1. Global Education Conference 2012
TICAL Spring 2013
Whole Child
Ecosystem:
Questions that
Innovate
@JasonFlom
Director of Learning Platforms

2. Your best learning curve ever?
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3. Essential building blocks?
Elements
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4. Including, but not limited to . . .
Engagement Interest
Ownership Need
Challenge Emotion
Meaningful Novelty
Vested Confidence
Desire Passion
Shared Commitment Ah-ha moment

5. What does
Transformational Learning
look like?

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9. (Psst: The ASCD Whole Child Initiative)
Healthy – Safe
Engaged – Challenged – Supported
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10. Healthy
(No need for PE, we’ve got tots!)
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11. Safe (or at least contained)
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12. Engaged!
(If it moves, we test it)
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13. Challenged
(Stressed to Success)
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14. Supported
(Deficit Model: We focus on your problems!)
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15. “Those numbers just don’t add up.”
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16. physical, mental, emotional,
Healthy and social dimensions
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17. sound respectful
Safe
just equitable
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18. activities, experiences, opportunities, responsibilities,
involvement
Engaged
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19. Supporte
d personal
individualized
development
al
communicativ
e
encouraging
inclusive
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20. Challenged
comprehensiv
e
strategic
relevant
evidence-
based
with
high-
expectations

21. Complex System Dynamics
Variability  Context  Emotion  Feedback loops
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22. What’s your
dilemma?
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23. Ask
questions
we will.
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24. Whaddaya
think?

25. Unions = Good!
Unions = Bad!
Good people, dichotomized
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26. “A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked
inside the current paradigm that can only be
answered from outside of it.”
Marilee Goldberg
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27. What is the achievement gap?
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28. How do we close the achievement
gap? Image: Corbis Images

29. Why does the achievement gap
persist? Image: Corbis Images

30. What does learning look like when it is
meaningful to students? Image: Corbis Images

31. A powerful question . . .
)
• stimulates reflective thinking.
• challenges assumptions.
• is thought-provoking.
• generates energy and a vector to explore.
• channels inquiry, promises insight.
• is broad and enduring.
• touches a deeper meaning.
• evokes more questions.
Eric Vogt, 1994
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32. More Powerful 1. Architecture
Why
How What
Where Which
When Who
Closed yes/no questions
Less Powerful
Source: Vogt

33. Are you feeling okay?  Where does it hurt? 
How are you feeling in general? 
Why do you suppose you aren’t feeling well?
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Questions: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

34. What can we do?
Vs.
What could we do?
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Questions: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

35. Why is my coat unbuttoned?
Vs.
Where can we find spiritual peace?
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Questions: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

36. 2. Scope
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37. How can we best help little Johnny?
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38. How can we best help struggling
boys in our school?
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39. How can we best help students in
our district who struggle?
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40. How can we best help all students
who struggle in school?
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41. 3. Assumptions
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42. How can we increase the number
of PD days teachers get?
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43. How can we increase the value of the
PD teachers receive?
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44. What kind of PD empowers the
teacher student relationship?
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45. How can we get schools and districts
to race to the top?
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46. Your
Question
Revised
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47. The Game Plan
Assess
Discover
Create
Evolve
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

48. Assess Your Current
Situation
(Question Gathering)
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

49. Discover the
“Big Questions”
(Pattern Finding)
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

50. Create Images of
Possibility
(What would it look like if our
big questions were
answered?)
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

51. Evolve Workable
Strategies
(Innovating key initiatives)
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

52. Leadership Moves
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53. Collective
Strategic Knowledge
Questions
Collaboratively
Constructing
Engaging Strategic Questions
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

54. Facilitative
Authentic Leadership
Conversations
About Learning
Convene & Host Learning
Conversations
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

55. and
Connect Ideas
People
Include Diverse Perspectives
Image: Wired
Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

56. What’s wrong?
What’s working? Who’s to
What’s possible? blame?
Vs.
Support Appreciative Inquiry
Image: Wired
Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

57. Images
System-wide and
Reflection Metaphors
Share
Insights
Fostering Shared Meaning
Image: Wired
Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

58. On the
Fostering Front Lines
Learning
Networks
Nurture Communities of Practice
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Content: Vogt, Brown, Isaacs

59. Powerful Questions
+
Whole Child Focus
+
Community Involvement
=
Old Learning that Transforms
Paradigm
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60. Thank you
Contact
Jason Flom Resources
JasonQED@gmail.com ASCD Whole Child
@JasonFlom Art Of Powerful Questions
QEDfoundation.org Art & Architecture of
AllKindsOfMinds.org Powerful Questions
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