geerohio

meet malcolm

his world…

is changing…

IS

HIS

SCHOOL CHANGING?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need forTwenty-First Century Learning Environments…

• “We have a passion deficit. I think it is very important that we focus on getting our students, all of our students, regardless of ability, to be passionate about education. Education is not about filling an empty vessel; it’s about lighting a fire.”- School Board Member, Columbus, Ohio

• “Not all kids will go to college, but they do need advanced skills and need to be life-long learners.”- Principal, Cincinnati, Ohio

• “I think the reason many students drop out is because they can’t connect it [their classroom experience] to something they can use.” - Student, South Webster High School

malcolm will need…

she loves…

Jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology that hasn’t yet been created to solve problems that we don’t even know exist yet?

k n o w l e d g ethat don’t yet exist

using technology that hasn’t yet been created

to solve problems that we don’t even know exist

for jobs

IS

THERE ENOUGH

TIME?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need forExpanding Learning Opportunities…

• “I would like to see someone be able to stir up something in these youth. You can lock them up, but they are still the future. You know, the ones we have pretty much forgotten, but are children. Some of them have gotten felonies in middle school… I would like to see something in place to let these youth know, especially the black males and the Hispanics, that it’s not hopeless.”- Parent, Columbus, Ohio

• “I think that if we are going to look at education…we need to provide children with [pre-K early education] services regardless of income.” - Woman from Early Action Initiative, Lima, Ohio

• “One of my big problems with students not being successes is attendance…It seems to be a problem we don’t have any good answers for.” - Teacher, Jackson High School

malcolm’s teachers…

she loves…

Jobs that don’t yet exist, using technology that hasn’t yet been created to solve problems that we don’t even know exist yet?

are designing learning

is more than

a citizen would confront in a life time in the 18th Century

in a world

where the amount of information in one week of Wall Street Journals

CAN

THEY

KEEP UP?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need for High Quality Educators…

• “Until and unless we find ways to attract the best and brightest to [the education] profession, we have a long way to go to making it a world class operation.” - School Board Member and Professor of Education

• “I would propose a new system of how we reward our teachers and look at a different way to be more robust in how we manage and utilize our teachers.” - Businessman, Parent, Cincinnati, Ohio

• “Every child deserves highly qualified teachers, but they also need counselors, social workers, and nurses…We all compliment teachers in the classroom…I would like to suggest a mandate for school nurses for the State of Ohio.” - School Nurse, Southeast Region

malcolm’s peers…

are around the world…

she loves…

their performance varies…

WHAT

DOES HE NEED TO

THRIVE?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need toMeasure Ohio Students Against the World…

• “Your mission is a bold step, not only in Ohio, but in the United States to think about educating all children at very high levels.”- Superintendent, Columbus Ohio

• “We need to start early…to bring a child up in the information age…[so] they’ll be able to compete.”- Volunteer with Arts Program and Former City Councilman

• Ohioans appear to like broadening graduation requirements to include more than a single measure, but are less certain about specific tests. They support adding factors such as community service and senior projects as graduation requirements (66% - 27%). - Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

malcolm’s community…

is curious about performance …

WHAT

WILL WE

MEASURE & DISCUSS?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying about the Need forSchool District Accountability…

• Ohioans also appear to want local accountability and control. A distinct majority likes the idea of annual fiscal report cards that show how districts spend money (90%), but only half favor the state taking control of districts with poor academic records that do not implement the proposed policies.- Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

malcolm’s future…

depends on education…

WHAT

ARE WE WILLING TO

INVEST?

What Ohio Citizens Are Saying aboutEffective Funding for a 21st Century System of Education…

• “With the economy weighing heavily on everyone’s minds, we’re also seeing some real concern about how to pay for proposals the public clearly believes in.”- Andrew Benson, Director of Public Policy, KnowledgeWorks Foundation

• “We need to build into a funding system the understanding that needs are different.” - Representative, Ohio Association for Gifted Children

• While 6 out of 10 Ohioans say they don’t know enough about an evidence-based approach to school funding to have an opinion, those who expressed an opinion were supportive of the philosophy that underpins the governor’s plan. Nearly 35% of respondents favor basing funding on research data and evidence of what works while just 3.9% oppose the idea.- Recent KnowledgeWorks Foundation State-wide Poll

WHAT

DO YOU

THINK?

creditsCreated by the Grassroots Engagement for Education Reform (GEER) Partnership:

Prepare the Future OhioEducation Voters Institute

Institute for Creative Collaboration at KnowledgeWorks FoundationOhio Grantmakers Forum

The Judith Herb College of Education, The University of Toledo

For Additional Information Visit: www.GEEROhio.comor

Contact: Dr. Jillian DarwishExecutive Director

Institute for Creative Collaboration at KnowledgeWorks Foundationdarwishj@kwfdn.org

(513)929-1128

Visually inspired by Meet Henry by Cheree Moore of Ethos3 Communications. Available : http://www.slideshare.net/chereemoore/meet-henry

Slides 7 and 11 from Karl Fisch, Did You Know presentation. Available: http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html