a little more

1. Genesee County
Global
Learning Hub
Thinking... Creating... Leading...

2. GREAT MOMENTS
COME FROM
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
GC
Global Learning Hub
THINKING... CREATING... LEADING...

3. GREAT MOMENTS CALL FOR GREAT LEADERS

5. GENESEE COUNTY NEEDS A SMALL
THOUGHTFUL GROUP...
Michigan State
Confucius Institute University of West Georgia:
Action Research
Department
Kettering University Mott Community College

6. GENESEE COUNTY NEEDS VISIONARIES!
Visionary leaders:
-Builders of a new dawn
-Work with imagination
-Have insight, and boldness
-Eyes are on the horizon
-Social innovators and change agents
-Present a challenge that calls forth the best in people
and brings them together around a shared sense of purpose

7. The Tale of Two Cities:
Growth
Mindset
Fixed Mindset

8. Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset
FIXED GROWTH
Industrial Model Fluid/Adaptable
Adults Control Learners Control
Rules are “played”
Rules are Followed
with
Residents are Residents are
Consumers Producers

9. Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset
FIXED GROWTH
Silos Garden
Content Driven Process Driven
Focus on Success Focus on Failure
“4 Walls of No Walls/No
Learning” Ceiling

10. The Fixed Mindset
Learning time is defined by the adults
-Students are told
-What they will learn that day
-How long it will take them to learn it
-How they will learn it
-What tools they will have access to

11. The Growth Mindset
Learning is defined by the learner
-Walls, Time, and Content are not barriers
-Students learn through interdisciplinary projects
- Incorporate the content and problem solving
opportunities within the community.

12. The Fixed Mindset
Motivation is Extrinsic
- Students/Parents/Teachers are worried about
tests grades/test scores
-Teachers/Administrators do extra duties
for Raises/Promotions
-Carrot Sticks are the norm

13. The Growth Mindset
Motivation is Intrinsic
-Projects incorporates the learners interests
-Students/Parents/Teachers/Administrators are
learners
-Learners are not limited to the hub
-Carrots sticks are not needed

14. 1995
(Standardized Test: The Interpretation of Racial and Ethnic Gaps @ www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com)
$38,543
Genesee County
Family Median
Household Income

15. The Fixed Mindset
Throughout history there have been “Fixed
Minded”changes to Education
-More Days
-More Minutes
-Higher Standards for Students/Teachers/
Administrators
-More Standardized Tests
-No Child Left Behind
-

16. NY Times-August 2009
Flint and Genesee County Median Family Income
$56,500

17. The Growth Mindset
The growth minded city knows that history
repeats itself over and over
Growth Minded people
do not learn about history
They Learn from it!

18. The Fixed Mindset
The more the “Fixed Minded” city changes,
the more it stays the same
They look to Cities with a similar model for
guidance and comparisons

19. The Fixed Mindset
Does NOT know
or realize there is another way

20. More Developed Countries
National Center on -Research
Education and the -Design
Economy -Development
(2007) Creative -Marketing and Sales
-Global Supply Chain
Work Management
Routine
Work Routine
done by people Work
done by machines
Less Developed Countries

21. Growth Mindset
-Research
-Design
The Vision G.C.
Global
-Development
-Marketing and Sales
Learning -Global Supply Chain
Hub Management
The Routine
The
Routine
Norm Work Work
done by teachers
Status
Quo
done by students
Fixed Mindset

22. What Are We Waiting For?
“Change will not come if we wait for some other
person or some other time. We are the ones...
We are the change that we seek.”
-President Obama

23. The Gravitational Pull of Status Quo
Typical
GCGLH
“Pilot” Learning
Procedures
Fixed
memorization
Policy Mindset
Tradition Facts
“Education”
Industrial
Facts
Model
Content
Rules Facts
Driven
Homework Facts

24. The Gravitational Pull of Status Quo
GCGLH
Learning
Typical
“Pilot” Procedures
Fixed
memorization
Policy Mindset
Tradition Facts
“Education”
Industrial
Facts
Model
Content
Rules Facts
Driven
Homework Facts

25. The Gravitational Pull of Status Quo
GCGLH
Learning
Procedures
Fixed
memorization
Policy Mindset
Tradition Facts
Typical
Industrial “Pilot”
Facts
Model
Content
Rules Facts
Driven
Homework Facts

26. Creativity
GC Global
Competency
Global Learning Hub
THINKING... CREATING... LEADING...
Learning by
Doing
Service Learning
Divergent
Thinking
Technology
Competency

27. Global Learning
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
-Confucius

28. Global Learning
Seeking the truth, information, or knowledge...by
questioning
Learners need to gather information and data
through applying all of the human senses
Learners convert information and data into
useful knowledge

29. Global Learning
We are in an informational age
where information is everywhere and we can get it
anytime.
We can’t learn everything there is to learn in every
content area...
but we can develop our skills and nurture the
inquiring attitude necessary in today’s world.

30. Global Learning @ GCGLH
The data and information gathered by the GCGLH
Learners will be
converted into real knowledge and will
be directly connected to Genesee County
Through the action research process...
GCLH Learners will attempt to solve
REAL world
problems that are present in
our county and our state

31. Global Learning @ GCGLH
We need to move beyond the idea
that an education is something that
is provided for us,
and toward the idea that an
education is something that we
create for ourselves.

32. Global Learning @ GCGLH

33. Global Learning @ GCGLH
Building a Culture of ACTION RESEARCHERS

34. A Culture of ACTION RESEARCHERS
Students Teachers Administrators
Researchers Learners Designers

35. A Culture of ACTION RESEARCHERS
Reflecting on our practice, our perspectives,
and our failures

36. A Culture of ACTION RESEARCHERS
To learn relevance, rigor, and to make a real
difference in our world.

37. Technology @ GCGLH
Traditional Schools GCGLH
Embed Technology Applications
Teach Technology Applications
into curriculum
Teachers Learn First All learners contribute
Like an event Like Oxygen
Automate Informate

38. Technology @ GCGLH

39. Automate vs Informate

40. Tear down Silos
Social
MATH Science
Studies
Important in My Life
Writing
P.E.
Art
Music

42. “Create REAL stuff that makes a difference NOW
and SHARE it.”
“Who is erecting barriers to this and what are
those barriers if some people are doing it and
others aren't.”
“If a country can bring down a dictator, why can't
teachers and parents and kids initiate an
education revolution through action?”

43. We shouldn't be defined by the
amount of content we know
but by what we do with the
content we know.
Purpose of school?
Practice working...or practice learning?
There is a difference!

44. The meaning of our life is the road, not the goal. For each answer is elusive,
each fulfillment melts away between our fingers and the
goal is no longer once it is attained.
-Arthur Schnitzler