Schools of the Future

A Joint Initiative of theHawaii Community Foundation

and theHawaii Association of Independent

Schools

Global Achievement Gap“In today’s highly competitive global “knowledge

economy” all students need new skills for college, careers, and citizenship. The failure to give all students these new skills leaves today’s youth - and our country - at an alarming competitive disadvantage. Schools haven’t changed; the world has. And so our schools are not failing. Rather, they are obsolete -even the ones that score the best on standardized tests. This is a very different problem requiring an altogether different solution.

Tony Wagner, The Global Achievement Gap

A Whole New Mind: Why Right-BrainersWill Rule the Future – Daniel Pink

Left-Brain Dominance Has Given Us the Power of the Industrial and Information Ages

The Future Will Require More Right-Brain Skills:Design - Creating New Ideas from Current

KnowledgeStory - Understanding the Narrative of LearningSymphony - Grasping the Big Picture, the Whole

SystemEmpathy - Understanding & Valuing Other

ViewpointsPlay - The Role of Fun & Positive Energy in LearningMeaning - Appreciation of a Spiritual Sense of

Existence

Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns

If, as multiple intelligence theory suggests, different persons possess different dominant “intelligences” or intellectual capacities – verbal, mathematical, spatial, kinesthetic, aesthetic, etc. – and learn at different paces, then grouping all students by age and teaching all of them with a single pedagogic strategy – usually the strategy that is consistent with and comfortable for the dominant “intelligence” of the teacher – at the same pace is bound to fail. Some of the students will find the pace moving too fast, while others find it moving too slow; and those with dominant intelligences different from that employed by the teacher’s pedagogic strategy will not be able to grasp the material and the key concepts no matter what the pace of teaching is.

- Clayton Christensen, Disrupting Class, 2008

Schools of the Future Initiative

Create a sense of urgency for changeDevelop and facilitate dialogue around institutional transformationIdentify, document and share best practices$5 Million commitment over 5 years

SOTF Project Schools•Academy of the

Pacific•Assets School•Hanahauoli School•Hanalani Schools•Hongwanji Mission•Hualalai Academy•Iolani School•Island Pacific

Academy•Kailua Community of

Learners (St. Anthony & St. John Vianney Schools)

•Kalihi No Ka Oi (St. John the Baptist & St. Anthony)•Kauai Pacific School•Le Jardin Academy•Maui Preparatory

Academy•Mid-Pacific Institute•Montessori Hale O Keiki•Sacred Hearts Academy•Seabury Hall•St. Joseph School in Hilo

Transforming Learning Environments

Teacher-Centered to Student-CenteredStandards-Based to Project-BasedTest-Based Assessment to Performance-Based AssessmentText-Based to Multi-Media-Based

Essential Capacities for 21st Century - Partnership for 21st Century Skills

Analytical & Creative Thinking Skills

Insightful Problem-Solving Communication Skills Digital Literacy Global Perspective Adaptability and Flexibility Ethical & Service-Oriented

Character

Complex Communication — both oral and written

Acquire information Explain it Compellingly persuade others of its

implications Build and teach understanding Negotiate And in more than one

language!

The Past of Learning

The Future of Learning

Social NetworkingSkype/HangoutVirtual WorldsPodcastingBloggingVideo Games

Global Perspective

Demographic Shifts

Environmental Shifts

Economic Shifts The Rise of the

Rest

Integrity & Ethical Decision-Making

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC

Community of Learners

Issue-oriented, action-based collaborative relationships focused on learning, growth & changeSharing of different perspectivesPurposeful discussion using protocolOnline and face-to-face collaborationTeam study tours

SOTF Ning Website

Informational site, conferences, workshopsResource site - videosForum for discussionOnline CoL gatherings

www.futureschools.ning.com

The Challenge

We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t yet know are problems. J. F. Rischard

High Noon: 20 Global Problems; 20 Years to Solve Them

Are we preparing our students for their future . . . or for our past? David Thornburg