Bold Schools Boston

"Old School" or "Bold School"?
Redeﬁning our Value in an Era of Abundance

Will Richardson
will@willrichardson.com
willrichardson.com
@willrich45
Wednesday, December 5, 12

“What can you do has been replaced by what
can you and your network connections do.
Knowledge itself is moving from the individual
to the individual and his contacts.”

Jay Cross


New reality


CHANGE

Scarcity


ABUNDANCE

“The change we are in
the middle of isn’t minor,
and it isn’t optional.”

Clay Shirky


ABUNDANCE

600,000 Apps
2.5 Billion People
2 Trillion Webpages
4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute
16,000 Tweets per second*
Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

Which is Changing:

Media
Politics
Journalism
Medicine
Books
Business
Music...


Which is Changing:

K-12 Education


194,508,576 Lessons Delivered


“We don’t know one-millionth of
one percent about anything.”

Thomas Edison


Which is Changing:

Higher Education


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Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.


Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, U. of Va, Duke, Rice, Johns Hopkins,
Stamford, U. of Washington, U. of Illinois, U. of Edinburgh, U.
of Toronto, Princeton, U. of Penn.

“This is the tsunami.”
--Richard DeMillo, Ga. Tech


2024?


change


“I believe that the computer presence will enable us to so
modify the learning environment outside the classrooms
that much if not all the knowledge schools presently try to
teach with such pain and expense and such limited success
will be learned, as the child learns to talk, painlessly,
successfully, and without organized instruction. This
obviously implies that schools as we know them today will
have no place in the future. But it is an open question
whether they will adapt by transforming themselves into
something new or wither away and be replaced.”

Seymour Papert


Reactions/Discussion


Key Question

How do we react in the face of rapid, radical
changes in the world?


BE BOLD

Nine Qualities

1. Learning Centered
2. Inquiry Driven
3. Authentic Work
4. Digital
5. Connected
6. Literate
7. Transparent
8. Innovative
9. Provocative


Nine Qualities

1. Bold Schools are Learning
and Learner Centered
Students and teachers direct their own learning
and connect to their passions.


Bold Move

1. Bold Schools are Learning
and Learner Centered
Pick one outcome and tell students to design their own path to that
outcome and their own assessment.


Nine Qualities

2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven
Learning is focused around exploring answers to “big questions”


Bold Move

2. Bold Schools are Inquiry Driven
Focus on “discovery” not “delivery”.


Nine Qualities

3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work
Students and teachers create real work for
real audiences and real purposes.


Bold Move

3. Bold Schools Support Authentic Work
Let students create work that lives in the world, not in the classroom.


Nine Qualities

4. Bold Schools are Digital
Students and teachers have access to
and ﬂuency with technology.


Bold Move

4. Bold Schools are Digital
Consider BYOD.Teachers ﬁrst.


Nine Qualities

5. Bold Schools are Connected
Students and teachers regularly learn
from and with people online.


Bold Move

5. Bold Schools are Connected
Think of classrooms as having thin walls.


Nine Qualities

6. Bold Schools are Literate
(by 21st Century Standards)
Students and teachers meet NCTE guidelines
for modern readers and writers.


NCTE Literacies

• Develop proﬁciency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities
to meet a variety of purposes
• Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of
simultaneous information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these
complex environments
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Bold Move

6. Bold Schools are Literate
(by 21st Century Standards)
Make literacy work a part of annual learning plans and evaluations.


Nine Qualities

7. Bold Schools are Transparent
Students and teachers widely share best practices
and reﬂections on their learning.


Bold Move

7. Bold Schools are Transparent
Create public online spaces that showcases teacher and student
practice and thinking.


Nine Qualities

8. Bold Schools are Innovative
All learners are encouraged to “poke the box”
and experiment with practice.


Bold Move

8. Bold Schools are Innovative
Support a “20%” type schedule.


Nine Qualities

9. Bold Schools are Provocative
Conversations around change extend to parents, communities, and
local, state and national governments.


Bold Move

9. Bold Schools are Provocative
Regularly share news about reform and learning with parents and
community members.


How do we get there?


LEARNERS FIRST


LEARNERS FIRST Teachers Second


will@willrichardson.com
@willrich45
willrichardson.com


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