The document discusses various innovative educational practices and learning environments, emphasizing design thinking, collaboration, and technology integration in schools. It highlights examples from different institutions aiming to improve student engagement, college access, and teacher training. Key themes include changing classroom dynamics, enhancing facilities, and fostering creativity and critical thinking among students.

2. Standford’s Design School
 Design Thinking
 Five Step Process

3. Examples
 Miami’s ABCDs
 Applications
 Bandwidth
 Communication
 Devices
 Whiteboards for most schools
 US history students all have class sets
of laptops
 1:1 isn’t sustainable [?]

4. Examples 2
 Milpital LCS, CA
 4 Cs of facilitation
 Collaboration, communication, critical thinking
and creativity
 Less need to focus on the front of the room
 Visual openness
 Support 100+ students in large group spaces
 Glass garage doors
 So engage your students they don’t bother
looking through the glass

5. Examples 3
 San Francisco Unified
 School lunch revision
 Storage was an issue with the large group
spaces.
 Next trying to go to maker spaces with sinks,
no carpet, etc.
 Next will integrate the primary learning centers
by collocating them with the libraries? Why
wasn’t that an initial thought?

6. More questions/ideas
 Rocketship’s Large Group rotational model
 Culture always eats strategy
 Barriers are a function of resources
 How are you engaging students in new facilities
 Change management – process matters
 Provide more co-teaching and large space
environmental practice for student-teachers and in-service
teachers

7. Preparing students for the
future
 KIPP-Austin
 162 free public charters nation-wide
 Blended rotational model with 15:1 ratio
 Goal is to increase college access for lower
SES students by 5x. E.g. 5 of 10 go to
college
 30 students 10 work on cpus
 10 work independently or small group
 5 work with teacher x 2
 Incubation projects – not pilots….

8. Maine THSD Teacher
Leadership Program
 Johnson & Johnson Cooperative Learning
Training
 Google Certified Teachers
 Each teacher needs a coaching plan in
plan; operational conversations about
instruction
 Judy Willis – Brain based teachers
 Provide for a four year mentoring program
 Remove behavior from the grading process
 College & Career readiness skills every
four weeks are reported

9. Maine THSD Teacher
Leadership Program 2.
 Taking teaching as serious as football
 The Smartest Kids in the World
 We need to stop being failure adverse in
K-12 schools, but it is the students’ only
opportunity
 Evaluations went from 97% excellent to
abut 30% excellent
 Evaluators have to have the guts to be
strong Tony Wagner & Michael Fullan

10. Major Changes / Other
Thoughts
 Full day kindergarten
 Testing ubiquitous access
 Kid skills – independence and creativity
 Tech and teacher openness =
Improvement
 Equity issues can kill pilots
 E-rate dial tone reimbursement to drop
20% per year

11. Vendor Issues
 Teaching Channel Videos for Inservice
 200+ videos
 Voice and choice for student
assessment
 Rand Study showed 8% gains in
Algebra 1 by using blended learning
 Common themes – create and
personalize learning experiences

12. Philadelphia Inquiry Method
 Vision for learning
 Learning Platforms
 PD/Professional learning
 Infrastructure
 Management of data
 TeachingChannel
 www.teachingchannel.org