1. A Charter College Preparatory School
(Middle & High)
To Prepare Students for
the Global Creative Economy
Feb 2013 Work In Progress
We Welcome Feedback!
Mark Lee
http://begreatacademy.wordpress.com/
Private & Confidential Blue Underlined Links are Active
3. OCPS Needs a College Prep School
- 2012 State of The Schools Address -
https://www.ocps.net/sb/Documents/2012%20Documents/2012%20State%20of%20the%20Schools%20Address.pdf
But
Is Preparing for College
Sufficient
In The
Global Creative Economy?
(see Appendix 1 on the value of a college education)
Private & Confidential
4. College Costs Rise While Graduate Earnings Decline
Average
Tuition & Fees
Average
Earnings
Private & Confidential
5. Students Need to Prepare
for the Global Creative Economy
Be Globally Ready Be Creative
Learn Multiple Spend Time Cross Grow
Languages Abroad Disciplines Portfolio
Meet Core Requirements
Accelerate via
Blended Learning
Learn From the Best Private & Confidential
Apply Technology Effectively
6. A Charter Middle/High School that Prepares
Students for the Global Creative Economy
Build a Charter Middle/High School That Meets these 3 Needs
Global Readiness Core Academic Requirements Creative Capacities
We will Model the Proposed Charter School after Avenues
(a brand-new $40,000/year NYC Private School)
See Appendix 2
As a Charter School, We will have to be Far More Innovative
Private & Confidential
7. How Your Child Will Benefit
Global Readiness Core Academic Requirements Creative Capacities
Use Global Experiences Excel Use Creative Projects
To For College Admissions to
Enrich Portfolio & Enrich Portfolio
For College Admissions Succeed in College For College Admissions
& &
Prepare With Deep Prepare
for Global Interaction For Career Growth
FOCUS
Private & Confidential
8. Meet Core Academic Requirements
Via Blended Learning (FLVS)
Start College Counseling in MS
Use
Individualized Learning Plan
& Advance by Ability
Instead of Sequencing X X X X
by Age/Grade
Blend & Accelerate
Learning
Via FLVS
Take University
Online Courses for
Certificates of Completion
Private & Confidential
9. Use Flex Blended Learning to Accelerate Learning
See Appendix 3 for More Information on Blended Learning
Private & Confidential
10. Use Ivy League Plus Graduates for F2F Coaching *
Bonus for Students:
College Admissions Counseling & SAT Tutoring
Get Current Insights
from Ivy League Plus Graduates
On How They Successfully Applied to Elite Schools
+
SAT Tutoring
* Subject to (see here for Ivy League SAT Scores)
Hiring Availability Private & Confidential
11. Use FLVS for Online Instruction
Course
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Progression Mode
Algebra 1 (Honors)
By Calendar
Algebra I (Honors) Algebra II (Honors)
By Competency
Gifted Students
Can Accelerate Learning
Based Upon their Abilities and Diligence
(FLVS example assumes 2X Learning Speed)
12. Students can Take EdX Online Courses
Earn Certificates of Completion from MIT, Harvard, others
Imagine A
13 Year-Old
Taking
a Harvard
Law School
Online Course
Private & Confidential
13. Blended Learning
Frees Money & Time
To Be Globally Ready and Creative
Private & Confidential
14. Earn $ Credit for Global & Creative Experiences
(share cost savings to benefit students)
A Student Who Takes A FLVS Course A Student Who Takes 10 FLVS Courses
to Completely Replace Will Have $1,000* Credit (min)
a Required Course to be Used
Can Earn $100 Credit (min) For Int’l Travel & Creative Projects
Option
Student Can
Use Accrued Credit
to Own a Google Chrome Book
Teacher $/Student/Course
Annual Salary (exc. benefits) $48,000
Teaching Periods/Day 6
Students/Period 20
Teacher $/Student/Course $400
* Not transferable, and limited to school-approved projects
15. Accelerate Learning to Complete Core Requirements Early
(frees time for global & creative projects)
Blended Learning
Use Remaining 2 years for Projects
(assume 2X Learning)
or Graduate Early
Finish 24 Credit Hours in 2 Years
17. Learn to Compete & Collaborate Globally
Collaborate Remotely
Interact Daily Take At Least
With International Students
with International Students 1 Semester (or longer)
On
Enrolled at School Abroad
Global Creative Projects
Private & Confidential
19. Grow Creative Capacities: Learn by Doing
A famous study on identical twins aged between 15 and 22:
while 80% of IQ differences were attributable to genetics,
only around 30% of the performance on creativity tests could be explained that way.
It means that we can work on learning and improve our creativity.
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/03/creativity_with_a_small_c.html
Private & Confidential
20. Build Mastery in a Self-Chosen Area
Early depth and mastery in any arena provide important transferable lessons and build
long-lasting confidence and self-esteem. Leading colleges and universities look for such
key differentiators in their prospective students. Whether photography or physics, chess
or cello, architecture or demography, poetry or playwriting, higher educational
institutions are increasingly looking for students who have a demonstrated area of
excellence and depth.
Beginning in ninth grade, the Avenues Mastery Program will expect every student to
develop an area of depth and excellence in a self-chosen field of learning, whether art,
music, literature, sports, science or history. Each student will select an area, subject or
activity in which he or she has a passion and would like to develop depth and excellence.
Every student will have a teacher-mentor who shares the student’s special interest and
who will help guide him in enhancing his intellectual curiosity and deepening his base of
knowledge.
The Mastery Program will culminate with each Avenues student completing a work
product emblematic of the area that he has chosen. For some students this will be a
thesis, for some an experiment, for others a publication, portfolio or performance.
http://www.avenues.org/field-excellence-mastery-program
Private & Confidential
21. Share Creative Portfolio with the World
Each Student will have a Personalized Website
• Links to Outputs
• Links to LinkedIn, Twitter, FB, Blogs, personal websites
• Project Websites
• Videos
22. Next Steps
This PPT Identifies the What and Why
The Next Steps Focus Upon the How
1. Work with OCPS to develop charter school application
2. Form a committee of interested parents
Private & Confidential
25. US Universities Decline in Value to their Students
A degree has always been considered the key to a good
job. But rising fees and increasing student debt,
combined with shrinking financial and educational
returns, are undermining at least the perception that
university is a good investment.
Concern springs from a number of things: steep rises in
fees, increases in the levels of debt of both students
and universities, and the declining quality of graduates.
Debt per student has doubled in the past 15 years. Two-thirds of graduates now take out
loans. Those who earned bachelor’s degrees in 2011 graduated with an average of $26,000
in debt.
A federal survey showed that the literacy of college-educated citizens declined between
1992 and 2003.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it?
Private & Confidential
26. 1st 2 Years of College Show Small Gains
• After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in
learning;
• After four years, 36% showed little change.
• Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades
ago, the research shows.
• Students in the study, on average, earned a 3.2 grade-point average.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-01-18-littlelearning18_ST_N.htm
Private & Confidential
28. Use “Avenues: The World School” as a Role Model
http://www.avenues.org/
http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/classroom-supermen-a-global-vision-for-the-future-of-education
Private & Confidential
29. The School Will Continue to Learn & Improve
http://www.avenues.org/curriculum-design-philosophy
Private & Confidential
32. Personalizing Education Via Technology
Q: What do you see as the major problems in the current
education system and how will disruptive innovation help correct
them?
A: The biggest problem in the current education system is that not
every student learns in the same, standard way, and yet schools
standardize the way they teach and test.
Using the computer as the delivery platform for learning has the
potential to break the trade-offs between customization and
affordability, which could ultimately allow students to learn in their
preferred styles and at their preferred pace.
http://disruptingclass.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/expert-qa/
You’ll learn how
• Customized learning will help many more students succeed in school
• Student-centric classrooms will increase the demand for new technology
• Computers must be disruptively deployed to every student
• Disruptive innovation can circumvent roadblocks that have prevented other attempts at
school reform
• We can compete in the global classroom-and get ahead in the global market
http://disruptingclass.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/about-the-book/
41. Appendix 5
Silicon Valley
Seed Funding
for Blended Learning
Initiatives
42. SV Seed Funding for Blended Learning Initiatives
The Silicon Schools Fund aims to
provide grants of approximately
$700,000 to the fledgling schools
over four years to get them
started.
But all programs will be designed
to survive on the approximate
$7,000 per student per year
provided by the state of
California, Greenberg said.
School leaders will decide on
their education approach,
including how much--or how
little--technology their programs
need.
https://www.edsurge.com/n/silic
on-schools-fund-lands-12-
http://www.siliconschools.com/ million/
