Recipe for Replication – Dr. James Goenner & Sheree T. Speakman (National Charter School Conference, 6/30/2014)

1. THE RECIPE FOR REPLICATION:
PLAN. PREPARE. EXECUTE.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
JUNE 30, 2014
SHEREE T. SPEAKMAN
DR. JAMES N. GOENNER

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Goals for Today
Challenge Your Thinking
Sharpen Our Focus
Discuss Replication & Reach
Share Resources
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Have Fun!5

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RELATIONSHIPS
“People don’t care how
much you know until they
know how much you care.”

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Reforming
Education
Student
Learning
Divergent Roads
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THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by, and that
has made all the difference.”
- Robert Frost

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SOURCE: Public Impact, “Searching for Excellence A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of
Charter School Quality,” March 2013
Charter Schools vs Districts

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SOURCE: Public Impact, “Searching for Excellence A Five-City, Cross-State Comparison of
Charter School Quality,” March 2013
Charter Schools vs State Averages

9. SOURCE: CREDO─credo.stanford.edu
Compared to TPS, Charter Schools growth is:
Worse Than Exactly the same Better Than
Charter Schools vs National Averages

10. Charter Achievement & Funding vs Districts
Revenue data adapted from Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, by Batdorff et al., 2014,
http://www.uaedreform.org/charter-funding-inequity-expands/. Achievement data provided by Center for
Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO). Size of bubble denotes proportion of students in charter
schools in the state/district.

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SOURCE: Mike Petrilli, Fordham Institute,
June 18, 2014
“…Continuing up the pyramid, next we find Great Charter Sectors.
The “good-to-great” question was also wrestled by our muscular analysts. The
consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with
policy than with everything else: the “ecosystem” of reform in a given place (usually a
city) and its network of “human-capital providers,” expert charter-management
organizations, leadership-development programs, school-incubator efforts, local funders
and civic leaders, etc.—in other words, what conservatives like to call “civil society”: the
space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government
and individual schools). Once a certain degree of policy adequacy is in place
(reasonably smart laws around autonomy and authorizing, decent-enough funding), the
difference between good sectors and great sectors boils down to the “ecosystem”
built by the local reform community. That strikes me as a correct, and hopeful,
conclusion because most of this work is within “our” (reformers’) control.
(It also means that we can’t regulate our way to excellence.)
Is Accountability the Road to Greatness?
Boston
NOLA, RI, DC,
TN
Great
MA, MI, NY, NJ, MO,
CA, MN, GA, FL, NM
Good
IL, NC, IN, CO, AR, UT, AZ, TX,
OH, OR, PA, NV
Bad
KY, VA, WY, IA
Charter States in Name Only

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The Road to Greatness
Good, Not Great
Inflection
Point
Good, Not Great
Matched-Pair
Selection
Comparison
Cases
Good–to–Great
Cases
GAP
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Distinctive Impact
Superior Performance
Lasting Endurance
Defining Greatness
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Sharpening Your Focus

15. The
Flywheel

16. Building for
Breakthrough

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SOURCE: https://www.edsurge.com/n/2014-06-24-edsurge-s-edtech-edcamp-edmodo
What Are You Building On?

18. Good, Not Great
Inflection
Point
Good, Not Great
Matched-Pair
Selection
Comparison Cases
Good–to–Great Cases
GAP
Where the Road Diverges
Governance &
Operations
Compliance &
Accountability
College, Work
& Life
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19. SOURCE: Number Grid-Illinois Math & Science Academy.
Group Activity: Learning
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20. SOURCE: Number Grid-Illinois Math & Science Academy. Effect sizes graph from Brookings, 2012
Interventions for Learning
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Accelerating Greatness
Institute for Excellence in Education
www.ExcellenceInEd.org
Illinois Math & Science Academy
www.imsa.edu
IIT Boeing Scholars Academy
www.blogs.iit.edu/boeing_scholars
Chicago Scholars - 88% to-and-through college in 6 years
www.ChicagoScholars.org
Project-Lead-the-Way
www.pltw.org
Good to Great Diagnostic Tool
www.JimCollins.com/tools

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ACT:
A Respected Standard for Measuring
College Readiness
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25. The Advantage
- Patrick Lencioni

26. “The single greatest advantage any
company can achieve is organizational
health. Yet it is ignored by most leaders
even though it is simple, free, and available
to anyone who wants it.”
Patrick Lencioni
The Advantage

27. Focus on
Greatness?
SOURCE: First Things First

28. “Set the standards higher
for yourself than others
would set them for you.”
John Maxwell

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