Ohio’s goals for Pre-K to 12 education

Linda T. KellerSuperintendent

Mid-Ohio Educational Service Center

Current System Asks Too Little

57% Excellentor Above

OGT Performance

41% College Remediation

The world has changed… and continues to change.

Yesterday

Our lives and our students’ lives have changed.

Schools need to change!

Digitized. Automated. Outsourced.

Job Requirements

NO COLLEGE REQUIRED COLLEGE REQUIRED

72%

28%

1973

Source: Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, 2010.

Ohio’s Goal

CREATE A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION SYSTEM IN OHIO IN

WHICH ALL STUDENTS WILL GRADUATE WITH A SENSE OF

PURPOSE AND BE WELL PREPARED FOR COLLEGE, WORK AND LIFE

Race to the Top

To accomplish Ohio’s goal…

• New Common Core standards• Change in classroom practice and school

culture• New system of online tests• Increased accountability– New principal and teacher evaluation systems– New rating system for districts and schools

Ohio and Common Core

Implementation of the Common Core Standards

Standards Reflect

Fewer, clearer, and higher

Internationally benchmarked

An aligned model curriculum

College and career readiness

Relevant content and skills

Coherence, focus, rigor

NEW FEATURES NEW FOCUS

Measuring Higher Expectations

Comparing OAA/OGT to Projections for Online Tests

Teachers as Facilitators

Evaluation for Student Improvement

Classrooms of the Future

Teacher centered Content coverage Memorizing

information Textbook

dependent

Learner centered

Learning and doing

Using information

Multiple sources of information

CURRENT: FUTURE:

• Focused on transitions to new standards and assessments for ALL students

• Passionate about blended learning & project-based learning

• Providing professional learning for all staff• Excited about the P-16 approach

Today’s students. Tomorrow’s world.

Our Students Will Meet the Challenge