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1 Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing:
AIW Targets High Quality Student Learning

2 CONTEXT MATTERS

3 The PERFECT STORM (a decade ago…)
Iowa test scores declining Fear of uneducated workforce Friedman reinforces concerns

4 INCONSISTENT EDUCATION IN IOWA
Dr. Jeffrey met with every school district Quality of education varied by district Report to the State Board

5 LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE Dept. of Ed charged to create Model Core Model Core expands to the Iowa Core Iowa Core marries with Common Core

6 FRAMEWORK FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
Critical thinking, complex communication, creativity, collaboration, flexibility & adaptability, productivity & accountability UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTS FRAMEWORK FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING

7 TRANSFORMATION REQUIRED

8 University of Wisconsin
DR. FRED M. NEWMANN University of Wisconsin Madison

9 AIW. Changed. Us.

10 Co-directors of the Iowa AIW Consortium
Hope Bossard 37 years of educational experience 10 years in AIW Nancy Port 40 years of educational experience 5 years in AIW

11 Lessons Learned

12 LEARNING TEACHING

13 CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
KEY QUESTION: WHO DOES THE HEAVY LIFTING? Giver of information vs facilitator of choice? Student learning is mostly self-selected or self-generated. Constructing knowledge must be a personal experience.

14 CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING
FLEXIBLE THINKERS EFFECTIVE PROBLEM-SOLVERS CONCEPTS... MATTER

15 ELABORATED COMMUNICATION
High quality learning is no accident! Taught Practiced Measured ...produces competent communicators beyond the classroom

16 VALUE BEYOND SCHOOL The world beyond school is WHAT TRULY MATTERS!
Real problems, real solutions, real work motivates and prepares students for life beyond school... Noah’s Gardeners 21st Century learners!

17 ALL 21ST CENTURY SKILLS. . .matter
CAN BE TAUGHT CAN BE PRACTICED CAN BE MEASURED

18 “You can’t mandate what matters.” Michael Fullan

19 Questions?

20 Acknowledgements: Dr. Fred M. Newmann Dr. Dana L. Carmichael Dr. M. Bruce King IA Department of Education

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