The document welcomes participants to ISDLS and discusses the power of diversity of opinion, independence, and decentralization when combined with aggregation. It emphasizes doing right diligence, ingenuity, and the combination of diligence and ingenuity. It questions how students can succeed when failure is easy, focusing on what teachers know and can do through diligence, evidence-based practices, and professional development. The document introduces Jay Goulart, co-creator of the WOW Institute, as a positive deviant who asks why and doesn't wait to create change.

1. WELCOME TO ISDLS

2. What power do we have? Instrumental in the Great Debate Apple of the Dx Researchers’ Eyes Model Evidence Based Interventions Lead the next change in the Science of Instruction/curriculum/approach Change the world….. again

3. Why are we here, together? The Many are Smarter than The Few when: Diversity of opinion Independence Decentralization Aggregation

5. What does it take to be good at something in which failure is so easy, so effortless? better Atul Gawande, 2007

6. Our Score Card Doing Right Diligence Ingenuity Combined Diligence and Ingenuity-- ???

7. How do our students succeed in our schools when failure is so easy, so effortless? What teachers know and can do in their classrooms with children Diligence Strict adherence to evidence base Assiduous professional development Doing Right Designing cultures of hope and creativity Ingenuity What are our schools doing in this area?

8. Ingenuity This is the focus of ISDLS. Positive Outliers Starvation Mortality Rates in US Wars Advice on how to be a positive deviant Change. Don’t wait.

9. Welcome Jay Goulart A positive deviant, if there ever was one Ask why? Co-creator of WOW Institute WOW for Educators