Saturday, March 12, 2011

21st Century Schools: Your feedback needed.

From: Colette Dunsmore, Dearborn PTSA Council President |  
cdunsmore@wowway.com

Below is a letter regarding the 21st Century Schools forums that have been taking place monthly.  


The letter lists 7 key threads that our children should be able to accomplish from K-12.   Of course, at each grade it may be a different level of criteria. 


Please review this letter and the 7 key threads and email me back if you feel there should be something else added to these common skills.  Keep in mind that some things you might want to add are going to be in an area already listed. 


Any and all feedback is welcome and needed before our next meeting.  Since I have to compile the answers, please reply by April 1st.  Our next 21st Century Schools meeting will be on April 13th!  If you’d like to join us, we’ll be meeting in the board room at the Administrative Services Center at 6:30pm. (see letter below)



Board Academic Achievement – Elementary | March 10, 2011
The District 21st Century Committee has been meeting monthly. At our meeting last night we determined common threads for our students (Prekindergarten through 12th grade) to prepare them for the future. Although we worked in groups, there was much commonality amongst our thinking. Following are the areas of learning and experience whereby our students could develop their 21st century skill set, as determined by this committee. Of course, these are very broad areas which will need to be clearly defined in our next steps.
Technology (digital literacy)
Real World Problem Solving/Inquiry
Projects-Based Learning
Collaboration & Team Building
Global Competency
Higher Order Thinking & Creativity
Cross Curricular

This “list” will be shared with others (general administrators, PTAs) for input and discussion. Our next meeting is April 13th. At that time, we will take the input received and develop action plans for implementation across all levels (elementary through secondary). We will need to develop rubrics of sorts to address these areas; however, this would be a part of developing an action plan. We will also need to develop common knowledge and vocabulary around these concepts.


21st Century..... Are your students:
Critical thinkers?
Problem solvers?
Good communicators?
Good collaborators?
Information and technology literate?
Flexible and adaptable?
Innovative and creative?
Globally competent?
Environmentally literate?

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