Standford’s Design School

Design Thinking

Five Step Process

Examples

Miami’s ABCDs

Applications

Bandwidth

Communication

Devices

Whiteboards for most schools

US history students all have class sets of laptops

1:1 isn’t sustainable [?]

Examples 2

Milpital LCS, CA

4 Cs of facilitation

Collaboration, communication, critical thinking

and creativity

Less need to focus on the front of the room

Visual openness

Support 100+ students in large group spaces

Glass garage doors

So engage your students they don’t bother

looking through the glass

Examples 3

San Francisco Unified School lunch revision

Storage was an issue with the large group spaces.

Next trying to go to maker spaces with sinks, no carpet, etc.

Next will integrate the primary learning centers by collocating them with the libraries? Why wasn’t that an initial thought?

More questions/ideas

Rocketship’s Large Group rotational model

Culture always eats strategy

Barriers are a function of resources

How are you engaging students in new facilities

Change management – process matters

Provide more co-teaching and large space environmental practice for student-teachers and in-service teachers

Preparing students for the

future

KIPP-Austin

162 free public charters nation-wide

Blended rotational model with 15:1 ratio

Goal is to increase college access for lower SES students by 5x. E.g. 5 of 10 go to college

30 students 10 work on cpus

10 work independently or small group

5 work with teacher x 2

Incubation projects – not pilots….

Maine THSD Teacher

Leadership Program Johnson & Johnson Cooperative Learning

Training

Google Certified Teachers

Each teacher needs a coaching plan in plan; operational conversations about instruction

Judy Willis – Brain based teachers

Provide for a four year mentoring program

Remove behavior from the grading process

College & Career readiness skills every four weeks are reported

Maine THSD Teacher

Leadership Program 2.

Taking teaching as serious as football

The Smartest Kids in the World

We need to stop being failure adverse in K-12 schools, but it is the students’ only opportunity

Evaluations went from 97% excellent to abut 30% excellent

Evaluators have to have the guts to be strong Tony Wagner & Michael Fullan

Major Changes / Other

Thoughts

Full day kindergarten

Testing ubiquitous access

Kid skills – independence and creativity

Tech and teacher openness = Improvement

Equity issues can kill pilots

E-rate dial tone reimbursement to drop 20% per year

Vendor Issues

Teaching Channel Videos for Inservice

200+ videos

Voice and choice for student assessment

Rand Study showed 8% gains in Algebra 1 by using blended learning

Common themes – create and personalize learning experiences

Philadelphia Inquiry Method

Vision for learning

Learning Platforms

PD/Professional learning

Infrastructure

Management of data

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