key initiative: 21 st century contemporary competencies

Key Initiative:

21st CenturyContemporaryCompetencies

Market Conditions

and Funding

What’s the

big deal?

•kills- and competencies-oriented cultures will create innovative learning opportunities for students, teachers, administrators, and parents.S

An Emerging Landscape:Why Teach 21st Century Skills and Competencies?

• Canadian education is undergoing significant transformation nationally, Ontario launching new policies, conversation around 21st century learning

Destination Imagination: Classroom Edition

• Shifting Minds: www.C21Canada.org

• Great to Excellent, Michael Fullan Report (6 competencies)

• Work of Sir Ken Robinson, Tony Wagner, Andy Hargreaves

• CODE Initiatives, EQAO and 4Cs

M Fullan- Great to Excellent

1. Character Education

2. Digital Citizenship

3. Communication

4. Critical thinking and Problem Solving

5. Collaboration

6. Creativity and Imagination

Destination Imagination: Classroom Edition 04/29/2013

Ontario Funding- Customers

• NO formal funding in place• Curriculum and Instruction- Integrated learning• 21st Century Learning Committees• Focus on Inquiry based learning, Project-based

learning, Problem-based learning

Destination Imagination: Classroom Edition 04/29/2013

• How is the board addressing the priority?• What is in place now?• Are there discussions about 21st

solutions?

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Key ContactsSchool Leadership District Leadership

• Principals

• Innovators

• Leaders in Technology

• Director, CIO

• Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction

• School Effectiveness Superintendents

• Special Education Superintendents

• Student Success Co-ordinators

• IT SpecialistsCHAMPIONS,RISK TAKERS

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Developing 21st Century Skills:

Possible SolutionsChanging Perspectives

on Technology?

CLiC

Echos Pro

eTexts

Equella

SuccessMaker

Cogneeto

etc.

Changing Teacher Practice?

CLiC

Echos Pro

(Equella?)

DI: Classroom Edition

Cogneeto

Developing 21st C Skills in Students?

DI: Classroom

Edition

Cogneeto

PD Titles

Making the conversation

bloom…

differentiating our

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Why not just give up on Cogneeto?

1. Times have changed. Awareness around 21st Century competencies is building.

2. We’ve addressed initial customer concerns.

Now iPad compatible. Teachers can now differentiate criteria.Two-tiered pricing models.

3. We haven’t been at it long.

4. It’s really good.

The Cogneeto

Re-Launch1. New pricing models.• Individual Teacher = $95/yr• Whole School = $595/yr

1. New pricing models.• Individual Teacher = $95/yr• Whole School = $595/yr

2. New look and website to launch the new version.

3. New messaging emphasis.

The Cogneeto

Re-Launch

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4. Improved implementation support. • Easier to try. Easier to use. Easier to upgrade.

Highlights from our

Integrated Plans


From Marketing: Launching mid-Sept

• Refreshed branding and website

• A series of new overview videos

• Instant access for all purchases and trials

• Individual Teacher and Whole School pricing

• Revised flipsheet

• eBlast campaign to schools

From Sales: Generate Trials

• CST school follow-up to eBlast

• AE’s to connect F2F with key leaders

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UPSDeveloping a

for Cogneeto

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UPSObjectives• To advance 21st

century competencies esp. critical thinking

• To improve teacher’s facility with technology

• To improve literacy achievement

Key Initiatives• Destination

Imagination

Challenges• Political reluctance

Possible Solutions

• Cogneeto

• Easy to manage for teachers

• Builds critical thinking and metacognition through compare-and-contrast strategies

• Slows down learning process and builds ownership of success criteria

• Uses highly effective instructional strategies such as peer and self-assessment

• Comes with a bank of assignments designed to exercise critical thinking

• Builds collaboration in a safe environment

• For any discipline or medium

• Cost effective (<$1/student for average sized school)

Cogneeto’sSecret Sauce

Developing a Superintendent of Curriculum

Principal of Program

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UPSObjectives• To advance 21st

century competencies esp. critical thinking

• To improve teacher’s facility with technology

• To improve literacy achievement

Key Initiatives• Destination

Imagination

Challenges• Political reluctance

Possible Solutions

• Cogneeto

Developing a Superintendent of Curriculum

Principal of Program

To heighten critical thinking: that was Cogneeto’s goal from its inception.

It takes highly effectively feedback strategies, like Peer and Self-Assessment, and adapts them to enhance metacognition and slow down the creative process.

The result is not only improved achievement but a collaborative environment that heightens thinking.

Unique Positioning Statement (UPS)

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Objectives• To improve literacy• To engage students and

develop ownership over learning and success criteria

Key Initiatives• Integrated literacy

instruction• Emphasis on Feedback• Destination Imaginat’n

Challenges• Engagement

UPSDeveloping a Student

Success Leader

English Head

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UPSObjectives• To improve literacy• To engage students and



instruction• Emphasis on feedback• Destination Imaginat’n


Possible Solutions

• Cogneeto

Cogneeto’sSecret Sauce

Developing a Student Success Leader

English Head• Easy to manage for teachers

• Builds critical thinking and metacognition through compare-and-contrast strategies

• Slows down learning process and builds ownership of success criteria

• Uses highly effective instructional strategies such as peer and self-assessment

• Comes with a bank of assignments designed to exercise critical thinking

• Builds collaboration in a safe environment

• For any discipline or medium

• Cost effective (<$1/student for average sized school)

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UPSObjectives• To improve literacy• To engage students and



instruction• Emphasis on feedback• Destination Imaginat’n


Possible Solutions

• Cogneeto

Developing a

Cogneeto slows down the learning process causing students to deeply understand and apply success criteria and thus improve communication.

By using highly effective feedback strategies, such as peer and self-assessment, builds student ownership for learning.

Best of all, it reduces management issues for teachers and increases engagement for students.

Unique Positioning Statement (UPS)

Student Success Leader

English Head

Seven Steps

Special Considerations around the

Caution.

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Special Considerations around 21st

• There is an influential 21st Century champion risk-taker?

• There is a 21st C plan with a designated leader

• They use language such as:• Inquiry-based Learning, • Project Based –learning, • Creativity & innovation, • Critical thinking etc.

• There are technology initiatives (BYOD, flipped classroom, 1:1, etc.)

• Where is the funding coming from?

• All 21st century solutions have implementation challenges – not always and only around technology. Have these been considered?

• Has the purpose of the pilot been established?

• Is there sufficient training? Is there an opportunity to sell services?

key initiative: 21 st century contemporary competencies

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