Creating an Environment for Innovation: Partnerships, Program and Spaces
Donna Deeds, Executive Director
Copyright 2011
Donna DeedsExecutive Director
What is the most compelling educational
problem that you
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What is the most compelling education problem you or
your organization is facing?
CAPS is an example of how industry and our educational system can work together to produce authentic, personalized learning experiences that prepare the next generation of professionals for 21st century opportunities.
2006:Charge to Superintendent + Research
“provide unique student learning opportunities that currently do not exist in the school district”
2008:Search for Exec. Director starts (Donna Deeds starts April 1)
Programming workshops commence
2011Full implementation
NSBA Citation
Edison Award
Evolution and sharing; Accelerator space
2009/2010:CONSTRUCTION
Pre-engineering in all High Schools while designing balance of CAPS strands
Full immersion into business classrooms
2007:Feasibility Study
Presented the idea of a “Center Based Program”(CBP)
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Is this sounding familiar?
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Focus on crosspollination
Liberate yourcurriculum
Free yourinstructors
Redefine + value skills
Set the stagefor innovation
The CAPS pillars
1 { Focus on crosspollination
2 { Liberate yourcurriculum
3 { Free yourinstructors
4 { Redefine + value skills
5 { Set the stagefor innovation
Mentors, clients
Real product, interdisciplinary team
Advising, facilitation
Making the pitch, Customer ready
Design, Creating a business
1 2 3 4 5
Focus on cross-pollination {
Break out of school
Re-allocate resources
Embrace possibility
Tap the untapped
The education innovation cycle
Schools are creating students to act in a
fictitious world.
Break out of school–
look outwards.
PeopleProcessesSpaces
Benchmark beyond education
Classroom Google
We need cross-pollination.
Cross pollinators draw associations and connections between seemingly unrelated ideas or concepts to break new ground.
Every decision we made had to answer the question...Does this look like a high school?
Would you see this in a high school? If so, then we made a different decision.
– Donna Deeds, Executive Director
Role models Local leaders+ demand Spaces
BVCAPS | Industry PartnersBioscience Business Engineering Human Services
If relationships are at the center of what you do,
re-allocate resources to it.
Tap the untapped.Grow your community.
Embrace possibility.
1 2 3 4 5
Liberate your curriculum { Rapid prototype
Build on partnerships
Tools + clients + products
Rapid Prototyping | Overview
Look to the future
“end users”
Form dynamic, heterogenous
group
Create thoughtful curriculum
feedback loops
Again, we looked outside. Real problems + real collaborations mean real solutions
1. Feedback from business first.
2. Take back to school system for feedback.
CAPS Rapid Prototyping Curriculum Development©
STEP 2, 5 & 8:
Prototyping Team
a. Industry, university, HS experts
STEP 3 & 6:
CAPS
Curriculum
a. Roadmapb. Prototypec. Course syllabi
STEP 4:
Feedback
Loop One
a. External Field Experts
STEP 7:
Feedback
Loop Two
a. External and Internal Stakeholders
STEP 9:
Final
Curriculum
and Course
Design
a. Field Test
1st OUTPUT
2nd OUTPUT
3rd (Final) OUTPUT
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STEP 1:
Input
a. CAPS Advisory Board
b. Economic and Industry Trends
c. Student Interestd. Effectiveness Data
HUMAN SERVICES
ENGINEERING
BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
BIOSCIENCE
CAPS AREAS OF STUDY
www.bvcaps.org
Real tools, authentic projects, + working spaces.
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Find the right questions
Terrarium Forest
1 2 3 4 5
Free yourinstructors { Shift your hiring paradigm
Diversify staff
Cultivate DRIVE
How do companies attract talent?We asked:
DonnaExecutive Director
Principal, Corporate Executive, Entrepreneur, District Office Administrator
JonBusiness Relations 31 years of executive sales with General Electric, Deep network of relationships.
ChadDirector
Assistant principal,
Virtual School administrator, 21st Century Programs
Magnet school administrator
Leadership Team
100%hold advanced degrees
85% 41+
15
have business
experience
professional certifications earned
average years of teaching experience
75%have spent time working in BV High Schools
22%straight from their field of expertise
ER Doctor Retired corporate executive
Sport medicine professional
Mechanical engineer
Diversify staff
Shift your hiring paradigm
✓ Play role of learning coach and manager, not a dispenser of knowledge.
✓ Ability to facilitate inquiry-based learning through ʻauthentic pedagogyʼ
✓ Ability to co-teach with an external expert from the field of study.
✓ Ability to develop and perform formative and summative authentic assessments
✓ High tolerance for constant change, embrace novelty.
Cultivate a driven team.AUTONOMY MASTERY PURPOSE
1 2 3 4 5
Redefine + value skills first { Identify skills
Redefine assessment
We asked:
“What is important for early career success?”
Identify and vet skills
✓ Black and Veatch✓ H & R Block✓ Sprint✓ Freedom Bank✓ KansasBio✓ Bayer CropScience✓ University of Kansas✓ DLR Group✓ Garmin✓ LeaderFuelNow✓ American Century
Skills
Attributes
CriticalExperiences/
Outputs
The “X-factor”
CAPS Model of Professionalism
XThe “x-factor”
Authentic dialogue and mentoring. Not just grades.
1 2 3 4 5
Set the stage for innovation{ Break down walls
Shape + own space
Space to accelerate
You need designers who understand education.
ExhibitionCollaborationFlexibilityStorageTransparency
Visioning process
Flexible Teaching Spaces
STRAND
STRAND
LearningFacilitators
Atrium/Core/Café
Innovation Area
Flexible Teaching SpacesLearning
Facilitators
Building Layout
Innovation Area
✓ State of the Art Strands
✓ Interstitial Innovation Areas
✓ Ubiquitous Professional Learning Community
✓ Visual Identity
✓ Sustainability that teaches
Floor Plan
Forum spaces for presentations of learning and projects to class and community.
Rethinking the corridor to empower spill-over projects, spontaneous interaction, and interdisciplinary exposure.
Empower the professionalism + collaboration of teachers to fuel multi-directional learning and interdisciplinary projects.
Technology and space to support global connectivity + collaboration in preparation for the global economy.
Today, the lines between work + play
+ learning are blurred, look to third
spaces such as cafés for creating
comfortable places to collaborate.
Shelled SpaceFuture Accelerator
Cross pollination space
Creating a space together
Go to your local industry...
...and simply ask:
What should we be teaching our students?
Your questions?On our process, space, team, culture, or future.
Resources can be found here:bvcaps-donna.tumblr.com
Call me.Iʼll be hosting a
webinar this Augustto continue the
dialogue.
When you do...
Donna DeedsExecutive Director
BV CAPS [email protected]
Steve TurckesGlobal practice leader
Education [email protected]
Creating an Environment for Innovation: Partnerships, Program and Spaces
Donna Deeds, Executive Director
Copyright 2011