Shaping the Future of Learning

for 21st Century LeadersMarion Ginopolis, MI-LIFE Director

Ron Faulds. MI-LIFE Consultant

Brian Tort, MI-LIFE Consultant

Preparing students for success in the 21st century requires school leaders to retool their skills to meet the changing needs of their students.

Gain insights from the work of the Michigan MI-LIFE program that is shaping the future of learning for school leaders in Michigan by viewing leadership not as the sole responsibility of the classroom, building, or district leader, but as a collective, shared potential among all stakeholders.

Abstract

21st century

students

needs

leaders

Session Outcomes

• Understand the changing needs of 21st centurystudents

• Understand the changing responsibilities of 21st

century leaders in meeting those needs• Identify technology tools, applications, and

collaborative resources that enhance 21st centuryleadership

• Increase leadership capacity to meet the needs of 21st century students.

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What is MI-LIFE?

MI-LIFE is a professional learning program for Michigan

Educational Leaders that is stimulating, inspiring and

challenging and causes them to confront and question

their current assumptions about administering,

teaching, and learning.

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MI-LIFE Mission

All participants will acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become 21st Century Leaders who have an ultimate impact on improving student achievement.

Funded by grants from…

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Optimizing Your Leadership for Continuous Improvement

Making Data Based Decisions for Continuous Improvement

Developing a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Building Capacity for Continuous Improvement

What We’ve Learned fromMI-LIFE

• Learning must be interactive• Content must be relevant to school

improvement• Technology supports instruction and

learning, and not the sole focus• All school leaders are capable of

learning!

Outcomesfor Today

• Understand the changing needs of 21st century students

• Understand the changing responsibilities of 21st

century leaders in meeting those needs• Identify technology tools, applications, and

collaborative resources that enhance 21st century leadership

• Increase leadership capacity to meet the needs of 21st century students.

A Vision of K-12 Students

Our students have changed

What Skills Will Our Students Need?

http://www.metiri.com/features.html

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who

cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who

cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,

unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=120

Porter MI classroom, 1960 http://www.portermn.org/education_history.html

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Math

Science

Reading

Writing

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“Leadership is about learningtogether toward a shared

purpose, rather than a specific role, position, or individual with

formal authority.”

Linda Lambert

Who are the Leaders?

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Second Thoughts on Digital Natives

What technologies do you…

• know about?• participate

in?• live?

Share with those in your

group

“If a superintendent doesn’t understand enough about the tools to articulate and create the vision, they’ll never be able to move the system along and prepare kids for the 21st century.”

Why Do We Ask?

“The people who are in charge of facilitating schools’transition to the digital global economy—superintendents and principals—are typically the least knowledgeable about the digital global economy.”

Education Week, “the Knowledge Gap, January 23, 2008 http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2008/01/23/3leadership.h01.html

understand enough

Outcomes

• Understand the changing needs of 21st century students

• Understand the changing responsibilities of 21st

century leaders in meeting those needs• Identify technology tools, applications, and

collaborative resources that enhance 21st century leadership

• Increase leadership capacity to meet the needs of 21st century students.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/344832659/in/set-72157603986790944/

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21st Century Teacher Network

21st Century Students’ Personal Learning Network

www.protopage.com/AdvancED