Meeting the Needs
of Next Generation Learners:
Delivering on Our Promise
Elizabeth Partoyan, Council of Chief State School Officers
Andy Calkins, Stupski Foundation
Secretary Gerald Zahorchak, Pennsylvania Department of Education
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Coalition for Community Schools National Forum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Learning Goals for This Session
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To become familiar with the Council of Chief State
School Officers’ Transforming Education strategy
and Next Generation Learners (NxGL) initiative.
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To understand the six critical attributes that
undergird the NxGL work and explore how these
essential conditions can form the basis of powerful
partnerships between a range of stakeholders.
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To develop and refine knowledge to leverage local,
state, and federal policy to enable NxGL principles
within and across learning environments.
Building Capacity for Change
Using these
tools strategies
Focusing on key statedriven leverage points
Advocacy
Standards,
Assessment, and
Accountability
Collective
State Action
Strategic
Partnerships
Information Systems
and Research
Education Workforce
Next Generation
Learners
Delivering on
our promise
To prepare
every child
for lifelong
learning,
meaningful
work, and
citizenship
CCSSO Next Generation Learners Initiative
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Goal: To create a personalized system of education
that engages and motivates each child—from birth
through adolescence, regardless of his or her
circumstance—to be prepared for life, meaningful
work, and citizenship.
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Features: Concentrates on the elements of education
that have direct bearing on students and their learning
experiences and focuses on learners and learning,
rather than on schools and schooling
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Alignment: Highly interdependent with the Education
Workforce, Information Systems & Research, and
Standards, Assessment, & Accountability strategic
initiatives
NxGL Programmatic Areas
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Early childhood: High-quality early educational
experiences are essential to ensure that students come
to school ready to learn.
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Expanded learning opportunities: ELOs provide
personalized learning experiences and supports that go
beyond the traditional school schedule and transcend
place.
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Virtual learning: Online learning systems help facilitate
anytime, everywhere learning and expand the curriculum.
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IDEA Partnership: Moving to a learner-centric system
requires understanding of best practices from the
education of students with special needs.
Critical Attributes of
Next Generation Learning
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Personalizing Learning
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Comprehensive Systems of Learning Supports
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World-class Knowledge and Skills
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Performance-based Learning
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Anytime, Everywhere Opportunities
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Authentic Student Voice
Sources of the NxGL Attributes
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A deepened understanding of learners
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Greater knowledge of socio-cultural factors
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Recognition that the world has changed
The Partnership for
Next Generation Learning
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To bring our vision of transforming our public education
system to reality, CCSSO and the Stupski Foundation
have formed an alliance — the Partnership for Next
Generation Learning — to establish a network of statebased Innovation Labs.
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The NxGL Partnership is the engine that will help states
move from their current systems to a new design for
public education and influence federal policy to scale,
support, and sustain what works.
The Innovation Lab Network
Innovation Lab Network
Lab
Lab
Lab
Lab
+ Affiliate States
The graphic above illustrates what the Labs and Network
might look like, with the orange rectangles representing
state education agencies, the red ovals representing
districts, and the green trapezoids representing schools.
Innovation Lab Network Supports
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Collective state action to ensure sustainability and support for
new system implementation and public will-building.
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Information sharing for change through an open-architected
knowledge platform to enable the Innovation Labs to learn from
new research and one another.
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Innovation design expertise from various national and
international sectors to co-develop new system designs.
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System design tools to assist in the transition to new systems
at the state and district levels and to develop change
management processes for leaders.
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Research development, and dissemination (RD&D) agenda
to conduct rigorous analyses of existing examples of next
generation learning and synthesize what is learned.
“Power in
organizations is the
capacity generated by
relationships."
—Margaret J. Wheatley
Levels of Interaction
Networking: Exchanging information for mutual
benefit.
Coordination: Exchanging information and altering
activities for mutual benefit.
Cooperation: Exchanging information, altering
activities, and sharing resources for mutual benefit.
Collaboration: Exchanging information, altering
activities, sharing resources, and initiating new
synergistic activities and approaches for mutual
benefit.
Successful Partnerships…
1. Have clear goals that are derived from the
objectives of the partnering entities.
2. Aim to achieve positive results and regularly
measure their progress.
3. Are broad-based and include a range of key
stakeholders from the beginning.
4. Involve key stakeholders in planning and
developing programs and services.
5. Involve powerful champions and make their
initiatives visible to the public.
Continued
Successful Partnerships…
6. Establish clear governance structures that
define partner roles and responsibilities.
7. Set and adhere to a set of ground rules that
guide the partnership in its work.
8. Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and adapt to
changing conditions and resources.
9. Enable all partners to benefit by drawing on
their strengths and contributions.
10.Work to maintain momentum and to sustain
their work over time.
What Do You Think?
For More Information
Elizabeth Partoyan
Strategic Initiative Director, Next Generation Learners
Council of Chief State School Officers
202-336-7019
elizabethp@ccsso.org