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Gary Krahn Incoming Head of LJCDS gary.krahn@gmail.com
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Questions 1. Should you talk to your baby using “baby talk?� 2. At the critical early lower school years should you purchase a low, middle, or high-end playground set? c
3. What learning difference are you most likely to find at the board room of a Fortune 500 company? 4. To develop confidence in your 13 year-old daughter, about how often should you tell her how smart she is?
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A teacher's purpose is not to create students in her/his own image, but to develop students to become the best version of themselves.
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay 4/27/2015
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Some Goals Of Education…. • To be able to anticipate and respond effectively to the uncertainties and opportunities of a rapidly changing technological, social, political, and economic world. • To feel comfortable with who you are. • To understand that you belong toc something larger than yourself. • To have a moral compass. • To examine the world through many lenses. • To understand your responsibly to make our world a better place.
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Dean Debrah Stipek Stanford's Initiatives 1. World Health c
2. Global Environment and Sustainability 3. World Peace 4. Arts and Creativity
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Thinking • Creative thinking: The process of having original ideas that have value. • Divergent thinking: The ability to see lots of c possible answers to a question and lots of possible ways to interpret a question. • There are tests for creativity … 0 years - 98% 5 years - 50%
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Can you see the impact of our education system? 4/27/2015
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PK-12 System • Created during the industrial age c the workforce for • Designed to create the assembly lines
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What’s Wrong • 40 years ago…… • Schools of Education / Diversity • Teachers are not valued, paid, orcrespected as professionals • Driven by what can be easily measured • 3.5 million K-12 teachers
• Too many structures
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How Do Civilizations Advance - Matt Ridley
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â&#x20AC;˘ Civilizations advance because of the ability of people to share ideas.
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Start With Why - Richard Feynman â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will only continue to progress if we always leave some room for c
doubt, some room for discussion. Uncertainty unleashes the real possibilities of the future of mankind.â&#x20AC;?
Summary Of Essential Capacities For Our Students Today 1. Complex Communication â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Oral and Written
2. Analytical and Creative Thinking and Problem-Solving 3. Leadership and Teamwork c
4. Digital and Quantitative Literacy 5. Global Perspective
6. Adaptability, Initiative, Curiosity, and Risk-Taking 7. Integrity and Ethical Decision-Making 4/27/2015
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Finnish Phenomenon Finland has not always been a high performer
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Play, Play, Play When it comes to brain development, time in the classroom may be less important than time on the playground. c
“The experience of play changes the connections of the neurons at the front end of your brain,” says Sergio Pellis, a researcher at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. “And without play experience, those neurons aren't changed,” he says. 4/27/2015
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Composite Attentional Allocation of 20 student’s taking the same test
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John Medina: “Brain Rules” • Stress changes the way we learn
• Vision trumps all of the other senses c • Every brain is wired differently
• Sleep is powerfully linked with the ability to learn • Exercise improves cognition • Top to Bottom – Not Left and Right 4/27/2015
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Relationships • Bill Wulf – National Academy of Engineering • Ben Cole – National Security Agency
• Luis Prieto – World Trade Center • Ted Hromadka – Erin Brockovich c • Frank Wattenberg - HP
• Danny Goroff – Prof of the Application of Math • Hal Fredricksen - Code Breaker / Mentor • Donna Hicks – Harvard Professor / Dignity 4/27/2015
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Disney Imagineers • The Story c • “Plus+ing”
• The Power of Mentors Bob Weis 4/27/2015
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Google Being part of something bigger than yourself
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HR model: failure & love Tyrannosaurus Rex 4/27/2015
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Learning to Ask Questions Some examples of questions include: • What are your reasons for saying that? • What other information c do we need to know?
• Is there good evidence for believing that? • What do you think the cause is? • When you say___, are you implying that____?” • Could you be more specific? 4/27/2015
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Popular Topics
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What Keeps A Head of School Awake At Night?
• Appropriately preparing our students for their futures • Blending a remarkable faculty c
• Advancing the learning experience without advancing the rate of tuition increases • Developing Leaders of Character
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Michael Howard It is a characteristic of “education” that it is a cooperative effort. It is not simply the speculation of some sage or scholar in the privacy of his study. “Education” of any kind is ac matter of teamwork between specialists who have soaked themselves in their subject, who live together, who criticize one another’s ideas, each of whom makes an individual although quite often imperceptible contribution to the totality of knowledge and understanding. …. It progresses through dialogue. 4/27/2015
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Thank you for your interest and commitment to education c
Gary Krahn Incoming Head of LJCDS