Busting Silos in School Strategy
An important part of the job of anyone in charge of some aspect of a school is making sure the school can continue to function and exist. An absolute necessity to be sure, but this is often such a large task that it has the very real danger of making it all we ever do.
Our students, on the other hand, are spending their lives learning to live and thrive in a world of rapid changes and inevitable disruption that requires them to plan new paths and adjust their vision on the fly. Our continuing challenge is to provide students with schools that are as good at innovative strategy as they themselves will have to be.
Educators from The Miami Valley School in Dayton, OH, will start this session off by sharing how they’ve embarked this year on a new strategy for innovative school redesign that brings faculty, admins, students, and parents together in design thinking “Window Teams” to observe, understand, and find places ripe for innovative thinking. After that, the session opens for everyone to share successes and not-yet-successes for their schools. We’re better together!
Conversational Practice
Participants will live create a Google document together recording what resonates and works for them. Document will have sections with helpful prompts and we’ll save time toward the end of the session to share out loud from the document. The document will stay accessible as folks return to their schools and use what they’ve learned.
Conversation Links
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Alex ShevrinCenterpoint School
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Maureen ConroyThe Miami Valley School
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Mike RitziusNew Jersey Education Association
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Melissa ScottThe Children's School
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Laurie SandersRandolph Central School
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Erin McClureRandolph Central School District
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Tyler BenedictThe Miami Valley School
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Cynthia WarneriZone, NYC Department of Education
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Josh DensenBricolage Academy
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Rachel IrvinOak Ridge Elementary School
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Kipp RogersYork County School Division
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Danny GoodwinDanville Independent Schools
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Julie Kallio RobisonUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
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Jason HoekstraActualize Technology
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Colin AngevineFriends' Central School
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Jonathan MartinIndependent: Writer and Consultant
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Dave LenowitzHow I Decide Foundation
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Terri InloesAcademy School District 20
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Adam GoldInvisible Issues Foundation, Highland Park High School
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victor prussackBurlington School District VT
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Nicole MaderCenter for NYC Affairs
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Ron HoutmanKent ISD
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Laura PerraultConvergence Re-imagining Education Project
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Eva MorrisonUpper Dublin School District
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Bryan LakatosThe Miami Valley School
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Tommie HataBarrie School
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Nancy BlairBlair Consulting
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Matt MoranDwight School
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Debra BrackettGermantown Friends School
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Karyn VogelBurlington School District
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Paul IrishBurlington School District
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Dawn YoungBinghamton City School District
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