_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools If you had it to do all over again, what would you change? Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Design Criteria Will schools of the 21 st Century require learning environments different from today? Is building a school like buying a house? Who will tell the architects what we want?

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Design Criteria Design Principles Design Elements Kids Needs: Safe Respect Personal Interests Program, Facility, Transitions, Exhibitions, Advisories, Technology, Projects, Portfolios, Internships, Size and Teams Personalization Common Learning Goals Adult World Immersion Performance-Based Student Work & Assessment Experience Real World Workspace Tools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Schools for the 21 st Century : Are You Ready?By Prakash Nair There are 15 trends happening in the field of education and related educational technology. Many of them have direct facility ramifications. Use them as a checklist to see how many of these trends your school facility is designed to accommodate.  1. Ubiquitous Computing:  2. Wireless Networking and Robust Internet Access:  3. Technology-intensive Teaching and Learning:  4. Emphasis on Informal Learning:  5. De-emphasis of Classroom:  6. Food Court vs. Cafeteria:  7. Shared Common Areas:  8. Imaginative Furniture Design:  9. Team-teaching, Non-Chronological Grouping and Inter-disciplinary Curriculums:  10. Emphasis on Service Learning:  11. Students Creating Products for Business:  12. Computer Labs Replaced by Distance Learning Electronic Studios:  13. More hi-tech Production Facilities:  14. Parent and Community Education Programs in Schools:  15. New Learning Partnerships with Other Schools and Universities: Prakash Nair is President- Elect of UEF-21, Urban Educational Facilities for the 21st Century

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Bob Pearlman Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation Building Learning Communities 2004 July 19, 2004

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century? “Will this generation of learners have the skills and preparation to innovate?” -- Barry Schuler, Former CEO, AOL At NTHS Founder’s Day Event

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) Competencies – effective workers can productively use: Resources -- identifying, organizing, planning, and allocating time, money, materials, and workers; Interpersonal Skills -- negotiating, exercising leadership, working with diversity, teaching others new skills, serving clients and customers, and participating as a team member; Information Skills -- using computers to process information and acquiring and evaluating, organizing and maintaining, and interpreting and communicating information; Systems Skills -- understanding systems, monitoring and correcting system performance, and improving and designing systems; and Technology utilization skills -- selecting technology, applying technology to a task, and maintaining and troubleshooting technology. Source: What Work Requires of School, 1991, Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U.S. Department of Labor

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools SCANS Workplace Know-How (1991) The Foundation – competence requires: Basic Skills -- reading, writing, speaking, listening, and knowing arithmetic and mathematical concepts; Thinking Skills -- reasoning, making decisions, thinking creatively, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, and knowing how to learn; and Personal Qualities -- responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self- management, integrity, and honesty.

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Working in the Real World (i.e. California?) Projects, projects, projects Teamwork and collaboration Self-direction Interpersonal skills and Networking No one asks about your formal education Project Management, Leadership

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Released June 21, 2004 at NECC, New Orleans

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools So what do schools look like where students get 21 st Century Knowledge and Skills?

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools They don’t look like this!

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Teachers talk and students listen.

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools The teacher has a monopoly on information

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Students learn by not doing

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools How do we get them here?

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Strategies that Make a Difference Engagement Hands-on Adult connections Internships Real World immersion

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools At the core is a student centered, project and problem based teaching strategy that is tied to both content standards and school wide learning outcomes.

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools PROJECT BASED LEARNING PBL vs. Doing Projects The Project is the Curriculum Creating a “Need to Know” Teacher Acts as a Coach Focus on Skills (ESLRs)

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools TRAINING RESOURCE The Buck Institute for Education Novato, California TRAINING DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Project Management Teamwork

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Oral Communication/Presentation Exhibition

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Personalization Projects Exhibitions Digital Portfolios Internships Technology Reinventing the High School Experience

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools New Technology High School Napa, California  Integrating technology into every class  Interdisciplinary and project-based  Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and unpaid work in technology, business or education  Digital Portfolio

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES TECHNOLOGY LITERACY COLLABORATION CRITICAL THINKING ORAL COMMUNICATION WRITTEN COMMUNICATION CAREER PREPARATION CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS)

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools TECHNOLOGY TOOLS FOR …  Learning  Curriculum  Communication  Assessment  Scalability* Computerized Tutorials On-Line Curriculum E-Library Academic Systems Document Libraries Project Design Template Project Standardization Digital Textbooks Student Parent E-Bulletin Online Curriculum Internship Coordination Digital Gradebooks Student Journals Collaboration Database Learning Logs PBL Unit Library Customizable Templates Support Databases Account Management

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools TOOLS: PEER COLLABORATION EVALUATOR Students submit evaluations using a standardized rubric for the whole school.

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools COMMUNICATION TOOLS STUDENT DATA COLLECTION CURRICULUM LIBRARY DIGITAL PORTFOLIO NTHS GRADEBOOK COLLABORATION EVALUATOR DISCUSSION BULLETIN BOARDS What is the Learning System? The NTH Learning System ™ is a set of tools and technologies that support a student-centered, project- and problem-based learning environment.

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Napa Vallejo Rohnert Park Novato Sacramento Oakland (conversion) Davis Anderson REPLICATION PROGRESS Anchorage (AK) Portland (OR)

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL Study Tours and Visits

_Macros Designing 21 st Century Secondary Schools Bob Pearlman "New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks" “Reinventing the High School Experience“