ECOSYS Public Education Issues Framing v1.3a 11/15/09
FED DOE & STATE will have considerable focus for 2009-2010 consumed by ARRA "Race to the Top" $4.3B Competitive Fund
What needed innovation is not addressed w/ ARRA-RTTT? Where are synergies? How can we help?
ECOSYS framing is at:
http://sourcepov.wordpress.com/category/ecosystem
Scope
FED DOE Xref
Prob
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Ecosystem (with
Domain Boundaries)
ARRA $4.3B
RaceToTheTop (cross
reference)
Problem Statement (summary)
Process Description (detailed framing)
Stakeholders
(actors)
Process Model
(picture)
Process Rules
(constraints)
Outcomes (desired)
External Context
(Inputs/Outputs)
P1 P1A. LEARNING CULTURE.
Insufficient priority placed on
learning, having significant impact on
national EDU ecosystem. Initiator: Chris
10/19
P1B. How & why has this happened? 11/9 (a.) Horace Mann: PS goal
was 'social harmony' & public education as 'great equalizer' (b.) Factory
Model w/ Industrial Rev supplanted Societal Mandate (Christensen). (c.)
Vending Machine mentality (put money in the system, out comes an
educated kid - T.O'Reilly?) (d.) Parent engagement (driven by 2-parent
work reqmt, some lack higher ED, distrust of bureaucracy, stress) (e.)
Social-Economics factors lead to disengaged parents, but also highly
variable across districts (f.) Community Mandate schools don't act
indepently, need community & voter support.
P1C. PARENT,
COMMUNITY,
TEACHER,
STUDENT,
Administator, State
Board, Community
P1D. DEFINE
INTERACTIONS -
What are the forces
that create a Learning
Culture?
P1E. What are
constraints (actual,
implied)?
P1F. An evolutionary system for
Education, geared toward diversity (not
conformity); preparing children for
productive engagement in the
workforce so that they might create the
future & not be shaped by it; prepared
to take on cultural, social & economic
challenges; with ability to make local
impacts that have global implications.
P1G. What FAMILY
priorities are competing
with Learning?
P2
INCENTIVES. Professio