GELP HelsinkiJune, 2012

Personalized learningfor every student,flexibility & choice

The applehas evolved.

The revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools, it happens when society adopts new behaviors. CLAY SHIRKY

When will what we know change what we do?

What will it take for what we knowto change what we do? MIKE MCKAY

BRITISH COLUMBIA’S

EDUCATION PLAN

1. Personalized learning for every

student

2. Quality teaching and learning

3. Flexibility and choice

4. High standards

5. Learning empowered by technology

BC’s Education Plan Key Elements

Personalized Learning for Every Student

Actions to date:

1. Attributes of an educated citizen

2. Early K Assessment

3. Curriculum and Assessment framework

4. Innovation

Innovation:

CollaborativeAction Research

Innovation:

Invitation to Think Differently

Flexibility and Choice

More choice for students and families regarding how, when and where learning takes place

Flexibility for districts to vary the school calendar to meet student needs

• Bill 36

Flexibility for boards of education to organize classes and direct resources to support student learning

• Bill 22

High Standards

Which kids don’t deserve the best teachers engaged in

high quality practice?

We are:

• Developing more robust standards

• Renewing curriculum with an emphasis on engagement and relevance in pursuit of 21st century competencies

• Developing assessments and interventions based on what we know about learning and the learner

Almost everything we know about the brain today was not known when schooling was invented

We are:

• Investigating classroom environmental conditions that promote or inhibit learning

• Empowering learners (students and teachers) to understand and begin to act on the new knowledge about self-regulation

• Rolling out a first wave of Self-Regulated Classrooms

Our narrative is being Redefined

We are paying attention to some fundamental truths:

• Diversity is here to stay

• Diverse and complex classes are not made more manageable by simply decreasing student numbers and adding more adults

• Some strategies work/some don’t.  We need to replicate and build on the ones that do (system capacity building)

Technology

WE ARE QUICKLY MOVING AWAY FROM

TALKING ABOUT LEARNING WITH

TECHNOLOGY, AND JUST TALKING ABOUT

LEARNING

WHATCOULD BE

DO OLD THINGSBETTER

“Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.”National Association of Teachers, 1907

DO NEW THINGSYOU COULDN’T DO AT ALL

“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me ‘A faster horse.’” Henry

Ford

Learning, not technology, is the driver

Quality Teachingand Learning

Teachers Make a Difference

“Excellence in teaching is the single most powerful influence on achievement

We need to identify, esteem, and grow those who have powerful influences on student learning”

John Hattie

How will we support teachers through their

careers

• Examining innovative learning• Examining innovative teaching• Looking for the common elements/outliers• Emerging framework/mindsets

BC’s Emerging ThinkingTeaching and Learning Framework

Quality Teaching and Learning – Our Inquiry

And so…

What are the accelerants to change that are happening in your work?

How are you thinking about and building affiliation to the key aspects of your work?

How are you ensuring that your efforts to build the capacity of the capacity builders reflects the emergent, generative nature of transformation?

What will it take for what we knowto change what we do? MIKE MCKAY

Rod AllenRoderick.Allen@gov.bc.ca

Cathy Elliott Cathy.Elliott@gov.bc.caChris Kennedy ckennedy@sd45.bc.caMike McKay mckay_mike@sd36.bc.ca

http://www.bcedplan.ca/theplan.php

BC’s Education Plan