Stacey Childress, Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Biggest trend over the next decade on the future of education
- Focus over the last few years Student centered personalized learning as a lever for genuine improvement in students’ opportunities and trajectories
- Last couple of decades reform focused on institutions and instructors, only can get us so far. Ex. Teacher development, evaluations . Not getting to the learning moment of the student.
- Student centered personalized learning will have a dramatic difference compared to the last 20 years that were institution and instructor centered.
- Opportunity to create competency or proficiency based learning assessment and credit systems
- Create meaningful learning based learning assessment and credit systems
- Not how we have been running it the last
- Create learning environments for students that get better as students learn. As more students use the systems the systems learns and gets better
- Reforms of the past see 1%-5% improvements, but it’s too slow. Would take 50 years for 80% of students in the system to graduate and be ready for college and careers. Need to move faster and be deep.
- As soon as a student learns something and demonstrates it, can get credit for it and move on or go deeper. As you learn there is a seamless pathway.
- Credit is not tied up in what year it is.
- Some things that trip kids up, the scaffolding and intense support that was provided in K-12 does not exist in college and the workplace. That’s why needed students need to take control of their learning.
- Having caring adults, peer learning is incredibly important especially low income.
- Learn it, demonstrate it, get credit for it. Opens room for innovators to create new things.
- Philanthropic dollars can accelerate innovation, spotlights great small ideas
- Lot of ideas and lots of innovation
- Challenge is to figure out how to catalyze a lot of innovators to work on the same challenges in different ways to produce multiple options.
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John White, Louisiana Superintendent of Education
- We as educators will not be looking for the technology & innovation and be ready to use it when it comes.
- We as educators are struggling consumers of innovation
- Reforms especially on the technology side may not work because of how the current system is set up
- Create a system to be able to handle the tech and reforms when they are fully ready
- There is a new way of policy making in America and new way of education reform
- 81% of Louisianans were born in the state of Louisiana, which makes it so import to educate it’s workforce
- 19 of 100 achieve a associates or bachelor’s degree after 10 years after entering high school
- We are not on the right track with respect to change. Need real change in our system
- Only developed nation in the world whose high school graduation rate is regressing
- Problem is that the education system has not changed at all
- What’s changed is world around it, the American economy, family and workplace
- Greatest challenge is the system we have arranged for ourselves
- Federal bureaucracy
- State bureaucracy
- Districts
- Elected officials
- School boards
- Advocacy groups
- Publishers
- All with agendas
- Uncommonly fragmented to remove the power to choose who are closest to kids
- System built to be resistant to change
- New Orleans
- Most schools are charter schools
- Principal and teachers run the school
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided at school
- Recovery school district
- Did not setup another bureaucracy
- Setup charter school system
- Set the schools free
- New Orleans 2006: fewer than 40% of students performing at grade level
- New Orleans today: nearing 60% of students performing at grade level
- Recovery school districts
- 2006: fewer than 23% of students performing at grade level
- Today Perform 51% at grade level
- Schools receive 98 cents on the dollar
- Put the power to choose for those that are closest to the kids
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