your values / mission?

49. Technology Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

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

51. “What’s Good?”
Not “What’s New?”

52. Technology Transforms:
Creation
Research
Collaboration
Presentation
Networking

53. Technology:
• How can technology enable you to
achieve your goals?
• How will technology transform your
goals?

54. Continue the
Conversation
Dream big in every community

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

56. Conversations:
• Who are the stakeholders?
• How can they be brought into this
vision?
• What fears do you need to address?
• How will the student voice be part of
the discussion?

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

58. Hard Questions:
• What is the worst consequence of your
best idea?
• How can you mitigate them?
• What are the obstacles to this change?
• How can you overcome them?

59. Don’t Forget to
Slow Down
Be intentional in the use of tools and time

60. Life Questions:
• How are the lives of teachers different
in this model?
• How are the students’ lives different?
• How will you deal with the change?

61. Organize
If not me, who? If not now, when?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163922974/

62. Be a Learner

63. Be Willing to Be
Transformed
We Have So Much Left to Learn

64. Thoughtful, Wise,
Passionate and Kind

65. What do we teach
in the Information Age?

66. Wisdom.

67. Join us:
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Science Leadership Academy
http://www.scienceleadership.org
EduCon 2.5 -- Jan. 25-27, 2013
http://educonphily.org