Creating an Environment for Innovation: Partnerships, Program and Spaces

Donna Deeds, Executive Director

Copyright 2011

Donna DeedsExecutive Director

What is the most compelling educational

problem that you

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What is the most compelling education problem you or

your organization is facing?

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.

2006:Charge to Superintendent + Research

“provide unique student learning opportunities that currently do not exist in the school district”

2008:Search for Exec. Director starts (Donna Deeds starts April 1)

Programming workshops commence

2011Full implementation

NSBA Citation

Edison Award

Evolution and sharing; Accelerator space

2009/2010:CONSTRUCTION

Pre-engineering in all High Schools while designing balance of CAPS strands

Full immersion into business classrooms

2007:Feasibility Study

Presented the idea of a “Center Based Program”(CBP)

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Is this sounding familiar?

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Focus on crosspollination

Liberate yourcurriculum

Free yourinstructors

Redefine + value skills

Set the stagefor innovation

The CAPS pillars

1 { Focus on crosspollination

2 { Liberate yourcurriculum

3 { Free yourinstructors

4 { Redefine + value skills

5 { Set the stagefor innovation

Mentors, clients

Real product, interdisciplinary team

Advising, facilitation

Making the pitch, Customer ready

Design, Creating a business

1 2 3 4 5

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Break out of school

Re-allocate resources

Embrace possibility

Tap the untapped

The education innovation cycle

Schools are creating students to act in a

fictitious world.

Break out of school–

look outwards.

PeopleProcessesSpaces

Benchmark beyond education

Classroom Google

We need cross-pollination.

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

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

Role models Local leaders+ demand Spaces

BVCAPS | Industry PartnersBioscience Business Engineering Human Services

If relationships are at the center of what you do,

re-allocate resources to it.

Tap the untapped.Grow your community.

Embrace possibility.

1 2 3 4 5

Liberate your curriculum { Rapid prototype

Build on partnerships

Tools + clients + products

Rapid Prototyping | Overview

Look to the future

“end users”

Form dynamic, heterogenous

group

Create thoughtful curriculum

feedback loops

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

1. Feedback from business first.

2. Take back to school system for feedback.

CAPS Rapid Prototyping Curriculum Development©

STEP 2, 5 & 8:

Prototyping Team

a. Industry, university, HS experts

STEP 3 & 6:

CAPS

Curriculum

a. Roadmapb. Prototypec. Course syllabi

STEP 4:

Feedback

Loop One

a. External Field Experts

STEP 7:

Feedback

Loop Two

a. External and Internal Stakeholders

STEP 9:

Final

Curriculum

and Course

Design

a. Field Test

1st OUTPUT

2nd OUTPUT

3rd (Final) OUTPUT

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STEP 1:

Input

a. CAPS Advisory Board

b. Economic and Industry Trends

c. Student Interestd. Effectiveness Data

HUMAN SERVICES

ENGINEERING

BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA

BIOSCIENCE

CAPS AREAS OF STUDY

www.bvcaps.org

Real tools, authentic projects, + working spaces.

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Find the right questions

Terrarium Forest

1 2 3 4 5

Free yourinstructors { Shift your hiring paradigm

Diversify staff

Cultivate DRIVE

How do companies attract talent?We asked:

DonnaExecutive Director

Principal, Corporate Executive, Entrepreneur, District Office Administrator

JonBusiness Relations 31 years of executive sales with General Electric, Deep network of relationships.

ChadDirector

  Assistant principal,

Virtual School administrator, 21st Century Programs

Magnet school administrator

Leadership Team

100%hold advanced degrees

85% 41+

15

have business

experience

professional certifications earned

average years of teaching experience

75%have spent time working in BV High Schools

22%straight from their field of expertise

ER Doctor Retired corporate executive

Sport medicine professional

Mechanical engineer

Diversify staff

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.

Cultivate a driven team.AUTONOMY MASTERY PURPOSE

1 2 3 4 5

Redefine + value skills first { Identify skills

Redefine assessment

We asked:

“What is important for early career success?”

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

Skills

Attributes

CriticalExperiences/

Outputs

The “X-factor”

CAPS Model of Professionalism

XThe “x-factor”

Authentic dialogue and mentoring. Not just grades.

1 2 3 4 5

Set the stage for innovation{ Break down walls

Shape + own space

Space to accelerate

You need designers who understand education.

ExhibitionCollaborationFlexibilityStorageTransparency

Visioning process

Flexible Teaching Spaces

STRAND

STRAND

LearningFacilitators

Atrium/Core/Café

Innovation Area

Flexible Teaching SpacesLearning

Facilitators

Building Layout

Innovation Area

✓ State of the Art Strands

✓ Interstitial Innovation Areas

✓ Ubiquitous Professional Learning Community

✓ Visual Identity

✓ Sustainability that teaches

Floor Plan

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

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

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

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

Today, the lines between work + play

+ learning are blurred, look to third

spaces such as cafés for creating

comfortable places to collaborate.

Shelled SpaceFuture Accelerator

Cross pollination space

Creating a space together

Go to your local industry...

...and simply ask:

What should we be teaching our students?

Your questions?On our process, space, team, culture, or future.

Resources can be found here:bvcaps-donna.tumblr.com

Call me.Iʼll be hosting a

webinar this Augustto continue the

dialogue.

When you do...

Donna DeedsExecutive Director

BV CAPS ddeeds@bvschools.org

Steve TurckesGlobal practice leader

Education Planning+Designsteve.turckes@perkinswill.com

Creating an Environment for Innovation: Partnerships, Program and Spaces

Donna Deeds, Executive Director

Copyright 2011