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​Anne Shaw, Director, 21st Century Schools

Making Time for What Matters Most

1/4/2017

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Schools and school districts around the world, as well as the educators within them, are each individually on a journey along a continuum from factory model to 21st century model education.  One overarching obstacle is the assumption that we can "fix" students, learning and test scores from within the current structures.  We cannot change and "stay the same" , i.e., maintain the same paradigms, practices and structures that have been in place for well over 100 years.  The current education model is obsolete, a relic of a bygone era.

Although there are a multitude of obstacles in our path, there are things that that can be done to overcome these obstacles and make time for what matters most.  

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