Brad Rathgeber Online School for Girls. Thursday, October 3, 13

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1 Brad Rathgeber Online School for Girls 1

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3 Winsor Newton Country Day School Seattle Girls Dana Hall Forest Ridge 78 Emma Willard Ethel Walker s Buffalo Academy Miss Porter s Visitation Buffalo Seminary Lauralton Hall Sacred Heart - Hamden Westover Grier Convent of Sacred HeartLincoln Ursuline - NY Ellis Linden Hall Holy Child Kenston School District Chapin Marymount Convent of Sacred Heart Hathaway Brown Nightingale-Bamford Pennington Mount Saint Mary Castilleja Laurel Agnes Irwin Purnell Kent Place Trinity Hall St. Mary s Columbus School for Girls Stuart Country Day Oak Knoll Garrison Forest St. Teresa s IND-Baltimore St. Paul s Santa Catalina Foxcroft Bryn Mawr Madeira Roland Park Holy Child St. Cecilia Flint Hill Holton-Arms St. Agnes Maret Holy Cross Hutchinson Harpeth Hall Georgetown Visitation St.Mary s Girls Preparatory St. Catherine s St. Margaret s Marymount Campbell Hall Ursuline-Dallas St. Mary s Archer Marlborough Hockaday Atlanta Girls Louisville High Sacred Hearts Academy Yeshiva of L.A. St. Andrew s Louise McGehee La Pietra Academy of the Sacred Heart 3

4 Online School for Girls Founded in 2009: Holton-Arms, Harpeth Hall, Westover, and Laurel Enrollment has grown 1800% from the first year; 300% in last two years Engaged 300+ schools in professional development; faculty members Born from independent schools, but non confined by standard practice 4

5 Standard Practice Fixed costs - instruction, facilities Little student voice/feedback Irregular faculty evaluation Little emphasis on standards Program built for individual school needs Teacher-centered learning approaches OSG Approach Variable cost - instruction; no facilities Regular student feedback Constant faculty evaluation Defined course and teaching standards Program built for collective needs Student control and choice in learning 5

6 Standard Practice New Practice 6

7 Fear Administrators fear vocal teachers who don't want to change Teachers fear giving up control in the classroom Boards, Teachers and Administrators fear complaints from constituents Boards, Teachers and Administrators fear failure Boards, Teachers and Administrators fear being different from local peers Boards and Administrators fear that change will drive families to other schools 7

8 How We Do Things Is that the XXX School way? Mission Can we/should we meet our mission differently today? 8

9 Do You See This at Your School? What Are Some of the Expressed and Un-Expressed Fears? 9

10 Skeptics & Tried and True Dabblers and Lone Wolves Pilots with a Plan Strategic Actors and Thinkers 10

11 Pedagogical Change Teacher-Centered Student-Centered Fear Factor: Student choice in program, student control over curriculum, misalignment between faculty interests and student interests, mis-alignment between staffing and student interest, don t know how to do it - mis-alignment of faculty skills and needed new skills 11

12 Control Teacher Center Student Teacher Time Student Set Flexible 12

13 Pedagogical Change Increased and Flexible Professional Development On-Going Mentoring and Support Redefined Faculty Roles/Responsibilities Teacher and Course Standards Constant Feedback/Support Loops Built In 13

14 Increased Family Demands More, more, more Fear Factor: Faculty/administrators fear being asked to do more, Boards/ administrators fear that the old way is unsustainable 14

15 Increased Family Demands Building Variable Costs into Program Development Seeking Out Collaborations with Peers and Others Developing Local Partnerships Around Space/Local Resource 15

16 Harpeth Hall 1 Buffalo Seminary 1 Hockaday 3 Marlborough 1 Marymount - NY 1 Linden Hall Linden 1 San Domenico Linden 1 Woodlands Linden 2 Emma Willard 1 Purnell Linden 1 Garrison Forest 3 16

17 Honolulu Memphis 17

18 Price and Competition Fear Factor: Boards fear rising tuition levels; Administrators fear program offerings of peers; Boards and Administrators fear unconventional competition - charters and online 18

19 School Tuition Coursera/edX Free / Low Cost GW Online High School $11500 Stanford Online High School $16600 Average NAIS Tuition $

20 Competition Use Variable Cost of Online Programs To Stabilize Tuition Increase Training of Staff in Blended Learning To Increase Class Size Expand Market Reach Through More Flexible Scheduling/Courses 20

21 How We Do Things Mission Make the Two Separate Increase Staff Capabilities To Deliver Mission in New Ways Develop Strategic Collaborations With Schools and Local Non-Profits Encourage Change & Innovation - Don t Stifle It Help Engage Constituents in Healthy Conversation 21