daggettkeynote

Opening Keynote – What Makes Successful Schools Work?
//The International Center for Leadership in Education has studied and worked with many of the nation’s most successful schools during the past year. Based on that work and a review of the latest significant research in the education field, Dr. Daggett will make a series of recommendations for all schools to consider in their quest to provide every student with a rigorous and relevant education.//

Executive Summary of Conference Themes:
__Begin with the end in mind – Learning Criteria__ -core -stretch -student engagement -personal skills development

__Use data to set priorities__ -NECC -Lexile -Quantile

__Curriculum__ -driven by data -focused/aligned -application-based/interdisciplinary

__Instruction__ -Rigor, Relevance, Relationships -struggling learners -technology

__Organizational issues__ -transition years -small learning communities -scheduling options

__Professional development__ -focused -sustained

Schools must prepare students to know what to do when they don’t know what to do -schools aren’t doing this and teachers aren’t modeling it because they don’t know what to do when they don’t know what to do


 * Structure of the standard keyboard today (Dvorak v. QWERY keyboards) - changed in 1917 because the technology of the ribbon couldn’t keep up with the skilled typists
 * We are paralyzed by our institutions – even though the need for change is obvious to all
 * Need to create a culture to support chance/improvement – need more pressure for change than resistance to change
 * Education is a product of society and must evolve along with the needs of society to stay viable
 * 1983 – Nation at Risk (Japan and Germany were eclipsing the USA) – now it is China and India who may be poised to do the same in the 21st century

Daggett’s Five-Year Predications
 * DNA based computers (Chinese have already done this) – can perform multiple task at the same moment
 * Wireless electricity
 * Plastic artificial blog
 * Stem cell to grow human organs
 * Lights switch for epileptics

China - $120/month is a good urban salary / high adult literacy (higher than America for high school aged children) Millennials believe that prosperity and supremacy is a birth-right (age of entitlement) Chinese new school reform act (Ed Week 6/6/07) Chinese teacher preparation requires 20 courses in curriculum area

Challenges – four mega-trends -technology, globalization, demographics, values and attitudes

Because of changing demographics, the USA will be short 10-16 million workers short --connection to Mark Steyn __America Alone__

Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare – 3 items exempted from the national budget deficit) 2006 data –
 * $1.3 trillion in debt (new debt from 2006)
 * $11,434 of debt per household (% of new debt from 2006)
 * $31,000 per family per year for 75 years to pay off total national debt
 * $516,348 per family of debt (% of total debt)
 * $112,403 in personal debt per family
 * India and China are recording budget surpluses
 * China currently owns the majority of national debt

We have mortgaged our children’s futures - This is what our business community is worried about

Learning Criteria
 * Core Learning (basic subject data)
 * Stretch Learning (R/R/R, beyond minimum requirements, innovation, creativity, design)
 * Student engagement
 * Personal skill development

Twelve Terms – Guiding Principals These values are from the NY state 1950 scope and sequence for humanities education
 * Responsibility
 * Contemplation
 * Initiative
 * Perseverance
 * Optimum
 * Courage
 * Respect
 * Compassion
 * Adaptability
 * Honesty
 * Trustworthiness
 * Loyalty

Basis came from: These are significantly more valued by employers and citizens than discrete content knowledge
 * Constitution
 * Bill of Rights
 * Bible
 * Koran
 * Boy and Girl Scouts of America

Are we teaching and assessing the right standards for school and beyond? Adequate level of proficiency for life? Apply to post-school responsibilities?

NESS / McREL
 * 15,465 hours needed to cover required standards
 * 9,042 hours is was students actually spend
 * 30-40% of standards are not tested – data shows that people think that % is not valued
 * McREL – showed that 71% more standards were added
 * Shortest school day/school year in industrialized world (McREL)

Model Schools - Eliminated department chairs and added chairs of interdisciplinary departments

What is the definition of proficiency? - NAEP Study – R/D Report, June 2007 in EdWeek

So what. . . get rid of 1/3 of content, get remaining 2.3 to D Quadrant

Questions:
 * Are you ready to abandon the past?
 * Are you teaching the right stuff?
 * Are you teaching at the right level?
 * Are you teaching the right way?