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2007 Model Schools Conference
Why Arent We There Yet? What Will it Take?
Raymond McNulty, Senior Vice President,
International Center for Leadership in Education
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Are we teaching / assessing the right standards
for success in school and beyond?
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• Right Standards
• Are we teaching / assessing to an adequate level
  of proficiency for post high school success?

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• Right Standards
• Right level of proficiency
• Are we teaching / assessing ALL students ability
  to apply the standard to post high school
  responsibilities?

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Symposiums

• November 3 5, 2007 in Atlanta, GA
• February 8 10, 2008 in San Diego, CA

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Post Conference

• Marriott Salon 1 3
• Tuesday 2 4 PM
• Wednesday 8 11 AM

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Questions

• What is the single most pressing challenge facing
  your school or district?
• How can the International Center assist you in
  addressing this challenge?
• If you are attending the post-conference
• please bring the questions with you.

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So why did you come to this conference?

• How will what you have learned here change what
  you do?

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There can be no keener revelation of a societys
soul than the way in which it treats its children.

• Nelson Mandela

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Out of every 100 ninth graders.
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65 will graduate from high school
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39 will enter college
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26 are still enrolled in the sophomore year
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15 will graduate from college
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Mrs. Rogers

• My name is Raymond
• I am in first grade.
• I can read.

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Many involved in school re-invention work would
argue that change is the most talked about and
least acted upon concept in education today.
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Leave us alone Let us get our job done!!!!
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Let me reflect on a few points

• Disruptive Innovation and the Innovators Dilemma

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Disruptive Innovation

• Creates Positive Turbulence

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Innovators Dilemma
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Let me reflect on a few points

• Disruptive Innovation and the Innovators Dilemma
  
• Change and Time

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THE IMPLEMENTATION DIP. THE POSSIBILITY CURVE..
Fullan--1990
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Let me reflect on a few points

• Disruptive Innovation and the Innovators Dilemma
• Change and Time
• Four Leadership Lessons

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• LESSON ONE
• Educational institutions tend to be allergic to
• conflict.
• conflict is dangerous
• it can threaten friendships
• it can damage relationships
• gt

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• But, conflict is the primary engine of creativity
  and motivation.
• So, a new tradition needs to be the norm
  Courage to surface conflicts.

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• LESSON TWO
• Communication is in the mind of the recipient.
• If you are the leader, people tolerate your
  ideas, but they act on their own.
• gt

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• Heres a tip, communicate with emotion as well
  as logic.
• Latest research shows that the brains limbic
  system, which controls basic emotions, is more
  powerful than the brains neo cortex, which
  governs intellect.

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LESSON THREEThe Culture of Change

• Detailed Complexity - determining all the
  variables in advance. (This is not reality)
• Dynamic Complexity unexpected, unplanned for
  situations that surface as you implement a change
  effort. (This is reality)

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Senge suggests that those unpredictable,
unplanned-for factors that seem to get in the
way, are in fact not merely things that get in
the way, THEY ARE NORMAL!!!! And everyone in the
system needs to know this.
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• LESSON FOUR
• Most leaders die with their mouths open.
• Leaders must know how to listen, and the
• art of listening is more subtle than most
• think. Leaders must want to listen.
• gt

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• Great listening is fueled by curiosity. Its
  hard to be a great listener if youre not curious
  about other people and their ideas.
• Whats the enemy of curiosity? Grandiositythe
  belief that you have all the answers.
• gt

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NEXT STEPS
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Where do we go from here?

• Four stages that build a great significant
  system.
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors
• Monograph by Jim Collins

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Where do you go from here?

• Stage 1 Disciplined People
• Attract the best and the most committed
• Commit to engagement and hard work

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Where do you go from here?

• Stage 2 Disciplined Thought
• Raise difficult but important questions
• Make thought leadership a strategic imperative
• Create and support an internal environment for
  critical conversations

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Where do you go from here?

• Stage 3 Disciplined Action
• Transform strategic planning into strategic
  thinking and action
• Ratchet up efforts to go beyond your comfort
  zone, deliberate practice

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The best people in any field are those who devote
the most hours to what researchers call
deliberate practice. Its activity thats
explicitly intended to improve performance by
reaching for objectives just beyond ones level
of competence.
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Where do you go from here?

• Stage 4 Building Greatness that Lasts
• Find the courage to critically evaluate your work
  and change

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We can rationalize the failures of the past -----
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or we can learn from them.
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We can complain about the troubling inadequacies
of the present ----
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or we can face them.
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We can talk and dream about the glorious schools
of the future ---
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OR WE CAN CREATE THEM!
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Each moment we live
never was before
and will never be again.
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And yet what we teach children in school is 2 2
4 and Paris is the capital of France.
What we should be teaching them is what they are.
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We should be saying Do you know what you are?
You are a marvel. You are unique.
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In all the world there is no other child exactly
like you.
You may become a Shakespeare,
a Michaelangelo,
a Beethoven.
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You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are
a marvel.
Pablo Casals
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Lets start a new conversation about our
children, one that puts them at the center and
supports them to live in this new and ever
changing world.
Each and everyone of them deserve more from us..
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So why did you come to this conference?

• How will what you have learned here change what
  you do?

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Thank you for comingSee you at the 2007
Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia and the 2008 Model
Schools Conference in Orlando, Florida !
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Multitaskers

• Among 12- to 34-year-old U.S. viewers of the
  recent NBA Finals, 72 were instant-messaging,
  e-mailing, text messaging or talking on the phone
  while watching.
• USA Today

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