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Presentation to the Orange County School District, FL, regarding effective 21st century schools by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
Transcript of Orange County FL EXPO 2011 by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
EXPO 2011
Kylene Beers
Robert E. Probst
Twitter.com/kbeers
Beers.probst@gmail
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century Schools
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY DEMANDS
To understand how the “how” is changing, let’s look back to the literacy demands of an earlier time…
21st Century Literacies Definition
In order to thrive in an increasingly interdependent, global society, students need to acquire the full range of 21st century literacies. As defined by NCTE, 21st century literacies are essential to student achievement; they include the ability to…
Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes
Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information
Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.Highly engaged school community
(faculty, students, parents)
“When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.”
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY
(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)
3.Highly skilled readers and writers for
Content Areas
Which is the effective literacy school?
The school with the best literacy program that money can buy.
The school with the best intervention program that quickly and effectively helps students who struggle the most.
The school with the most classrooms where high-quality reading and writing instruction is readily available.
Principal as Literacy Leader
Shared goal-setting; on-going PD
InstructionSchedulingMaterials
So, what are the critical components for building reading success?
Achievement
Percentile
Minutes of Reading per Day
Words per Year
90th 40.4 2,357,00050th 12.9 601,00010th 1.6 51,000
Reading Volume of Fifth-Grade Students of Different Levels of Achievement
(Based on In and Out of School Reading Logs)
Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988
Study to read
“Is there a bidirectional relationship between children’s reading skills and reading motivation?”
By Paul L. Morgan
Winter 2007, Council for Exceptional Children
Skill Will
TIME
Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1 . UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN LITERACY
DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY (FACULTY, STUDENTS,
PARENTS)
3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR CONTENT AREAS
4.Fluid use of multiple tech
tools
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Critical Components of Effective 21st Century
Schools
1. UNDERSTAND THE SHIFT IN
LITERACY DEMANDS
2.HIGHLY ENGAGED SCHOOL COMMUNITY
(FACULTY, STUDENTS, PARENTS)
3.HIGHLY SKILLED READERS AND WRITERS FOR
CONTENT AREAS
4.FLUID USE OF MULTIPLE TECH TOOLS
--Wayne Otto
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.”
The World is Flat
Thomas Friedman
Learn More
Twitter/KyleneBeers or Twitter/BobProbst
KyleneBeers.com (Kylene’s blog)
Article from us on why reading lit is important:
Bit.ly/f79ziP
Slides at Slideshare.com
Summer Reading Institute in San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 2011
Summer Reading Institute in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June 26-30, 2011
Info for both at www.heinemann.com (click on workshops)
