[Music]
[Laughter]
you
[Music]
bunty’s young people amazing
betray that the quality of their
presentations doesn’t make the old guy
the least bit nervous maybe feeling like
watching a video about being trapped
underwater in the cave since nearly the
inception of mass education systems
there has been a conflict between two
competing ideas about how we should
structure organize and even improve
learning on the one hand we have a set
of design principles influenced by this
man Frederick Winslow Taylor Taylor was
a Pennsylvanian and a mechanical
engineer who spent his life studying
production assembly lines factories how
to make them more efficient measuring
every move within them and how to make
production happen faster Taylor believed
that there was one right and best way to
do just about anything and that the work
that we should undertake was in finding
that one right best way and then
replicating it to make things more
efficient and faster Taylor put his
ideas down in an influential book in
1911 called the principles of scientific
management and had an incredible appeal
and widespread use around the world in
different industries and sectors the
principles of scientific management
became so widespread and Taylor’s ideas
became so widespread that they actually
came to bear his name Taylorism some of
the factory model and factory principles
that Taylor talked about were also
applied to education we think about how
we restructured education where we take
knowledge and we carve it into different
subjects reading writing math the
sciences and we take students and carve
them into manageable batches based on
the year of their birth first second
third grade and through the system they
move
we have replicated the factory model
when it comes to education the factory
models goal is to create a workforce
trained students who are prepared for a
factory based workforce and the role of
the teacher in this model is to stand in
front of
and a source of knowledge a purveyor of
information to students but the factory
model wasn’t the only theory or approach
to education that was out there around
the same time that Frederick Taylor was
writing it a little bit after the North
American writer thinker philosopher
named John Dewey was also putting down
his ideas about education Dewey was an
academic he worked in prestigious
universities like the University of
Michigan Chicago and Columbia and his
ideas contributed to a philosophy of
education he called constructivism the
big idea behind constructivism is that
students use their own background
experiences to build new learning and
the work of Education really is
expanding those experiences and that
learning happens by doing learning
happens by experiencing things firsthand
that learning was also a very social
process and we learn best when we
learned together and those experiences
build off of each other and build up
into something new the school in
constructivism wasn’t the factory the
school in constructivism was the
community learning happened within the
community and the school was surrounded
by an supported by the community and
that students should be engaged in
projects and problems and interesting
experiences that were relevant to the
community and relevant to the student
the teacher in the constructivist
approach isn’t a sage on the stage
standing in front of the room but the
teacher is actually part of the learning
experience acting as a facilitator or a
guide to learning for the students you
can see this teacher from our community
and the projects that the students are
engaged in they’re deeply engaged in
those but you can barely see the teacher
in the room but he was right there
facilitating learning so whose ideas
prevailed well we could probably
validate it with the experiences of most
of the people in this room but Taylor’s
ideas in the factory model have
dominated how we have structured and
this has become particularly intense in
the last 20 years or so as we’ve doubled
down on the factoring model by
increasing the standardization of
Education and thinking about how we can
assess knowledge through standardized
tests we take that information and we
rank schools and students and teachers
on complex data dashboards and
scorecards now don’t get me wrong I’m
not saying that the factory model and
Taylorism had tremendous positives they
certainly have things like increase
production increased efficiency better
performance metrics even the assessments
that students are taking have a value
and a purpose they’re important in their
meaningful what I am saying is that
there is a cost that we’ve paid with
hyper focusing on standardization and
measurement at an educational context
and that caused has come with
disengaging millions upon millions of
people who have talents abilities
passions dreams that are not easily
measured on a standardized test we look
at the results of the United States in
comparison with other countries since
the aggressive implementation of the
standard further standardization and
hyper focus on measurement of Education
with No Child Left Behind and later as
successor the every student succeeds act
we see that the results the United
States are actually worse than they were
before this agenda took hold this tells
us that the factory model of Education
is failing by its own measures of
success now I don’t want you to despair
or lose hope we have reason to be
optimistic to be excited about to be
hopeful about our children’s future in
the future of Education here within this
community and in communities like ours
all over the world students teachers
parents community leaders school leaders
are working to transform the educational
something meaningful genuine authentic
passion-driven
for students they’re resisting efforts
to further standardize education
students like these who are collecting
water samples in our community forming
hypotheses and coming up with an action
plan or students like these who designed
built and operated a solar-powered
vehicle that actually want to State Ward
all across our community and in
communities like ours all across the
world there are students learning in
innovative new ways this is happening
right before our eyes
we’re giving students a chance to
practice things like collaboration
creativity innovation entrepreneurship
things that are not easily measured on a
standardized test or easily answered by
Google so I urge you to get out into
your neighborhood schools and see this
revolution happening and support the
people that are doing it the reforms and
the revolution and education that we
need is not coming to us from a white
paper from some think-tank
it’s not being delivered to us from the
legislative Statehouse floor and it’s
certainly not coming to us from some
millionaires bank account the
transformation the revolution in
education that we need is happening in
our communities every day so make that
phone call send that email show up
engage and support the people that are
bringing us the revolution in education
we need
you
you
[Laughter]
you
[Music]
bunty’s young people amazing
betray that the quality of their
presentations doesn’t make the old guy
the least bit nervous maybe feeling like
watching a video about being trapped
underwater in the cave since nearly the
inception of mass education systems
there has been a conflict between two
competing ideas about how we should
structure organize and even improve
learning on the one hand we have a set
of design principles influenced by this
man Frederick Winslow Taylor Taylor was
a Pennsylvanian and a mechanical
engineer who spent his life studying
production assembly lines factories how
to make them more efficient measuring
every move within them and how to make
production happen faster Taylor believed
that there was one right and best way to
do just about anything and that the work
that we should undertake was in finding
that one right best way and then
replicating it to make things more
efficient and faster Taylor put his
ideas down in an influential book in
1911 called the principles of scientific
management and had an incredible appeal
and widespread use around the world in
different industries and sectors the
principles of scientific management
became so widespread and Taylor’s ideas
became so widespread that they actually
came to bear his name Taylorism some of
the factory model and factory principles
that Taylor talked about were also
applied to education we think about how
we restructured education where we take
knowledge and we carve it into different
subjects reading writing math the
sciences and we take students and carve
them into manageable batches based on
the year of their birth first second
third grade and through the system they
move
we have replicated the factory model
when it comes to education the factory
models goal is to create a workforce
trained students who are prepared for a
factory based workforce and the role of
the teacher in this model is to stand in
front of
and a source of knowledge a purveyor of
information to students but the factory
model wasn’t the only theory or approach
to education that was out there around
the same time that Frederick Taylor was
writing it a little bit after the North
American writer thinker philosopher
named John Dewey was also putting down
his ideas about education Dewey was an
academic he worked in prestigious
universities like the University of
Michigan Chicago and Columbia and his
ideas contributed to a philosophy of
education he called constructivism the
big idea behind constructivism is that
students use their own background
experiences to build new learning and
the work of Education really is
expanding those experiences and that
learning happens by doing learning
happens by experiencing things firsthand
that learning was also a very social
process and we learn best when we
learned together and those experiences
build off of each other and build up
into something new the school in
constructivism wasn’t the factory the
school in constructivism was the
community learning happened within the
community and the school was surrounded
by an supported by the community and
that students should be engaged in
projects and problems and interesting
experiences that were relevant to the
community and relevant to the student
the teacher in the constructivist
approach isn’t a sage on the stage
standing in front of the room but the
teacher is actually part of the learning
experience acting as a facilitator or a
guide to learning for the students you
can see this teacher from our community
and the projects that the students are
engaged in they’re deeply engaged in
those but you can barely see the teacher
in the room but he was right there
facilitating learning so whose ideas
prevailed well we could probably
validate it with the experiences of most
of the people in this room but Taylor’s
ideas in the factory model have
dominated how we have structured and
this has become particularly intense in
the last 20 years or so as we’ve doubled
down on the factoring model by
increasing the standardization of
Education and thinking about how we can
assess knowledge through standardized
tests we take that information and we
rank schools and students and teachers
on complex data dashboards and
scorecards now don’t get me wrong I’m
not saying that the factory model and
Taylorism had tremendous positives they
certainly have things like increase
production increased efficiency better
performance metrics even the assessments
that students are taking have a value
and a purpose they’re important in their
meaningful what I am saying is that
there is a cost that we’ve paid with
hyper focusing on standardization and
measurement at an educational context
and that caused has come with
disengaging millions upon millions of
people who have talents abilities
passions dreams that are not easily
measured on a standardized test we look
at the results of the United States in
comparison with other countries since
the aggressive implementation of the
standard further standardization and
hyper focus on measurement of Education
with No Child Left Behind and later as
successor the every student succeeds act
we see that the results the United
States are actually worse than they were
before this agenda took hold this tells
us that the factory model of Education
is failing by its own measures of
success now I don’t want you to despair
or lose hope we have reason to be
optimistic to be excited about to be
hopeful about our children’s future in
the future of Education here within this
community and in communities like ours
all over the world students teachers
parents community leaders school leaders
are working to transform the educational
something meaningful genuine authentic
passion-driven
for students they’re resisting efforts
to further standardize education
students like these who are collecting
water samples in our community forming
hypotheses and coming up with an action
plan or students like these who designed
built and operated a solar-powered
vehicle that actually want to State Ward
all across our community and in
communities like ours all across the
world there are students learning in
innovative new ways this is happening
right before our eyes
we’re giving students a chance to
practice things like collaboration
creativity innovation entrepreneurship
things that are not easily measured on a
standardized test or easily answered by
Google so I urge you to get out into
your neighborhood schools and see this
revolution happening and support the
people that are doing it the reforms and
the revolution and education that we
need is not coming to us from a white
paper from some think-tank
it’s not being delivered to us from the
legislative Statehouse floor and it’s
certainly not coming to us from some
millionaires bank account the
transformation the revolution in
education that we need is happening in
our communities every day so make that
phone call send that email show up
engage and support the people that are
bringing us the revolution in education
we need
you
you
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