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Everyone is an Artist and an Engineer!
The CSTEM Sea
Turtle Robotics Challenge! Register your team today for the CSTEM
Conference on August 3-5! Funding is available! Read more . . .
Professional Staff
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Curriculum & Instruction
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Here are several great books to help you make the paradigm shift in
how we think about education in the 21st century - how schools are
organized, how district policies may need to change, how to design
and deliver curriculum and instruction that is authentic for the
21st century student/learner.
Organize a summer reading/discussion group and read the following
books. Click here for more ideas on
how to use these books.
- The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner
- Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman
- Element by Sir Ken Robinson
- Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
- A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
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CSTEM - Computing,
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics for P-16
Join us for this very exciting event in
Houston on August 3, 4 and 5! Hurry to Register now!
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Professional Development
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Other new
curriculum projects ideas!
Going Green! -
Please visit our
Green Corner
and our new
Sustainability
page for new ideas and resources for your class, campus and
district.
Service Learning -
Barack Obama and Joe
Biden have issued the challenge to Americans to serve. Find out why
Service Learning
projects are the ultimate 21st century curriculum. Service Learning
workshop.
IOUSA - One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt
- this is another
critical theme through which your students can learn about
economics, government, service learning, and more. New theme.
Please go to our
IOUSA
wikispaces page and help us
create the wiki.
Social Media and
Education
- from the presidential campaign to the Inauguration and ongoing,
Barack Obama and his team have made unprecedented use of social
media, or
Web 2.0,
tools.
Learn more
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Online Courses - University
Accredited
Go to a workshop in your pajamas? Grab a cup of coffee and settle
in with your laptop on your favorite big, comfy chair - that's one
way to enjoy your professional development! You name the date, the
time and the place!
View list of
Online Course offerings.
Graduate
University
credit is available!
Register today!
Click here to pay by
credit card.
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Global Classroom Projects
Change,
Youth & Hope - the Presidential Election of 2008 - an
Interdisciplinary Inquiry - join this global classroom project
wiki.
Johnny Appleseed Global Project - this is
a great spring project culminating with or built around spring apple
blossoms and festivals, or perhaps something you want to begin
planning to launch next fall! |
Funding Professional
Development
See our
Funding Page
for information regarding education and the Stimulus Bill, other
Federal Funding and Creative Funding Strategies.
Professional Staff Development
Needs Assessment Tool
Visit our
Professional Development Page for resources, tips on
planning professional development, funding ideas for professional
development, and our
Professional Development Needs Assessment survey tool to
help focus on your specific professional development needs.
Also see our comparison chart,
The 20th Century Classroom vs. the 21st Century Classroom
- which one is yours?
Also see our article
What Is 21st Century Education? |
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International Professional
Development
We appreciate our international visitors and are delighted to hear
from educators around the globe that our web site, our philosophies,
our curriculum design and our professional development are what is
needed in your countries.
We have an excellent international team of the very best educators
who are available to bring our professional development to you. We
welcome opportunities to partner with various governments,
organizations and schools to help bring education in your country
into the 21st century.
Contact us today
so that we can begin the discussion and make the plans to make 21st
century education a reality in your schools!
Please see our page for
International
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About the 21st Century and Education
We see and hear the phrase "21st century"
almost everywhere. Perhaps the term has become so ubiquitous that it
has lost much of its impact or meaning. However, the dramatic impact
of the ongoing technological revolution that ushered in the 21st century is
only growing. It is changing our world, the context in which our
students live and learn, in more dramatic ways with each new development.
Today's students live in a world that is extremely fast-paced, constantly
changing, increasingly culturally diverse, technologically driven, and
media-saturated. We cannot continue to deliver a 20th century,
scientific-management, factory-model education. This new context of
the 21st century requires that we redefine "education", "school",
"curriculum", "teacher" and "learner". It requires that we provide an
education designed to help our students truly succeed.
We offer educators the knowledge, the understanding, and the
tools to actually take their schools and classrooms into the 21st century.
New workshops include: Green Education, Differentiated
Instruction, Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom, Emotional and Social Learning,
Multiple Literacies, Change, Classroom Management and Student Motivation,
and the Arts - Keeping Creativity in the Curriculum!
Browse by: Date
Location
Title
Register
today!
Of course, we also have our other great workshops on the schedule:
Designing the 21st Century Classroom, After School Programs, iKids, Service
Learning, Smaller Learning Communities, and a Million Dollars!
Read
our description of a
21st century education.
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