2015
Why Helping Humanity Should Be Core to Learning
Education research is showing that students are intergenerational change agents and this concept is captured brilliantly in Michael’s new article published in Moving America Forward and NationSwell.
Michael explores the relationship between ‘push’ and ‘pull’ forces in education and explains how helping clusters and networks of schools to implement deep learning outcomes is building momentum. The article is based on a previous report with Maria Langworthy called, A Rich Seam: How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning which was published by Pearson in 2014 and Michael’s current work with New Pedagogies for Deep Learning.
Professional Capital as Accountability
This paper by Michael Fullan, Santiago Rincón-Gallardo, and Andy Hargreaves was published by the Education Policy Analysis Archives as one of their ‘Special Series’. It seeks to clarify and spells out the responsibilities of policymakers to create the conditions for an effective accountability system that produces substantial improvements in student learning, strengthens the teaching profession, and provides transparency of results to the public. The authors point out that U.S. policy makers will need to make a major shift from a heavy reliance on external accountability and superficial structural solutions (e.g., professional standards of practice) to investing in and building the professional capital of all teachers and leaders throughout the system. The article draws key lessons from highly effective school systems in the United States and internationally to argue that the priority for policy makers should be to lead with creating the conditions for internal accountability, that is, the collective responsibility within the teaching profession for the continuous improvement and success of all students. This approach is based on the development and circulation of professional capital that consists of three components: individual human capital, social capital (where teachers learn from each other), and decisional capital (developing judgment and expertise over time). In this new professional accountability model, the external accountability that reassures the public that the system is performing in line with societal expectations continues to be an important role of educational systems, but it is nurtured and sustained by the development of strong internal accountability.
Leadership from the Middle: A System Strategy
EDUCATION CANADA • December 2015 | Canadian Education Association
The focus of this article, is “Leadership from the Middle” (LftM), first identified by Hargreaves and Braun4 in their evaluation of the implementation of a special education initiative in Ontario.
The middle consists of school districts or clusters of schools. The article shows how districts, individually and collectively can be a force for local and state change. Thus, it gives the middle a major role in shaping implementation, and achieving greater coherence.
California’s Golden Opportunity: LCAP’s Theory of Action
California’s Local Control and Accountability Plan: Problems and Corrections
This is the third commentary under the title of California’s Golden Opportunity published by Michael Fullan and others and supported by the Stuart Foundation. The three notes are:
1. California’s Golden Opportunity: A Status Note (November 2014)
2. A Golden Opportunity: The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence as a Force for Positive Change (January 2015)
3. California’s Golden Opportunity: LCAP’s Theory of Action—Problems and Corrections (July 2015)
A Golden Opportunity: The California Collaborative for Educational Excellence as a Force for Positive Change
California Forward releases A Golden Opportunity: The California Collaborative for Education Excellence as a Force for Positive Change, prepared in partnership with internationally acclaimed education reform practitioner Michael Fullan. The paper suggests considerations for the recently created California Collaborative for Educational Excellence.
2014
California’s Golden Opportunity – Status Note
November 2014
This note is for all those committed to and interested in how California can improve its education performance statewide over the next four years—improvements across the entire system and all of its levels. We believe that there are enough forces aligned to make this result a distinct possibility. The actions and coordinated efforts we outline in this paper are practical and realistic. Our team is working in partnership with a number of groups at all levels of the state. It will be the internal leadership within the state that will lead and cause the change to happen. We are fortunate and proud to be participants in this unprecedented endeavor. This is indeed a golden opportunity for system transformation that occurs once in a lifetime at best.
Education Plus: New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Whitepaper
Michael Fullan and Geoff Scott co-authored the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning Whitepaper: Education PLUS.
Published by: Collaborative Impact SPC, Seattle, Washington
July 2014
For more information about New Pedagogies for Deep Learning visit www.newpedagogies.org.
© 2014 Collaborative Impact
Creative Commons Attribution‐ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
A Rich Seam: How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning
The report by Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy is the first in a new series of publications published by Pearson. It addresses the challenges encountered when trying to implement new pedagogies on a large scale as well as providing examples of changes happening in classrooms, in schools and across a few education systems. Foreword by Sir Michael Barber.
Pearson, January 2014
Download the PDF3897.Rich_Seam_web
2013
The Power of Professional Capital
Co-authored with Andy Hargreaves, the article is adapted from a keynote address at Learning Forward’s Annual Conference, Boston, December 2012.
JSD, Vol 34, No 3, June 2013
Commentary—The New Pedagogy: Students and Teachers as Learning Partners
LEARNing Landscapes, Vol 6, No 2, Spring 2013
The New Pedagogy: Students and Teachers as Learning Partners
Michael Fullan and Maria Langworthy, On behalf of The Global Partnership, June 2013
Alive in the Swamp: Assessing Digital Innovations in Education
Co-authored with Katelyn Donnelly, Affordable Learning Fund at Pearson, this report is published by Nesta in the UK and NewSchools in the US.
Alive in the Swamp provides an actionable guide to learning technology that will allow founders, funders, and teachers to make better decisions. It identifies persistent gaps in innovation activity and points to what needs to be done if we are to finally make good on the promise of technology to transform learning. We argue that we should seek digital innovations that produce at least twice the learning outcome for half the cost of our current tools, and to achieve this, three forces need to come together. One is technology, the second is pedagogy, and the third is change knowledge, or how to secure transformation across an entire school system.
The core of the report is the development of an Index that brings these three elements together, and which allows us to systematically evaluate new digital innovations. We hope that the Index will be used to guide decision making, policy making and innovation effort.
Great to Excellent: Launching the Next Stage of Ontario’s Education Agenda
As Special Advisor to the Premier of Ontario, Michael Fullan reviews key aspects of the nine year journey working with Premier Dalton McGuinty and sets the stage for the next phase.
2012
In Conversation – 21st Century Leadership: Looking Forward
An interview with Michael Fullan- Volume IV, Issue 1 – Fall 2012
Lead the Change Series, Q&A with Michael Fullan
AERA Educational Change Special Interest Group – Issue No. 16 – February 2012
What America Can Learn from Ontario
Michael Fullan – 2 pages
Reviving Teaching with ‘Professional Capital’
M. Fullan and A. Hargreaves in Education Weekly – 3 pages
2011
Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform (Summary)
Michael Fullan – 6 pages
Coaches as System Leaders
Michael Fullan and Jim Knight
Educational Leadership
October 2011 | Volume 69 | Number 2
Coaching: The New Leadership Skill Pages 50-53
6 pages
Driving Change Starts with Ignoring Advice on How to Drive Change
Harvey Schacter in The Globe and Mail – September 2011 – 4 pages
Whole System Reform for Innovative Teaching and Learning
Michael Fullan – October 2011 – 5 pages
Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform
Michael Fullan – May 2011 – 22 pages
Learning is the Work
Michael Fullan – May 2011 – 7 pages
Motivate the Masses: Experiencing is Believing
Michael Fullan – September 2011 – 8 pages
Putting FACES on the Data What Great Leaders do!
Journal of Staff Development (JSD) – Lyn Sharratt & Michael Fullan – December 2011 – 14 pages