This year I was given an opportunity to be a member of the Principal's Vision Institute (PVI). The personal growth that I have already experienced this year has been amazing. As a part of the PVI approximately 50 school principals, K-12, meet for two days and complete thought provoking activities and conversations. The activities and conversations that we are constantly engaged in revolves around school transformation. School transformation is about what we are doing currently and moving toward what we want schools to look like for our students.
My mind is repeatedly stretched around the possibilities of what could be in our school. It is not that our school is not doing or that our learners are not performing at high levels. It is more of what aren't we doing that we need to be doing to help prepare our learners for the world that awaits. With all the change in the digital world and given the fact that there are jobs out there now that did not even exist 10 years, 5 years, even 2 years ago I cannot imagine what jobs will be in the marketplace 7 years from now when my current 5th graders are graduating high school and either going into the workforce or enrolling in college.
Given that we will not know what the future jobs will be until they arrive we (educators) need to prepare our learners on how to collaborate, problem solve, communicate, troubleshoot, and think critically. To prepare students for these future jobs we have to think outside of the traditional desks and rows with the sit and get, drill and kill learning model that anyone who attended school in the last 100 years have experienced.
School transformation is a process that takes time and lots of conversation. I am committed to helping create a school that today's learners need in order to be successful for tomorrow. Are you?
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