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Explore the transformative education initiatives and leadership insights gained from five diverse cities: Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, London, New York City, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Lessons Learned from “Five Interesting Cities” Steve Munby CEO, CfBT Education Trust
CfBT Education Trust • Established in 1968 • UK charity that exists to make a difference to the lives of learners throughout the world • Working with governments, schools and other partners • Surpluses are used to fund our educational research programme • CfBT has worked in more than 80 countries around the world on projects that range from reforming national level education to improving the performance of individual schools
A global leader in education School quality and evaluation Professional Development for teachers and leaders System reform and change management School improvement and school self-improvement
Five interesting cities: Dubai Ho Chi Minh City London New York City Rio de Janeiro
Why did we choose those 5? very significant improvement in student outcomes either the largest or second largest centre of population in the respective country, each having a school-age population of at least a quarter of a million students we deliberately chose cities with very different contexts
Three Observations: Untangling cause and effect is very difficult Lack of robust trialling No single blueprint for transformation
In education, “what works?” is not the right question, because everything works somewhere and nothing works everywhere. So what’s interesting, what’s important in education is “under what circumstances does this work?” Professor Dylan William
Key contextual features: Decentralisation of decision-making In Rio alone a new city-level curriculum was developed In Ho Chi Minh City there was little evidence of parental choice of school as a driver Move to full day shift in some cities
Strategies that travel well travel with nuance. Michael Fullan
Not identical quintuplets but a family resemblance Six cross-cutting themes • The power of data • Making teaching more of a career of choice for talented people • Combining high accountability with high levels of professional support and capacity building
Six cross-cutting themes • New forms of school provision • An emphasis on school-to-school collaboration • Leadership at every level
The genius of leadership Develop the right strategy for the context
The genius of leadership 2. Put in place the right systems and processes to ensure consistency and delivery
What makes the key difference isn’t innovation it is routines. Sir Michael Barber
The genius of leadership 3. See it through and take people with you
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anaemic. Martin Luther King
Once a commitment is made, the goal will seem larger, bolder, and more exciting… leaders need to fix on it like a laser beam. They need to see it intensely, even obsessively. They feel it. They hear it. They taste it. They smell it. It becomes part of them, their very identity, because it is something they are committed to make happen, come what may, whatever it takes. Stephen Denning, The Secret Language of Leadership
Taking people with you Social dialogue is the glue for successful educational reform. Without full involvement of teachers and their organizations – those most responsible for implementing reform – in key aspects of educational objectives and policies, education systems cannot hope to achieve quality education for all. ILO/UNESCO (2003), Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel, ILO/UNESCO (CEART), Geneva and Paris
You can only transform education together with the teachers….The speed was given by the capacity of having teachers on board. We challenged them to the limit, but not more than the limit. Claudia Costin, former Secretary of Schools for Rio De Janeiro
“If you want to walk fast, walk alone. If you want to walk far, walk together” African proverb
