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The New Normal in Education
Raymond J. McNulty,
Chief Learning Officer Penn Foster and Senior Fellow ICLE
[email protected]
@Ray_McNulty
Themes
•The Landscape Has
Changed
•Key Question
•Disruptor or Disrupted
•Advice
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Themes
•The Landscape Has
Changed
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Why I DO THIS WORK
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The primary aim of
education is not to
enable students to do
well in school, but to
help them do well in the
lives they lead outside
of school.
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•The Emergence of
"The concept
of an e-Dentity Disorder
•Multiple
'average American' is
gone, forever. The
average American has
been replaced by a
complex,
multidimensional
society that defies
simplistic labeling.”
•Find
- demographics expert
Peter Francese
All of “Me” Online
•Photo credit : Amber Mayhem
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Meet the 21st Century Student
20th Century Student
21st Century Student
Extreme shifts in:
Student Segments
Student Segments
Information
access
Social influence
Tech savvy
Time
Engagement
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“Ideals not Norms”
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Time and Standards Drive Learning Today
End of School Year
Knowledge and Skills
Standards
Time
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Education
If you are focused on seat time you are focused on the wrong end of the student.
A Snapshot of Competency Education State Policy Across
the United States
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Opportunity
•Technological change is not
additive, it is ecological, it
changes everything.
Think About
• Billion or more interactive web pages
• Billion Smartphones
• Free Courses
• Video Tutor 24 / 7
• Connect Any Time, Any Where, Any Pace
• Learning is now participatory, connect within and
outside of school / place
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THINK ABOUT THIS
OUR STUDENTS ARE
MORE COMFORTABLE IN
THE WORLD TODAY
THAN WE ARE!
Learning
Today teaching is “one” but
“not” the only way to achieve
learning.
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“EPIC WIN”
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Against all odds
you create
breakthrough.
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Systems are challenged today like
never before and the key
challenge that we face is results.
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In an environment driven by
results, the best strategy is to
“DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE.”
Broaden the definition of learning in your system to include adults.
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The focus must be on the
way we work.
Cooperation is what was valued in the past. It is
about efficiency: “You do this and I will do that.”
Collaboration is where we should focus. It is
about shared creation and shared solutions, in
which the focus is not on the process but on the
specific results, and everyone in the system has
responsibility for the results.
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WE need to
become the AGENTS
of change.
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It is Our Time!
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Themes
•The Landscape Has
Changed
•Key Questions
•Disruptor or Disrupted
•Advice
If we ask the right
questions and take action
on the answers, we can
change the world of
education.
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The Questions Should Be …
• What do we mean by learning?
• What does it mean to be literate in the
world today?
• What does it mean to be educated?
The Question…
• What do we mean by learning?
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What do we mean by learning?
•If learning is about productive
learning, “students wanting to learn
more” then it suggests a transfer of
power over the learning from the
teacher to the student.
RISE OF THE SELF-LEARNER
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Perhaps a change in how we think?
•How would I teach this?
•How would I learn this?
So let’s try this
•How would you go about changing
your front brake pads on your Honda?
•How would you learn to tie a tie?
•How to build a deck on your house?
•How to ……….
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Creating A Learning Culture Where Peer to Peer and
Self-Help are the Preferred Methods to Learn
Self
Check
out
Amazon
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Driving Beliefs
Penn Foster Choose To Be More Bike Tour,
Miami Dade Job Corp Visit April 2013
Self-directed learning improves
student satisfaction.
Community and peer support create
a sense of belonging and student success
All students
have the ability to become
independent learners.
A learning environment with self
service tools enables learner
autonomy.
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Themes
•The Landscape Has
Changed
•Key Questions
•Disruptor or Disrupted
•Advice
Are you going to be the
Disruptor or the
Disrupted?
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Disrupted
Disruptor
• Legacy Thinking
• Legacy Technology
• Disruptive Thinking
• Disruptive Technology
You can’t live on your legacy, you must build on it.
First Different - Then Better
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System
Innovation
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Next Practice
Sustaining Innovation
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Disruptive Innovation
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Expertise (“the way we do things
around here”) can be a road
block to problem solving and to
the development of Next
Practices.
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We have a flawed perspective of
always listening to our best
customers… They tell us how good
the system is working for them!
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• Sears
• IBM
• Xerox
BANKING
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A Story….
• Not a bad idea, but
to earn a grade more
than a C+, the idea
has to be viable!
(Yale Professor)
• Fredrick Smith
• The idea FedEx
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“In the beginner’s mind
there are many possibilities;
in the expert’s mind there
are few.”
-Shurnyu Suzuki
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First practice must
change, then results,
then policy.
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
1. Do what
we
“Already” do
even better?
Characteristics:
Measures:
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Discipline, Focus
Consistently &
incremental improvements
Innovation
2. How to
invent
a different
future
for the
student?
Fast, test and learn, disruptive
Creativity, fast failures,
breakthrough improvements
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There is no point in
innovating if you believe you
already know the answer.
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
Best Practices
Characteristics:
Measures:
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Discipline, Focus
Consistently &
incremental improvements
Innovation
How can we get better?
What ideas do I have ?
What can I try that may
show promise?
“NEXT PRACTICES”
Fast, test and learn, disruptive
Creativity, fast failures,
breakthrough improvements
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
Best Practices
Characteristics:
Measures:
Discipline, Focus
Consistently &
incremental improvements
Innovation
Try something
Fast, test and learn, disruptive
Creativity, fast failures,
breakthrough improvements
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
Best Practices
Characteristics:
Measures:
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Discipline, Focus
Consistently &
incremental improvements
Innovation
Next Practice
Fast, test and learn, disruptive
Creativity, fast failures,
breakthrough improvements
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
Best Practices
Innovation
How can we get better?
What ideas do I have?
What can I try that may
show promise?
THE NEXT PRACTICE BECOMES THE NEW BEST PRACTICE
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We must make progress on managing two
important, yet divergent disciplines
Disciplines:
Operating Excellence
Best Practices
Characteristics:
Measures:
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Discipline, Focus
Consistently &
incremental improvements
Innovation
Try something
Fast, test and learn, disruptive
Creativity, fast failures,
breakthrough improvements
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Themes
•The Landscape Has
Changed
•Key Questions
•Leadership and Innovation
•Advice
Important Message
• The threat to your system is not
choice, charters, other privates or
funding.
•It is the “Status Quo.”
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Long-Range Planning is
Guessing
Unless you are a fortune teller
“long-term planning” is a fantasy.
Timing of long-range plans are
backwards; you have better
information when you are doing
something, not before you do it.
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Planning Strategy
• Long Range Vision
• 30 Day Plan
• 60 and 90 Day Plans
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Culture Trumps Strategy
• Culture is the set of habits that allows a group of people
to cooperate by assumption rather than by negotiation
• Do we Trust each other?
• Disagreement means what to us at our school?
• Who owns school performance?
• The successful culture allows us to work with each other
• Accountability - to each other and ourselves
• Ownership - of the outcomes
• Commitment - to achieving more each day
• Belief – that anything is possible if we work together.
• Will – to continue pressing forward as change gets difficult.
• What is your role in changing our culture?
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building
the new.” - Socrates
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Don’t tell me there is
something that educators
can’t accomplish in the field
of education.
New Daily Plan
• Wake Up
• Be Amazing / Be Amazed
• Go To Bed
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The New Normal in Education
Raymond J. McNulty,
Chief Learning Officer Penn Foster and Senior Fellow ICLE
[email protected]
@Ray_McNulty
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