Ken Kay discusses the urgency of fusing the traditional three Rs of education with the four Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. Along with core content, these skills are essential to ensure that our students are able to compete in the global economy. With 14 state partners doing this work, as well as support in Washington D.C. around the re-authorization of ESEA, we face a great opportunity to do the important work
![Instructional support programs and technology services offered by Madison-Oneida BOCES are aligned with best practices, current research, and component districts’ needs (Board Goals 1 & 3) ,[object Object],[object Object],KEY DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS (from the Common Core p.4) Research and media skills blended into the Standards as a whole To be ready for college, workforce training, and life in a technological society, students need the ability to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new . The need to conduct research and to produce and consume media is embedded into every aspect of today’s curriculum. In like fashion, research and media skills and understandings are embedded throughout the Standards rather than treated in a separate section.](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)