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OXFORD COMMUNITY SCHOOLSFifth Core™ World Language & Culture Program

DR. WILLIAM SKILLING, SUPERINTENDENTDR. JAMES SCHWARZ, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONAPRIL 8, 2013

OXFORD COMMUNITY SCHOOLSWHERE THE GLOBE IS OUR CAMPUS™

• Magnetism of a Vision– Board Interview– Creating the case for Internationalizing our Education– Strategic Planning : Creating consensus

• Importance of networking/partnerships– MSU Confucius Institute– BCC Educational Group– Hanban– Asia Society

• Leveraging your resources– Pooling resources– Selectively abandon

• Program elimination• Appropriating time

• Implementing Oxford’s Fifth Core™ • Outcomes & Results

Five Big Ideas!


Deputy Secretary of Education:Tony Miller

• Can we afford world language study for all students?

• What about students with low linguistic aptitudes?

• These were two reasons given to Tony Miller for why we should not try.

• It came from administrators and world language instructors.


Interview: We need to start internationalizing American Education.

We can no longer afford to ignore the realities of a Globalized worldthat is only going to become more globalized.

If we do not prepare our students for a global world changing 24/7, we will be preparing our students for a world that no longer exists.

Skilling, Board interview May 10, 2007

Oxford Community SchoolsBoard of Education


Magnetism of a Vision

If the Magnetism of your Vision is not greater than your current assets, your organization is in the state of decay, decline, and well on its way to mediocrity and possible extinction!


Oxford’ Strategic Planning • The Oxford Community Schools educational community establishes and communicates a shared purpose and direction for improving the performance of students and the effectiveness of the system.• Feb. 27 - March 1, 2008• March 2009• March 2010• March 2011• April 2012• April 2013• We will reconvene a four day planning session in March of 2013.• Rewrite the plan• Set new goals forInnovative Interventions

Creating a world-class education today to shape

tomorrow’s selfless, global leaders

VISION STATEMENT

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of Oxford Community Schools is to provide a world-class

education that challenges all students to achieve their maximum

potential and prepares them to succeed in a global society.


Oxford Strategic Planning Goals1. To graduate students who are

prepared for ever-changing global opportunities and who embody our core values evidenced by the Oxford Student Profile/Exit Outcomes.

2. To create a model global learning community that maximizes student achievement and promotes excellence.


Vision

• Slogan: Where the Globe is Our Campus™

• Goal: To Become a Model Global School– Every student is fluent in at

least one world language– Every student has a high

“CQ” Cultural Intelligence

– Every student can work as an effective member of an international team both virtually and physically present

– Every student will learn from at least one international teacher each year

– Every student experiences authenticity in their global learning


Partnerships: Knowing What to Do Thinking locally but preparing student globally:• Medical beltway• Auto Capital of the U.S. (GM, Ford,

Chrysler)• Third largest employment of

technology workers in USA• Most engineers of any county in

U.S. but still a shortage• Severe shortage of skilled works,

i.e. tool & die, machinists, etc. • Over 900 international companies.

Three largest trading partners (Canada, China, Mexico).


Looking Locally to Prepare Globally


Partnerships: Knowing What to Do

International Education Group

http://asiasociety.org/

http://www.sre.gob.mx/detroit/

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Partnerships: Knowing What to Do


Partnership Benefits Student Teachers

Oxford's partnership with Oakland University and BCC International Education Group will allow Mandarin Chinese language teachers from China to advance their own education

while helping Oakland County's 28 school districts


Execution – Implementing the Fifth Core™Edupreneurship


Execution – Implementing the Fifth Core™

• Leadership: The genius is not in the idea . . . It is in the execution! Be willing to execution.– Laser like focus on the vision,

mission & goals.

• Vision: “Creating a World-Class Education Today, to Shape Tomorrow’s Selfless Global Leaders”– To become a model global

school– Where the Globe Is Our

Campus™


Implementing the Fifth Core™


• In January of 2008:– Hired a Chinese language

teacher to develop Chinese curriculum and cultural program

• 2008 – 09:– 3rd grade Chinese language

& culture for (2) 30 minute periods

– 7th grade Chinese culture– HS: Chinese I– Through a co-sponsorship

of Hanban and Michigan State University Confucius Institute, superintendent travels to China



• 2009-10:– Grades 3 & 4: Two periods

per week for 30 minutes– Kindergarten everyday for

30 minutes – Grade 7: Chinese cultural

program required for one semester

– HS: Chinese I & II

• Very difficult to fine certified Chinese teachers



• 2009 – 10: Partner with Confucius Institute at MSU & Beijing Channel Consulting – To secure native born

language teachers – We had recalibrated our

art, physical education, music, and media schedules at the elementary to accommodate for minutes.



• 2010– 11:– Officially launched our

Fifth Core™ Chinese World Language & Culture program

– Phase in program• K-3: Everyday for 30

minutes mandatory• 4 & 5th grades: 30 minutes

(2) per week • 6, 7 & 8th grades everyday

for 45 minutes• HS: Added Chinese III



• 2011– 12:– All students K – 8 required

to take Chinese language & culture as a Fifth Core class.

• K-5: Everyday for 30 minutes• 6-8: Everyday for 45 minutes• HS: Still optional for grades

10 – 12• 9th grade: 60 minutes per day

for four periods per week.• Added Chinese IV



• 2012– 13:– All students K – 10 required to take

Chinese language & culture as a Fifth Core class.

• K-5: Everyday for 30 minutes• 6-8: Everyday for 45 minutes• HS: Still optional for grades 10 – 12• 9-10th: 60 minutes per day for four

periods per week.• 11-12th grades optional unless in the IB

Diploma program• Added AP & IB Chinese

– Today, we have over 2,200 students in the program

– We are growing by 200 plus students per year

– Hired a Director of Chinese International Programs, Chunchun Tang starting July 1, 2013



Oxford Outcomes

• Recognition of the Fifth Core™

– 2012 Educational Program of the YearAutomation Alley

– Winner’s Circle AwardMichigan Association of School Administrator

– Hanban and Asia Society Confucius Classroom Network. One of only 100 districts nationwide to be accepted into this network of “model” Confucius classrooms.

– International Baccalaureate World School authorization


Oxford Recognized by Oakland County Executive in his State of the County Address“One of our China-related

success stories is on the very northern reaches of Oakland County. Oxford

Community Schools embraced my call for

Mandarin language and culture instruction back in 2007 and they’ve taken it

to the next level.”L. BROOKS PATTERSON

OAKLAND COUNTY EXECUTIVE


Oxford Outcomes

• Oxford International Residence Academy

• Northeast Yucai Oxford International High School

• Virtual Foreign Exchange Program

• Sister Schools– Beijing Dong Zhimen High School (10-12)– Beijing Shijia Primary School (K-6)– Beijing Fuxue Hutong Primary School (K-6)– Xicheng Foreign Languages School (7-12) – Beijing No. 14 Middle School– Beijing Wuyi Primary School– No. 2 Middle School of Fengtai District– Jimei Middle School – Xiamen, Fujian, China– No. 1 Middle School – Quanzhou, Fujian, China– No. 1 High School – Zhangzhou, Fujian, China– Northeast Yucai School – Shenyang, China


Results

Project ReImagineOne of only 14 districts in the state designated as a lighthouse district

and grant recipient

“Fewer students means more money woes for state's school districts”

“It's not all bad news. Oxford Community Schools grew by 25%.”

2012-13 Pupil Count5,478

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Results


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