Is your school innovating at the margins or at the systems level? Learn how to leverage results from a report on work with hundreds of educational leaders in 2012-13. It results in a new zero-based model for strategic transformation that integrates design thinking, focusing on the teaching and learning core and a school’s value proposition.
PRESENTED BY Grant Lichtman, Martin Institute/Presbyterian Day School (TN); Bo Adams, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian School (GA)
CONFERENCE SUSTAINABILITIES Programmatic Sustainability
4. Shoshana Zuboff, HBS: Mutation
Moving from era of mass
consumption to focus on the
individual
Radical reduction in cost
Products or services are
affordable to few, but desirable
to many
Your end users have needs and
desires you have not imagined
9. Start with Questions
Questions from within the frame:
Who? What? Where? When?
Questions that inform the frame:
Why?
Questions that expand or re-imagine the frame:
What if…?
How might we…?
10. Ask “What if…?” questions that would break, discard,
or fundamentally change something that exists at your
school today.
1. Major expenses
2. Organizational traditions
Tweet what if questions to #boandgrant #naisac14
(Or Post-Up…or find a Twitter friend)
3 Minute Exercise
32. Traditional vs. Zero-Based
Brainstorm lots of ideas
Ask open-ended questions that
challenge status quo and increase
future options
Group the ideas together
Build school ethnography — most
cherished goals, wishes, dreams
(vision)
Make sure all bases covered
Re-imagine “school” transcending
silos
Write inclusive plans,
angering no one
Map learning systems that amplify
imagination of “school”
Delegate implementation
Align resources: system-vision
35. 3-2-1
3. Ideas from this session to take back to school
2. People to connect as allies with you
1. “What if” to prototype and ship
3 Minute Exercise