MILE Guide Milestones for Improving Learning in Education

1. MILE Guide Milestones for Improving Learning in Education • Valerie Greenhill • Partnership for 21st Century Skills • November 23, 2009, 4pm Eastern • Audio: 866-625-9936 • Web: http://www.atconference.com/web-conferencing/login.php/?schedid=1534263 • Code: 1534263

2. Getting Started Technical Details: • Audio: • Call-in: 866-625-9936 • Code: 1534263 • Web: • Click http://www.atconference.com/web-conferencing/login.php/?schedid=1534263 • Code: 1534263 • Questions: Please contact AT Conference customer support at 1-877-480-4300 Questions: • Since you will be muted, please submit comments and questions via chat to Paul Tumarkin.

3. Agenda • Opening Comments • MILE Guide Presentation • Questions and Answers • Running time: ~1 hour

4. Welcome Valerie Greenhill Director of Strategic Initiatives Partnership for 21st Century Skills

5. Opening Comments Blake West, PresidentKansas National Education Association Bernie Trilling, Senior DirectorThink.com & ThinkQuest,Oracle Education Initiatives, Oracle Corporation

6. MILE Guide: Overview Purpose: Identify where the district sits on the continuum of 21st century learning Plan future progress

7. 21st Century Skills Framework Standards & Assessment Curriculum & Instruction Professional Development Learning Environments

8. MILE Guide: Overview For who? District and school leaders Educators Policymakers

9. MILE Guide: Overview Contains: Self-Assessment Tool Recommendations Examples Link to online tool (coming January 2010)

10. MILE Guide: Important Note • Core academic subjects are a bedrock component of the MILE Guide self-assessment tool. • The MILE Guide also encourages each school district to ask – are your students: • Critical thinkers? • Problem solvers? • Good communicators? • Good collaborators? • Information and technology literate? • Flexible and adaptable? • Innovative and creative? • Globally competent? • Financially literate?

11. MILE Guide: Overview Self-Assessment Tool

12. MILE Guide: How to Use • The MILE Guide Self-Assessment allows schools and districts to review: • Student Knowledge and Skills • Educational Support Systems (e.g., curriculum, assessment, etc.) • Leading and Teaching • Policymaking • Partnering • Continuous Improvement

13. MILE Guide: How to Use • Allows districts and schools to identify efforts as: • Early • Transitional • 21st Century

14. MILE Guide: How to Use Steps for use: Complete the MILE Guide self-assessment tool Use results to generate a shared vision Develop a comprehensive, aligned plan of action Implement your plan Track and monitor progress; revise plan as needed Communicate progress

15. Guiding Recommendations Implementation Recommendations for: Assessment Professional development Curriculum and instruction Learning environments Standards

16. Guiding Recommendations Assessment: Build 21st century skills into formative assessment strategies. Create an aligned accountability system: all assessment strategies should align with 21st century skills standards, professional development and curriculum and instruction. Consider ICT literacy assessment as a starting point. Create open repositories for assessment items and rubrics that help measure 21st century skills.

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18. Guiding Recommendations Professional Development: Develop intensive teacher professional development programs that focus intentionally on 21st century skills instruction. Build capacity. Develop district leadership teams to infuse 21st century skills throughout the school district. Invest in ICT (information communications technologies) excellence. Develop professional learning communities around specific 21st century skills. Train administrators around how to lead 21st century skills initiatives.

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20. Guiding Recommendations Curricula: Develop Curricula for Understanding. Unpack the Standards to Articulate Essential Concepts and Skills. Build Widespread Consensus Around the Big Ideas and Essential Questions. Use Curriculum-Embedded Performance-Based Assessments. Commit to Continuous Improvement in 21st Century Curriculum Design Processes Collaborate

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22. Guiding Recommendations Instruction: Use “Teach for Understanding” Principles Create Meaningful Opportunities for Student Demonstration/Mastery of 21st Century Skills Deliver Learner-Centered Instruction that Enables 21st Century Skills Reflect, Refine, and Improve 21st Century Skills Instruction

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24. Guiding Recommendations Learning Environments: Establish a 21st century vision for learning environments in your district. Ensure educational structures enable 21st century skills. Move toward flexible units of time that enable project-based work, interdisciplinary themes and competency-based measures of student progress. Ensure technical infrastructure sufficiently supports student learning. Empower the “People Network” in learning environments.

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26. Guiding Recommendations Standards: Integrate 21st century skills into core academic subject standards. Integrate 21st century themes into core subject area standards, where appropriate. Incorporate 21st century technology literacy and tools where appropriate into standards. Ensure standards are an integrated component of curriculum, assessments, and professional development.

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28. MILE Guide: Benefits “Kansas educators are anxious to put the revised MILE Guide to work.  As we create professional development for our staff and as we share “exemplary practices” among colleagues, the MILE Guide will be exactly that – a guide to plan our work and a benchmark to better assess how we are doing. Quite simply, the MILE Guide provides teachers and education leaders with meaningful, practical guidance as we plan the kind of learning experiences that will help our students apply 21st century skills to solving real world problems.” -Blake West, ED.D., president, Kansas National Education Association

29. Q & A Question and Answer Session Reminder: Chat your questions to Paul Tumarkin

30. For More… For the free PDF and to order additional print copies, visit http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/mileguide For further questions and answers, contact Valerie Greenhill, vgreenhill@eluminategroup.com. Thank you!

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