Education Drivers, Innovation, Culture and Targets

Education Drivers (Fullan)

• personalised
• student centred
• capacity
• systemness

System Needs & Change (Clayton Christensen)

• efficiency (faster & cheaper)
• sustaining (improve current system needs),
• disruptive (make complicated solutions simpler)

Enabler

• Technologies 
  • internet
  • ubiquitous
  • mobile
  • efficient (cost and HR support)
  • rich content

Purpose and Target

Doing the same things the same way will not work
Move from a centralised authority to a discreet and targeted system

• focus on targeted client audiences (not at the system middle)
• view schools as interconnected cottage industries
• focus on teaching and learning work practices (Hattie)
• Why, then how then  what 

Innovation and Culture

• innovation is as important for leaders as strategy and operational excellence
  • Innovation to enable continuous improvement (not big bang)
• Disciplined, deliberate, relentless
• Developing business units culture, artefacts and explicit purpose.
• Identify school site culture and focus on variants of service.
  • One size doesn't fit all.
  • Nurture the demand to develop program flavours

Research (Hattie) and targeted application

• Packages of support based on the following the big influences on learning
  • Student self-assessment/self-grading
  • Response to intervention
  • Teacher credibility
  • Providing formative assessments
  • Classroom discussion
  • Teacher clarity
  • Feedback
  • Reciprocal teaching
  • Teacher-student relationships fostered
  • Spaced vs. mass practice
  • Meta-cognitive strategies taught and used
  • Acceleration
  • Classroom behavioral techniques
  • Vocabulary programs
  • Repeated reading programs
  • Creativity programs
  • Student prior achievement
  • Self-questioning by students
  • Study skills
  • Problem-solving teaching
  • Not labeling students
  • Concept mapping
  • Cooperative vs individualistic learning
  • Direct instruction
  • Tactile stimulation programs
  • Mastery learning
  • Worked examples
  • Visual-perception programs
  • Peer tutoring
  • Cooperative vs competitive learning
  • Phonics instruction
  • Student-centered teaching
  • Classroom cohesion
  • Peer influences
  • Classroom management techniques
  • Outdoor-adventure programs