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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  The current education model is obsolete, a relic of a bygone era.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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1/25/2017 09:45:38 am

This was a very powerful read. While I agree with much of what was stated, I suppose I never really considered "solutions" or ways to solve the problem. Most importantly, I do not think I was qualified to offer solutions. As the article stated, though, I am only one, but I can start small, and be a contagion for change.

We are always talking about having students who are college and career ready, but truly, what are we doing to yield such results? We continue to drill and kill our students, test, this and test that, everything is about "the test". I do not remember so much testing during my K-12 learning experiences. We had weekly classroom tests and a once a year standardized test. We had test, but the tests were not as high-stakes as tests are for today's K-12 learners.

Yes, to produce 21st Century college and/or career ready learners, we do need to change the design and structure of our K-12 schools. We can not keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

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