Is your school innovating at the margins or at the systems level? Learn how to leverage results from a report on work with hundreds of educational leaders in 2012-13. It results in a new zero-based model for strategic transformation that integrates design thinking, focusing on the teaching and learning core and a school’s value proposition. PRESENTED BY Grant Lichtman, Martin Institute/Presbyterian Day School (TN); Bo Adams, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School (GA) CONFERENCE SUSTAINABILITIES Programmatic Sustainability

1. Bo Adams
@boadams1
Grant Lichtman
@grantlichtman
Mutation, Innovation,Transformation
NAIS
February 2014
#boandgrant

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MUTATION

4. Shoshana Zuboff, HBS: Mutation
Moving from era of mass
consumption to focus on the
individual
Radical reduction in cost
Products or services are
affordable to few, but desirable
to many
Your end users have needs and
desires you have not imagined

5. www.iftf.org
Episodic Learning
Continuous Learning
Assigning Work Enticing with Content
Content Conveyors Content Curators
Degrees Reputation Metrics
Grades Continuous Feedback Mech.
Lecture Halls Collaborative Spaces

6. CAN BE SHIFTED
CANNOT BE SHIFTED
3 Minute Exercise

7. 2 Minute Feedback

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IMAGINATION

9. Start with Questions
Questions from within the frame:
Who? What? Where? When?
Questions that inform the frame:
Why?
Questions that expand or re-imagine the frame:
What if…?
How might we…?

10. Ask “What if…?” questions that would break, discard,
or fundamentally change something that exists at your
school today.
1. Major expenses
2. Organizational traditions
Tweet what if questions to #boandgrant #naisac14
(Or Post-Up…or find a Twitter friend)
3 Minute Exercise

11. 2 Minute Feedback

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observing
questioning
associating
experimenting
networking

15. OBSERVING

21. QUESTIONING

23. ASSOCIATING

25. EXPERIMENTING

27. NETWORKING

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ZERO-BASED THINKING

32. Traditional vs. Zero-Based
Brainstorm lots of ideas
Ask open-ended questions that
challenge status quo and increase
future options
Group the ideas together
Build school ethnography — most
cherished goals, wishes, dreams
(vision)
Make sure all bases covered
Re-imagine “school” transcending
silos
Write inclusive plans,
angering no one
Map learning systems that amplify
imagination of “school”
Delegate implementation
Align resources: system-vision

33. Windows, Not Silos

34. A NEW WAY

35. 3-2-1
3. Ideas from this session to take back to school
2. People to connect as allies with you
1. “What if” to prototype and ship
3 Minute Exercise

36. Bo Adams
@boadams1
Grant Lichtman
@grantlichtman
Wrap Up
Existential
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