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The Mindset of an Entrepreneur

Above and Beyond

the Status Quo

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“Entrepreneurs, like Leaders, come from everywhere.”

Matt Doyle, Assistant Superintendent of Innovation

Gerri Burton, New Learning Ventures

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2016-17 Focus on Leadership

Learning Ecosystem Readiness Report

Identifies Principals as the key change-agents leading schools in innovative, entrepreneurial efforts to improve learning and the lives of students, family and community.

2016-17 LCAP Blueprint

Strategy 8: Personal Learning Pathways

Action Plan 5: Create a continuous improvement learning ecosystem structure that will promote an uninterrupted learning path leading to Talent Pipelines.

  • Innovative/Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • Learning Ecosystem Design
  • Personal Learning Leadership Academy
  • Thought Leadership Collaborative
  • Xtreme Innovation Projects

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Previewing the...

Personal Learning Leadership Academy

a new and innovative approach to leadership development offering

  • flexible coaching for leaders and entrepreneurs
  • change and risk management planning
  • real-time school site transformation guidance
  • just-in-time seminars and on-the-spot collaboration sessions
  • mentoring models
  • Xtreme innovation design assist
  • thought leader and best practice sharing

By way of example...

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The Evolution of an �Entrepreneurial Principal

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Implementor of District Policies/Focus on Individual School

Collaborator under “District-Leadership Hat”/Focus on Forming Networks among Principals

"Start-up" Entrepreneur taking on new challenges/Showing “proof” of results

Successful Entrepreneur: scalable, sustainable, accessible

2016-17

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2016-17: The Entrepreneurial Challenge

Turning new ways of learning, personal learning, into systemic approaches that are

Scalable?

Sustainable?

Accessible?

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Moving the “Change Management” Needle in 2016-17

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Community Impact

Schools

“Sites-of-Change”

District

Leadership

Leadership

Student Results

Family Results

Implementation

Community Results

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The Mindset of an Entrepreneur

  • Who is the customer?
  • What does my new service offer?
  • Who is the competition?
  • How do I stack up?
  • What do I need to do to be the best?
  • What are the risks in scaling?
  • How can I hedge?
  • What is the best marketing campaign?

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Entrepreneurs-in-Action:

Food for Thought

Forbes Magazine: 9 out of 10 start-ups fail!

“Millions Learning” from Brookings Institute refers to the scale-up as

“crossing the valley of death”

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Changing Landscape -- Charter School Growth:

  • Increase of 400 students in Vista over last 2 years
  • Increase of 5 Non-VUSD Approved Charters in last 16 months
  • Shifting dominance: LAUSD/Chicago/New Orleans/ etc.

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Choice of Exercises

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  • What is your school “promise” statement to students, parents and community?

  • Why should parents “invest” their student’s education career with you?

  • How specific is your promise? Can you demonstrate (or plan to demonstrate) qualitative and quantitative evidence to support it?

  • How does this align with the district message?

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  • What do you see as the risks to scalability?

  • What are your ideas to address them?

  • How do you plan to communicate your vision and message to internal and external stakeholders?

  • How many messages do you have at once? Can they be thematically packaged and timed for delivery for better adoption?

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  • How do you define success?

  • What are your qualitative measures?

  • What are your quantitative measures?

  • Is there a measure per stakeholder?

  • Do you have Key Performance Indicators monitoring the likelihood of success along the way?

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