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Closing the Global Achievement Gap
Jonathan Martin
Head of School
St. Gregory College Preparatory School
A Year in My Life
• A blog project: 21st century education
• What do Students need to Learn?• What learning environments are working best to
teach 21st century skills?
The 21st century challenge
• Outsourcing• Automation• Internet Information
Availability
Tony Wagner, the Global Achievement Gap
• Our High School Students are not learning what they need to learn
• We need new expectations, new learning environments & new measurements.
The Skills Students NeedMany iterations
My distillation:
• Leadership and effective collaboration
Inquiry, perseverance, & resilience,
Innovation and Creativity
Real-World Problem solving
Shadow-Blogging 2008
21 High Schools
Wagner:
The important question is what’s going on in classrooms?
The findings
• Majority of schools and classrooms are stuck in the 20th century
• Some schools, however, are paving a way to new models highly congruent with learning 21st century skills
21st c. schools
Qualities of 21st c. Schools That Work
Purpose and Real-World Pertinence
Problem-Based Learning
Time and process
Technology in student hands
Product and Publishing (On-line)
Faculty collaboration
Serious about the Results that Matter
Putting it into Practice
Actions• Close study of Wagner’s book
– Bringing Wagner to Tucson
• New Institutes for teaching leadership and innovation, and new, unique, diploma programs in leadership and innovation.
• New Measurements of Learning, tests and surveys
• Enhancing classroom technology
• Much, much more….
www.21k12blog.net