What is Educational

Excellence in successful
schools and what should
we do when we see it?

Wednesday 4
THE BOSTON INITIATIVE
October 2017
LOCATED IN DUBAI, UAE
WITH IMPACT IN THE UAE,
US, UK, AND INDIA
THEBOSTONINITIATIVE.COM
 Research
Questions
for Today
1) How do schools excel
after failure?

2) What can we learn?

3) What is the crucial NON

ingredient of success?
From the Work of The Boston Initiative

School Pre-Ins.
CPD School
Imprv.
Coach,
Mentor
Recruiting Teacher
Teachers Licensing
Program
For the last 5 years MI was home
Worked in Reform at
Dept. of Education
Completed a 2-year
Harvard Strategic
Data Fellowship
Finding a Success Model
in Michigan
140 schools were
released from Priority
Status (low performing)
in 2014-2016.

49 schools responded,
and 34 of them (69%)
were visited.
About the visits
School visits were across Michigan 5,600 km driven in 6 weeks.
A distance equal to driving from Michigan to Anchorage, Alaska.
The Success Model
Shared Success Stories

http://www.flippedhighschool.com/
What is a Flipped
Educational Model?
Shared Success Stories
Effective Suicide Intervention
Nah Tah Wahsh Academy
Amazing Mentoring
The Didactic Meeting Model
The Impact in the UAE
There are 25 Dubai schools that made
growth2 in inspections over the last 5 yrs.
3 from Good to Outstanding
10 from Good to Very Good
12 from Acceptable to Good.

What are their stories? Resilience, Passion,

Unstoppable Effort & Relentless Improvement
What would you add? _____________________
What is of concern? _____________________
The Impact in the UAE

Anyother ideas for impacts

from this type of research?
Concluding thoughts

The Leadership Team is the Key

Mindset Shift is an Accelerator
Systemic Solutions scale things

But what is the one ingredient

that can wreck everything?
 The one thing to
avoid

Denial, Grief, Blame, and the Externalization of the Power

to Change Yikes, lets avoid this!
 Any Questions Today?
The honor of sharing today was awesome.

Reach out to me at:

Jonathan@thebostoninitiative.com, 052-774-0526
Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Tower, Cluster T, Office 1404