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ASCD Annual Content
Virtual Session15m Presentation on the eight possible future educator roles featured in “Envisioning New Education Roles for Transformation” (Crabtree, M., Prince, K., Righteous-Rogers, J.-A. (forthcoming August 2024). KnowledgeWorks.)
15m Participants to process some of these possibilities in small groups using a generative activity with conversation starters and a note-catcher. This activity will focus on imagining how the skill sets and responsibilities described in the future roles might be both desirable and necessary to transform education. Each small group will likely work with one or two future roles.
10m Invite some exchange across groups to surface emerging insights and considerations for the field of educator preparation and others.
15m Participants in mock up additional future educator roles that they think might address education system and learner needs. Each small group will do a quick design of one role using a template from the publication.
5m Participants exchange some final strategic insights to take back to their contexts.
Experimentation and innovation around educator roles are currently taking place.
Among these efforts, Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College’s Next Education Workforce Initiative is providing students with deeper and personalized learning by building teams of educators with distributed expertise. It is also developing better ways for educators to enter the education profession, specialize, and advance (Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teacher College. “Educator Pathways,” last accessed June 24, 2024. https://workforce.education.asu.edu/educator-pathways). Similarly, Teach for America’s Reinvention Lab is working in community and reciprocal relationship with equity and innovation leaders, with the goals of stimulating innovation in partnership and developing new possibilities for the education field (Reinvention Lab @ TFA. “Learn about the Reinvention Lab,” last accessed June 24, 2024. https://www.reinventionlab.org/learn). Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance has been exploring compensation, preparation, representation, and evaluation for a modern teaching profession (Harvard Kennedy School. “Program on Education Policy and Governance,” last accessed June 24, 2024. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/taubman/programs-research/pepg). Similarly, Learning Forward’s Leadership Team Institute is engaging school and district leaders in a yearlong program team focused on implementing evidence-based policies and practices that address key challenges, improve educator and team practices and increase student success (Learning Forward. “Leadership Team Institute,” last accessed June 24, 2024. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/taubman/programs-research/pepg).
This session builds from the current climate while taking a longer-term view informed by changes taking place in and around education. It draws upon a forthcoming paper that uses futures and design thinking to explore new possibilities for the future education workforce (Crabtree, M., Prince, K., Righteous-Rogers, J.-A. (forthcoming August 2024). “Envisioning New Education Roles for Transformation.” KnowledgeWorks.)
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