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2008-09  Workshop Schedule Now Online

 

Please join us this year in Los Angeles, Orlando, Las Vegas, Seattle, New York City or Chicago!  Browse by:  Date          Location         Title


Back to School specials from 21st Century Schools! 

1.  Train the Trainer Program - Provide intensive, personalized professional staff development to 5,000 teachers for just $280/year!  This is the most effective and efficient way to provide professional development to your entire district (or campus) at the least cost per person.  Read more

2.  Lower workshop registration fees $50 savings on one-day workshops, $100 savings per person on two-day workshops, if your paid registrations are received no later than September 12, 2008!  Register online and pay by credit using the buttons above!  See you in Los Angles, Seattle, or other cities Workshop Schedule Location

3.  More online courses save on time and travel expenses, but receive the same information, knowledge, and individual assistance as you work toward your specific goals for each course!  See Online Courses

4.  New topics - new workshops and new cities - Stay cutting-edge in education and technology with constantly evolving professional development experiences from 21st Century Schools!  See a 2008-09 list of our current workshops.  We can also add custom-designed professional development to meet your needs.  Workshops

5.  University Credit - from Chapman University!

6.  Free iPhones - find out below how your principal can get a free new iPhone!


  

 

Free iPhones for Principals

Any school or district submitting at least 10 paid registrations for a two-day workshop, and received by us no later than September 20, will receive one new iPhone for their principal!  Get another free new iPhone for each additional team of ten.  Limited to paid registrations received by Sept. 20 for two-day workshops offered by 21st Century Schools.  Activation not included!


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 Professional Development Opportunities


Registration Deadlines - please register as soon as possible (preferably 90-120 days in advance if possible). Register immediately for fall 2008 workshops! You may use our online registration form, call to register by phone, or send us an email!  It's easy.  Credit card payment may be made securely online at http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Credit_Card_Payment.htm


Professional 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.

 


Curriculum and Instruction

Find information here for designing and delivering 21st century curriculum and instruction.


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.  

 

Therefore, we offer educators the knowledge, the understanding, and the tools to actually take their schools and classrooms into the 21st century.  Read our description of a 21st century education


The Great Race - a Global Collaborative Classrooms Project

                              

(left photo)  French entry in The Great Race 1908. From New York City to Paris to prove to the world that the automobile was a reliable form of transportation.

(right photo)  The Great Race of 2008 features cars with renewable fuels and other 21st century technologies as well as the old classics! Here you see the “alé”, built by FuelVapor Technologies.

 

Note:  Originally this project was planned around the Great Race of 1908 and the Great Race of 2008 (the centennial celebration) which was to take place from May 30 through August 2, 2008.  Unfortunately the organizers of this race lost their travel permits through China in mid-April, and the race was postponed.  Therefore, we are in the process of revising this global classrooms curriculum project, and with your help, will be planning alternative centennial celebrations!

 

The Great Race of 1908 was a race from New York to Paris - to prove that the automobile was truly a dependable form of transportation. 

 

Teach, and exceed the standards, through this interdisciplinary, project-based curriculum, and let your students create products demonstrating what they've learned.  Their audience will be the world! 

Read more and join today!