In Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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In Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• You and P21 Perfect Together

Hilda K. Weisburg NJASL 2009
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What Will Be Covered

• What P21 is
• Framework
• Route 21
• State initiatives
• New Jersey and P21
• What this means to you

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Partnership for 21st Century Skills

• Website
• http//www.21stcenturyskills.org
• Mission
• Serve as a catalyst to position 21st century
  skills at the center of US K-12 education by
  building collaborative partnerships among
  education, business, community and government
  leaders

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P21 Members

• Adobe Systems, Inc. AASL Apple ASCD
• Blackboard, Inc. Cable in the Classroom
• Cisco Systems Corporation for Public
  Broadcasting
• Dell, Inc. Education Networks of America
• Education Testing Service EF Education
• Gale, Cengage Learning Hewlett Packard
• Intel Foundation JA Worldwide K12

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P21 Members - continued

• KnowledgeWorks Foundation Learning Point
  Associates
• LEGO Group Lenovo McGraw-Hill Measured Progress
• Microsoft Corporation National Education
  Association
• Nellie Mae Education Foundation
• Oracle Education Foundation Pearson Quarasan!
• Scholastic Education Sesame Workshop
• Sun Microsystems THINKronize Verizon
• Walt Disney Company

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Skills Framework
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Inner Arch

• CORE SUBJECTS
• English, reading or language arts
• World languages
• Arts
• Mathematics
• Economics
• Science
• Geography
• History
• Government and Civics

• 21ST CENTURY THEMES
• Global Awareness
• Financial, Economic, Business Entrepreneurial
  Literacy
• Civic Literacy
• Health Literacy

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Outer Arch

• Life Career Skills
• Flexibility Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross Cultural Skills
• Productivity Accountability
• Leadership Responsibility

• Learning Innovations Skills
• Creativity Innovation
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving
• Communication Collaboration

Information, Media Technology
Skills Information Literacy Media Literacy ICT
Literacy
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Ring One

• STANDARDS ASSESSMENTS -1
• Supports a balance of assessments, including
  high-quality standardized testing along with
  effective classroom formative and summative
  assessments
• Emphasizes useful feedback on student performance
  that is embedded into everyday learning
• Requires a balance of technology-enhanced,
  formative and summative assessments that measure
  student mastery of 21st century skills

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Ring One

• STANDARDS ASSESSMENTS -2
• Enables development of portfolios of student work
  that demonstrate mastery of 21st century skills
  to educators and prospective employers
• Enables a balanced portfolio of measures to
  assess the educational systems effectiveness at
  reaching high levels of student competency in
  21st century skills

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Ring Two

• Curriculum Instruction
• Teaches 21st century skills discretely in the
  context of core subjects and 21st century
  interdisciplinary themes
• Focuses on providing opportunities for applying
  21st century skills across content areas and for
  a competency-based approach to learning
• Enables innovative learning methods that
  integrate the use of supportive technologies,
  inquiry- and problem-based approaches and higher
  order thinking skills
• Encourages the integration of community resources
  beyond school walls

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Ring Three

• Professional Development
• P21 has established an Affiliate Program for
  companies and organizations that specialize in
  providing administrator and educator training to
  states, districts and schools.  All PD Affiliates
  have been accepted into the program and have
  attended a comprehensive 3-day training on the
  P21 framework. 

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Ring Four

• Learning Environnents -1
• Creates learning practices, human support and
  physical environments that will support the
  teaching and learning of 21st century skill
  outcomes
• Supports professional learning communities that
  enable educators to collaborate, share best
  practices and integrate 21st century skills into
  classroom practice
• Enables students to learn in relevant, real world
  21st century contexts (e.g., through
  project-based or other applied work)

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Ring Four

• Learning Environnents -2
• Allows equitable access to quality learning
  tools, technologies and resources
• Provides 21st century architectural and interior
  designs for group, team and individual learning.
• Supports expanded community and international
  involvement in learning, both face-to-face and
  online

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Route 21

• One-stop shopping for 21st century skill
  information and resources
• Four Core Areas
• ICT Literacy Maps http//www.21stcenturyskills.org
  /index.php?Itemid33id31optioncom_contenttask
  view
• Click on 21st Century Skills for Framework
  definitions
• Terms in detail e.g. Creativity and Innovation
• 21st Century Standards

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Route 21 21st Century Skills

• 21st Century Standards
• Focus on 21st century skills, content knowledge
  and expertise
• Build understanding across and among core
  subjects as well as 21st century
  interdisciplinary themes
• Emphasize deep understanding rather than shallow
  knowledge
• Engage students with the real world data, tools
  and experts they will encounter in college, on
  the job, and in life students learn best when
  actively engaged in solving meaningful problems
• Allow for multiple measures of mastery

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Route 21- Resources

• Currently 592 items
• Includes lesson plans
• Browse by
• Support System (e.g. Learning Environments)
• Skill (e.g. Information, Media and Technology
  Skills)
• Knowledge (Core Subjects, Interdisciplinary
  Themes)

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State Initiative Objective

• Develop a national network of states that are
  implementing statewide projects that further the
  goal of ensuring every child possesses 21st
  century skills.

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P21 States

• Arizona
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Massachusetts

• Nevada
• NEW JERSEY
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• South Dakota
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin

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State Responsibilities

• P21 Leadership States design new standards,
  assessments, and professional development
  programs that prepare students with the 21st
  century skills they need to be successful in
  school, work, and life. To become a P21
  Leadership State, a state demonstrates commitment
  from the governor and chief state school officer
  and submits an application to P21 that describes
  the states plan to revise standards, create
  assessments and implement 21st century skills
  professional development programs. 

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State Leadership Project

• The Partnerships State Leadership Project is
  designed to foster and promote educational
  practices in states that have aligned their
  educational vision, focus and resources around
  21st century learning.
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• The Partnership will work with state-based
  coalitions and policy leaders to build a
  state-wide agenda, coalition, and implementation
  plan. While implementation strategies may vary
  among states, a common goal ensuring that every
  child possesses 21st century skills is shared
  by every state.

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Expectations for States-1

• In order to be successful in this school
  improvement effort, states must plan for
  appropriate resources for their 21st Century
  Skills initiatives including budget, staff and
  physical infrastructure, which at minimum should
  include
•  Ensure high level state leadership support for
  participation as a P21 Leadership State.

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Expectations for States-2

• Establish a State Based Advisory Committee
• Ensure professional development strategies that
  develop the capacity of teachers across the state
• Undertake Standards Setting/Assessment Alignment
• Communication of Proofs of Concept

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NJ and P21

• Vision New Jersey citizens have the requisite
  knowledge to live and work effectively in a
  complex and dynamic world.
• Mission The creation of a systemic approach to
  ensure that all New Jersey students are provided
  with the knowledge and skills to be able to
  function culturally, politically and economically
  in a global society.

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NJ P21 Advisory Board

• Creating 21st Century New Jersey Schools
• Phase 1 (2009-2010)
• Awareness and Familiarization
• Phase 2 (2010 -2011)
• Critical Transformations
• Phase 3 (2011-2012)
• Sustaining the Change

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Effects of P21 in NJ

• Professional Development
• Teachers
• Administrators
• Bandwidth issues
• Standards
• New requirements for graduation
• 2.5 credits in financial, economic, business and
  entrepreneurial literacy (210-211 9th graders)
• National Core Standards

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NJ P21 and You

• You are a vital resource in making it happen
• Many stakeholders dont know that
• Whos responsibility is it to make them aware?
• Mine
• NJASL
• YOU!!!!!!

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Questions --- Comments