Inventing the Entrepreneurial

FacultyJim Tracy

Nancy Boyle @nancboyleCushing Academy

http://bit.ly/pNuNgjcushing.org

New educational paradigms neededNew partnership between private and public schoolsInstitutional partnershipsCushing Academy Institute for 21st Century LeadershipAthletic Leadership ProgramFood for ThoughtFaculty BookSkunkworks

What is an entrepreneurial faculty?

Involve, support & coach the sparks

understand individuals’ values, experiences and

concerns

Teacher = master learnerTeacher = public learner

Model PD after classroom innovations

learning is learning

What does an entrepreneurial faculty look

like?

innovationindependence

passionate explorationcommunication

authenticity

Dwellings: Green Building and Design in the 21st

Century

The Book Project

15150

passion, challenge &project based learning inquiry-researchcommunication, collaborationreal world applicationwillingness to engage in/practice content, skills, assessment

The Book Project: Supporting Faculty Entrepreneurs

"Self-awareness and communication are the traditional goals of the English curriculum, and they ought to be the future goals of the English curriculum. We are not outdated in our mission; rather, we are, at times, outdated in our attempts to achieve these two goals. We need to evaluate whether or not students are currently achieving real world experience, understand why they are or are not achieving the objectives, and understand what about a curriculum can ensure that they are achieving.“ (Moira Cahill, Cushing English faculty)

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools? 

Unified Message Commitment from school community & faculty

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools? 

Why are you doing what you are doing in the classroom?

How do you know it works?

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools?PBL, CBL, DI, UDL

Work-based learning experiences & LTI

Creatively planned learning spaces

Humanities & STEM: blended classrooms

Less delineation of departments

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools? Teacher Plan Time: co-teaching & content teachers common period & summer

Teacher interaction, cooperation, and collaboration

Ongoing Professional Development

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools? 

Ongoing formative assessment & evaluation with student involvement

Data focused around student rather than event

Longitudinal Portfolios

What’s going on in America’s innovative schools? 

BYODE-texts digital media & reading

“I’m all for fresh ideas, but just because a notion is novel or different doesn’t mean it’s

good for teachers and students. Then again, doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

Tips and considerations

Pace and rationale for change

Tips and considerations

Know your communitynatives or immigrants

teaching philosophy, experience

Tips and considerations

Be mindful of what you are asking of

others

Tips and considerations

Educational Reform and innovation is not a new

concept.

Our new world is.

Tracking student data – LD and otherwise – How is this done? Event or student centered? Assessment –formative v summative-- purpose of each

Offer voluntary PD — workshops, conferences, lunches, coffeeWhenever possible, ask for input survey, make it anonymous at timesMandate in- house PDMake PD project based with classroom application(tech PD must model pedagogical innovations)Grassroots along with whole community

Inventing the Entrepreneurial

FacultyJim Tracy

Nancy Boyle @nancboyleCushing Academy

http://bit.ly/pNuNgjcushing.org