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““National Perspective on High National Perspective on High School Reinvention”School Reinvention”

Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President

Sheraton Waikiki

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The Team

• Larry Gloeckler• Tom Houlihan• Richard Esparza• Mimi Dyer• Ada Grabowski• Paul Curtis

• Chris LaRocco• Jim Causby• Ellen Harris• Helen Branigan• Louis Martinez

The ConferenceSchools and Strategies

• Granger High, WA• Kennesaw Mountain,

GA• New Tech High, CA• Charles D’Amico, NY

• Hardest to serve• Data Driven Decisions• Leading with Literacy• Rigor, Relevance,

Relationships• Power of Networking• Managing High

School Reinvention• Closing Achievement

Gap

Themes

1. Opening thoughts…..

2. What are we learning…..

3. Nine BFO’s

Thoughts

Ready for Work

Youth Employment Outcomes

Ready for CollegeAcademic Outcomes

Ready for LifeYouth Development Outcomes

21st Century Skills & Content

Information & Media LiteracyCommunication

Critical & Systems ThinkingProblem Solving

Creativity, Intellectual CuriosityInterpersonal Skills

Self-DirectionAccountability and Adaptability

Social ResponsibilityFinancial LiteracyGlobal Awareness

Civic Literacy

Cultural, Physical & Behavioral Health Knowledge & Skills

Specific Vocational Knowledge & Skills

To Deliver 21st Century Skills & Content: The Common Core

Subject Matter Knowledge

Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Validated that the Public Recognizes the Skills Gap

“How” we need to work must change.

• We have to support each other in this work.

• Collins says, “get the right people on the bus!”

• You must build up to breakthrough.

• Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Goldcorp Inc.• Rob McEwen CEO, no experience

• 50 year old gold mine, Red Lake Ontario

• Without substantial new gold “close”

• Find more gold on this property “staff believes he is now crazy”

• No one leaves until we have a plan…

• Few weeks later remarkable discovery “30” times the amount they were currently mining

Goldcorp Inc

• 1999 Rob attends a conference at MIT about Linux OS and learns about “Open Source”

• Decides to make all data (1949) open to the public

• Ask the world to help us find more gold

• 2000 Goldcorp Challenge $575,000.

• 2 weeks, over 1,000 ideas, 80% yield gold

• $100m business to a $9 billion!!!!!

Think Different Clip

Objects of Change VS. Agents of Change

Federal/State Gov’t.

SEA, Board PolicySchools, Colleges, Staff,

Students, Community

Schools, Staff, Students, Community

Federal/State Gov’t.

SEA, Board Policy

“Leadership is action, not position.”

Donald H. McGannon

The primary aim of education is not to enable students to do well in

schools or colleges, but to help them do well in the lives they lead outside

of the schools and colleges.

We’ve created false proxies for learning…

• Finishing a course or textbook has come to mean achievement

• Listening to lecture has come to mean understanding

• Getting a high score on a standardized test has come to mean proficiency

Learning should have its roots in..

• Meaning, not just memory

• Engagement, not simply transmission

• Inquiry, not only compliance

• Exploration, not just acquisition

• Personalization, not simply uniformity

• Collaboration, not only competition

• Trust, not fear

Jim Collins, Good to Great 2001, p.205

“I am not suggesting that going from good to great is easy….. I am asserting that those who strive to turn good into great find the

process no more painful or exhausting than those who settle for just letting things

wallow along in mind numbing mediocrity.”

So why did you come to this conference?

How will what you learn here change what you do at your school or college?

Objects of Change VS. Agents of Change

Federal/State Gov’t.

SEA, Board PolicySchools, Colleges, Staff,

Students, Community

Schools, Staff, Students, Community

Federal/State Gov’t.

SEA, Board Policy

What are we learning…..

KEY ISSUEKEY ISSUE

In many cases, hard data is the total

focus at the exclusion of soft data.

This is often a short-term fix but a long

term mistake!

• Rigor

• Relevance

• Relationships

• Relevance

• Relationships

• Rigor

• Relationships

• Relevance

• Rigor

R X R X R = LCWRS

Relationships X Relevance X Rigor =

Life, College, Work Ready Students

Rigor/Relevance Rigor/Relevance FrameworkFramework

1.1. AwarenessAwareness2.2. Comprehension Comprehension 3.3. ApplicationApplication4.4. AnalysisAnalysis5.5. Synthesis Synthesis 6.6. EvaluationEvaluation

Knowledge TaxonomyKnowledge Taxonomy

AssimilationAssimilationof knowledgeof knowledge

Acquisition Acquisition of knowledgeof knowledge

Thinking Thinking ContinuumContinuum

Application ModelApplication Model1.1. Knowledge of one disciplineKnowledge of one discipline

2. Application within discipline2. Application within discipline3. Application across 3. Application across

disciplinesdisciplines4. Application to real-world 4. Application to real-world

predictable situationspredictable situations5. Application to real-world 5. Application to real-world

unpredictable situationsunpredictable situations

AcquisitionAcquisitionof knowledgeof knowledge

ApplicationApplicationof knowledgeof knowledge

Action ContinuumAction Continuum

KNOWLEDGE

A P P L I C A T I O N

AA BB

DDCC

Rigor/Relevance Framework

TeacherWork

Teacher/Student Roles

StudentThink

StudentThink & Work

StudentWork

RIGOR

RELEVANCE

AA BB

DDCC

Rigor/Relevance FrameworkRigor/Relevance Framework

RightRightAnswerAnswer

Did Students Get it Right?Did Students Get it Right?

RationalRationalAnswerAnswer

RightRightQuestionsQuestions

RightRightProcedureProcedure

High

HighLow

Low

Relationships

You can’t teach kids you don’t know….

The Gap Problems

Achievement Gap

Participation Gap

Participation Gap

Personal Worth – belonging, heroes, sense of accomplishment

Active Engagement – being involved, fun and exciting, curious, creative and adventurous

Purpose – taking responsibility, confidence to take action, believing in self

8 Conditions that make a difference

• Belonging

• Heroes

• Sense of Accomplishment

• Fun and Excitement

• Curiosity and Creativity

• Spirit of Adventure

• Leadership and Responsibility

• Confidence to take Action

BELONGING

Male Female 9 10 11 12

School is a welcoming and friendly place. 62.8% 62.9% 63.0% 62.1% 61.0% 62.8% 66.6%

I feel accepted for who I am at school. 77.7% 77.8% 77.6% 76.9% 77.1% 77.6% 80.6%

I have difficulty fitting in at school. 12.6% 13.7% 10.8% 12.6% 12.6% 11.4% 10.5%

Teachers care about my problems and feelings. 45.6% 43.5% 48.3% 45.5% 44.9% 45.1% 48.9%

I am proud of my school. 48.8% 47.8% 50.8% 49.9% 47.4% 48.9% 51.3%

I feel comfortable going to the cafeteria for lunch. 68.8% 68.2% 70.3% 73.5% 69.9% 67.3% 64.8%

I think bullying is a problem at my school. 31.7% 28.7% 34.9% 34.6% 32.3% 31.1% 28.4%

GradeSurvey Statements Total in

Agreement

Gender

Student Survey ResponsesStudent Survey Responses

Survey Statement Total Surveyed

Academy La Joya Raleigh Windsor

School is a welcoming and friendly place 61.6 80.5 75.0 90.2 74.4

I am proud of my school 49.0 73.7 61.9 81.0 58.3

School is boring 46.1 18.8 31.2 28.1 38.6

Teachers care about my problems and feelings 44.5 70.7 49.0 61.2 54.3

Teachers care about me as an individual 49.1 68.8 55.0 73.8 57.6

64% School is a welcoming and friendly place.

51% I am proud of my school.

37% I know the goals my school is working on.

49% I enjoy being at school.

21% I have never been recognized for something positive at school.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

SCHOOL/CLASSES

46% School is boring.

58% At school I am encouraged to be creative.

38% Students council represents all students at school.

40% My classes help me understand what is happening in my everyday life.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

SCHOOL/CLASSES

46% Teachers care about my problems and feelings.

50% Teachers care about me as an individual.

49% Teachers care if I am absent from school.

50% If I have a problem, I have a teacher with whom I can talk.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

TEACHERS

66% I have a teacher who is a positive role model for me.

58% Teachers enjoy working with students.

39% Teachers have fun at school.

32% Teachers make school an exciting place to learn.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

TEACHERS

55% Teachers respect students.

41% Students respect teachers.

31% Students respect each other.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

RESPECT

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

75% I push myself to do better academically.

67% I put forth my best effort at school.

55% I am excited to tell my friends when I get good grades.

RESPONSIBILITY

93% My parents care about my education.

85% My parents think going to college is important.

60% My parents feel comfortable talking to my teachers.

Selected Data—My Voice Survey(n ≈ 150,000)

PARENTS

Staff Skills

Organizational Health (10 Areas)

• Goal Focus • Communication Adequacy • Power Equalization• Resource Utilization • Cohesiveness• Morale • Innovativeness • Autonomy• Adaptation• Problem Solving Adequacy

Three Core Staff Skills

• Adaptability

• Goal Focused

• Cohesiveness

Listen to their words!• Many of those in low performing schools say, “We have

high mobility, high bilingual, low SES, and low parent support! You know we are doing pretty good in spite of those kids!”

• Many of those in high performing schools say, “We have high mobility, high bilingual, low SES, and low parent support! THEREFORE, we must adapt to compensate for those factors!”

9 BFO’s

Blinding flashes of the obvious!!!

• Use data to focus on what is important to teach.

• Get to know each student

• Engage parents about student interests

• Use proven methodologies to teach

• Monitor success and failures, ongoing….

• Stay current with research

• Focus on students, not courses or averages

• Use technology to improve learning

• Make decisions based on hard and soft data

What is success?

Focus your attention on improving the performance

of the students in the top 100% of your school’s

population.

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““National Perspective on High National Perspective on High School Reinvention”School Reinvention”

Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President

Sheraton Waikiki