Friday Institute Update National Advisory Board May 4, 2016 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Friday Institute Update National Advisory Board May 4, 2016

Welcome • Mary Ann Danowitz – Dean of the College of Education • Alan Rebar, Vice Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Economic Development • Jayne Fleener, Senior Faculty Fellow at FI • Jose Picart, Senior Faculty Fellow at FI

Thanks to Our Advisory Board Members • Ron Bailey • Bill McNeal • J.B. Buxton • Sam Morris • Chris Dede • Saundra Nettles • Shelley Goldman • Jim Pellegrino • Ann Goodnight • Steve Rasmussen • Keith Krueger • Shawna Young • Bert L’Homme • Mary Ann Danowitz

Thanks to the Amazing FI Team!

Congratulations to our New Ph.D.s Jennifer Tamar Rebecca Alana Isaac Lovett Avineri Hite Unfried Thompson

Congratulations and Welcome Back to NC TIP Announces New Executive Director

The Role of the Friday Institute • Help create the next generation education system that will prepare students for the global, digital, rapidly changing world in which they will live. • Serve as a center for collaboration across the research, practice, policy, and innovation perspectives. • Tackle complex problems that require multi-faceted teams and have impact on pre-college education in North Carolina and beyond.

FI Building Blocks Informing State Na;onal MOOC-Eds Policy Makers Perspec;ves Research on Suppor;ng School Professional Digital Age & District Learning Programs Learning ini;a;ves Evalua;ons of Building the Innova;ve Statewide Race to the Top Learning Infrastructure Ini;a;ves

Friday Institute in Transition • Completion of Race to the Top and the NC Digital Learning Plan • Changes impacting FI – NC Legislative Context – NCLB Replaced by ESSA – Changes in Federal Funding and Grant Programs – Closure of NC New Schools • More national work • Increase private foundation funding • More direct services provided to schools and districts • New initiatives

Activities to Strengthen the Organization • Organizational effectiveness study – Hewlett Foundation funded – J.B. Buxton and Center for Creative Leadership are facilitating • Five-year review • Strategic plan for 2016 - 2020 (to be developed)

Emerging Directions for the Friday Institute

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Digital-Age Frames of Thinking • Computational thinking, Data science, Design processes – Hub for Innovation and Research in Statistics Education • Optimistic about NSF grant • Partnership with SAS – MOOC-Eds • Teaching Mathematics with Technology • Teaching Statistics through Data Investigations MOOC-Ed • Teaching Statistical Inferential Reasoning • Foundations of Computational Thinking – Code.org partnership – NCSU Game-Changing Research Incentive Program (GRIP) proposal • FI, Education, Computer Science, and RTI international – NSF STEM+C initiative proposal

Technology Infrastructure for K-12 Schools • School Connectivity Initiative, since 2006 • E-rate Modernization • All classrooms and workspaces in NC public K-12 schools will have high speed network access to support for full digital-age teaching and learning by 2018. • Work with the Education SuperHighway, Virginia, Utah and other states

FI Leadership Development Programs • Participants: – Learn to understand personalized competency-based, blended learning approaches – Create a vision for digital-age teaching and learning in their schools and districts – Prepare to lead the process of changing the culture of teaching and learning

Our Work: District Leaders • Future Ready Summits - led by White House/US Department of Education/Alliance for Excellent Education • Digital Learning Transition MOOC-Ed • NCSSA - 30 superintendents in the Digital Leadership Institute • CCRESA – District Leadership Team Development • District Leadership Coaching - Golden Leaf Foundation grantees • District Toolkit

Our Work: School Leaders • Distinguished Leadership in Practice for Digital Learning (DLP-DL) with NCPAPA • Leadership in Blended and Digital Learning – – 7 pilots and 10 additional sites across the country in 10 states: CA, OH, RI, MA, VA, CO, GA, IA, TN, IL • Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed • North Carolina Digital Leaders Coaching Network - 2 statewide cohorts of approximately 60 coaches, media coordinators, instructional technology facilitators, and lead teachers

Competency Based Approaches • Digital Teaching and Learning Competencies for Teachers and Principals • Micro-credentials – MOOC-Eds – Work with Digital Promise

Personalized Learning & Learning Differences • Learning Differences MOOC-Ed for Educators • Learning Differences MOOC-Ed for Students (to be developed) • Personalized Learning Conference

Community and Schools Engagement • A new initiative led by Jose Picart • Building on prior work, such as – Math Science Education Network (MSEN) – Math Science Partnership, with Museum of Natural Sciences – and lots more

Addressing Equity • Embedded in all our work – Community and Schools Engagement – School Connectivity Initiative – Work with Golden Leaf Foundation in low income rural districts – MOOC-Eds • Redefining Equity for Digital Age Learning Convening – Hosted by The Friday Institute in partnership with State Board of Education and NCDPI – Part of the NC Digital Learning Plan implementation – June 22, 2016

FI Research and Evaluation (FIRE) Team • Completion of final 8 of 54 Race to the Top evaluation reports. – Use in Leandro Case and in Policy Decisions – DST, Strategic Staffing, • Emerging work with – Evaluations of scale-up programs – Design-based research – Workforce development – Planning for new NCSSM campus

Research on Digital Age Learning • Artificial Intelligence in Education – Crystal Island 8: Pedagogical Agents for Inquiry-Based Learning (Lester & Spires) – Leonardo Project: Cyber Learning System to Support Student’s Inquiry (Wiebe & Lester) – JavaTutor: Investigating Human-Computer Tutorial Dialog (Wiebe, Lester & Boyer)) – Cyber Learning Environment in Computer-Aided Design Education (Eseryel) • Games, Modeling and Virtual Environments – Studio STEM: Games-based Applications to Enhance Learning (Evans) – Model-Facilitated Science Learning (Eseryel) – zSpace Virtual Reality System Educational Applications (Jones) • Technology in the Content Areas – New Literacies Collaborative (Spires and J. Lee) – Preparing to Teach Mathematics with Technology (H. Lee, Hollebrands & McCullock) – An Integrated Undergraduate Nanotechnology Lab (Jones) • Citizen Science – Students Discover--Citizens Science MSP (Dunn and Corn) – Lifelong Learning in Science: Hobbyists and Citizens Science (Jones) • and others

Informing Policy • Leandro case use of RttT evaluations • Opportunity Scholarships (“Voucher”) study • Strategic staffing models • Online Credit Recovery Program study • Read to Achieve legislation • School funding models • Data Visualizations

Creating a state-of-the-art high school in Suzhou, China that prepares Chinese students to be global citizens.

Digital Teaching and Learning M.A. & Ph.D Programs

Questions and Comments?

Plan for Today • 9:30 – 10:45 Strategy Session #1 – BB&T – Tough Crowd: Informing Education Policy in Contentious Times – Trip Stallings • 11:00 – 12:30 Organizational Effectiveness Study + Lunch • 12:45 – 1:45: Strategy Session #2 – BBT – Community and School Engagement – Jose Picart • 2:00 - 3:30 Poster Sessions – Nortel 1. HI-RiSE: Engaging in strategies for improving statistics and data science education – Hollylynne Lee 2. Micro-credentials and Competency-Based Professional Learning (and Personalized Learning Summit) – Mary Ann Wolf 3. Research-Practice Partnerships (and Digital Equity Convening) – Jeni Corn 4. Suzhou North America High School: Connecting to the Future -- Hiller Spires • 3:30 – 4:00 Final debriefing session (Glenn and Board Members)