Achieve Greater Impact Through       21st Century Learning Skills

21st Century Enriched Learning 


Transforming schools into learning communities where students know no limits.

 

 

Ready21

 

Optimal Learning Enviroments

Generate meaningful understandings that shape students’ understandings and skills

Investigate core content in depth

Learn with the latest technological innovations

Develop new skills sets in media, technology, and other 21st century skills

Innovation and creativity

Critical thinking and problem solving

Self-assessment and self-direction

Collaboration and communication

Integrate the fine arts throughout the curriculum

Learn from project and problem based learning

Produce higher levels of achievement

Prepare for advanced learning and job success in 21st century careers

Primer Projects for 21st Century Learning Change   

Regional professional learning schools and networks

Regional high tech schools

Statewide Awareness Conference: 21st Century Learning Skills

Multi-year professional learning experiences for teachers and school leaders

Establishment of a cadre of master 21st century mentors and principals

 

     

 21st Century Involvement

Self-selected school districts and service agencies across Illinois

international Renewal institute, Inc.

St. Xavier University 

National Center for Enriching Thinking & Learning

Premier partner companies

National Voices for 21st Century

AWARENESS21 

 

Will You Want to Hire Your Own Kids? (Will Anybody Else?)

 

"The next generation is not being adequately prepared for the jobs it will inherit. High school and college graduates are showing deficiencies in both basic and applied skills, and a real lack of preparedness for today’s world of work. Workforce entrants are caught between an educational system that teaches⎯and measures⎯one set of skills and a rapidly evolving workplace that demands another."  

(The Conference Board, August 2009).

 

“In a 21st Century World where jobs can  be shipped wherever there’s an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child born in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do but what you know — education is not longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it’s a prerequisite to success.”

(President Barack Obama, March 2009).