David Green Keynote Luncheon presentation 10-14

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Center for Evidence-Based Education National Association of State Boards of Education Annual Conference Atlanta, Georgia October 13-15, 2011 Lessons in Learning: An International Perspective David Green, President Center for Evidence-Based Education

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A Lesson in Learning! Adelsheim Clendenen Drouhin McKenna

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Benchmarking: Performance, Policy and Practice Benchmarking Performance, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) Benchmarking Policy and Practice (“How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better”) Austrian Leadership Academy, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), Networking Initiatives, UK

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Benchmarking as Exploring (Exploring in Depth) “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time” T.S. Eliot, 1942, “Little Gidding ” – Four Quartets

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Benchmarking: Whose Responsibility? First and foremost, A State Responsibility!

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New Jersey: C urrent population = 8,791,894 Austria: Current population = 8,414,638 Benchmarking in Practice USA: C urrent population = 312,401,109 Finland: Current population = 5,259,250 Singapore: Current population = 4,987,600 Shanghai: Current population = 23,019,148 England : Current population = 52,168,105 Ontario: Current population = 13,373,000

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Who Benchmarks? Not only – Academic Researchers, Federal & State Officials But also (and rather) – Practitioners – Teachers, Principals

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Isolation, the Enemy of Innovation Innovation: Questioning Observing Networking Experimenting Thinking Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen , & Clayton M. Christensen, “The Innovator’s DNA”

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The Paradox of Autonomy “Comparing your school to a neighboring school is no longer sufficient; you must compare your school, your district, and your county (state) to the best performers in the world.” “While the US has devolved responsibilities to local authorities, schools have less discretion in decision making than in many OECD countries.” Andreas Schleicher, Is the Sky the Limit to Education Improvement, October 2011

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Benchmarking: Austrian Leadership Academy Key Understandings: Influence the pattern of how educators go about changing their organizations At present, system-wide change is not possible and innovative leadership is not sustainable Create new ways of thinking, and acting, for sustainable change

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A Lesson in Learning! Adelsheim Clendenen Drouhin McKenna Principle 1: Work with the whole system in large group arrangements, led by innovation catalysts not by the representatives of the status quo

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Principle 2: Involve all types of schools and all levels of the system State & District Officials Principals Teacher-Leaders Dynamic System Hierarchical System

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Whose Responsibility? Education is a State Responsibility, Benchmark not only at the National/Federal level, but also at the State level Principle 3: Build networks rather than a building – focus on ways of thinking, ways of acting, ways of collaborating, on innovation

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Benchmarking: Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, UK Three Networking Initiatives: Raising Achievement, Transforming Learning; Leading Edge; (3) Gaining Ground — Strategic Networking — By Schools, With Schools, For Schools (For Students)

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Strategic Networking – Lateral Accountability Dependent Decentralized Distributed Specialist Schools & Academies Trust, UK David Hargreaves: Innovation Networks in Action (Adapted)

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Strategic Networking: Evaluated Strategic Networking “ … a unique and sophisticated model that yielded early and measurable benefits in student achievement in two-thirds of the project schools. The model is practically based in experience, yet also intelligently informed by evidence. (It) combines a sense of urgency and a push for success with a culture of optimism and inspiration that leads educators to understand and appreciate that, with some outside assistance, the solutions to raising achievement lie within their own professional hands .” Professors Andy Hargreaves & Dennis Shirley, Boston College

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Strategic Networking in Practice New Cultures of Learning in a World of Constant Change Performance Beyond Expectations Collaborative Communities of Practice (Technology) Designing Learning Leadership for Learning Evidence-Based Practice Mutual/Lateral Responsibility Innovation Autonomy Energy Renewed Trust & Verify Learning by Verification

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Benchmarking Practice: Systemic Urgency “Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.” Gabriela Mistral, 1946, Llamado por el Niño (The Call for the Child)