Innovation Leadership in Education Tacloban 11-13Mar2016

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Tacloban City

11–13 Mar 201611–13 Mar 2016

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Introduction: Leadership, Innovation and

Innovation Leadership

21st Century Teaching & Learning

Leading Innovation in Education 7 Steps in Leading Innovation

Project Based Learning: Leading Edges of Innovation in Schools

Learning by Doing Six Teacher’s transitions into Project Based Learning (PBL)

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Course OutlineCourse Outline

Innovation means first different, then better. It is a fundamentally different way of doing things with better, and perhaps different, outcomes.

Both the 'different' and the 'better' must be significant and substantial.

‘‘Doing things radically differently rather than just doing them well, are just triumphs of execution not Innovation’’ (Washor's piece for The Huffington Post, published in Oct, 2009)

“Innovation in education should be defined as making it easier for teachers and students to do the things THEY want to do. These are the innovations that succeed, scale and sustain.” – Rob Abel, USA

Innovation in Education

Innovation Leadership in Innovation Leadership in EducationEducation

“a process of intentional influence with the ability to motivate others to gain support to achieve a common goal ”

Good leaders…made or born?Good leaders are made. Effective Leader- desire and will power through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience .(Jago, 1982).

To inspire…., you must:- be, know and, do.

Leadership


When it comes to education, what does the word

Innovation mean to you?

Educators need to think of innovating as those actions that significantly challenge key assumptions about schools and the way they operate.

Therefore, to innovate is to question the 'box' in which we operate and to innovate outside of it as well as within.”

Innovation in Education


Huge improvements made by charter schools and organizations in traditional outcomes for students, most are not new or different.

Many of the proposed improvements in teacher education & evaluation, student assessment, and school design in traditional public schools do not seem to be novel.

Yet the challenges in improving learning and life outcomes require true Innovation.

As Washor states, ‘We need solutions that are both different and better.’


If we redesign schools to get better results on 20th-century outcomes, our students will be poorly served.

Innovation requires risk and patience as most inventions commonplace today are results of thousands of iterations based both on success and failure.


Driving Innovation and Collaboration

-helps your organization become- successful in identifying new ideas, implementing and integrating them into operations. You must engrain this cycle into the DNA of your organization.

Innovations - thought of as new and game changing. However many innovations are merely improvements on something that already exists. Its important to create a culture of innovation within your organization, - supporting productive failure.

A brand new generation of institutional leaders is taking the reins. The world has continued to shrink and is much smaller.Technology continued an unabated, unchecked progression; what is now futuristic has become commonplace. Complexity is the daily norm, and CHANGE the only constant. Opportunities, problems and grand challenges abound.

Blink! . . ten years pass by. It’s now end of 2015!.

Take 5!How Paradigm are formed

The answer has everything to do with Education . . . or how education is adapted to the realities and wonderful opportunities of the not-too-distant future.

Will this new generation of leaders be innovators, or followers?..., strong, resilient problem solvers, or servants of the status quo?

The reason for education is simple and straight forward that is: - to prepare students, predominantly young adults, for future success.

Education - process of facilitating learning, transferring knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits to others, through….. storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research.

If core competencies are assumed (engineers need to engineer, accountants need to account, writers need to write and so on…)What will be the key elements of an education that might help students become life-long learners, successful in multiple, varied career paths?

What do educators need to provide for the next generation of positive, innovative leaders?

Before

Now!

or, Should we play it safe and have them attend schools that look like the schools we

attended 30 years ago and our parents 60 years ago and grandparents, 90 years ago?

Is it better for students to be involved in innovative practices than participate in highly effective traditional programs?

Currently, most schools are not much different than the one our grandparents attended in the 1920s!.

So, What is Innovation Leadership?

Innovation Leadership in Education A technique that combines different leadership styles to

influence to produce creative ideas, innovative products and services.

In recent years, schools have charted new approaches in leading Innovation by transforming :Yourself, your Students and your School to cultivate the habits and mindsets of innovators, to open the floodgates of creativity and generate ideas that you can take with confidence.

Dr. David Gliddon (2006) developed the competency model of innovation leaders and established the concept of innovation leadership at Penn State University.

As an approach to organization development, innovation leadership can be used to support the achievement of the mission or vision of an organization or school.

Innovation Leadership

In an ever changing world with new technologies and processes, it is becoming necessary to think innovatively in order to ensure their continued success and stay competitive.

Once affirmed, it needs to be able to be articulated by all.- when achieved, all can then align their efforts behind the vision and through self-reference and development the school will reach.Translated into reality by means of a Teaching Framework or belief system.

Successful schools have a clear sense of direction through Vision Statement. – shared & derived through a visioning process involving all members of the school.

To be the center of excellence, To be the center of excellence, renown internationally for renown internationally for

Innovative EducationalInnovative EducationalLeadershipLeadership

exceeding expectation of 21exceeding expectation of 21stst

Century National Standards put forward By the Teacher

Training Agency

(Hallinger, 2003)

Commu-nicating school goals

Supervising & evaluating instruction

Providing incentives for teachers

Widely used Instructional Leadership model

Framing school goals

Coordinating curriculum

Monitoring student progress

Protecting instructional time

Promoting professional development

Maintaining high visibility

Providing incentives for learning

What You Can Do to become Stronger Innovation Leaders in Your School, and…

...What are we doing to do more of and become better at…

Associating,Questioning,Observing,Networking,

Experimenting.

Five Core Skills of Innovators Framework

The focus of above five traits, particularly for teaching and learning is upon School Leadership concluding three chapters, People, Processes, and Philosophies

to draw and to offer 15 takeaways for Principals and School Leaders:

School leadership

“Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of school administrators who responded to a recent survey said 1:1 computing classrooms where teachers act as a coach for students are the future of education.” (T.H.E Journal)

Heidi Hayes Jacobs: ”If you’re not updating your curriculum, you are saying that nothing is changing.”

“Innovative teaching supports students’ development of the skills that will help them thrive in future life and work.” (IT Research)

The 21st century shift, Innovative Thinking -a new call, a shift from 20th

century of traditional view of organizational practices, which discouraged employee innovative behaviors to:-- valuing innovative thinking as a “potentially powerful influence on organizational performance”.


21st Century Careers

A need to keep yourself current, resilient through continuous learning, as well as connected to your values is the career of the 21st century.

all about CHANGE, in our-thinking, -strategies & -behaviors to those that work in the new ever-changing & challenging environment to meet the challenges of the times.


CHANGEThe only Constant that stays in today’s era. To stay competitive, -manage the present and plan the future. Without Change for the better (Kaizen), there will be no Continuous Improvement to be Competitive in the current Global competition.

IMPROVEMENT IMPROVEMENT WITHOUT WITHOUT ENDINGENDING


2. Communicate,3. Collaborate, and 4. Create to synthesize broadly in order to solve problems and think creatively.

Create CollaborateCommunicate

To live and succeed in the present world, students need 1. Critical Thinking skills to learn how to learn, using technology creatively to:

The 5C’s of 21st Century Skills


Today, almost anyone can open up a web browser and access infinite stream of information at the touch of a finger.

21st Century Skills –the 5C’s

The only limiting factor being one’s curiosity and imagination.

THE …


We examine and analyze the situation, looking for logic.Unfortunately, this analysis and rational decision-making has serious limitations.Current problems and circumstances are so complex, they don’t fit previous patterns. We don’t recognize the situation and can’t automatically know what to do.

The pressure to adapt is the need to innovate. But how? When faced with confusion or a problem, our instinct is to repair it with order.


These critical thinking skills have become a core competency in every workplace.

We need to teach students critical thinking skills to discern new challenges and opportunities from the flux and glut of instant-access information.


The 5th C

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As technology becomes more integral in our lives and in order to adapt, we need to teach students to use technology

21st Century Skills

efficiently and effectively, ethically, appropriately and respectfully to solve problems, and think creatively.


Creativity and InnovationCritical thinking, problem solving, decision-making Learning to learn, meta-cognition (knowledge about cognitive processes)

21st Century Skills -Ways of Thinking


Communication Collaboration (teamwork)

21st Century Skills -Ways of Working


Information literacyInformation and Communication Technology (ITC) Literacy

21st Century Skills -Tools for Working


Citizenship –local & globalLife and careerPersonal & social responsibility –including cultural awareness & competence

21st Century Skills - Living in the World


To make effective sense of unfamiliar situations and complex challenges, we must have a grasp of the whole situation, its variables, unknowns and mysterious forces.

What worked before doesn’t work today.

This requires skills beyond everyday analysis. It requires Innovation Leadership.

Leading Innovation in Education

Consider the 5C's.CRITICAL THINKINGCOMMUNICATECOLLABORATECOMMUNICATE &CONNECT

‘If a Child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should ‘teach the way they learn’.


1. 2. 3.4. 5.

‘teach the way they learn’ require innovation in education incorporating current 21st Century Skills & new teaching methodology.

Imagine an 'Education Nation,' a learning society where the education of children and adults is the highest national priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security,

-where learners also take advantage of informal experiences offered through museums, libraries, churches, youth groups, and parks as well as via the media.


Mentoring- an innovative practice being implemented in schools across the nation. Mentoring consists of experienced teachers assisting new teachers to the field.

Mentoring students to mentor other students are on the rise - helping new students to integrate into the school, assist in conflict resolution and do peer tutoring. Mentoring provides opportunity to be leaders and helps unify a student body.


-shared by Cheryl Lemke on Innovative Leadership.

Seven steps to becoming an Innovative Leader.

President and CEO of the education technology consulting firm Metiri Group


And innovative leaders cultivate a culture of critical and creative thinking that takes on challenges.By the way, creativity topped the list of the most important leadership qualities needed over the next five years. (according to a 2010 IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs.)

Embrace the challengeStep1.

Innovative leaders do not delegate creativity and innovation; they lead it.

They presented the staff with the challenge and asked them to come up with a creative solution. As a result, the teachers created a new schedule. In the morning, one educator teaches language arts and social studies. And in the afternoon, another educator teaches math and science.

At a high tech school in the San Diego area, leaders challenged the concept that they had to move students from class to class throughout the day.


When they drive change, they both tolerate and criticize digital technology — and the way kids use it.

Drive change through collective creativity and knowledge

Step2.

Innovative leaders show creativity and seek knowledge.

They think for themselves, and not just follow rules blindly. A shift from rules to principles.Schools are open to different ideas and break established rules when they no longer make sense.

Shape the culture

They ask hard questions and expect the school community to grapple with the questions alongside them. And they really listen to what educators say.

Step3.

Innovative leaders create a culture of risk, change, critical and creative thinking.

Lemke said,A number of years ago, a new principal in Illinois met with his staff and said they had one year to turn their school around. If they didn't, the Illinois State Board of Education would shut it down.

"As a leader, if you’re in a meeting, you should be talking the least of anyone else in that meeting”


He said they had to break some rules and wanted to know what they really wanted to do."By the end of the year, they had a plan in place, and the following year they were off probation! " Lemke said,’’It was really astounding.’’

The principal didn't change any of the staff members in the school when he arrived. Instead, he asked for their ideas on how to meet the challenge.


effective professional learning is:sustained over time, content-based in professional learning communities focused on concrete tasks in teaching, assessment, observation and reflection modeled in authentic settings.

Establish a Professional Learning SystemStep 4.

Innovative leaders create professional learning communities in their schools. According to Professional Learning in the Learning Profession:,

Then they get out of the way and let their staff figure out the details.

Step 5.Decide and systematizeInnovative leaders create a blueprint of principles, professional development, strategies, approaches and resources.

"Without that, you’re not going to be able to orchestrate a lot of the things that they’re doing,” Lemke said.

Ensure digital access and infrastructure Step 6.

Innovative leaders will build the capacity for teachers and students to learn through blogs, wikis and virtual environments by laying a solid infrastructure foundation.

"The people that you have in your system right now are capable of doing the kind of innovation we want to happen," she said. "Many of them just don’t have the opportunity.”In conclusion, she said that Innovative leaders need to give them that opportunity!.

Step 7. Demand accountability

Innovative leaders delegate responsibility but put accountability in place. Begin by setting low stakes for people to be comfortable with taking risks, failing and learning by experience.

Take 5!

Take 5!

Imagine an 'Education Nation,' a learning society where the education of children and adults is the highest national priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security,

-where learners also take advantage of informal experiences offered through museums, libraries, churches, youth groups, and parks as well as via the media.


Innovative learning- Project Based LearningSitting in a classroom learning information is rapidly disappearing in 21st Century learning.


Innovative ways to become engaged in the learning process and to increase content knowledge , - occurs in the community, working on Projects or to sustain the school itself.

Project-Based Learning Projects can show students how diverse disciplines as English, Science and Math are interrelated - can be developed to accommodate almost any curriculum.

For example, A science teacher builds an Electrolyzer with the students to demonstrate Electrolysis of water to its gases form. They learned all the skills of the built they were engaged in the process.

They enjoyed the build of the project and gained confidence in their abilities.


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Leading Innovation in application of knowledge acquired


The bad news & reality, PBL can also be worse requiring Teachers to reflect & modify.. It can reveal the profound nature of deep learning experiences, but it can also expose the feeling for the ways for learning to derail.

Checking the Temperature of the RoomThere are a lot of misconceptions about PBL and how to structure lessons with different strategies, – the good news, many PBL strategies had led success for students.


Teachers need to be observers, frequently checking the temperature of the room.

Recognize times when student engagement is lagging,-when the work produced is low quality, or- when a project worked for some but not accessible to all.

Checking the Temperature of the Room

Rather than seeing these moments as failures, respond with reflection and action, -times when we learn and strengthen our practice.


Teachers need to find ways to adapt:,-read the group, change the approach, and -modify the plans in order to make lessons work in different contexts.

Troubleshooting Project Based LearningNo lesson plan is impeccable. It can later fall flat, due to personalities, group dynamics, time of the day, or what else?


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1. Set clear goals.

Learning by Doing: Six Teacher’s Transitions Into PBL

In order to be successful, the students have to know what is expected of them.

If you can, save projects from previous units to model yourexpectations.


One of the great things about PBL is that it has differentiated instruction built into it.

2. Over plan

Students move at their own pace and ask questions when they don't understand something.


2. Over plan.

Those who finished tasks early could then read or work on something else instead of hanging out and distracting others.

The second time I assigned this project, I also had my students read an outside novel for homework.


3. Make students accountable for their time

One group didn't want to use the school-issued laptops, so I took pictures of their handwritten documents with my phone. One way or another, I was able to see progress every day.

I had students share their work with me through Google Docs so that I could see their progress on a daily basis.


4. Give concrete deadlines for products.This helps make a project seem like a goal that can be accomplished. I added steps to be completed by the end of each day.

When every step was completed, the project was done. My students knew what deliverables were due each and every day.


5. Share rubrics in advance.

Rubrics help give your students insight into the design of the project.

This helps them understand what they should be taking away from the experience.


5. Share rubrics in advance.

They were summarizing instead of analyzing, so my second rubric listed terms and devices that I wanted to see in their essays.

For example, when my students had to write essays about their projects, they were kind of lost.


6. Reflect on what you are doing.One reason why the project went smoothly the second time was because I took notes about the positives and the negatives the first time that we did the project.

Reflection and bouncing ideas off your peers can help solve problems before they arise.

As stated earlier, we grow and develop each year.


6. Reflect on what you are doing.

We take feedback and learn from tips other PBL teachers may be using that succeed.

To all Education

Leaders adopting

technology to lead

Innovation in schools

Timothy Wooi

Certified HRDF Trainer /

Innovative Lean Consultant &

Kaizen Specialist