{"data":{"ID":553,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446185224,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"How Teachers Can Co-Opt the Lean Startup Model for the Classroom","Handle":"how_teachers_can_co-opt_the_lean_startup_model_for_the_classroom","ShortDescription":"When it comes to teaching, being able to quickly understand whether or not students are learning\u2014and then adjusting practice accordingly\u2014is crucial to the profession. So how can educators co-opt \u201cLean Startup\u201d methods, with series of rapid testing processes designed to test and scale businesses popularized by Eric Ries\u2014to design the best possible classroom? This conversation will follow a step-by-step process to demonstrate how educators can turn classrooms into hotbeds of experimentation.","Description":"See if this problem-solving technique sounds familiar: form a hypothesis, design an experiment, measure the results, and use the findings to inform the follow-up experiment.\r\n\r\nScience teachers might recognize that as the \u201cScientific Method.\u201d Entrepreneurs have their own name for it, too: the \u201cLean Startup,\u201d popularized by Eric Ries\u2019 book of the same name, which has been canonized in the lore of entrepreneurship.\r\n\r\nThe core tenets in these two approaches are not all that different: Like any startup, a classroom must deliver services under unpredictable conditions. Like entrepreneurs, teachers continuously improvise new approaches, measure if they work, and learn from their successes (or failures) immediately. Are the students learning? What\u2019s working? For all students, or for some?\r\n\r\nNo solution is perfect, but few emotions are as draining as finding out that a product or teaching method ultimately doesn\u2019t work\u2014and not knowing it until it\u2019s too late (or at the end of the school year).\r\n\r\nAlready, the lean process is being used for new instructional approaches in places like Summit Public Schools. In fact, CEO Diane Tavenner gave a talk in 2012 on how she and her team used the method to test and refine Summit\u2019s instructional practice. And the result? Since launching in 2003, Summit has graduated more than 1,700 students, 100% of whom meet or exceed 4-year college entrance requirements.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to teaching, being able to quickly understand whether or not your students are learning\u2014and then adjusting your practice accordingly\u2014is crucial to the profession. So how can educators co-opt Lean Startup methods\u2014a series of rapid testing processes designed to test and scale businesses\u2014to design the best possible classroom?","Link":["https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/writers\/mary-jo-madda","http:\/\/twitter.com\/mjmadda"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This \"conversation\" will consist of a brief description of the following article (https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2015-10-28-how-teachers-can-run-classrooms-like-lean-startups), followed by a Gallery Walk activity. Groups of 3-4 participants will pair up and engage in the teacher-centric lean classroom process--together creating a hypothesis, defining metrics, and theorizing a minimum viable product that an educator could test in the classroom with students.","Presenter":["Mary Jo Madda (with help from Leonard Medlock)"],"PresenterAffiliation":["www.edsurge.com"],"PresenterEmail":["maryjo@edsurge.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":63,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}