Michael Horn is the co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute and author of Blended and Disrupting Class. In this podcast, he talks about the following:

• Create educational options is to help kids find their potential.
• Personalize to meet the needs of every student.
• Organizations follow systems or processes that become engrained in cultures.
• You get really good at the thing you’ve been doing.
• We’re not going to see schools disappear.
• Disrupting class, not the whole system to start.
• If you want a system to change, you need a great leader.
• So many forces arrayed to shoot down the “new”.
• People are not being obstructionist because they’re bad people.
• They’re not stupid people, they’re people in stupid systems.
• We need a different system to match a new era.
• Leaders have to give very clear permission about what you are allowed to violate.
• “You’re allowed to do anything that doesn’t put kids in harm’s way.“
• Very aggressively and clearly document every policy at odds with what has been on the books.
• Competency-based learning
• Don’t force them out of their comfort zone.
• “The Dual Transformation” managing transformation A and B.
• Go slow to go fast.
• We don’t fully understand what everything will look like.
• Seeing teachers in other places can help them see how it works.
• Coalition of the willing.
• Couple years is a baseline.
• May not know all the details, but then you have a chance to celebrate