Transforming Teaching
Exceeding Standards, Future Ready: Ensuring Academic Success for Every Student in the 21st Century
The Videos
The Resources
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
The Quotes
"The goal of NCLB is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards as measured by state standardized tests.” -U.S. Department of Ed
"No Child Left Behind took us down a path where we're all on timelines to make progress. We're finding that that's not the best way to make progress. Yes, there has to be accountability, but for every ounce of accountability there ought to be two ounces of capacity building." -Steven Paine, State Superintendent of Schools for West Virginia
“You can not measure a child's capacity with a paper and pencil test. You have to give them the opportunities to show you what they can do.”
“We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that’s the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time-sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?” -Malcolm Gladwell- Outliers
"Lawyers. Accountants. Computer programmers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate." -Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
“In the view of most specialists on the phenomenon, the kinds of jobs that cannot be outsourced are slowly evaporating.” - The New York Times
"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." -Alvin Troffler
“You can outsource pretty much everything, other than creativity.”
Presented At:
Highway 21 Conference (Adams 12 School District), Thorton, Colorado, June 2009
