Closing the Global Achievement Gap

Jonathan Martin

Head of School

St. Gregory College Preparatory School

A Year in My Life

• A blog project: 21st century education

• What do Students need to Learn?• What learning environments are working best to

teach 21st century skills?

The 21st century challenge

• Outsourcing• Automation• Internet Information

Availability

              

Tony Wagner, the Global Achievement Gap

• Our High School Students are not learning what they need to learn

• We need new expectations, new learning environments & new measurements.

The Skills Students NeedMany iterations

My distillation:

• Leadership and effective collaboration

Inquiry, perseverance, & resilience,

Innovation and Creativity

Real-World Problem solving

Shadow-Blogging 2008

21 High Schools

Wagner:

The important question is what’s going on in classrooms?

The findings

• Majority of schools and classrooms are stuck in the 20th century

• Some schools, however, are paving a way to new models highly congruent with learning 21st century skills

21st c. schools

Qualities of 21st c. Schools That Work

Purpose and Real-World Pertinence

Problem-Based Learning

Time and process

Technology in student hands

Product and Publishing (On-line)

Faculty collaboration

Serious about the Results that Matter

Putting it into Practice

Actions• Close study of Wagner’s book

– Bringing Wagner to Tucson

• New Institutes for teaching leadership and innovation, and new, unique, diploma programs in leadership and innovation.

• New Measurements of Learning, tests and surveys

• Enhancing classroom technology

• Much, much more….

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