1. Creating an Environment for Innovation:
Partnerships, Program and Spaces
Donna Deeds, Executive Director
Copyright 2011

2. Donna Deeds
Executive Director

3. What is the most compelling
education problem you or
your organization is facing?
What is the most
compelling educational
problem that you
FILL IMAGE

4. CAPS is an example of how
industry and our educational
system can work together to
produce authentic, personalized
learning experiences that prepare
the next generation of professionals
for 21st century opportunities.

8. 2006: 2011
Charge to 2008: Full implementation
Superintendent + Search for Exec.
Research Director starts NSBA Citation
(Donna Deeds starts
“provide unique April 1) Edison Award
student learning
opportunities that Programming Evolution and
currently do not exist in workshops sharing;
the school district” commence Accelerator space
2007: 2009/2010:
Feasibility Study CONSTRUCTION
Presented the idea Pre-engineering in all
of a “Center Based High Schools while
Program” designing balance of
(CBP) CAPS strands
Full immersion into
business classrooms

9. VEHICLE COMING TO A
HALT IMAGE.
Is this sounding familiar?

11. The CAPS pillars
1 2 3 4 5
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Focus on Liberate your Free your Redefine + Set the stage
crosspollination curriculum instructors value skills for innovation

12. 1{ Focus on
crosspollination
Mentors, clients
2{ Liberate your Real product,
interdisciplinary
curriculum
team
3{ Free your
instructors
Advising,
facilitation
4{ Redefine +
value skills
Making the pitch,
Customer ready
5{ Set the stage Design, Creating
for innovation a business

13. 1 2 3 4 5
{
Break out of school
Focus on Re-allocate resources
cross- Tap the untapped
pollination Embrace possibility

14. The education
innovation cycle

15. Schools are creating
students to act in a
fictitious world.

16. People
Processes
Spaces
Break out of
school–
look outwards.

17. Benchmark beyond education
Classroom Google

18. We need cross-pollination.

19. Cross pollinators draw associations and connections
between seemingly unrelated ideas or
concepts to break new ground.

20. Every decision we made had to answer the
question...Does this look like a high school?
Would you see this in a high school?
If so, then we made a different decision.
– Donna Deeds, Executive Director

21. Local leaders
Role models Spaces
+ demand

22. BVCAPS | Industry Partners
Bioscience Business Engineering Human Services

23. If relationships are at the center of what you do,
re-allocate resources to it.

24. Tap the untapped.
Grow your community.

25. Embrace possibility.

26. 1 2 3 4 5
{
Rapid prototype
Liberate your Tools + clients + products
curriculum Build on partnerships

27. Rapid Prototyping | Overview
Look to the Form dynamic, Create
future heterogenous thoughtful
“end users” group curriculum
feedback loops

28. Again, we looked outside.
Real problems + real collaborations
mean real solutions

29. 1. Feedback from business first.
2. Take back to school system
for feedback.

30. STEP 1:
Input CAPS Rapid Prototyping
Curriculum Development ©
a. CAPS Advisory
Board
b. Economic and
Industry Trends
c. Student Interest
d. Effectiveness Data
STEP 9:
Final
Curriculum
3rd (Final) OUTPUT and Course APPROVED
Design
STEP 2, 5 & 8:
Prototyping Team
2nd OUTPUT a. Field Test
STEP 3 & 6:
a. Industry, university, CAPS
Curriculum
1st OUTPUT
HS experts
a. Roadmap
b. Prototype
c. Course syllabi
BACK FOR 2ND REVISION
BACK FOR 1ST REVISION
OUT FOR 2ND REVIEW
OUT FOR 1ST REVIEW
CAPS AREAS OF STUDY
STEP 4:
Feedback
Loop One
a. External BIOSCIENCE
Field Experts
BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
STEP 7:
Feedback
Loop Two
a. External ENGINEERING
and Internal
Stakeholders
HUMAN SERVICES
www.bvcaps.org

31. Real tools, authentic projects,
+ working spaces.

32. 32

34. Find the right questions
Terrarium Forest

35. 1 2 3 4 5
{
Diversify staff
Free your Shift your hiring paradigm
instructors Cultivate DRIVE

36. We asked:
How do companies attract talent?

37. Leadership Team
Chad Jon
Director Business Relations
Assistant principal, 31 years of executive
Virtual School sales with General
administrator, 21st Electric, Deep network
Century Programs of relationships.
Magnet school Donna
administrator Executive Director
Principal, Corporate
Executive,
Entrepreneur, District
Office Administrator

38. 100%
hold
85% 41+
professional
advanced
have certifications
degrees
business earned
experience
75% 15 22%
have spent average straight from
time working years of their field of
in BV High teaching expertise
Schools experience

39. Diversify staff
ER Doctor Retired Sport Mechanical
corporate medicine engineer
executive professional

40. Shift your hiring paradigm
✓ Play role of learning coach
and manager, not a
dispenser of knowledge.
✓ Ability to facilitate inquiry-
based learning through
ʻauthentic pedagogyʼ
✓ Ability to co-teach with an
external expert from the field
of study.
✓ Ability to develop and
perform formative and
summative authentic
assessments
✓ High tolerance for constant
change, embrace novelty.

41. Cultivate a driven team.
AUTONOMY
MASTERY
PURPOSE

43. 1 2 3 4 5
Redefine +
value skills
first { Identify skills
Redefine assessment

44. We asked:
“What is important for early
career success?”

45. Identify and vet skills
✓ Black and Veatch
✓ H & R Block
✓ Sprint
✓ Freedom Bank
✓ KansasBio
✓ Bayer CropScience
✓ University of Kansas
✓ DLR Group
✓ Garmin
✓ LeaderFuelNow
✓ American Century

46. Skills
Attributes
CAPS Model of
Professionalism Critical
Experiences/
Outputs
The “X-factor”

47. X
The “x-factor”

48. Authentic dialogue and mentoring.
Not just grades.

49. 1 2 3 4 5
{
Break down walls
Set the stage Shape + own space
for innovation Space to accelerate

50. You need designers who
understand education.

51. Exhibition
Collaboration
Flexibility
Storage
Transparency

52. Visioning process

53. Building Layout
STRAND
Learning
Flexible Teaching Spaces
Facilitators
Innovation
Area
Atrium/Core/Café
Innovation
Area
Learning
Facilitators Flexible Teaching Spaces
STRAND

54. Floor Plan
✓ State of the Art Strands
✓ Interstitial Innovation
Areas
✓ Ubiquitous Professional
Learning Community
✓ Visual Identity
✓ Sustainability that
teaches

55. Forum spaces for
presentations of
learning and
projects to class
and community.

56. Rethinking the
corridor to empower
spill-over projects,
spontaneous
interaction, and
interdisciplinary
exposure.

57. Empower the
professionalism +
collaboration of
teachers to fuel
multi-directional
learning and
interdisciplinary
projects.

58. Technology and
space to support
global connectivity +
collaboration in
preparation for the
global economy.

59. Today, the lines
between work + play
+ learning are
blurred, look to third
spaces such as
cafés for creating
comfortable places
to collaborate.

61. Cross pollination space
Shelled Space
Future Accelerator

63. Creating a space together

64. Go to your local industry...

65. ...and simply ask:
What should we be
teaching our
students?

66. Your questions?
On our process, space, team, culture, or future.
Resources can be found here:
bvcaps-donna.tumblr.com

67. When you do... Iʼll be hosting a
Call me. webinar this August
to continue the
dialogue.

68. Donna Deeds
Executive Director
BV CAPS
ddeeds@bvschools.org
Steve Turckes
Global practice leader
Education Planning+Design
steve.turckes@perkinswill.com

69. Creating an Environment for Innovation:
Partnerships, Program and Spaces
Donna Deeds, Executive Director
Copyright 2011