Slides used at WiscNet Conference -- May 6, 2009

1. School 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

2. What should our schools
be about?
And why aren’t they that way?

3. Who Is This
Guy?

4. Why This Matters

6. My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive
Education with 21st
Century Tools

7. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

8. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

9. What They Say About Us
Obsolete
Broken
Wasteland
Money Pits
Failing

10. The Problem Is...
If we keep down our current path, they’re right.

11. STOP!

12. There is no silver bullet.
What do we need?
What do we value?

13. The Great Big Question:
How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and still have
so many problems?

14. Fix the System:
Put a good person into a bad system and the
system will win every time.

15. Our Biggest Problem:
A Lack of Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

16. Another Big Problem:
A Lack of Humility

17. A Related Problem:
Educators Are Too A-Historical

18. What the school system needs to understand is that its
strength lies, not in the strength of the central
organization, but in the strength of the individual school,
not in making one school like another, but in making each
school a distinct unit. The need of the system is the
preservation of its units, so that each school can keep
itself alive, wide awake, responsive to its people, easily
adaptable, the best of its kind.
Angelo Patri -- A Schoolmaster of the Great City

19. You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

20. Things Are Different
How Do We Deal With That?

21. If you want creative workers, give them
enough time to play.
- John Cleese
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edublogger/
838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

22. We Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

23. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

25. Scary Thought:
What are we willing to unlearn and relearn?

26. If we teach today's students
as we taught yesterday's, we
rob them of tomorrow.
John Dewey

27. The World In Which We Live
The Maddening Paradox of Education 2009.

28. Data Driven Decisions
Assume that you use good data -- and
good data ain’t cheap.

29. Accountability = External
Responsibility = Internal

30. So Now What?

31. Pedagogy Matters.
A Lot.

32. My Two Cents:
Thoughtful
Wise
Passionate
Kind

33. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

34. Inquiry-Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

35. Student-Centered
It’s Not About Us.

36. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

37. Community-Based
We can learn from many

38. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

39. Passionate
And it has to matter.

40. Integrated
The day has to make sense

41. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

42. Authentic
Assessment as Real and Transparent

43. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

44. Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

45. Traditional
Classrooms:
Recall-Based Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

46. The Schools
We Need:
Understanding-
Projects
Driven
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

47. Common Inputs

48. Common Process

49. Common Assessment
Tools

50. What Do We Gain?
What Do We Lose?

51. But what about the tech?

52. Technology Must Be
Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

53. Relevance?

54. Paraphrasing
Neil Postman:
Certain Technologies
Are Not Additive,
They Are
Transformative

55. Research
Collaborate
Create
Present
Network

56. Transparency:
We Can Invite the World to Our Schools

57. What is the role of teacher
in the age of Google?

58. Wisdom.

59. Keep In Touch:
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: chrislehmann
Skype: chrislehmann