Keynoter/Senior Advisor International Center for Leadership in Education LeaderEd

1. Keynoter/Senior AdvisorInternational Center for Leadership in Educationwww.LeaderEd.com Nurturing Positive Relationships Bill McNeal

3. Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

4. What are we preparing students for? Work College Life

5. Where We’ve Come From • 1900—Education for the Elite • 1920—Education for Citizenship • 1950—Focus on Higher Education • 1954—Brown vs Board of Education • 1983—A Nation at Risk • Late 1980s—School District Accountability • Mid 1990s—School Level Accountability • Late 1990s—Student Accountability • 2002—No Child Left Behind • 2004—Focus on High Schools • 2006—New Wave of Higher Standards • 2009—Uniform National Standards…?? • 2010 -- Reauthorization of ESEA

6. Differing Expectations For Our Public Schools • Education for Some • Universal Access to Education • Universal Proficiency • National Standards

7. Forces of Technology and Globalization are alteringthe nature of work,the organization of firms,and where work is conducted.

8. Economic Epochs Agricultural economy (school calendar) Industrial economy (bell schedule) Post-Industrial economy New economy Service economy Information economy Knowledge economy Digital economy

9. Radio 38 Telephone 20 Television 13 Cell Phone 12 Cable TV 10 World Wide Web 5 Years to reach50 million users Instant Messaging 4 FaceBook 3.5 Blogs 3 MySpace 2.5 0 10 20 30 40 Pace of Technological Change

10. Children with All Parents Working Full-time

11. Building Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

12. Well … Yes!

13. Changing Generations • Baby Boomers (born 1946 – 1960) • Generation X (born 1961 – 1981) • Generation Y (Millennials, Net Generation) (born 1980 – 1990) • Generation Z (iGeneration) (born 1990 - 20??) . We are now educating the iGeneration.

15. Today’s Youth • Digital Learners • Multimedia • Find and manipulate data • Analyze data and images • Care about relationships • MySpace • FaceBook • Twitter

16. 16 years ago, who predicted? • Cell phones for everyone • Cameras on cell phones • iPod - portable music and videos • Hand-held GPS • Text messaging • Blogs • Soybean powered automobiles

17. What Do You Predict forthe Next 16 Years?

18. Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

19. School Personnel Issues • 50%+ of School Administrators are Nearing Retirement • Many States are now Facing a Critical Shortage of Highly Qualified Teachers • The Performance Pay Debate • Competitive Salaries—Student Performance • Reform of Local Boards of Education

20. Funding Issues • Refusal to Admit That Money Does Make a Difference • Recession impact on Education Budget • President Obama Federal Education Program • Race to the Top-IDEA-Title I • Innovation Funds • Stabilization Funds • Competitive Grants

21. Next Tide of Standards Raising • As Student Achievement Scores Increase, States Think Standards are too Easy and Raise Them • States Moving to Raise Graduation Requirements (Algebra I, II, Geometry Plus a Higher Math—Physics or Chemistry—Foreign Language for all Students • Uniform National Standards

22. No Child Left Behind • The Belief That Educators Will Leave Some Students Behind. • Accountability-All Students • Teacher/Principal Quality • Data Driven Decisions-Longitudinal • Transform Low Performing Schools • Early Childhood Focus • New Standards and Assessments

23. The High School Issue • High Schools Have Been Organized to Resist Change • Now States Number One Priority • Attempt to Change by Increasing Graduation Requirements-Professional Development-Instructional-Upgrades • Teacher and Leadership Preparation • Relationships

24. The Primary Aim of Education…is not to help students do well in school but, rather, to help students do well in the lives they lead outside of school.

25. Today’s Students are Different! What got us to where we are in education will not get us to where we need to be.

26. A test score is not a synonym for what a student has learned or a school has accomplished.

27. Not On The Test video

28. A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 13 Web conferencing 14 Course authoring tool 15 Screen Capture 16 Demo/Screencasting Tool 17 Web authoring 18 Wiki tool 19 Image/photo tools 20 Audio/podcasting tools 21 Video tools 22 Personal dashboard 23 Course management system 24 Social networking 25 Integrated social media platform 1 Web browser 2 Social bookmarking tool 3 Blogging tool 4 RSS/Feed reader 5 Micro- blogging tool 6 Email 7 Instant Messaging 8 Personal productivity tool 9 Mind mapping 10 Presentation tool 11 Presentation sharing tool 12 Online office suite

29. Building Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

30. The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs

31. We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist …

32. … using technologies that haven’t yet been invented …

33. … in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

34. Fastest Growing Occupations in USA(Total New Positions Projected from 2006 - 2016) 587,350 Registered Nurses 556,820 Retail Salespersons 545,160 Customer Service Representatives 451,920 Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers 403,560 Office Clerks, General 388,540 Personal and Home Care Aides 383,620 Home Health Aides 382,250 Postsecondary Teachers 344,940 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping 263,640 Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants 263,540 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 254,680 Waiters and Waitresses Bureau of Labor Statistics

35. Jobs Created in 2010 by Obama’s $787 Billion Recovery Plan 678,000 Construction 604,000 Retail Trade 499,000 Leisure and Hospitality 408,000 Manufacturing 345,000 Professional and Business Services 244,000 Government 240,000 Education and Health Services 214,000 Financial Activities 158,000 Wholesale Trade 99,000 Other Services 98,000 Transportation and Warehousing 50,000 Information 26,000 Mining 11,000 Utilities

36. Emerging Careers video

37. Basic Knowledge Skills English Language (spoken) Reading Comprehension (in English) Writing in English (grammar, spelling, etc.) Mathematics Science Government/Economics Humanities/Arts Foreign Languages History/Geography

38. Employers Want Applied Skills Critical Thinking, Problem Solving Oral Communications Written Communications Teamwork, Collaboration Respect for Diversity Information Technology Application Leadership Creativity, Innovation Lifelong Learning, Self Direction Professionalism, Work Ethic Ethics, Social Responsibility

39. Building Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

40. What lessons can we learn from companies such as General Motors, IBM, Xerox, and Kodak?

41. Globalization • Challenge now From India, China and Eastern Europe • Outsourcing of Jobs • The 25% of the Population in China With the Highest IQs is Greater Than the Total Population of North America • Translation for Educators: They Have More Honors Kids Than we Have Kids

42. Who is our competition? Gonzales, P., Williams, T., Jocelyn, L., Roey, S., Kastberg, D., and Brenwald, S. (2008). Highlights From TIMSS 2007: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2009–001 Revised). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.

43. Average US Reading Scores

44. What is “Career Ready”? Academic skills - and the ability to apply those skills to concrete situations Employability skills - such as critical thinking and responsibility Technical, Job-specific skills - related to a specific career pathway

45. Building Relationships - Challenges The Times Have Changed Students Have Changed Schools Have Changed Labor Market Has Changed Competition Is Increasing More than Ever, We Need to Build Relationships!

46. Carl Jung “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”

47. Each Learner Is Unique

48. Educational Testing Service, 2006

49. Responsive Opportunities - equitable distribution of response opportunities, individual helping, response latency, delving, and higher level questioning • Feedback - affirmation of correct performance, praise, reasons for praise, listening, and accepting feelings • Personal Regard - proximity, courtesy, personal interest, touching, and desisting

50. Relationship Model 0. Isolated 1. Known 2. Receptive 3. Reactive 4. Proactive 5. Sustained 6. Mutually Beneficial