Presentation given on June 16, 2012 in Helsinki, Finland. Presenters - Rod Allen, Mike Mckay, Cathy Elliott, Chris Kennedy

1. GELP Helsinki
June, 2012

2. Personalized learning
for every student,
flexibility & choice

3. The apple
has evolved.

4. The revolution doesn’t happen when society
adopts new tools, it happens when society
adopts new behaviors. CLAY SHIRKY

5. When will what we know change what we do?

6. What will it take for what we know
to change what we do? MIKE MCKAY

7. BRITISH COLUMBIA’ S
EDUCATION PLAN

8. BC’s Education Plan
Key Elements
1. Personalized learning for every student
2. Quality teaching and learning
3. Flexibility and choice
4. High standards
5. Learning empowered by technology

9. Personalized Learning
for Every Student
Actions to date:
1. Attributes of an educated citizen
2. Early K Assessment
3. Curriculum and Assessment
framework
4. Innovation

11. Innovation:
Collaborative
Action Research

12. Innovation:
Invitation to
Think Differently

13. Flexibility and Choice
More choice for students and families regarding how,
when and where learning takes place
Flexibility for districts to vary the school calendar to
meet student needs
• Bill 36
Flexibility for boards of education to organize classes
and direct resources to support student learning
• Bill 22

14. High Standards

15. Which kids don’t deserve the
best teachers engaged in
high quality practice?
We are:
• Developing more robust standards
• Renewing curriculum with an emphasis on engagement
and relevance in pursuit of 21st
century competencies
• Developing assessments and
interventions based on what
we know about learning and
the learner

16. Almost everything we know about
the brain today was not known
when schooling was invented
We are:
• Investigating classroom environmental conditions that
promote or inhibit learning
• Empowering learners (students and teachers) to
understand and begin to act on the new knowledge
about self-regulation
• Rolling out a first wave of Self-Regulated Classrooms

17. Our narrative is being
Redefined
We are paying attention to some fundamental truths:
• Diversity is here to stay
• Diverse and complex classes are not made more
manageable by simply decreasing student numbers
and adding more adults
• Some strategies work/some don‟t. We need to
replicate and build on the ones that do (system
capacity building)

18. Technology

21. WHAT
COULD BE

22. DO OLD THINGS
BETTER

23. “Students today depend too much
upon ink. They don’t know how
to use a pen knife to sharpen a
pencil. Pen and ink will never
replace the pencil.”
National Association of Teachers, 1907

25. DO NEW THINGS
YOU COULDN’T
DO AT ALL

26. “If I‟d asked my
customers what they
wanted, they would
have told me „A faster
horse.‟” Henry Ford

27. Learning, not technology, is the driver

28. Quality Teaching
and Learning

29. Teachers Make a Difference
“Excellence in teaching is the single most
powerful influence on achievement
We need to identify, esteem, and grow
those who have powerful influences on
student learning”
John Hattie

30. How will we support teachers
through their careers

31. BC’s Emerging Thinking
Teaching and Learning Framework
• Examining innovative learning
• Examining innovative teaching
• Looking for the common elements/outliers
• Emerging framework/mindsets

32. Quality Teaching and Learning
– Our Inquiry

33. And so…
What are the accelerants to change that are
happening in your work?
How are you thinking about and building
affiliation to the key aspects of your work?
How are you ensuring that your efforts to build
the capacity of the capacity builders reflects the
emergent, generative nature of transformation?

34. What will it take for what we know
to change what we do? MIKE MCKAY

35. Rod Allen Roderick.Allen@gov.bc.ca
Cathy Elliott Cathy.Elliott@gov.bc.ca
Chris Kennedy ckennedy@sd45.bc.ca
Mike McKay mckay_mike@sd36.bc.ca
http://www.bcedplan.ca/theplan.php

36. BC’s Education Plan