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A NEW ERA DAWNSIDEA Board Meeting
Spring 2013
Kirsten Olson, IDEA Board Member@olsonkirsten
1Monday, October 21, 13
We all have our own educational stories that shape our views of the sector
• Former professor who looked at role of schools in American society
•Now global leadership coach/OD consultant•Close educational discourse watcher for over 20 years
2Monday, October 21, 13
This is my My Educational Story
WHAT’S YOURS?3Monday, October 21, 13
The Big Story
4Monday, October 21, 13
• Old way of educating is ending
• Myths about educational system contested
• Formal sector is in collapse...which means transformation
• Transformation creates threats/opportunities
• IDEA is part of the “new” discourse of educational transformation
5Monday, October 21, 13
A Little History
6Monday, October 21, 13
Dame Schools and Harvard
• 17th and 18th century schooling only for elite white men in US
• Schooling “scattered and rare,” haphazard
• Schooling not a responsibility of the state
• Decentralized, family-based
• Largely unavailable to folks of color
7Monday, October 21, 13
Along Comes Horace Mann• Mid-19th century birth of Common School
movement
• Horace Mann proselytizer for common education
• Education to be “great engine” of equality
• Education a wealth provider
• Great Social Movements period
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“EDUCATION THEN IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER OF THE CONDITIONS OF MEN,
THE BALANCE WHEEL OF THE SOCIAL MACHINERY”
-HORACE MANN, 18429Monday, October 21, 13
Shadow of the Common School Myth
• Society awash in systemic violence and racial oppression
• Enslaved African American population
• School is to be used for harsh socializing of immigrants, “Others”
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The One Best System:Old Industrial Model
• 1890-1950: Rise of the Industrial System
• “One best system”
• Belief that schools create middle class
• Modeled on the factory
• Admiration of efficiency
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Skills That Mattered Then • Memorization• Categorization• Compliance• Understanding of
hierarchy• Attention to
authority
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Shadow of Universal Access
• Schools used to “socialize” huge waves of immigrants and “unwanteds”
• AA population/immigrants in hugely segregated society
• Schools privilege what is “normative”: white, middle-class values
13Monday, October 21, 13
Brown V. Board 1954• Schools become central
to creating equality in US
• Social institutions/courts central to achieving justice
• Schools have “both/and” responsibilities
• Schools as both democratizing and liberating and reproducing social inequality
14Monday, October 21, 13
Test-based Accountability
• 1981-present
• A Nation At Risk, 1981; No Child Left Behind 2001, Race to the Top 2011; Common Core
• America feels End-Of-Empire sense of competition
• Policy makers ask schools respond with test-based accountability
15Monday, October 21, 13
What’s the theory behind test-based
accountability?• Schools compete with each
other to get better
• Measure, test, quantify: no room to hide
• “Equality” two-edged: greater emphasis on achievement gap used to drive test-based agenda
16Monday, October 21, 13
Shadow of TBA:
• Exacerbates weaknesses of teaching practice
• Narrows effectiveness/relevance of school
• Limited effect on competitiveness
• Loss of confidence in system
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HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
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SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO SORT AND TRACK KIDS
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•School has historically been about inculcating and privileging middle class values
•“White Is Right” in school20Monday, October 21, 13
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PRIVILEGING THE ALREADY PRIVILEGED
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“JUST BE GRATEFUL YOU WERE
ABLE TO GO TO
SCHOOL.”
WHILE MAINTAINING OTHER CONFLICTING BELIEFS23Monday, October 21, 13
“I DON’T KNOW WHAT KIDS COMPLAIN ABOUT. SCHOOL WAS
MUCH TOUGHER IN MY DAY.”
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“SEE, WHAT WE SEEM TO FORGET IS THAT IT’S ALL THERE FOR THE TAKING. IF YOU WANT AN EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY YOU CAN HAVE IT. KIDS SHOULD GET THEIR BUTTS IN GEAR.”
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Education can be both liberatory, democratizing, and reproduce
social and economic inequality.
DIFFICULT FOR US TO HOLD BOTH REALITIES
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Our culture has difficulty with this complexity
27Monday, October 21, 13
“COUNTER PRODUCTIVITY”
“Once our institutions develop beyond a certain scale, they became perverse, counterproductive to the beneficial ends for which they were originally conceived. The end result of this paradoxical counter-productivity was schools which make people dumb, complacent and unquestioning; hospitals which produce disease; prisons which make people violent; travel at high speed which creates traffic jams; and ‘aid and development’ agencies which create more and more ‘needy’ and ‘underconsuming’ people.”
-Ivan Ilich, author of Deschooling Society (1971)
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Where Are We Now?
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Learning Has Left The Building
30Monday, October 21, 13
WE ARE AT THE END OF ERA• End of test-based accountability
• Discourse has run out of gas (Common Core will too)
• More successful systems...
• Invest heavily in skills/knowledge of teachers
• Broaden definitions of “good” education
• Focus on equalizing access and resources31Monday, October 21, 13
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Traditional Sector is in free fall
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TEACHERS FEEL EMBATTLED AND UNAPPRECIATED
• 3 million teachers trying to “save” a life way
• 50% of young teachers will leave sector within 5 years
• Teachers feel busted, angry, hurt
• Trapped within incredibly bureaucratic, unresponsive system
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Teachers need to grieve a lost lifeway
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SYSTEM’S DIFFICULTY ADAPTING THE THE NEW
CONDITIONS OF LEARNING
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NOW 2 CRITICAL CONDITIONS HAVE
CHANGED THE WORLD
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We must ask the fundamental question...
38Monday, October 21, 13
Internet changes all
• Education system based on information scarcity
• Schools as purveyors and certifiers of knowledge
• Active choosers already leaving system
39Monday, October 21, 13
•Three quarters of million K-12 students enrolled in virtual school
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HARVARD’S ED X HAS 1.4 MILLION USERS, AND WAS
LAUNCHED 9 MONTHS AGO
It aims to have a billion...41Monday, October 21, 13
Power of Least-Invasive Education
Teachers on the ‘granny cloud’
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•Virtual school
•Homeschool
•MOOCs
•DIY School
•PBS series Is School Enough?
43Monday, October 21, 13
RISE OF NEUROBIOLOGICAL REVOLUTION
We have learned more about how the human brain in the last 20 years than we did in the last 200
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Fundamental model of “how we do learning” flawed
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“Old School” teaching attitudes that no longer serve
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• Barely half of minority students complete high school in four years
• Only 15% of low-‐income students earn a college degree within nine years of starEng high school
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System sEll based on shame and hierarchy, where non middle-‐class kids are ‘less than’
47Monday, October 21, 13
“School is like the meat packing business, designed to teach
children what grade of meat they are, and to send
them off to the right market--but make sure they
believe it.”-John Holt,
What Do I Do Monday, 1970
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“IF YOU HAD TO DESIGN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT WAS GOING TO EFFECTIVELY TURN OFF THE HUMAN BRAIN,
IT WOULD BE THE CONTEMPORARY CLASSROOM.”-JOHN MEDINA, BRAIN RULES
49Monday, October 21, 13
SKILLS TAUGHT FOR AN ECONOMY THAT NO
LONGER EXISTS
• Following the rules
• Respect for hierarchy
• Narrow slice of ability is “excellence”50Monday, October 21, 13
Skills that matter now...
Creativity, teaming, capacity to see patterns in huge swaths of information
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CAN WE HOLD THAT OUR SYSTEM OF EDUCATION,
THAT HAS DONE SOMUCH FOR US, TIME IS OVER?
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CURIOSITY, WONDERINGDesire to hear in new ways
OTHER IMPORTANT SOCIOECONOMICS...
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•84 % of teachers in US are white
•79% are female
•National Center for Education Information, 2011
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CATHEDRAL SOUP KITCHEN, CAMDEN NJ
2012
Income Inequality in US has not been greater since 1920s
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Chances of rising out of poverty have radicallydiminished over 3 generations
“We are more unequal in terms of political power, income, and opportunity than we have been in 80 years.” -Robert Reich
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Boston Mother’s Day March 2013organized to mourn young men lost to violence in the City of Boston
“We are losing equal opportunity in this country.”-Cornell West
57Monday, October 21, 13
MINORITY MAJORITY NATION WITHIN 25-30 YEARS
US Will Be A...
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• 40% of students expelled from school are African American
• 68% of all inmates do not have a high school diploma
SCHOOL TO PRISON PIPELINE
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
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IDEA’S STORY....
DURING THE LAST 20 YEARS PROGRESSIVE EDUCATORS HAVE GONE INTO HIDING
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IN OUTPOSTS, IN ISOLATION,BUT DOING GREAT WORK
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IDEA puts these people together in a coherent, politically powerful ways
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There is great education going on all over the country
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We challenge the main story of the media
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IDEA IS BUILDING A POWERFULNETWORK FOR POLITICALAND SOCIAL INFLUENCE
66Monday, October 21, 13
WE CREATE A“VALUE NETWORK”
A value network is a business analysis perspective that describes social and technical resources within and between businesses. The nodes in a value network represent people (or roles). The nodes are connected by interactions that
represent tangible and intangible deliverables. These deliverables take the form of knowledge or other intangibles and/or financial value.
Value networks exhibit interdependence. They account for the overall worth of products and services. Companies have both internal and external value networks.-Value Network Basics, openvaluenetworks.com
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CLAIM YOUR OWN EDUCATIONAL
STORY
And ask people to...
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HOW MUCH YOU MATTER
TO KNOW
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WE DENY OUR POWER THROUGH A
“NOT ENOUGH”DIALOG
TO OBSERVE
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TO CHANGE THE WORLD YOU HAVE TO CHANGE WHAT YOU
THINK IS REAL
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WHERE WE’RE GOING
72Monday, October 21, 13
COMMUNITIES TOGETHER CREATING A RANGE OF
EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS73Monday, October 21, 13
EDUCATIONAL CENTERS AS “HEARTHS”
El Puente Academy of Peace and Justice, Brooklyn, NY74Monday, October 21, 13
THE POINT, SOUTH BRONX
• Justice and art-based after school programs grades 1-12
• Activism around urban farming, habitat restoration, transportation equity
• “At risk children and teens are not bundles of problems, but well-springs of solutions
75Monday, October 21, 13
NORTH STAR SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING CENTER,
AMHERST MA
• “Learning is natural. Schooling is optional.”
• Flexible self-designed learning programs for students 11-18
• Teacher as guide, coach76Monday, October 21, 13
MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL,
HENDERSON, MN
• “Farm kids with attitude”
• “The way we’ve done learning in the past isn’t good enough”
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WAY ACADEMY,DETROIT MI
• Personalized learning for high school students
• 80% online; 20% in person
• Online learning available 24 hours, 365 days year ; staff available 24 hours a day
• Team leader (adult mentor) provides one on one support, home visits
• 11 sites, classrooms called “labs”
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“NAMING OUR REALITY IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE FREE.”
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“IF YOU’RE NOT MAKING TROUBLE
YOU’RE NOT WORKING ON THE RIGHT PROBLEMS.”-HERB KOHL TO ME,
2006
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DO A BETTER JOB THAN YOUR PARENTS
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http://www.democraticeducation.org
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