1. Learning for the 21st Century
Bob Pearlman
West Virginia Institutes for 21st Century Leadership
July 19 & 26, 2007
PowerPoint Slides at 1

2. "Our challenge is to provide instruction that is not only relevant, engaging and meaningful, but that also includes the world-class rigor necessary to prepare our students to be competitive in the 21st century workplace. Students must be able to comprehend, problem solve and communicate solutions if they are expected to compete on a global level."
Dr. Steven Paine Superintendent of Schools

3. 8 Components

4. WHY skills for the 21st Century?
WHAT knowledge and skills do students need for the 21st Century?
What does 21st Century Learning look like?
How do you do 21st Century Learning and Teaching?
What technology tools support 21st Century Learning?

5. 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.
1992

6. Job Outlook 2002, National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)

9. “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

10. Assessment of 21st Century Skills Partnership for 21st Century Skills
CAROLINE MCDOWELL
Since the Partnership’s inception, our framework for learning in the 21st century focuses on measuring a student’s performance on all the elements of 21st century education.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills

11. What learning curricula, activities, and experiences, foster 21st Century Learning?
What does 21st Century Learning look like?

13. Teachers talk and students listen.

14. The teacher has a monopoly on information

15. Students learn by not doing

16. How do we get them here?

17. Sacramento New Technology High School – Segment 1

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

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

22. 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.

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

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

25. Napa New Technology High School – Segment 2

26. What classroom learning environments support 21st Century Learning?

27. Sacramento New Technology High School

28. Napa New Technology High School

29. Schools as Workplaces for 21st Century Students

30. 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

31. How do you do 21st Century Learning and Teaching?

32. Step 1: Determine the LEARNING OUTCOMES New Technology HS
TECHNOLOGY LITERACY
COLLABORATION
CRITICAL THINKING
ORAL COMMUNICATION
WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
CAREER PREPARATION
CITIZENSHIP AND ETHICS
CURRICULAR LITERACY (CONTENT STANDARDS)
New Technology HS
LEARNING OUTCOMES

33. Know/ Need to Know Step 2: Design the Project
Draws graph- more rigor and positive culture
Just having high rigor is NOT enough
Learning is for more individualized
Flexibility
No Jay Leo- Jay Walk Allstars
They are going to learn content, but how am I going to help you learn it?
Not going to see achievement of SCANS skills if we don’t change the way classrooms work
NTF’s approach is holistic- whole school approach
Most school’s try piecemeal style of reform- try block schedule- we find out it doesn’t work
Like a supped up Pinto
If all you do is make yourself small- you will get some culture, but that is about it!
Small is just not enough
It is a step in the right direction, but not enough
Tells story about SLC- business program-
Puts all of at risk kids in a successful
Schools apply for money- get the $ or have a strong leader- then the go away
All about piece meal reform (block scheduling)
Two hour lecture- educators
We have to change the way that we are teaching-

34. 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.

35. Assessments (Rubrics)
Step 3: Develop the
Assessments (Rubrics)
Guiding Questions:
How will students demonstrate these skills?
How will we measure these skills?
How will we ensure students reach proficiency in these skills before they graduate?

36. The finished product:

37. Step 4: Students demonstrate mastery through ….
Products
Presentations
Portfolios

38. Step 5: Provide Feedback to Students

39. What technology tools support a 21st Century collaborative learning environment and support a learning community?

40. 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

41. PBL in the Classroom Sample Project Briefcase

42. Course Calendar Daily Agenda How are the tools used?
You might be thinking… this is cool but our school environment look NOTHING like this.
Our school population looks much like your
Diverse and very Urban
Classes are mainstreamed- students with varying ability levels and learn styles
Daily Agenda

43. PBL in the Classroom Collaboration Evaluation: Student View

44. TOOLS: PRESENTATION EVALUATION DATABASE

47. PROJECT BRIEFCASE
COURSE CALENDAR
The NTH Learning System™ is a set of tools and technologies that support a student-centered, project- and problem-based learning environment.
COLLABORATION RUBRIC
NTHS GRADEBOOK

48. 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.

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

50. Key recommendations to West Virginia Principals
Learning Outcomes
Determine the school’s Learning Outcomes (21st Century Skills)
Embed the Learning Outcomes into projects
Design assessments to measure Outcomes
Students prove mastery of Learning Outcomes through Products, Presentations, and Portfolios
Provide students with just-in-time assessment feedback
Projects
Assess 21st Century Skills
Products Presentations Portfolios
Go see 21st Century Learning
Skills-Based Grade Reports

51. A School Development Organization

52. SY 2005-06 SY 2006-07 SY 2007-08 SY 2008-09 NETWORK PROGRESS Anchorage
Portland
New York
N. Eugene
Klamath
Chicago
Indiana (3)
+ 5
Northern California (8)
Denver
North Carolina (6)
Los Angeles (4)
+ 2
+ 3
Texas
+ 2
New Orleans (2)
+ 1

53. NEW TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLS (late September  March)
Napa and Sacramento
Study Tours and Visits
(late September  March)

54. Contact Information
Susan Schilling
CEO
1040 Main St., Suite 302
Napa, CA 94559
Bob Pearlman
Director of Strategic Planning
PowerPoint Slides at
New Tech info at