Keynote from Feb. 2016 - Pensacola, FL

1. Leading, Learning and
the Modern School
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA
@chrislehmann

2. Why This Matters

3. My Bias:
Old Ideas and New Tools

4. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

5. One Last Bias:
Public Education = Democracy

6. School Stinks

7. Do What You’re Told
Over and over and over again...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/195707530/

8. Stuff You Might Never Need
... or care about.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_123031_862743_0_0_18/PSSA_Item_Sampler_Math_Grade_11_2009.pdf

9. “Why Do I Need
to Know This?”

10. It will be on the test...
You’re going to need it some day...
It’ll help you get a job...
It looks good on a college resume...
It’s a required class...
(because someone told me I had to learn it / teach it.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benrussell/1477899923/

11. Is School Relevant?
(am I relevant?)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/4176254887

12. The Modern School

13. School Can Teach Us
How To Learn.

14. School Can Help Us
Learn to Live.

15. The Paradox of Education 2016:
Create New Things,
Measured Old Ways

16. Data Driven Decisions
Assume that you use good data...

17. Dream Bigger
This isn’t personalized.

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

19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/
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

20. What Will You
Unlearn?

21. Tell A Better Story:
We Must Have Vision
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lnx/6257130/

22. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

23. Inquiry Driven
Ask Questions We Don’t
Know The Answers To

24. Student Centered
It’s Not About Us.

25. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

26. Community-Based
We can learn from many

27. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

28. Passionate
High School Is Real Life

29. Integrated
The day has to make sense

30. Meta-Cognitive
Think about thinking.

31. Understanding-Driven
and Project-Based

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

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

34. Common Language of
Teaching and Learning

35. Common Inputs

36. Common Process

37. Common Outputs

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

39. Technology Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

40. Thoughtful, Wise,
Passionate and Kind

41. How Do We
Change the
World?

42. Be Humbled By
The Task
And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’t

43. Inquiry is for
all of us.
And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kjarrett/12143612396

44. Organize
The Time Is Now
http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163922974/

45. Ideas Must Live In Practice
Build Systems and Structures that Reflect Shared Vision

46. What Do You Think?
The link between inquiry and care

47. Problematize
Everything
What is the worst consequence of your best idea?

48. Empower
the Kids
It is their education, and it will be their world

49. Be One School
Be What You Are For Everyone

50. Have Fun
We get to teach!

51. Be Willing to Be
Transformed
We Have So Much Left to Learn

52. What do we teach
in the Information Age?

53. Wisdom.

54. Join us:
chris@practicaltheory.org
http://www.practicaltheory.org
Twitter: @chrislehmann
Science Leadership Academy
http://www.scienceleadership.org
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