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CESA #1 Educational Transformation Initiative. WASB Legislative Advocacy Conference November 13, 2010 Presenter: Jim Rickabaugh, Ph.D. Director, the institute @ CESA #1. Our schools were not designed to do what is being asked of them There is not enough money to support the current system - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WASB LegislativeAdvocacy ConferenceNovember 13, 2010
Presenter: Jim Rickabaugh, Ph.D.Director, the institute @ CESA #1
1. Our schools were not designed to do what is being asked of them
2. There is not enough money to support the current system
3. The Cavalry isn’t coming!
the institute @ CESA #1
United StatesUnited StatesCommitment to accountability and testing, blaming and shaming, to leverage improvement
Top Performing Top Performing CountriesCountriesCommitment to invest in teaching, learning and curriculum
the institute @ CESA #1
the institute @ CESA #1
the institute @ CESA #1
• Build on Core Purposes
• Focus on Personalized Learning
• Engage New Learning Strategies in a Customized Environment
• Develop Comprehensive Sustainable Systems
the institute @ CESA #1
• Rigorous, integrated world class learning standards• Competency-based
progress• Anytime/everywhere
learning • Progress-based grouping• Blended instruction using
technology• Authentic comprehensive
assessmentsthe institute @ CESA #1
• Rapid cycle development and prototyping• Open source networking
that is connected and aligned• Consortia of districts and
partners around targeted transformation projects• Collaboration Statements of
Commitment for all partners• the institute @ CESA #1:
Infrastructure for supportthe institute @ CESA #1
A partnership of states and allies to design a new public education system
the institute @ CESA #1
• Identify what constitutes effective NxGL—learning from existing exemplars here and abroad
• Outline the systems implications
• Illuminate innovation work for the field
• Test ways to act on these systems implications through schools, districts and states across the Lab Network
• Scale this approach to more states across the system
the institute @ CESA #1
the institute @ CESA #1• Mobilize transformation
initiatives• Build capacity• Establish and maintain
effective network communications • Research/vet best
practices• Build partnerships
the institute @ CESA #1
• Not a matter of just catching up• Need to “leap frog” the
leaders• Must create a new life-
cycle for education• Cannot afford to wait for
others• If it is going to happen,
we must be willing to provide the leadership
the institute @ CESA #1