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Kevin Hogan (Moderator)
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Panelists
- Subtopic 1
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Doug Levin,
- What makes education public is not who pays for it. It is critical for the public
- Linda Nathan
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Michael Horn
- Language is a problem -- predefined notions
- Need to get away from funding on seat time.
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Need to rethink standards
- Standards are are good as long as they are presriptive
- Prescriptive leads to standarization
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Central vs. decentralized
- misses the point. Somethings should be centralized and some not.
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Christina Alverez
- Doing a disertation on SLA
- Educators need to constantly achive the Macro view. We need to examine our conceptual frameworks
- "What is the purpose of Education?"
- David Labert Private Goods Public Goods -- http://embrangler.com/2009/10/ed60-labaree/
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Jolley Chrisman
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Capacity
- Human Capital
- Social Capital
- Material resources
- Structural Capacity
- Policies and procedures
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Melfe Kayasontee
- Education system needs to be reformed from time to time
- As the country changes, education needs to change
- Between NCLB & Race to the top, there is one pedagogical theme, anyone can teach a child, who loves the child.
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What Is The Relationship / Disconnect Between Policy Reform and Pedagogical Reform?"
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What is the most effective policy in the running of your school?
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Christina Alverez
- What's not is NCLB
- What's not is centralized control
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Teachers are begging for permission to innovate and work as professionals
- Policies have tsunamied that
- They have created fear among teachers (Toxic)
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Melfe Kayasontee
- Policies that give teachers space and permission to innovate.
- Bookkeeping prevents innovation
- Policies should promote what we value (see mission statement)
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Jolley Chrisman
- Common Planning Time is effective policy
- Policies that promote professional conversation...
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Is anyone asking educators about policies at the state and federal level
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Doug Levin
- No! The work of Federal law is done by people who are between the ages of 21 & 27.
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Michael Horn
- Disruptive innovation shows a better way and requires change
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Innovation happens in regulated industries, but never instigated by the regulators.
- Florida Virtual Schools is an example
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We don't understand the world we are preparing students for.
- Admitting this requires humility
- Requires risk-taking
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Doug Levin
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Disruption from outside the system
- There needs to be a theory for how we attack policy
- You can only fight the system for so long
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What's the value of politidcal ideology but bad for children
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Doug Levin
- All the ideas are driving by political ideologies
- Evevery voice deserves to be heard
- You get a new leader, and it all changes
- Education is amazingly resiliant in the fact of change agency
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The notion has been encouraged by the media that it's really broken
- Wrong, we need incrimental improvement
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What about Charter Schools. Are there valuable elements there?
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Melfe Kayasontee
- Teacher development is more important than charter schools
- Leadership is more important
- Some charter schools do professional development very well.
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Jolley Chrisman
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Studied Charter schools
- The perform about the same as nonCharter Schools
- They are interestingly & disruptivly innovative
- Afro-centric schools have a culture of loving relationships
- Some charter schools are good at saying (doing), "You are not falling through the cracks" But this happens is some public schools as well.
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Christina Alverez
- 1: Innovation incubators
- 2: is it scalable
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Chater schools are a market model for education
- How do I make a brand, market, industry
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The theme of the charter must be part of the culture of the school, so that the message can be dlivered by
- Leadership
- Teachers
- Students
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Can we structure schools for success? (not sure I got the question right!)
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Melfe Kayasontee
- What about all the black boys who fail
- They don't fail, because they don't even try
- First, how do we get them to try
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Doug Levin
- Education may not be the most risk-adverse endeavor
- We're really suffering from a lack of imagination
- Charter's job is not to find one model that everyone can copy