1. Thoughts Provoked “Personal” into education: It is about Character Building (which is also Future Building): “Grit” (Optimism; Persistence; Resilience) Learning from failure Hope Relationships matter!! (teachers +++) It is about Meaning Making- constructing our own lives, constructing a personally meaningful future

2. Career Literacy/Critical Thinking: –Managing and making personal sense of information –Discerning misinformation from empirical information –Distinguishing marketing from evidence –Averting becoming “brittle” Thoughts Provoked

3. Engagement: –Much more proactive and collaborative role for students –Students advise, influence, contribute Shake-Up: –Current paradigms, conventions and belief systems –Physical, emotional, cultural and spiritual benchmarks as an evaluative framework

4. Working Group Themes 1.VISION: not yet clear—close but no cigar! –We need this conversation—we do not have it at a deep enough level –“are we leading through the rear view mirror?” –Vision needs to guide action; otherwise it is all “one-offs”

5. Working Group Themes 2. Relationships need to be stronger: Student/teacher collaboration Community Parent Colleagues If we agree on this, how do we grow relationships?

6. Working Group Themes 3.Engagement Strategies need to be championed : –real world experiences –“relevant” learning; relevant teachers (being current is one feature of relevance) –Communication/coaching

7. ACTIONS 1.Alignment of K-12 with PSE: –Policy review needed 2.Attention to Infrastructure: –What does a 21 st century learning space look like? –How are premises designed? –What can be changed now? –What engages students (places to connect; even a “fireplace”)

8. ACTIONS 3. Cross Ministries working together Work closely with “human services” Activate “working connections” with business and industry 4. Creativity in Delivery Structures: Alternative uses of technology Examination of flexible school hours to promote more community engagement

9. ACTION 5. Teacher Professional Preparation: Need for support and strategies to implement 21 st century learning expectations Teacher Preparation Programs need a major overhaul (need to take personal responsibility for remaining current; use of technology needs to be modelled; culture of experimentation and doing things differently needs to be embraced).

10. ACTION 6.Engage PSE in the transformation— “may be” a time of opportunity N.B. Creativity and Imagination AND EQUAL ACCESS go through all the action themes and all need to be “unleashed”: i.e. Teachers need to be supported to experiment, take risks, go beyond and both their successes and their failures honoured (Insight Café examples)

11. PROCESS “Aha!”—recognition of an “urgency” but how to respond is challenging and still unclear “Fear” – can we rise to the challenge? Frustration with the pace of change but strong energy to move forward Successful models of 21 st century learning are needed Stakeholder diversity (i.e. this forum) enriches our own learning—here and after here!

12. PROCESS Get Involved Try Just do it! Focus on “local” solutions The act of bringing people together to “construct” the future leads to action Any pace, any time, any where learning Think Big---Start Small!