Round 4: Read & Explore (Assignments)
Round 4: Teams 1 to 4
Exploring Change and Change Management
(Small Group Activity – Read and Discuss)
This activity will be completed over lunch. Read the article(s) that you will find in your team area. Each article approaches education and learning from a different perspective or vantage point. Your assignment is to read the article and understand the perspective that the author brings. Highlight the key points you find most interesting or challenging. Note any ideas that come to you while you’re scanning the articles. Discuss your reading amongst your group with the intent of understanding the underlying principles brought up in the article. What is key and most relevant to education, change, and the high school experience? List some of the most important new ideas or new thinking on your marker boards.
You will have about 60 minutes to do the reading, discuss the articles and eat lunch. We will call your team when lunch is ready.
Round 4: Teams 5 to 10
Exploring Education and Learning
(Small Group Activity – Read and Discuss)
This activity will be completed over lunch. Read the article(s) that you will find in your team area. Each article approaches education and learning from a different perspective or vantage point. Your assignment is to read the article and understand the perspective that the author brings. Highlight the key points you find most interesting or challenging. Note any ideas that come to you while you’re scanning the articles. Discuss your reading amongst your group with the intent of understanding the underlying principles brought up in the article. What is key and most relevant to education, change, and the high school experience? List some of the most important new ideas or new thinking on your marker boards.
You will have about 60 minutes to do the reading, discuss the articles and eat lunch. We will call your team when lunch is ready.
Round 4b: Teams 5 & 6
Exploring Education and Learning - System+
(Small Group Activity – Apply)
Apply what you have learned through your reading and dialogue about education and learning by developing a list of changes that can be made at a system (system plus) level (we’re defining ‘system plus’ as the education system and connections outside the education system to business, community, government and so on).
On your walls, capture and explore your ideas using diagrams and words.
- What specific changes (initiatives, experiments, pilots) can we make at the system and system plus levels to support ‘rethinking the high school experience’?
- What would our system look like if we applied the ideas in our reading?
- What ideas or changes from these articles would we be able to test in the short term? Which ones can we test in the longer term?
- What do we need to have in place to support these changes at the ‘system plus’ level?
- Make a list of all of your ideas on a marker board. Then select three or four of the best or most interesting and record them on poster boards—one idea per poster board. List the title of the idea, describe it with a few lines of text, and draw a diagram that describes the idea. Put at least one of your names on each board as a point of contact someone could turn to for more information.
Round 4b: Teams 7 & 8
Exploring Education and Learning - “School”
(Small Group Activity – Apply)
Apply what you have learned through your reading and dialogue about education and learning by developing a list of changes that can be made at a local school level (we’re defining ‘local school as smaller than district wide but larger then classroom only). On your walls, capture and explore your ideas using diagrams and words.
Questions and thoughts to consider:
- What specific changes (initiatives, experiments, pilots) can we make at the ‘school’ level to support ‘rethinking the high school experience’?
- What would our ‘school’ look like if we applied the ideas in our reading?
- What ideas or changes from these articles would we be able to test in the short term? Which ones can we test in the longer term?
- What do we need to have in place to support these changes at the ‘school’ level?
- Make a list of all of your ideas on a marker board. Then select three or four of the best or most interesting and record them on poster boards—one idea per poster board. List the title of the idea, describe it with a few lines of text, and draw a diagram that describes the idea. Put at least one of your names on each board as a point of contact someone could turn to for more information.
Round 4b: Teams 9 & 10
Exploring Education and Learning - Individual
(Small Group Activity – Apply)
Apply what you have learned through your reading and dialogue about education and learning by developing a list of changes that can be made at a ‘learning team or individual level (we’re defining learning team as smaller then a school – and individuals can be any individual). We chose the term “learning team” to avoid using a term like “classroom” and “students and a teacher” because the roles of student, teacher and the definition of classroom may change radically in some of your ideas.
On your walls, capture and explore your ideas using diagrams and words.
Questions and thoughts to consider:
- What specific changes (initiatives, experiments, pilots) can we make at the learning team or individual levels to support ‘rethinking the high school experience’?
- What would our learning team or individual look like (or do differently) if we applied the ideas in our reading (or ideas that occurred to us while reading)?
- What ideas or changes from these articles would we be able to test in the short term? Which ones can we test in the longer term?
- What do we need to have in place to support these changes at the ‘learning team or individual’ level?
- Make a list of all of your ideas on a marker board. Then select three or four of the best or most interesting and record them on poster boards—one idea per poster board. List the title of the idea, describe it with a few lines of text, and draw a diagram that describes the idea. Put at least one of your names on each board as a point of contact someone could turn to for more information.
Exploring Change and Change Management
(Small Group Activity – Apply)
Apply what you have learned through your reading and dialogue about change and change management by developing a process that you and others can use beyond this conference to continue to ‘rethink the high school experience’.
On your walls, capture and explore your ideas using diagrams and words.
Design a process that accomplishes the following:
- Involving all of the people who need to or want to be involved
- Creating ideas and sharing ideas among the network of stakeholders
- Converting ideas into initiatives for implementation, conducting experiments, conducting pilot programs, supporting broader implementation (some of these will be small and others might be system-wide)
- Evaluating the ideas
- Sharing what has been learned from taking the ideas to implementation
- What would the process look like? Who would need to be involved? What feedback loops would we need to have in place? What partnerships would we want to have in place? What infrastructure would we need to support this process?
- What structural changes would our new process require us to make?
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