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From: "Supt. Christina M. Kishimoto" <reply@hawaiidoe.org>
Date: November 5, 2018 at 5:09:24 PM HST
To: <20048903@notes.k12.hi.us>
Subject: Kick Off Your Week: What's a school of the future?
Reply-To: reply@hawaiidoe.org
What's a school of the future?
How do we prepare students for the innovations that will define the future? And how do we do so within the capabilities of today's organization? As we head this week into the annual gathering of the state's public, charter and private school educators at Schools of the Future, we have a convening that allows us to talk story, share best practices and challenge our assumptions of school design.
The Unmatched Value of the HIDOE's Scale
The HIDOE is an organization of major size, resources and reach that can significantly impact Hawaii's job market. If we create a world class education system that serves as a hub of innovation, we will prepare future leaders of business, government and industry. Our intention with school design is to become a powerful force of ideas, discovery, and solutions with a focus on what students want to learn and how they want to be engaged.
Creating the Conditions and Momentum for Innovation
So how do we get there, particularly at the classroom and school level? By allowing communities to drive change that delivers education rooted in discovery. Imagine if each day our young people spent hours of their day identifying problems in their community, connecting with people who have multiple ideas and ways of practice, and collaborating in teams to learn the skills they need to solve Hawaii's needs and challenges, and reveal new opportunities?
Schools need the time and space to try new models, engage community and partners, give voice to students, and tap the passion of teachers to change what is to what can and should be. It doesn't come from any one change, but rather it is a momentum of innovation that becomes hard to resist because it makes sense in its reflection of how people learn, communities grow, and industries advance. It is about a systemic culture of creating, doing, solving, designing and constant learning. It's dynamic, the way teaching and learning is meant to be.
There are many exciting spaces for innovation that have been created along with support mechanisms to keep us focused on powerful classroom and school designs. A few highlights include:
- The HIDOE Innovation Grants — A grant opportunity to try new ideas at the classroom-, grade- and school-level: school within school designs, Genius Time for students, makerspaces, academy and pathway designs, new computer science related courses, academic competitions for students, teacher collaboration convenings, learning units that embed social emotional learning components, project-based learning pilots, and so forth. Apply by this Friday, Nov. 9.
- Teacher Collaboration Annual Convening (iTeach) — This is a June 2019 convening of teachers from across our state representing grades K through 12 to share and work on computer science learning experiences.
- Multilingualism Conference — A convening for educators to come together around our core value of biliteracy to plan for the expansion of language acquisition and language celebration opportunities across our system that reflects the diversity of Hawai'i and the history of Hawaii's ohana.
- Mapping of HIDOE's Portfolio of School Designs — An exciting project to document the unique school models that we have across our state, along with emerging school design options based on student and community input, that reflect the outcomes of Na Hopena A'o.
- Teacher-Created Interdisciplinary Learning Standards — We have adopted student-centered standards in Computer Science and Social Studies, and are implementing standards in Next Generation Science, that provide powerful opportunities for student voice.
- Equity of Access — As part of our commitment to engage and support all students, the HIDOE has published a Call to Action around scaling public Pre-Kindergarten, particularly in our high-need areas, to ensure student readiness for learning and family support for their transition.
- Math Competition — The HIDOE holds to high value academic competitions as part of the student learning experience. We are developing a competition to make mathematics learning fun and accessible, as we focus on improving our students' math readiness statewide.
We need to provide the autonomy and space to achieve breakthrough innovations, while continuing to make improvements in our everyday work. Disruptive innovations that replace core practices need to occur hand in hand with smaller, continuous improvements that protect advancements due to core practices. Otherwise, we would be continuously chasing ideas with no core foundation, creating stress and chaos which is antithetical to a learning organization.
I look forward to discussing all these possibilities at the Schools of the Future conference and beyond.
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