future ready today – where best practices meet next practices raymond j. mcnulty, president...

Future Ready Today –Where Best Practices Meet

Next PracticesRaymond J. McNulty, President

Ray@Leadered.com

@ray_mcnulty

The primary aim of education is not to enable students to do well in school, but to help them do well in the lives they lead outside of school.

Systems are challenged today like never before.

The key challenge that we face

is results.

Reading Risk

Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

Reading Risk

Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP Scales, IES August 2011

In an environment driven by results, the best

strategy is to “DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE.”

Broaden the definition of learning in your system to include adults.

The focus must be on the way we work.

– Cooperation is what was valued in the past. It is about efficiency: “You do this and I will do that.”

– Collaboration is where we should focus. It is about shared creation and shared solutions, in which the focus is not on the process but on the specific results, and everyone in the system has responsibility for the results.

Themes• Best and Next Practices• Participation Gap• Closing Thoughts

Theme

•Best and Next Practices

Best practices allow you to do what you are

currently doing a little better.

Next practices increase your organization’s capability

to do things it has never done before.

System Innovation

Sustaining Innovation

Next Practice

Disruptive Innovation

We have a flawed perspective of always listening to our best customers… They tell us how good the system is working

for them!

A Story….• Not a bad idea,

but to earn a grade more than

a C+, the idea has to be viable! (Yale

Professor)

• Fredrick Smith

• The idea FedEx

Shurnyu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the

expert’s mind there are few.”

1. Technical Challenges

2. Culture Challenges

1. Technical Challenges

2. Culture Challenges

3. Leading and Lagging Indicators

Theme

Participation Gap

• We live in a world obsessed with predictability and control, some people believe that if we can’t truly measure something it must not matter.

• We must consider the possibility that if we can’t truly measure something, it may be the most important thing.

Talking with kids…

It’s not us against them!

CULTURE DRIVES STRATEGY

Participation Gap• Self-Worth: Self-Worth occurs when

children know they are valued members of the community; have a person they can trust; believe they can achieve.

• Active Engagement: Active Engagement happens when children are deeply involved in the learning process.

• Purpose: Purpose exists when children take responsibility for who and what they want to become.

•STUDENT ASPIRATIONS / PARTICIPATION GAP

•SELF WORTH

•ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT

•PURPOSE

•Belonging•Heroes•Sense of Accomplishment

•Fun & Excitement•Curiosity & Creativity•Spirit of Adventure

•Leadership & Responsibility•Confidence to Take Action

•Relationships

•Relevance

•Rigor

SELF WORTHBelonging

Heroes

Sense of Accomplishment

4-8 9-12 STATEMENT54% 49% I am proud of my school.49% 49% I enjoy being at school.58% 41% Teachers care about my problems and feelings.54% 46% Teachers care about me as an individual.50% 45% Teachers care if I am absent from school.19% 21% I have never been recognized for something positive at school.52% 48% If I have a problem, I have a teacher with whom I can talk.68% 51% Teachers respect students. 49% 37% Students respect teachers.36% 29% Students respect each other .

Participation Gap Data

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4-8 9-12 STATEMENT42% 48% School is boring.68% 55% At school I am encouraged to be creative.47% 37% My classes help me understand what is happening

in my everyday life.67% 54% Teachers enjoy working with students 47% 37% Teachers have fun at school.41% 28% Teachers make school an exciting place to learn.79% 71% My teachers present lessons in different ways .

ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT

Fun & Excitement

Curiosity & Creativity

Spirit of Adventure

Participation Gap Data

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4-8 9-12 STATEMENT62% 64% I am a good decision maker.54% 59% I see myself as a leader.30% 35% Other students see me as a leader.91% 91% I believe I can be successful.80% 77% Teachers expect me to be successful.58% 64% I believe I can make a difference in this world.79% 66% I put forth my best effort at school.44% 36% I know the goals my school is working on.41% 30% Students council represents all students at school.

PURPOSE Leadership & Responsibility

Confidence to Take Action

Participation Gap Data

Copyright 2008 Quaglia Institute

I am proud of my school. T = 85S = 50

I am excited to be working with students. T = 96Teachers enjoy working with students. S = 56I have fun at school. T = 85Teachers have fun at school. S = 39

Participation Gap DataDelusional Discrepancies

Copyright 2008 Quaglia Institute

I am excited to tell my colleagueswhen I do something well. T = 59I am excited to tell my friends when I get good grades. S = 57 I feel comfortable asking questions in staff meetings. T = 66I feel comfortable asking questions in class. S = 66

Participation Gap DataSad Similarities

Copyright 2008 Quaglia Institute

1. Quantitative Data

2. Qualitative Data

3. Ask Great Questions

To Lead the System Well

Teacher – Student Comparisons

T – I make learning exciting for my students.

86%

S – My teachers make learning fun.

41%

Teacher – Student Comparisons

T – I am aware of my students’ interests outside of school.

84%

S – My teachers know my interests outside of school.

28%

•Rigor

•Relevance

•Relationships

•Relationships

•Relevance

•Rigor

Theme

Closing Points

IF WE WANT… Children to be learners who

think, read, reason and express themselves effectively in multiple ways…

Then we must show them thoughtful people eager

to take in and use new information.

IF WE WANT..

Children to be brave and resourceful when confronted with the unknown…

Then they must see us taking risks and finding new ways to move ahead.

• Effective and efficient approaches to increasing student achievement • Successful practices for teaching and learning from the nation’s most rapidly

improving schools• Practical strategies for using rigor, relevance, and relationships to increase

instructional effectiveness• Innovative tools and resources to support the transition to more rigorous

assessments

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Future Ready Today –Where Best Practices Meet

Next PracticesRaymond J. McNulty, President

Ray@Leadered.com

@ray_mcnulty