Battelle for Kids recently concluded a study on five of the top-performing school systems in the world. In the results, they shared the top six factors that affect student achievement. These slides are from a webinar with Brad Mitchell from Battelle for Kids to discuss this global education study, and learn how to improve practice in the most critical areas in education. You can read the findings in their LumiBook. Learn more here: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/battelle-for-kids-lumibook/ The webinar was held on April 24, 2013. Watch the recording on our website at: http://www.schoolimprovement.com/resources/webinars/webinar-global-education-study-battelle-for-kids/

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Designing for Student Success
A Look Inside Five of the World’s
Highest-Performing School Systems
April 24, 2013
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Discover a New FREE LumiBook
Now Available

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Brad Mitchell, Senior Director, Leadership
bmitchell@BattelleforKids.org

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Learning Objectives
• Learn about Battelle for Kids’ Global Education
Study and the six drivers of student success
we uncovered.
• Discover and access School Improvement
Network’s new LumiBook, an e-reading
platform that facilitates collaboration in an
online community centered around the Global
Education Study.

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Global Education Study, Spring 2012
• About the Global Education Study
– Why did we go?
– Who went?
– Where did we go?
– Who did we meet?
– What did we observe?
– What did we learn?

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Essential Question
How do the highest-performing school
systems across the world achieve
these results, year after year?
(e.g., PISA, TIMSS, NAEP, PIRLS)

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Finland, Hong Kong, Long Beach,
Ontario, and Singapore

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5 Teams of Ohio Education, Business,
and Community Organizations…
• Discovered why these school systems had more
than five rises in student performance for more than
five years (most had 10+ yrs.);
• Observed 5 of the 12 highest-performing systems,
schools, and classrooms in action; and
• Interviewed leaders, teachers, students, and others
to explore how these districts consistently rank at
the top in terms of quality, equity, and productivity
of all children.

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Global Education Study
Team Participants
• American Public Charter Schools
• Battelle for Kids
• Buckeye Association of School Administrators
• Business (Columbus Partnership; Gallup)
• Foundations
• Higher Education (Inter-University and College of Education
Deans)
• Ohio Association of School Business Officials
• Ohio Federation of Teachers & Ohio Education Association
• Ohio School Boards Association
• The Ohio Grantmakers Forum

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Our Approach
Before the trips
1. Book study as a team.
2. Conversations with students and others from each system.
During the trips
1. Common questions for teachers, principals, administrators,
and students.
2. Interviews with Ministers of education, business and
government partners, higher education, and unions.
3. Observations of classrooms and schools.

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Our Approach—After the Trips
1. Global Education Study teams met to discuss
observations and identify common drivers of
success.
2. Shared findings with participating school systems.
3. Leaders from school systems invited to present at
Global Education Summit about drivers most
critical to their success. Attendees asked to
record questions and comments.

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A Collaborative Approach
1. Global Education Study teams, leaders from the five school
systems, and others met during the Summit to synthesize
findings for the monograph.
2. BFK–Global Learning™ Collaborative comprised of leaders
from the five school systems, Battelle for Kids, and others
formed to continue conversations about strategies and
opportunities to increase student success.
3. Monograph, video, resources, and feedback from attendees
turned into an online LumiBook (launched April 2013):
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/battelle-for-kids-lumibook/

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Finding the Sweet Spot

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Design From A Different Mindset
• Talent and prosperity = endgame.
• Success is a journey, not a destination.
• Educators can and should be trusted with
whole system success.
• Less metric- and more meaning-centric.

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Educational Success (USA)
1. Performance ranking (e.g., NAEP)
2. College/workforce readiness (e.g., ACT)
3. Graduation rates
4. Achievement gaps

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Educational Success (Global)
1. Justify instead of judge.
2. Feed and spread empowerment experiences.
3. Make learning visible.
4. Relationships define results.
5. Feedback amplifies learning.
6. Focus on improvement goals and capacity
building.
7. Character, critical thinking, and creativity are next.

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Designing Success (Ontario)
• Motivate teachers and students.
• Engage educators and students in
continuous improvement.
• Inspire collaborative action.
• Affect all teachers and students.*
-Michael Fullan

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6 Key Student Success Design Drivers

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Designing for Student Success
1. Focus on early learning.
2. Personalize learning and create
pathways to student success.
3. Focus on learning.

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6 Drivers of Student Success
4. Teacher selectivity, quality, and growth
matter.
5. Link education to the economy.
6. Create a cultural expectation of value.

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What’s at the Heart of This
Systemic Approach to Each Driver?

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A Foundation for Sharing,
Collaboration, and Action
Summit
Monograph &
LumiBook
Global Education Study
Trips
Articles,
resources, &
videos for
educators
Group
discussions
to inform
future work

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Steve Burton
LumiBook Producer
steve.burton@schoolimprovement.com

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About the LumiBook
• Engage in an interactive, cloud-based e-reading platform
that fosters collaboration in an online community centered
around the Global Education Study.
• Develop new ideas with the authors who can instantly
update the LumiBook to incorporate new ideas.
• Use social media tools to add commentary to sentences and
paragraphs and view comments left by others and the
author.
• Become part of an active community discussing ways to
increase student success!
www.schoolimprovement.com/battelle-for-kids-lumibook/

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Keep the Conversation Going
• Email questions and feedback to global@BattelleforKids.org
• Share ideas on Twitter: @BattelleforKids (#bfkglobaled)
or Facebook: www.facebook.com/BattelleforKids.org
• Visit www.BattelleforKids.org/go/global
• Engage in conversation with others around the world through the
free, online LumiBook at
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/battelle-for-kids-lumibook/

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Questions?
Thank you for joining us today.

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