1. 21st Century High Schools: The New Tech High School Model
Bob Pearlman
Developing an Indiana Network of New Technology High Schools
May 2, 2006 1

2. A School Development Organization

3. 2005/2006 School Year 2006/2007 School Year NETWORK PROGRESS Anchorage
Portland
N. Eugene
Klamath
Chicago
Northern California (8)
Denver
North Carolina (6)
Los Angeles (4)
Texas (1)
New Orleans (2)

4. New Technology High Network Schools -- current
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
New Technology High School, Napa
Anderson New Technology High School, Anderson
Technology High School, Rohnert Park
Mare Island Technology (MIT) Academy High School, Vallejo
Sacramento New Technology High School, Sacramento
Marin School of Arts and Technology, Novato
Leonardo DaVinci High School, Davis
Castlemont Business & Information Technology School, Oakland
OREGON: BizTech High School, Portland, Oregon
ALASKA: Highland Tech High, Anchorage, Alaska
LOUISIANA
New Orleans New Technology High School, New Orleans
Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy, Jefferson Parish
COLORADO: Welby New Technology High School, Mapleton School District
CHICAGO: Little Village Infinity Math, Science and Technology High School

5. New Technology High Network Schools – Starting 2006-7
TEXAS
Akins New Tech High School, Austin
OREGON
Riverside New Tech, Klamath Falls
School of IDEAS (Industry, Design, Engineering and Science), Eugene
NORTH CAROLINA
Camtech High School, Camden
Cherokee New Technology High School, Cherokee
East Wake HS of Integrated Technology, Wendell
CMS New Technology High School, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Information Technology HS, Accelerated Learning Academy, Robeson County
Math, Science, and Technology High School, Laurinburg
LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles School of Global Studies, Local District #4
New Technology High School for Environmental Studies, Local District #4
Jefferson New Technology High School for Student Empowerment, Local District #5
Jordan New Technology High School, Local District #7

6. “Results That Matter: 21st Century Skills and High School Reform”
Improving high schools requires the nation to redefine “rigor” to encompass not just mastery of core academic subjects, but also mastery of 21st century skills and content. Rigor must reflect all the results that matter for all high school graduates today. Today’s graduates need to be critical thinkers, problem solvers and effective communicators who are proficient in both core subjects and new, 21st century content and skills. These 21st century skills include learning and thinking skills, information and communications technology literacy skills, and life skills.
-- March 24, 2006

7. RESULTS THAT MATTER www.newtechfoundation.org/articles.html
Post-Secondary Success
In 2005, Rockman et al conducted a six-month study of Napa New Technology High School (NTHS) alumni (8 graduating classes since opening in 1996). The study gathered feedback from NTHS graduates regarding their postsecondary education and/or career, 21st Century skills, knowledge and use of technology, and on what they valued most about their NTHS experience:
89% of the responding alumni attended a 2-year or 4-year college/university or professional or technical institute.
92% of respondents have applied some or a great deal of what they learned at NTHS to their postsecondary education or career.
96% of the respondents would choose to attend NTHS again.
40% of the alumni respondents were either majoring in STEM fields or were working in STEM professions.
High School Success
New Tech High School students graduate with a mastery of 21st Century knowledge and skills, prepared for college, career, and citizenship. New Tech High School uses multiple measures to assess student performance and school accountability, including measures of student engagement, academic success, 21st Century skills, and post-secondary success.  NTHS Results that Matter shows high school success data on student achievement, 21st Century Skills, graduation requirements, graduation rates, post-secondary enrollments and STEM Careers, Recognitions, and NTHS Network School Success .

8. Globalization 1.0 Globalization 2.0
Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004
Globalization 1.0
From the late 1800's to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad. shrank the world from a size large to a size medium.
Globalization 2.0
From the 1980's to 2000, was based on falling telecom costs and the PC, and shrank the world from a size medium to a size small.

9. Small and Smaller: The third era of globalization is shrinking the world from size small to a size tiny.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, March 4, 2004
Globalization 3.0
Produced by three forces:
Massive installation of undersea fiber-optic cable and bandwidth (thanks to the dot-com bubble) that have made it possible to globally transmit and store huge amounts of data for almost nothing.
Second, the diffusion of PC's around the world.
Third, the convergence of a variety of software applications — from , to Google, to Microsoft Office, to specially designed outsourcing programs — that, when combined with all those PC's and bandwidth, made it possible to create global "work-flow platforms."

10. “ … the winners will be those most adept at marshaling the creativity and skills of workers around the world.”
-- Business Week, March 21, 2005

11. London Challenge Visualization, November 2004
What are the key questions for building schools of the future?
What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st century?
knowledge and skills
What learning curricula, activities, and experiences, foster 21st Century learning?
London Challenge Visualization, November 2004
curricula
What assessments for learning, school-based and national, foster student learning, engagement, and self-direction?
assessments
What physical learning environments (classroom, school, and real world) foster 21st century student learning?
facilities
How can technology support a 21st Century collaborative learning environment and support a learning community?
technology

12. What knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?

13. SCANS U.S. Department of Labor Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
COMPETENCIES - Effective workers can productively use:
Resources - allocating time, money, materials, space and staff.
Interpersonal Skills - working on teams, teaching others, serving customers, leading, negotiating, and working well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Information - acquiring and evaluating data, organizing and maintaining files, interpreting and communication, and using computers to process information.
Systems - understanding social, organizational and technological systems, monitoring and correcting performance, and designing or improving systems.
Technology - selecting equipment and tools, applying technology to specific tasks, and maintaining and troubleshooting technologies.
FOUNDATIONS - Competence requires:
Basic Skills - reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking and listening.
Thinking Skills - thinking creatively, making decisions, solving problems, seeing things in the mind's eye, knowing how to learn, and reasoning.
Personal Qualities - individual responsibilities, self-esteem, sociability, self-management, and integrity.
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14. Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

17. New Technology HS LEARNING OUTCOMES TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
COLLABORATION
CRITICAL THINKING
ORAL COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
CAREER PREPARATION
CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS
CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS)

18. What learning curricula, activities, and experiences, foster 21st Century learning? And what does schooling look like?

20. Teachers talk and students listen.

21. The teacher has a monopoly on information

22. Students learn by not doing

23. How do we get them here?

24. New Technology High School
Napa, California
Integrating technology into every class
Interdisciplinary and project-based
Internship class consisting of classroom curriculum and work-based learning in regional companies
Digital Portfolio

25. 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.

26. Project- and Problem-Based Learning Keys to 21st Century Learning
NTHS teachers start each unit by throwing students into a realistic or real-world project that both engages interest and generates a list of things the student need to know. Projects are designed to tackle complex problems, requiring critical thinking. New Tech’s strategy is simple:
To learn collaboration, work in teams.
To learn critical thinking, take on complex problems.
To learn oral communication, present.
To learn written communication, write.
To learn technology, use technology.
To develop citizenship, take on civic and global issues.
To learn about careers, do internships.
To learn content, research and do all of the above.

27. Students form a team, develop a work contract and build a work plan
Each unit begins when students are presented with a complex, standards-based problem
Students form a team, develop a work contract and build a work plan

28. Students get to work!
Students are provided an online briefcase specific to the project with information, resources, links and assessment criteria that help guide them.

29. Students Need To Know
Student questions and “need to knows” drive classroom lectures and activities. Sometimes for the whole class … sometime for just one student

30. Students experiment and apply learning
Students test their ideas and experiment to find solutions and breakthroughs while receiving ongoing feedback from instructors.

31. Students get back to work!
Students work and collaborate in a business-like environment, where they know their deliverables and have the technology tools to do their jobs.

32. Students prepare to present
Students work on building presentations to repre-sent their work and defend their solutions

33. Students present their solutions!
Students present ideas through debates, skits, panels, presentations, etc… where their work is evaluated by peers, teachers, parents, and community

34. 2 teachers, 45-50 students, meeting for 2 hour blocks each day
CURRICULUM INTEGRATION
COMMUNICATION STUDIES
9TH Grade Language Arts
Drama
GLOBAL STUDIES
World History and Civilizations
10th Grade Language Arts
AMERICAN STUDIES
United States History
American Literature
POLITICAL STUDIES
Government/Economics
Political Literature
2 teachers, students, meeting for 2 hour blocks each day
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
Algebra II
Physics

35. College Courses and Internships
Major impact on high school performance
Major impact on Post-secondary success

37. Transform the Secondary School Student Experience!
Personalization
Projects
Exhibitions
Digital Portfolios
Internships
Technology

38. What physical learning environments (classroom, school, and real world) foster 21st century student learning?

42. Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students

43. Technology infrastructure to support 1:1 computer ratios
FACILITIES FRAMEWORK
Large classrooms that allow for team teaching, computers, group work and creates an environment that reflects school’s purpose.
Technology infrastructure to support 1:1 computer ratios

44. How can technology support a 21st Century collaborative learning environment and support a learning community?

45. 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

46. TOOLS: PROJECT BRIEFCASE
The Project Briefcase allows teachers to put all project materials in one spot for easy student access and to share with other teachers.

47. CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
The Project Library allows teachers in our network of schools to search, view and download projects that other teachers have found successful.

48. TOOLS: COURSE AGENDA
The Course Agenda helps keep complicated projects organized.

49. Teachers enter activities for each day including links to resources and homework assignments.

51. TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE

55. Use technology to create a collaborative learning environment and a Learning Community

56. New Technology High School Grads: Powerful Articulate Self-Directed
Collaborative
Leaders & Entrepreneurs 1

57. NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL (late September  March)
Study Tours and Visits
(late September  March)

58. Contact Information
New Technology Foundation
Susan Schilling - CEO
1746 Yajome
Napa, CA 94559
Bob Pearlman
Director of Strategic Planning
PowerPoint Slides at