Orange County FL EXPO 2011 by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst
1. EXPO 2011 Kylene Beers Robert E. Probst Twitter.com/kbeers Beers.probst@gmail Critical Components of Effective 21st Century Schools beers.probst@gmail.com
2. Critical Components of Effective 21st Century Schools 1. Understand the Shift in literacy demands beers.probst@gmail.com
3. To understand how the “how” is changing, let’s look back to the literacy demands of an earlier time… beers.probst@gmail.com
10. 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… beers.probst@gmail.com
11. 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 beers.probst@gmail.com
12. Critical Components of Effective 21st Century Schools 1. Understand the Shift in literacy demands 2. Highly engaged school community (faculty, students, parents) beers.probst@gmail.com
13. “When the profit motive becomes unmoored from the purpose motive, bad things happen.” beers.probst@gmail.com
14. 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 beers.probst@gmail.com
15. 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. beers.probst@gmail.com
16. Principal as Literacy Leader Shared goal-setting; on-going PD Instruction Scheduling Materials So, what are the critical components for building reading success? beers.probst@gmail.com
17. Reading Volume of Fifth-Grade Students of Different Levels of Achievement (Based on In and Out of School Reading Logs) Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988 beers.probst@gmail.com
18. 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 TIME Will Skill beers.probst@gmail.com
19. 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 beers.probst@gmail.com
20. Are you a stranger, visitor, or resident? Wordle Flickr You Tube Del.icio.us IM Popplets Digg Twitter Second Life Skype MMORPG Polleverywhere Evernote Ning GoogleLitTrips Podcasts Diigo Facebook Blogs Email Tagging Wiki Text Jottit Naturally Speaking Google Docs Typewith.me beers.probst@gmail.com
21. 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 beers.probst@gmail.com
23. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” --Wayne Otto beers.probst@gmail.com
24. “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 beers.probst@gmail.com
25. Learn More Twitter/KyleneBeers or Twitter/BobProbst KyleneBeers.com (Kylene’s blog) beers.probst@gmail.com 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) beers.probst@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
Ask principals to talk for a moment about their own tech development
First ask, why aren’t some faculty, students, and parents engaged?How do we re-engage them? Show PinkLet’s look at hoWhat might engagement in 2014 look like?
What are school reasons for low reading achievement?What’s critical for improving reading achievement?—go to next several slides
What are tech tools do you use? Do Poll EverywhereWhat tools do students use? (Next slide)How do we improve teachers’ knowledge/use of tech tools?
What are tech tools do you use? Do Poll EverywhereWhat tools do students use? (Next slide)How do we improve teachers’ knowledge/use of tech tools?
Do Thank you Ma’am
Bob reminds teachers about the importance of this book and how Friedman explains this idea—that how we think is more important than how much we know.