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“Leading Schools into the Future: Strategies for

21st Century School Leaders”

Ken Kay, EdLeader21Bill Taylor, St. George’s Independent

SchoolChris Thinnes, Curtis School

•What is 21st Century Education?

•What are the 7 Steps for Becoming a 21st Century School?

•What is EdLeader21?

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What is 21st Century Education?

• Is it anything you want it to be?

• Is it technology?

• Is it the 4Cs?


What are the 7 Steps for Becoming a 21st Century

School?

Leading examples

Upper ArlingtonCity School

District

(Upper Arlington, Ohio)

www.uaschools.org

Leading examplesVirginia Beach City Public Schools

Compass to 2015

Critical and Creative Thinkers, Innovators,and Problem Solvers Critical Thinking Creative/Innovative Thinking Problem Solving

Effective Communicators and Collaborators

Information Literacy Listening Collaboration Communication

Globally Aware, Independent, Responsible Learners

and CitizensSocial Responsibility Sustainability Interdependence Health Literacy

www.vbschools.com

Step 3: Align your system


www.p21.org/mileguide

St. George’s Writing PortfolioWhere might you find a copy of a five-page short story chronicling a trip to the Oort Cloud, a half-page explanation of how a pulley works, a journal entry penned minutes after completing the most fantastic book yet read, the six-column-inch editorial on recycling for the school newspaper, the game rules for an original game of probability, a reflection on the complimentary styles of two painters, a poem celebrating the deliciousness of cornbread, a narrator’s script for a documentary on rugby, and a seventeen-page research paper on Egyptian hieroglyphs with all its fifty-nine footnotes? All these texts and many more could be found in the personal writing portfolio of a student at St. George’s, of course.

Each St. George’s student creates and is solely responsible for a portfolio of written work, an individualized collection of pieces representing writing and learning across the disciplines. Accompanying each portfolio piece, the student attaches a brief, self-reflective written commentary exploring the choices made while writing and insights discovered upon completion. Each piece of writing a student includes in a portfolio is evidence of the thinking, planning, and effort used to create that text. At the end of a school year, a glance into a portfolio exhibits the student’s agility in a variety of writing formats, highlighting strengths and bringing challenges into view. Over the years, the pieces of writing in a portfolio showcases the student’s proficiency of expression, the ease with which the student uses language, the confidence necessary to respond in writing to any question posed, and the types of writing at which the student excels, offering finally a composite of who the student is as a writer.

In keeping a portfolio, a student writer comes to discover what experienced writers know: that the process through which each individual writer creates text is unique; that writing can be used both to learn information and to generate ideas; that the process of writing, like the process of thinking, is recursive; that understanding the audience and purpose of any composition is essential to a writer; that reading extensively helps writers see how other writers use language well; and that to develop individual writing abilities, writers must write and write and write. In keeping a portfolio, a student writer will also, just possibly, come to know how unbelievably spectacular it is to be a writer.

Focus on Critical Thinking

• Example: Center for Authentic Intellectual Work (www.centerforaiw.com)


http://www.centerforaiw.com/

Share with your teachers

this 4C’s Guide for

Educators.

http://www.nea.org/tools/52217.htm

http://www.nea.org/tools/52217.htm

Student’s Academic Experience that is Relevant to Rubric Goals:

How has this experience strengthened the student’s learning?

How can this learning be further enhanced?

Utilizes a Variety of Effective Instructional Strategies

A rating in the medium range would be illustrative of: * Teaching that combines lecture (direct instruction), discussion, and small group work * Incorporates creativity in instructional strategies and assessments * The use of rubrics * Tutorial work that meets the envisioned goals of the program * Efforts taken to seek additional information about students’ learning needs when instructional

strategies are initially ineffective * Teaching that touches/makes connections with each student in every class * The development of levels of appropriate challenge for each student * Applying the use of technology resources meaningfully * Engaging all students in the learning process through unbiased calling patterns and other practices * Assigning age-appropriate homework that supports and extends instruction * An understanding of Bloom’s taxonomy and its effective use * An understanding of different learning styles A rating in the high range would include all of the above, plus: * Active engagement to meet the needs of all students through differentiated instruction * Knowledge of specific student’s learning styles and an ability to teach accordingly * The devotion of time and practice, beyond that which is created in the schedule, to meet the needs of

students * Demonstrates leadership in school-wide initiative to enhance and augment 21st century skills in the

teaching and learning environment

Step 7: Improve and Innovate


What is EdLeader21?

EdLeader21 is a professional learning

community of school and district leaders committed to 21st century education.


EdLeader21 has over 110 members from 31 states, representing over 2

million students.


Independent School Members

• Curtis School• Mount Vernon Presbyterian School• San Francisco Day School• Seattle Academy• Sequoyah School• St. George’s Independent School• The Kingsbury Center• Turning Point School• Westridge School

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EdLeader21 Features


Tools & Resources Professional Development

Networking Innovative Projects

EdLeader21 Features: Tools and Resources

21st Century Education Implementation Support


EdLeader21 Features: PD Webinars


Yong ZhaoRick DuFourDan Pink Tony Wagner

EdLeader21 Features: Networking


Annual Meetings

Online Social Network

Working Groups

Conference Calls

EdLeader21 Features:Projects


4C’s Rubrics Project

Assessment Pilot Project

Self-evaluation

Peer Evaluation

Formal Certificatio

n

21st Century District Criteria Project

EdLeader21 is bringing independent and public school leaders together to help each other in the implementation of

21st century education.


For more information aboutEdLeader21, please:

1. Check out our website (www.edleader21.com)

2. Request an application and pricing schedule.

3. Request a virtual tour of our collaborative website.

For more information, please contact:Mary Buckley

[email protected]


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Conclusion

The 4Cs and the 7 Steps are tools to help you drive transformation in

your school. Consider joining a PLC that brings together

independent and public schools to support 4C/7 Step implementation.


Ken [email protected]

Twitter: @kenkay21

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