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Learning from ExtremesOECD Education, Public Forum, Paris, November 2010
Charles Leadbeater
Your vantage point determines what you can see…
To see the future of education we all go to Finland
But radical innovation usually comes from the margins, entrepreneurs with few resources meeting huge
need
Everyone believes in education
Education + technology = hope
But lots of people think education is dysfunctional and fails too many
Most reform starts from the supply side
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Mapping education innovation
Improve
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Mapping education innovation
Better versions of the schools we have…
Increasing productivity, yield, effectiveness…
Good people teaching, well trained, well motivated and supported in the right conditions, measures,
accountability
Improve is essential but not enough…
Reinvent
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Mapping education innovation
Creating radically different kinds of school
Learning with and by not to and from
Personalised learning by…
Place,Timing, Pace, Space, Curriculum, Assessment
Big schools that feel smallTeachers as coaches
Pupils as self-reflective protagonists Problem/question oriented learning
Collaborative and real world
Philosophy of learning/shared visionCollaborative culture
Flexible use of resourcesKnowledge and information sharing
Constant learning
But…
There are lots of obstacles and traps on the journey from improve to
reform
And…
Even that may not get all you need because what happens outside
school matters so much
Supplement
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Mapping education innovation
Schools working in conjunction with parents, families, community
development
Social and emotional pre-conditions for learning
Aspiration and ambitionCultural change in communities
Challenges…Where do you invest?
What people and skills do you need?Are schools the right vehicle?
Transform
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Mapping education innovation
Learning new things in new ways in new settings…often without
teachers, schools, textbooks …
Pull not push
Motivation is key: extrinsic and intrinsic
Learning through…
Different people, technologies, places for learning
Learning asmaking, doing, earning activity
DiffusionScaling
Spreading
Improve Supplement
Reinvent Transform
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Competing and complementary strategies
Improve Supplement
Reinvent Transform
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Competing and complementary strategies
System Change
ManagerDetail
Incremental Total Quality
CollaboratorPartner
NegotiatorCampaigner
VisionaryDesignerAdaptiveChallenger
HackerEntrepreneurMaverickRenegade
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Leading: four styles, we need all of them
Standard schoolsIncreased enrolments
Improved access
CommunalHomesWork
New kinds of schoolsLearning villagesStudio schools
Real world Railway stations
Cafes
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Where learning happens
Target DrivenQualified Teachers
ParentsMentorsCoaches
Collaborative teachingTeaching + many other
adultsSome peer learning
Self-organisedLight touch coaching
Peers
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
Who leads learning
ContentKnowledge
National Curriculum
ResilienceEmpathy
Confidence
Capabilities21st Century Skills
Self determiningQuestions not knowledge
Formal Informal
Sustaining
Disruptive
Location
Innovation Type
What is learned
All our efforts go into scaling improvement strategies that
push learning
To meet the really big needs we need transformative innovation
that pulls people to learning because it motivates them and
spreads by word of mouth
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