1. Meeting the Needs of Today’s Learner
Michael John Roe, Ed. D.
Principal, Tahquitz High School
Hemet Unified School District
June 8, 2012

2. What needs to occur to create a bold new plan to teach and test the competencies that matter most in the twenty-first century?
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3. Global Achievement Gap
Gates = Wagner “Rigor?”
Seven Survival Skills for Teens Today
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing Information
Curiosity and Imagination
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4. Gladwell Developed Nations – 225 v. 180 Birth Research Achievement Gap
Socio Economic Status
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5. Reality Students have lost the ability to critically think.
7,000 students drop out of American high schools each day.
Less than 60% graduate within four years of entering the 9th grade.
40% of freshman in community college require remedial reading, writing and mathematics.
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6. Generational Barriers to Change
Veteran
Baby Boomers
Generation X
Net Generation
Constant Multi-Task
Constantly connected
Instant gratification and the speed of light
Learning through multimedia and connection to others
Learning as discovery
Learning by creating
Craves dignity…
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7. Can the system of schooling designed to process groups of students in standardized ways in a monolithic instructional mode be adapted to handle differences in the way individual brains are wired for learning?
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8. Original Goals of Education
Preserve the Democracy and Inculcate Democratic Values
Provide Something for Every Student
Keep America Competitive
Eliminate Poverty
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9. Technology in a “Flat World”
Why haven’t computers brought about a transformation in schools the way they have on other areas of life?
Factors That Will Accelerate
Computer based learning will keep improving
Teacher Shortage
Costs will go down “Green Technology”
Ability of students, teachers and parents to select a learning pathway through each body of material that fits each of the types of learners – transformative = computer-based to “student centric” (25% - 25% - 25%) = 20
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10. AI Process to Guide Skunkworks
4-D Cycle
What can we do to grow as a professional learning community here at West Valley?
Discovery
“Appreciate what is”
Dream
“Imagine what might be”
Design
“Determine what should be”
Destiny
“Create what will be”
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11. Light at the end of the Tunnel
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