Open and Shared - A Positive Disruptive Change

Open and Shared

A Positive Disruptive Change

Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” KurshanExecutive Director

bkurshan@curriki.org

3May 2009

Imagine a world where…

We harness the collaborative knowledge of the K-12 education community

andThe power of next-generation Web 2.0 technologies

to transform education

Teachers can:

• Find, create, and share free and open resources

• Find targeted curricula

• Collaborate with professional colleagues

Schools can:

• Spend less on instructional materials

• Save or reallocate financial resources

4May 2009

Curriki is building this world

• Curriki is a free, open and shared online innovation that enables teachers to help every student learn

• Curriki is committed to empowering and supporting teachers

• Curriki improves teacher engagement and effectiveness

5May 2009

Great teachers are critical for the success of each student …

0

50

100

Student performance(percentile)

Age 8 Age 11

Student withlow-performing

teachers

Student withhigh-performing

teachers

53 percentile points

Source: Eric Hanushek, “Teacher Quality”; Andrew Rotherham, “Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence”; McKinsey and Company, “How the World’s Best-Performing School Systems Come Out on Top”

“Current studies indicate that, among in-school factors, teacher effectiveness is the single most important factor in student learning”

6May 2009

…and the impact of ineffective teachers perpetuates the educational divide

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20

40

60

80

100

Out of 100 9th graders, how many:

Enter9th grade

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nom

ically

disad

van

taged

Not

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ically

disadva

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100100

Graduatehigh school

61

82

Enrollin post-

secondary

33

62

Graduatefrom post-seconday

21

50

Source: Andrew Rotherham, “Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence”; Eric Hanushek, “Why Public Schools Lose Teachers”; The Bridgespan Group, “Reclaiming the American Dream”

Under-served students are significantly more likely to be taught by an ineffective teacher

Not surprisingly, the static teaching environment is reflected in consistently lower

outcomes for under-served students

7May 2009

Many good teachers are frustrated

Source: Teacher interviews. October 2008

• “Overwhelmed”

Teachers working hard to help all students succeed often find themselves:

• “Stuck using the textbook”

• “With little time”

• “Without the experience or tools”

• “Isolated”

• “Looking for opportunities to collaborate”

“I don’t even have time to take care of my own class. Any free time is spent doing

paperwork, making copies, or putting out fires. I just have time to get done what has

to get done!”

“Whenever I find something new, there is always a big chance that it is going to fall on

its face in the classroom. I usually don’t have time to take that chance”

“I always end up making the materials, because life seems so much easier if you

just do it yourself”

8May 2009

Open and Shared offers important improvements to the traditional model

Source: “Toss the Traditional Textbook: Revamping a Curriculum”, Edutopia Website

• Top down, passive • Bottom-up, active

• Expensive • Free

• Static • Dynamic & Continuously Improved

• Isolated • Collaborative

Deficiencies in the current model…

…are opportunities for the Open and Shared Curriculum Movement

9May 2009

Curriki is leading the Open and Shared Curriculum Movement in K-12

• Curriki’s 1.0 platform has experienced steady and significant organic growth

• Curriki empowers teachers to access and modify free, open and shared resources

• Curriki has engaged a range of partners, including for-profit and non-profit publishers, districts, states and Ministries of Education

10May 2009

Curriki’s Approach

• Build a repository of free, open and shared curricula & resources

• Build a suite of easy-to-use

– Collaboration tools

– Publishing templates

– Tools to align content to standards

• Provide robust quality control

• Demonstrate content efficacy

• Establish a community of educators

• Engage partners to participate in local and global projects

11May 2009

Curriki’s Repository

Free, Open and Shared Content:

• Lesson Plans

• Units of Study

• Full Courses

• Multimedia

12May 2009

Curriki’s Tools

• FIND – Search the repository and build collections of resources

• CONTRIBUTE – Share your best curricula with our global community

• CONNECT – Work with others to collaborate on new content development

13May 2009

Curriki’s Quality Control

The Curriki Review System

• Robust multi-level quality control

• File Check

• Review by subject matter experts

• Member Comments

• Metatagging to include connection to standards

• Member star rating system

14May 2009

Our Growing Community of Educators & Partners includes:

• Individual educator members

• Groups of educators

• School Districts

• State Agencies

• Ministries of Education

• Educators from over 200 countries/territories

• Social Networking connections (Ex. Twitter, Facebook)

• For-profit and non-profit publishers

15May 2009

Note: Conservative assumptions used. Additional savings could result when Curriki is adopted by a group of teachers, such as a district. Simba estimates the K-12 instructional material market to surpass $10 billion by 2010; NCES estimates $14.7 billion for 2006. Current Curriki membership equals 2 percent of U.S. teachers; 10 percent is a conservative assumption for the future.Sources: 2006 U.S. Census; Simba’s “Publishing for the K-12 Market”; National Center for Education Statistics.

3.1M

K-12 Teachers

Instructional Materials Market

4.5K

Avg. per teacher materials spend

$14B

Annual instructional materials spend

310K

Curriki Educators (10% adoption)

4.5K

Avg. per teacher materials spend

$1.4B

Annual spend on these teachers today

310K

Curriki Educators (10% adoption)

2.25K

New spend per Curriki Educator (50% less)

$700M

New annual spend on Curriki Educators

$700MAnnual Savings with Curriki

Open and Shared Content offers enormous cost savings

16May 2009

Source: 2006 U.S. Census; National Center for Education Statistics; Levin, “Costs and Benefits of Reclaiming Dropouts.”

Today4M

Current 9th graders

74%

Current average graduation rate

2.960M

Current graduates/year

3.6M

Remaining students

74%

Average grad. rate

With 10% Curriki

Educators

2.964M

Graduates/year with 10% Curriki

Educators

400K

9th-graders with Curriki Educator

75%

Grad. rate with Curriki Educator

4K

$209K

Higher student achievement will lead to more high school graduates ...

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$840MPossible Lifetime Social Benefit per Class with Curriki Educators

Through increasing teacher effectiveness, Curriki will have a positive impact on student achievement ...

And each incremental graduate will have a lifetime social benefit ...

As well as tremendous potential social benefit

17May 2009

Curriki – Is it an Innovation?

Open and Shared

A Positive Disruptive Change

Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” KurshanExecutive Director

bkurshan@curriki.org