District Turnarounds: Suburbia’s New Dilemma

Robert L. Copeland

AASA

San Diego 2015

Turnaround

• The Case for Turnaround

• Urban and Suburban

• The Complexity of District Reform and Growth

• Strategies

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The Case for Turning Around Suburban Schools

•Universal Success

•Changing Demographics

• Scarcity of Resources

•Political Reductionism

• Technological Shifts

1. Universal Success

Educational Darwinism Schools were designed to sort and select. “Some Learning was for some, and some learning was for someone else”.

We Be Here when

you come and We be Here when you go

Entry Plans

• Find the Mavens

• Find the Money

• Find the Problems

• Find the Culture

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Leaving No Child Behind

We take pride in the Valedictorian and we now have to take responsibility for the kid who never makes it to the stage

“You can’t fire your way to Finland”

Teaching is hard work, Damn it

Alternative Education as a Rule

Schools have to adapt to the learner, not the other way around!

Schools must meet the needs of students not the other way around

Welcome that Itch

That Can’t Be Scratched

.9 correlation between LAL and Math Shows that the more diverse the district the better job they do in reducing the achievement gap.

S.J. Hanson, Rutgers

2. Demographics are-a-Changin’

Joel Kotkin, Smithsonian Magazine Aug. 2010

By 2050

• We get grayer – 65 and older now 13% will be 20%

• There will be more of us – a baby boomlet • An increase of immigration • Increase in Diversity

– Current minority pop. 30% will be 50+% by 2050

• Suburbia will Continue to Reign Supreme • The emergence of the flyover states

– Fargo ND and Aurora, Neb. Here I come

• College for a middle class lifestyle • Upward Mobility slows

The Purpose of Public Education

• Acculturation

• Basic Literacy

• Democratization

• Vocational Training

• Preparation for the unknown

Success Can Breed Complacency

• Blockbuster didn’t see “it coming”

• Toys “R” Us didn’t see “it coming”

• Kodak didn’t see “it coming”

• Sears didn’t see “it coming” • Suburban Districts need to see “it coming”

Urgency Matters

“We needed more chaos in the system” Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 commenting on why Apollo 13 rescue worked.

2. Scarcity of Resources

If we have to do business differently, then we have to do business differently

Superintendent V. Parents

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Results of Long Term Fiscal Management

• $10,000,000 saved in five years

• Special Education

• Staffing by REDEPLOYMENT

• Using Budget Deficits to Rethink Programs

•Being Poor Can Make You Smart

Results of our Long-Term Fiscal Management

• $600,000 in energy savings over the past 5 years

• $3,550,000 savings in health insurance premiums over the past 5 years

• $2,200,000 savings in transportation expenditures (contract expenditures, jointure revenues and fuel program) over the past 5 years

• $4,350,062 savings in special education expenditures over the past 6 years

• $800,000 in salaries, wages, and fringe benefits from outsourcing classroom/bus aides, long-term instructional contracts and substitute teachers

3. Political Reductionism

Reducing Educational Policy to bits and pieces that may not add up to the sum of their parts

State rule v. Home rule

Gold Dome Disease produces early onset amnesia

As soon as they get elected they forget why they are there.

Vahan Gureghian Total Contributions $806,120 Manages 150 charter schools in nine states Over $300,000 to elect Governor Owns 30,000 square foot home in Gladwyne, Pa, and a $28 million home in Palm Beach

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4. Technological Shifts

• Digital Communications

• Innovation that changes behavior

• Unprecedented access to knowledge

• Digital Communication

• Expectation of immediate decision-making

• Universal Design

• Time to Process the knowledge (Reflection Matters)

• Nuance and Affect

Shift --- that happened

• Middle School Restructuring • High School Restructuring • Full Day Kindergarten • Pre School • Early Years ESL staff development • One to one ipad in Middle Schools • STEM • Summer Academies • Saturday Academies • Research-based Staff Development

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District Turnarounds: Suburbia’s New Dilemma

Robert L. Copeland

AASA

San Diego 2015