Transforming Education: The Essence of Confidence, Competence, and Cooperation

1. The 3 Cs of Learning Organizations:Confidence, Competence, and Cooperation Dr. Anthony J. Rigazio-DiGilio ‘73

2. Hello Cortland Scholars • Greetings from the past • Me and Blockbuster • Happy Sesquicentennial • No recording any references

3. Great Skills I Learned at Cortland • Course scheduling • Accepting chaos and ambiguity in this world

4. Today I will Attempt to Share • The importance of professional practice that is ethical, moral, relevant, and research-based • Three examples of research that have served me well • Three TRANSFORMATIONS I would like to celebrate

5. Background Information THE FIELD OF EDUCATION • Values Education/Character Education • Learner Efficacy • Teacher Efficacy • Teaming • Optimal Learning Conditions/How to Create Learning Communities LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT • Leading not Directing • Collective Efficacy • Personal and Organizational Growth RESEARCH POSITION • More Qualitative • Action Research

6. Transformation #1 YOU and Your Progress into the World of Professional Research

7. Researchers See the Future

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9. From Consumers to Producers of Research …

10. … To Informed Critics of Research

11. Entrance to the Profession: Initial Socialization As Participants Today • Enhanced research learning • Value of collaborative efforts As Graduates of Cortland • Commitment to ethical and moral service to: • Learners/Clients • Team • Organization • Community • Global Village

12. Life-long Imprint • Into the Middle of the Field • At Work: Scholar/Practitioner • Translating current research into practice for clients, colleagues, and communities Problem solving in all fields and occupations

13. Into the Middle of your Life • Common, every day experience will pull basic research skills out of you • In short, research skills will help you answer the key question: • How do we know what we know • As much as we try to reduce it to simplistic dependent and independent variables: • The world is a hierarchical multivariable mess

14. Power to Understand the World Around Us Tony Tip #1 Power comes from your familiarity and dexterity with research methods • Necessary, but not sufficient • A cursory look at the people who are at the top of their fields indicates that they have deep knowledge of research methods

15. Your Career-Long Obligations • Meet and Exceed Professional Standards • Provide Evidence-Based, Culturally-Sensitive Practice • Engage in Reflective Practice with Others • Sustain Continuous Professional Learning • Promote a Community-Informed Disposition

16. Plan to Stay Connected How will you continue to remain engaged with evolving research in your field?

17. Tony Tip #2 Use other fields to benchmark and learn

18. Who Made it Possible? • Faculty Sponsors • Faculty and Administrators • The Committee • The Audience and Invited Guests • High School Students • High School Faculty • Local and State Officials

19. Tony Tip #3 Over document • Longitudinal perspective • Two programs, one annotated • “Open 2059” on cover

20. My Next Focus Today To discuss three aspects of educational research that have had a profound impact on my practice since I left Cortland 45 years ago

21. In the Beginning …

22. Two Key Guiding Assumptions of My Career • Working with individuals situated in a supportive Learning Community group in the community is more effective than working with individuals individually • Professionals must knowing how to create and sustain Learning Organizations

23. Three Strands of Research • CONFIDENCE: Rosenthal Effect - Where does the inner urge to improve come from? • Pedagogy versus andragogy versus heutagogy • COMPETENCE: What is it and how do we maintain the professional spark in ourselves to strive for higher levels of professional competence • Individual professional to client/stakeholder • Individual professional to current Learning Community (team, work colleagues, department, peers) • Individual professional to organization/profession • COOPERATION: Within the Learning Community • What transcends the individual and works, sticks, and adds value to the clientele, the larger organization, and the wider community

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25. CONFIDENCE: The Good Olde Days • Little Engine that Could • National Zeitgeist: Rugged individualism; Might is right; White, male privilege; Capitalism is best • National Heroes: Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt, Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, JFK, Athletes, Movie and TV stars, World leaders, etc. • Gumption was in the individual • If you had confidence you would succeed • “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – H. Ford

26. Confidence Revised: The Pygmalion Effect Finding #1 An effect caused by the expectations of a teachers regarding the performance of their students

27. 1. CONFIDENCE: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy [Finding #1] • Teachers’ perceptions/expectations of their students actually shifts the students’ confidence • Positively influences their performance and self-identity • Simultaneously reinforces the teacher’s own sense of competency and confidence (i.e., self-efficacy) For me, this finding was EARTH SHATTERING

28. Transformation #2: My Journey to culturally and contextually informed community advocate to set designer working with four levels of staging to cheerleader My transformation from fisherperson

29. 1. CONFIDENCE: Rosenthal Effect [Finding #2] • Experiment and Experimenter Bias • Objectivity was more fragile

30. Bias Touches all Aspect of a Research Study • Framing of our research questions • The population we choose • The methods and instruments we use • The interpretation and findings we note • The conclusions, generalizability, and connections to previous research • What lasts and has impact on the way we live • That’s why the Gold Seal of Quantitative Research is double-blind studies • The Gold Seal of Qualitative Research is to have multiple member-checks and trained raters

31. Hechinger Report: Jill Barshay 3/18/19 • Johns Hopkins Study • After criticizing Big Pharma for widespread biases in studies of new and potentially profitable drugs • Now, scholars are detecting the same type of biases in the education product industry • Infiltrated into Federal “What Works Clearinghouse” • Up to 80% higher than independent studies

32. 1. Confidence Forward • Character/Values Education/Anti-bullying • Emotional Intelligence • Academic Optimism • Growth Mindset • Strategies for Differentiation • Personalized Education • Trauma-sensitive Educational Experiences • Mindfulness

33. COMPETENCE

34. 2. Competence Matters • What is it and why does it matter? • Patricia SnowOakland, CAMiddle School

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44. 2. Competency Matters • Professional Standards • Leadership/Supervisory Practices • Instructional Practices • Competency-based Educational Practices • Classroom/School Climate • State and National Content Standards • Professional Preparation programs • Personnel Evaluation • Life-long Professional Development and Training Design

45. COOPERATION

46. 3. COOPERATION: From Individual to Distributed Intelligence within the Learning Community • More people lose their jobs because of underdeveloped interpersonal skills than for technical deficiencies • Individual confidence and competence in group and community settings • Joyce and Showers research on PEER supervision • Replicated many times in business, education and recreation, medical, technical, and social science fields

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