1. Signs of Life in the American High School April 23, 2004 Dr. Willard R. Daggett International Center for Leadership in Education Archived Information

2. Rigor/Relevance - All Why Do We Need to Change Schools? What Needs to Be Done? How Do We Do It?

3. Picture: Richard Clark

4. Number Crunching Information Processing Power Moore’s Law

5. Skills Gap

6. Rigor/Relevance - All Why Do We Need to Change Schools? What Needs to Be Done? How Do We Do It?

7. Grade Equivalent Semantic Difficulty Semantic Difficulty Syntactic Complexity Syntactic Complexity

8. Lexile Framework Semantic Difficulty Semantic Difficulty Syntactic Complexity Syntactic Complexity

9. Lexile Literature 1500 - On Ancient Medicine 1400 - The Scarlet Letter 1300 - Brown vs. Board of Ed. 1200 - War and Peace 1100 - Pride and Prejudice 1000 - Black Beauty 900 - Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders 800 - The Adventures of Pinocchio 700 - Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery 600 - A Baby Sister for Frances 500 - The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth 400 - Frog and Toad are Friends 300 - Clifford’s Manners

10. Lexile Texts 1500 - The Making of Memory: From Molecules to Mind; Doubleday 1400 - Philosophical Essays; Hackett Publishing 1300 - Psychology: An Introduction; Prentice Hall 1200 - Business; Prentice Hall 1100 - America: Pathways to Present; Prentice Hall 1000 - Writing and Grammar Gold Level; Prentice Hall 900 - World Cultures: A Global Mosaic; Prentice Hall 800 - Word 97; Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 700 - World Explorer: The U.S. & Canada; Prentice Hall 600 - Science (Grade 4); Addison-Wesley 500 - People and Places; Silver Burdett Ginn 400 - Imagine That!; Scholastic Inc. 300 - My World; Harcourt Brace

11. Personal Use Aetna Health Care Discount Form (1360) Medical Insurance Benefit Package (1280) Application for Student Loan (1270) Federal Tax Form W-4 (1260) Installing Your Child Safety Seat (1170) Microsoft Windows User Manual (1150) G.M. Protection Plan (1150) CD DVD Player Instructions (1080)

12. Newspapers Reuters (1440) NY Times (1380) Washington Post (1350) Wall Street Journal (1320) Chicago Tribune (1310) Associated Press (1310) USA Today (1200)

13. 16 Career Clusters Department of Education

14. Reading Requirements Findings Entry-level Entry-level Highest in 6/16 Highest in 6/16 Second Highest in 7/16 Second Highest in 7/16 Consistent Across Country Consistent Across Country

15. Human Services

16. Construction

17. Manufacturing

18. Reading Comparison – High School

19. Student Text Post School Responsibility

20. How Personalized Personalized Academies Academies Small Learning Communities Small Learning Communities Laser-like Focus on Rigor Laser-like Focus on Rigor Application Application

21. Application Model Application Model 1. Knowledge in one discipline 2. Application within discipline 3. Application across disciplines 4. Application to real-world predictable situations 5. Application to real-world unpredictable situations

22. How Personalized Personalized Academies Academies Small Learning Communities Small Learning Communities Laser-like Focus on Rigor Laser-like Focus on Rigor Application Application Framework Framework

23. Rigor/Relevance Framework

24. 1.Awareness 2.Comprehension 3.Application 4.Analysis 5.Synthesis 6.Evaluation Knowledge Taxonomy Knowledge Taxonomy

25. Application Model Application Model 1. Knowledge in one discipline 2. Application within discipline 3. Application across disciplines 4. Application to real-world predictable situations 5. Application to real-world unpredictable situations

26. 12345 Application Knowledge 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rigor/Relevance Framework

27. Levels CDABCDAB 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 3 2 1 Bloom’s Application

28. Rigor/Relevance - All Why Do We Need to Change Schools? What Needs to Be Done? How Do We Do It?

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