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#FutureReady204BOARD OF EDUCATION PRESENTATION

JANUARY 22, 2018

Purpose

Our purpose is:

•To provide the Board of Education with an update about our work with #FutureReady204

Board Policy

6:230 Library Media Program

6:210 Instructional Materials

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#FutureReady204

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Curriculum and Instruction Implementation Plan

• Future Ready Skills

• Flexible Delivery of Instruction

• Document and Use Results

• Provide a Research Based Curriculum

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Lumity

What is Future Ready?

Build Life and Work Skills

Move away from teaching what computers and robots can do for us.

Allison Gopnik, University of California

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Prepare Students for Life and WorkTop 10 Work Core Related Skills

6. Emotional Intelligence

7. Judgment and Decision Making

8. Service Orientation

9. Negotiation

10. Cognitive Flexibility

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1. Complex Problem Solving

2. Critical Thinking

3. Creativity

4. People Management

5. Coordinating with Others

Source: The Future of Jobs

(World Economic Forum, 2016)

Computer Science is the art of blending human ideas and digital tools to increase problem solving power.

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1. Complex Problem Solving

2. Critical Thinking

3. Creativity

10. Cognitive Flexibility

Makerspaces developed in all buildings.• Provide Coding Opportunities• Create Solutions to Problems• Persistence Through Reflection and Revising• Supports Sequential and Critical Thinking

Focus on the Elementary –Move Makerspaces from LMC into Classrooms

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Steve Jobs

WE OFFER

Middle School-• 6th Grade - Essential Tech

• 7th Grade - Creative Tech

• 8th Grade - Tech Rev

• PLTW AR - Robotics programming

High School-• Coding (semester) - JavaScript

• Web Design (HTML)

• Emerging Tech (portions of the course are dedicated to app development)

• PLTW Principles of Engineering - Programming throughout the course -mechanical engineering background

• PLTW EDD - Depends on a student’s self-initiated project

• PLTW Digital Electronics - Computing through circuits

• Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles

• Advanced Placement Computer Science A

Robotics at all three levels

“Everyone in this country should learn how to program a computer. Everyone should learn a computer language because it teaches you how to think.”

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Prepare Students for Life and Work

5. Coordinating with Others

7. Judgment and Decision

9. Negotiation

Instructional Strategies

• Planning Projects with Others

• Help Students Evaluate and Seek More Information

• Cooperative Group Work

The Harvard Business Reviewfound that ‘‘the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more over the last two decades and that, at many companies, more than three-quarters of an employee’s day is spent communicating with colleagues.”

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Prepare Students for Life and Work

4. People Management

6. Emotional Intelligence

8. Service Orientation

Student Wellness

• Service Projects

• Social Emotional Learning Standards

• Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning Partnership

• Mental Health Professionals available to all Students

• District Social Worker and Psychologists

• Counselors at Middle School and High School

• Partnership with 360 Youth Services

• Teacher Training

• Community Resources

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Prepare Students for Life and Work

Student Engagement

• Broad curriculum offerings from rigorous Advanced Placement to a wide variety of electives

• Interest and Inquiry—Science and Social Studies

• Extra-Curricular Opportunities

• Flexible Learning Spaces

• Flexible Delivery of Instruction

• Online

• Blended

• Traditional

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Prepare Students for Life and Work

Authentic Learning Experiences

• Science Phenomena

• Family and Consumer Sciences

• Internships

• Virtual Enterprise International

• Media

• Technology Center of DuPage

• Cosmetology

• Fire Science

• Criminal Justice

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Future Ready Challenges

•Meeting the Changing Needs of Our Students

•Cannot Predict the Careers of the Future• Investigating an Elementary Career Awareness Program

• College and Career Days

• Partnerships with Businesses

• Innovation Labs

•Prepare Students for Whatever They Choose

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Thank you for your time!

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