This document discusses tools for 21st century learning and leadership. It emphasizes that future work will be powered by technology, information, and knowledge. School boards play an important role in establishing vision, standards, accountability and aligning resources to improve student achievement. The document advocates developing a personal learning network using tools like Twitter, blogs, social bookmarking and online collaboratives to connect, share and learn. This allows school board members and educators to better understand transforming learning and to collaborate in bringing relevance to local governance.

1. Tools of the Trade21st Century Learning for Leaders Jeannine St. Amand November 26, 2010 Halifax, N.S. We are living in a new economy – powered by technology, fueled by information and driven by knowledge. Futurework - Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century

2. About Me

3. About Us Governance: The key work of school boards is student achievement and community engagement (to promote student achievement). Boards articulate the educational vision and mission of the district and garner support and resources to achieve those ends.

5. STANDARDS Set clear learning standards for student achievement.

6. ASSESSMENT Establish an assessment system that periodically measures individual student progress toward standards.

7. ACCOUNTABILITY Establish a strong accountability process for the district.

8. ALIGNMENT Align resources to ensure that students meet standards.

9. CLIMATE Create a positive learning environment or climate for improving student achievement.

10. COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS Build and maintain collaborative relationships between the board and the superintendent, and the leadership team with the community including key political and business leaders to develop support for student achievement as a top community priority.

11. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Commit to continuous improvement for student achievement.http://www.nsba.org/MainMenu/Governance/KeyWork.aspx

12. Vision / Mission By 2011, the ABC District will have enhanced achievement and success for all students within a healthy, active, safe, caring, and socially-just learning environment. To create a supportive, student-centred environment, where each student succeeds and all educational partners are respected and valued. District PQR is a learning community that fosters a collaborative, creative, caring, and challenging environment that instils a passion for learning in our students. We develop independent lifelong learners in a student-centered environment with high expectations for all.

13. Collaborative Relationships

14. Leading Setting a vision and mission, and developing collaborative relationships with parents, students, teachers, administrators and community takes significant leadership – by us as individuals and as boards.

15. Learning Image courtesy of 21st Century Learning Team Qatar Academy, http://21c.qataracademy.wikispaces.net/

16. Leading by Learning (21C) Until educators and influential people such as parents, school boards, teacher union leaders, and politicians understand what this vision of teaching and learning looks and feels like by experiencing it themselves, our progress will be limited to a few courageous souls fighting the status quo to no significant avail. Dennis Richards, MA Superintendent (retired)

17. So… In our work of creating vision and mission, of developing collaborative relationships, how are we leading by learning? How are we communicating, collaborating, creating, connecting? Flickr photo by o5com: http://www.flickr.com/photos/o5com/4951006091/

18. Learning in the 21st Century 21C concepts such as communicating, collaborating, and creating, are not new. But the ability, and necessity, of making connections and creating networks is changing dramatically. As the pervasiveness of technology and tech tools grows, our ability to learn with and from a network grows.

19. What brings it all together? A personal learning network – PLN The people, information and tools you bring together to help you accomplish your goals.

20. My PLN development

22. The Tools I Use android twitter google docs, gmail tweetdeck creative commons flickr blip.fm facebook wordpress RSS delicious slideshare youtube netvibes

23. Microblogging Connecting, sharing, learning

24. Blogs, RSS Learning, communicating, creating, sharing

25. Social bookmarking Learning, sharing

26. Other – sharing with… Wikis, google docs – collaborating, creating Flickr – creating, communicating Slideshare – creating Youtube – learning, communicating …

27. Online learning collaboratives Edtechtalk ~ Parents as Partners LearnCentral The Future of Education K-12 Online Global Education Conference

28. Lorna

29. Heidi

30. Penny

31. Connection Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) http://www.slideshare.net/courosa/a-tweet-and-a-poke-how-educators-harness-the-power-of-social-networks

32. The Connected Teacher Dr. Alec Couros (@courosa) http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/

33. The Connected SB Member SB Member SB Member

34. Imagine What We Can Do By experiencing the learning ourselves we will better understand how to transform learning for our students. By sharing the transformation with parents in our districts through connecting them to the learning in our schools By collaborating with each other to bring relevance to the role of local school governance.

35. Last words…Building a PLN There is excellent advice on building a PLN at: http://sites.google.com/site/buildingapln/

36. Join me! twitter: @jeanninestamand blog: www.jeanninestamand.wordpress.com Delicious: www.delicious.com/toolsofengagement Linkedin: I’m a newbie  Let’s create some connections, and build some networks to strengthen public education governance in Atlantic Canada! Presentation slides available at slideshare: