"Do our students feel like they are time traveling as they walk through the school door each morning. As they cross the threshold, do they feel as if they are entering a simulation of life in the 1990s? Then, at the end of the school day, do they feel that they have returned to the 21st century?"
"As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity."
~ Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Rigorous Curriculum Design by Larry Ainsworth
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Our students must gain the skills to "perform work that overseas knowledge workers can't do cheaper, that computers can't do faster, and that satisfies the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual demands of a prosperous time." ~ Daniel Pink
How does this fit & align with the new Common Core Standards?
For a lot of our kids, we only have one chance...
~ are we making that chance count...?
For a lot of our kids, we only have one chance...
~ are we making that chance count...?