RDY 2 Lead Rethinking Basic Assumptions Challenging Assumptions

RDY 2 Lead Rethinking Basic Assumptions

Challenging Assumptions Ann Herrman-Nehdi CEO, Herrman International Focus: Helping people and organizations around the world get better results from better thinking.

U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan • Remarks at the State Educational Technology Directors Association Education Forum • “The Digital Transformation in Education”

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GUIDING QUESTIONS 1. What basic assumptions need to be rethought in order to transform K-12 education? 2. What do you think your classrooms, teachers, and schools will look like if we do school differently? 3. What role could technology play in your changes?

“Perhaps the most discouraging lesson I've learned in more than 30 years studying K– 12 education is that the vast majority of the public, parents, and opinion leaders accept most of the existing system as a given. They do so because they assume that is the way the schools are supposed to be. They cannot imagine schools that are much different from the ones they attended. And even those who are dissatisfied with the status quo rarely have the information, the expertise, or the power to change it. Finally, the resistance to significant change is so entrenched in several power centers that it is intimidating and risky to challenge the major assumptions on which our education system is based”. Ronald Wolk Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System is Failing and What We Can Do About It. Wolk, Ronald A. Alexandria, Virginia USA: ASCD, 2011.

HAVE WE IDENTIFIED AND CHALLENGED BASIC ASSUMPTIONS THAT WE TOOK FOR THE TRUTH?

ARE WE READY TO LEAD?

ARE WE READY TO “DO SCHOOL DIFFERENT”?