What?
Ken Kay
· See Teresa for handout
· All subject teach 21st skills
· What are the biggest changes in the last 25 years
· Are our students prepared?
Alan November
· Global Communication Center
· To raise the quality of work we have to publish their work
· Teach less learn more
· The longer it takes to get feedback from your teacher the less valueable it becomes
· Every Elem student needs to have an online class
· Students are to be blocked not teachers that’s the way the law was written
· Freedom to think
· Teaching students to make decisions
· One room school house
Irving ISD
· Its not about money its about what you value
· A decade to train teachers
Pickering
· Standards base report cards
· What is it?
· Less testing more assessment
McNulty
· Global
· Primary aim of education should be how they will live outside not who well they do in school
· 9 attributes of innovative communities
Common Threads
· Change
· Teach less learn more
· Move from Push to pull
So What?
- Pick something and do it on a district level Example (Global Communication)
- Grading issue Consider a revised grading policy
- Utilized the Continues Improvement Model for student
- Podcasting a clear vision of what is to take place example is the Shift Happens Video
