The document discusses the need to rethink schools for the modern world. It argues that schools must be student-centered, inquiry-driven, collaborative, integrated, and technology-enabled to prepare students. The document emphasizes that schools should focus on teaching kids, not just subjects, and developing skills like learning, unlearning, and relearning to help students navigate a rapidly changing world.

1. School 2.0
Creating The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Science Leadership Academy
Philadelphia, PA

2. Why This Matters

4. The World In Which We Live:
The Maddening Paradox of Education 2010.

5. Data Driven Decisions
Assume that you use good data --
and good data ain’t cheap.

6. Education
Not Training
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7. Tell A Better Story:
We Must Have Vision
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8. The illiterate of the 21st century will
not be those who cannot read and
write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler
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9. Things Are Different
How Do We Deal With That?

10. Caring Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not Subjects

11. Inquiry Driven
What are the questions we
can ask together?

12. Student Centered
It’s Not About Us.

13. Teacher-Mentored
Kids Need Adults

14. Community-Based
We can learn from many

15. Collaborative
Synthesis Works

16. Passionate
And it has to matter.

17. Integrated
The day has to make sense

18. Meta-Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

19. Technology Like Oxygen
Ubiquitous, Necessary and Invisible

20. Neil Postman:
Certain Technologies Are
Not Additive, They Are
Transformative

21. Create
Research
Collaborate
Present
Network

22. How Do We
Change the
World?

23. Be Humbled By
The Task
And Be Skeptical of Those Who Aren’t

24. Keep Asking
Questions
And Don’t Settle For Easy Answers

25. Continue the
Conversation
Dream big in every community

26. Empower
the Kids
It is their education, and it will be their world

27. Be a Learner
And be willing to be transformed

28. Organize
If not me, who? If not now, when?
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29. What role does school play
in the age of Google?

30. Wisdom.