MILE GuideMilestones for Improving Learning in Education
Valerie GreenhillPartnership for 21st Century Skills
November 23, 2009, 4pm Eastern
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Getting Started
• Opening Comments• MILE Guide Presentation• Questions and Answers
• Running time: ~1 hour
Agenda
Valerie GreenhillDirector of Strategic InitiativesPartnership for 21st Century Skills
Welcome
Opening Comments
Bernie Trilling, Senior DirectorThink.com & ThinkQuest,Oracle Education Initiatives, Oracle Corporation
Blake West, PresidentKansas National Education Association
MILE Guide: Overview
Purpose:1. Identify where the
district sits on the continuum of 21st century learning
2. Plan future progress
21st Century Skills Framework
Standards & Assessment
Curriculum & Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
MILE Guide: Overview
For who?1. District and school
leaders2. Educators3. Policymakers
MILE Guide: Overview
Contains:1. Self-Assessment
Tool2. Recommendations3. Examples4. Link to online tool
(coming January 2010)
MILE Guide: Important Note• Core academic subjects are a bedrock component of the MILE
Guide self-assessment tool. • The MILE Guide also encourages each school district to ask – are
your students: • Critical thinkers?• Problem solvers?• Good communicators?• Good collaborators?• Information and technology literate?• Flexible and adaptable?• Innovative and creative?• Globally competent?• Financially literate?
MILE Guide: Overview
Self-Assessment Tool
MILE Guide: How to Use
The MILE Guide Self-Assessment allows schools and districts to review:
• Student Knowledge and Skills • Educational Support Systems (e.g., curriculum,
assessment, etc.)• Leading and Teaching• Policymaking• Partnering• Continuous Improvement
MILE Guide: How to Use
Allows districts and schools to identify efforts as:
• Early
• Transitional
• 21st Century
MILE Guide: How to Use
Steps for use:
1. Complete the MILE Guide self-assessment tool2. Use results to generate a shared vision3. Develop a comprehensive, aligned plan of action 4. Implement your plan5. Track and monitor progress; revise plan as needed6. Communicate progress
Implementation Recommendations for:
1. Assessment2. Professional development3. Curriculum and instruction4. Learning environments5. Standards
Guiding Recommendations
Guiding RecommendationsAssessment:
1. Build 21st century skills into formative assessment strategies.
2. Create an aligned accountability system: all assessment strategies should align with 21st century skills standards, professional development and curriculum and instruction.
3. Consider ICT literacy assessment as a starting point.
4. Create open repositories for assessment items and rubrics that help measure 21st century skills.
Promising Examples
Guiding Recommendations
Professional Development:1. Develop intensive teacher professional development
programs that focus intentionally on 21st century skills instruction.
2. Build capacity.3. Develop district leadership teams to infuse 21st
century skills throughout the school district. 4. Invest in ICT (information communications
technologies) excellence. 5. Develop professional learning communities around
specific 21st century skills. Train administrators around how to lead 21st century skills initiatives.
Promising Examples
Guiding Recommendations
Curricula:1. Develop Curricula for Understanding.2. Unpack the Standards to Articulate Essential
Concepts and Skills. 3. Build Widespread Consensus Around the Big
Ideas and Essential Questions. 4. Use Curriculum-Embedded Performance-Based
Assessments. 5. Commit to Continuous Improvement in 21st
Century Curriculum Design Processes6. Collaborate
Promising Examples
Guiding Recommendations
Instruction:
1. Use “Teach for Understanding” Principles 2. Create Meaningful Opportunities for Student
Demonstration/Mastery of 21st Century Skills 3. Deliver Learner-Centered Instruction that Enables
21st Century Skills4. Reflect, Refine, and Improve 21st Century Skills
Instruction
Promising Examples
Guiding Recommendations
Learning Environments:
1. Establish a 21st century vision for learning environments in your district.
2. Ensure educational structures enable 21st century skills.
3. Move toward flexible units of time that enable project-based work, interdisciplinary themes and competency-based measures of student progress.
4. Ensure technical infrastructure sufficiently supports student learning.
5. Empower the “People Network” in learning environments.
Promising Examples
Guiding Recommendations
Standards:
1. Integrate 21st century skills into core academic subject standards.
2. Integrate 21st century themes into core subject area standards, where appropriate.
3. Incorporate 21st century technology literacy and tools where appropriate into standards.
4. Ensure standards are an integrated component of curriculum, assessments, and professional development.
Promising Examples
MILE Guide: Benefits
“Kansas educators are anxious to put the revised MILE Guide to work. As we create professional development for our staff and as we share “exemplary practices” among colleagues, the MILE Guide will be exactly that – a guide to plan our work and a benchmark to better assess how we are doing. Quite simply, the MILE Guide provides teachers and education leaders with meaningful, practical guidance as we plan the kind of learning experiences that will help our students apply 21st century skills to solving real world problems.”
-Blake West, ED.D., president, Kansas National Education Association
Q & A
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For further questions and answers, contact Valerie Greenhill, [email protected].
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