PETE & C Keynote Slides February 23, 2010

1. School 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

2. Who Is This
Guy?

3. Why This Matters

5. What should our schools
be about?
And how we do get there?

6. My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive Education
with 21st Century
Tools

7. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

8. Yet Another Bias:
Educators, parents and students know
more about school than politicians.

9. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

10. The Great Big
Question:
How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and
still have so many problems?

11. Fix the System:
Put a good person into a bad system and
the system will win every time.

12. The World In Which We Live:
The Maddening Paradox of Education 2010.

13. Data Driven Decisions
Assume that you use good data -- and
good data ain’t cheap.

14. Accountability = External
Responsibility = Internal

15. Just a teacher syndrome.

16. Organize
If not me, who? If not now, when?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163922974/

17. Education
Not Training
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/998243013/

18. A Big Problem:
A Lack of Humility

19. A Related Problem:
The Discussion is A-Historical

20. What the school system needs to understand is that its
strength lies, not in the strength of the central organization,
but in the strength of the individual school, not in making
one school like another, but in making each school a distinct
unit. The need of the system is the preservation of its units,
so that each school can keep itself alive, wide awake,
responsive to its people, easily adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City

21. “What’s Good?”
Is Better than “What’s New?”

22. Tell A Better Story:
We Must Have Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

23. You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

24. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

25. If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/
838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

26. Things Are Different
How Do We Deal With That?

27. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

29. Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

30. If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey

31. So Now What?

32. Ideas Are Easy
Implementation Is Hard

33. Have a vision
And build everything around it.

34. Science Leadership Academy
•Inquiry
•Research
•Collaboration
•Presentation
•Reflection

35. Coalition of Essential
Schools
• Learning to use one’s mind well.
• Less is More, depth over coverage
• Goals apply to all students
• Personalization
• Student-as-worker, teacher-as-coach
• Demonstration of mastery
• A tone of decency and trust
• Commitment to the entire school
• Resources dedicated to teaching and learning
• Democracy and equity
http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/about/phil/10cps/10cps.html

36. High Tech High
• Personalization
• Adult World Connection
• Common Intellectual
Mission
http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/design-principles.php

37. Christian Long’s Learning Manifesto
• “Playing Small Does Not Serve The World:” Your Brain Is Your Brand.
• What Would Socrates Do?
• Nobody Cares That You Walked Uphill Both Ways in the Snow.
• Got Passion? If Not, I’ll Tell You What To Care About.
• My Memory Is Only As Big As My Heart, Otherwise I’ll Stick With Google.
• Look It Up Or Die.
• Collaboration Ain’t About Holding Hands. It’s About Going Places Fast.
• This Will Go Down On Your Permanent Record.
• It Ain’t About the Technology, It’s About Being Inside the Story
• Nobody Knows the Answer. Get Comfy With the Questions.
http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/01/the_future_of_l.html

38. My Two Cents:
Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind

39. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

40. Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

41. Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.

42. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

43. Community-Based
We can learn from many

44. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

45. Passionate
And it has to matter.

46. Integrated
The day has to make sense

47. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

48. Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

49. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

50. Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

51. Real World Work
No More Bunnies and Duckies

52. The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Driven Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

53. What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

54. But what about the tech?

55. Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

56. Relevance?

57. Paraphrasing Neil
Postman:
Certain Technologies Are Not
Additive, They Are
Transformative

58. Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

59. A Convenient And Reasonably False Taxonomy
Research Collaborate Create Network Present
RSS Wikis Blogging Twitter uStream
Google
Del.icio.us Docs Drupal Skype Flickr
Google Moodle Podcasting Facebook iTunes U
Wikipedia Digital Films IM Voicethread
Email

60. Transparent
We Can Invite the World To Our Schools

61. What is the role of teacher
in the age of Google?

62. Wisdom.

63. Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann
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