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CEFPI 2008 San Diego

CEFPI 2008 San Diego. Unmaking and Making. High. Schools. Mini Symposium Unmaking and Making High Schools. CEFPI 2008. 1:00-1:50 Opening Remarks, High School Principles Frank Kelly 1:50-2:40 Principles for 21 st Century High Schools Small Group Discussions

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CEFPI 2008 San Diego

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  1. CEFPI 2008 San Diego Unmaking and Making High Schools

  2. Mini SymposiumUnmaking and Making High Schools CEFPI 2008 1:00-1:50 Opening Remarks, High School Principles Frank Kelly 1:50-2:40Principles for 21st Century High Schools Small Group Discussions 2:40-3:25Report Out, Summarizing Randy Fielding 3:25-3:40Break 3:40-4:30Glimpses of the 21st Century Bruce Jilk 4:30-5:00Future Symposia Frank Kelly

  3. CEFPI 2008 Industrial Age Traditional ComprehensiveHigh Schools Are they working?

  4. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 The “platoon school”---an “improved school machine” William Wirt- 1908

  5. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008

  6. CEFPI 2008 Of every 100 9th grade students 18 100 68 graduate from high school on time out of 40 enroll directly in college 27 are still enrolled the following year 18 earn an Associate Degree within 3 years or a BA within 6 years James Hunt, Jr., Thomas Tierny, American Higher Education: How Does it Measure Up for the 21st Century?

  7. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 Graduation Rates Education at a Glance 2007, Organization For Economic Co-Operation and Development, page 42

  8. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 Expenditure per student in US $ Education at a Glance 2007, Organization For Economic Co-Operation and Development, page 173

  9. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 Expenditure on educational institutions as a percentage of GDP for all levels of education (1995, 2004 Education at a Glance 2007, Organization For Economic Co-Operation and Development, page 194

  10. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 NAEP 2005 Mathematics “61% of students nationwide performed at or above the Basic achievement level in 2005, and 23% performed at or above Proficienton the new 12th-grade mathematics assessment.” The Nation’s Report Card 12th Grade Reading and Mathematics 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress, Page 14

  11. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 “84% of employers say K-12 schools are not doing a sufficient job preparing students for work—inMath, Science, Reading and Comprehension—even in attendance, timeliness, and work ethic” 2005 skills gap report—a survey of the American manufacturing workforce National Association of Manufacturers, page 16

  12. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 “Almost one thirdof all public high school students—and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans—fail to graduate from public high schools with their class.” Page 1 - The Silent Epidemic, Perspectives of High School Dropouts, March 2006, a report by Civic Enterprises in association with Peter D. Hart Associates for the Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation

  13. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008

  14. CEFPI 2008 CEFPI 2008 http://www.americaspromise.org/uploadedFiles/AmericasPromiseAlliance/Dropout_Crisis/SWANSONCitiesInCrisis040108.pdf

  15. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they working? CEFPI 2008 Graduation Rates 2002-2003 (Using Cumulative Promotion Index (CPI) United States 69.6% Texas 66.8% Houston 48.9% Dallas 46.3% Fort Worth48.9% Austin 55.1% Cypress-Fairbanks 81.3% Northside 81.3% El Paso 57.3% Arlington 61.7% Fort Bend 83.2% San Antonio 51.9% High School Graduation in Texas Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Oct 2006, pages 7-8, www.edweek.org/rc

  16. CEFPI 2008 Industrial Age Traditional ComprehensiveHigh Schools 21st Century Kids

  17. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008

  18. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Social Studies English Science Foreign Language Math Schools are planned around spaces for teachers/subjects---students move from one to another-- a ‘raw material’ to be processed—the platoon/industrial model

  19. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Classroom instruction- 1 teacher 25 students 1 subject 1 hour

  20. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Math Science English Social Studies PE Economics Band Art Comprehensive offerings to serve every student Choir Auto Tech Health Construction Trades Theater Foreign Languages Computer Science Special Ed Speech Animation ESL Home Ec Business

  21. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Big enrollments to populate/justify comprehensive programs

  22. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Comprehensive extracurricular activities

  23. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Where kids go to school is determined by Attendance Zones

  24. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Parity = Equality of access/instruction vs. equality of outcomes. =

  25. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Social Studies Math Foreign Languages English Science Dining Admin Visual, Performing Arts PE/Athletic Career Technology Library Instruction, spaces organized around disciplines

  26. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Focus on content, knowledge skillsvs. higher order thinking skills

  27. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Paper based teaching materials and libraries in a digital world

  28. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Digital technology is not critical to instruction

  29. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 • 9 month/180 day agrarian calendar • Schools days divided into fixed time periods—same every day for every subject for every instructional methods for every student.

  30. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008

  31. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Weak adult/student relationships

  32. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Students are transientsin high schools—they ‘own’ only their lockers and backpacks

  33. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools 21st Century Kids CEFPI 2008 Disconnect from the Community Self Contained Campuses

  34. CEFPI 2008 Industrial Age Traditional ComprehensiveHigh Schools Efficient???

  35. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they efficient? CEFPI 2008 The industrial age high school was conceived to bring industrial efficiency to education. We continue to argue that large comprehensive high schools are more efficient and less costly to build and operate. BUT, this is true only-----

  36. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they efficient? CEFPI 2008 Industrial age high schools are more efficient and less costly to build and operate only--- 1. If every high school has to serve every student and offer extensive elective and extracurricular activities.

  37. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they efficient? CEFPI 2008 Industrial age high schools are more efficient and less costly to build and operate only--- 2. If schooling is allowed to occur no more than 6.5 hours/day, 5 days/week, 180 days/year.

  38. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Are they efficient? CEFPI 2008 Industrial age high schools are more efficient and less costly to build and operate only--- 3. If current graduation rates are acceptable, and---if we continue to consider the cost/student/year and not the cost/graduate.

  39. CEFPI 2008 Industrial Age Traditional ComprehensiveHigh Schools Questions???

  40. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Can the industrial age high school work—can it be fixed to serve kids in the 21st century?

  41. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Can teaching and learning appropriate for the 21st Century be realized within the environment of the industrial age high school?

  42. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Can the level of technology in high schools and in the world they serve, continue to be so extraordinarily different?

  43. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Can any single type of high school serve the diverse needs of every student in every community?

  44. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Trying new ideas— What is the risk? “History is not kind to idlers. The time is long past when American’s destiny was assured simply by an abundance of natural resources and inexhaustible human enthusiasm, and by our relative isolation from the malignant problems of older civilizations.” “Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the “information age” we are entering. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform The National Commission on Excellence in Education, April 1983.

  45. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Is the future of public schools assured? In the future, could there be other sources for schooling?

  46. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Question? CEFPI 2008 Is the industrial age high school an acceptable or even viable model for the 21st century?

  47. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Bill Gates’ answer CEFPI 2008 “Our high schools are obsolete----they were designed 50 years ago to meet the needs of another age. Today, even when they work exactly as designed, our high schools cannot teach our kids what they need to know---” Bill Gates (Feb 2005 at National Summit on High Schools)

  48. Industrial Age Traditional Comprehensive High Schools Conclusion CEFPI 2008 The issues are vision and courage—not regulations or money.

  49. CEFPI 2008 21st Century High Schools Nature of the Problem

  50. 21st Century Schools Nature of the Problem CEFPI 2008

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