1. Reading Public Schools Leads the Way in 21st Century Education Creates Global Learners ... Produces Global Citizens Bill Lewis, Steve Olivo, Connie Quackenbush, Joanne Fitzpatrick

6. The Gazelle and the Lion Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running. Tom Friedman, The World is Flat

7. Who are the Lions? Our students are. They are empowered with all this new technology. Our educators are struggling to teach students to “create, navigate and grow the powerful learning” available on Web 2.0. From Footprints in the Digital Age by Will Richardson, Nov. Education Leadership

8. Who are the Lions? Education was “Supply-Push” prescribed knowledge Education is “Demand-Pull” “learning based on their needs of the moment.” From Footprints in the Digital Age by Will Richardson, Nov. Education Leadership

9. Who are the Lions? We need to start running, or we will be swallowed up

11. The 21st Century Student

12. The 21st Century Student

13. The 21st Century Student

14. Needs "Personalized Learning" from Dr. Clayton Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma and Disrupting Class and from Dr. Scott McLeod's presentation Leading the Change: Current Leadership Models are Inadequate for Disruptive Innovations at the 2008 K-12 Online Conference. The 21st Century Student

16. The 21st Century Students Effective Learners Effective Collaborators Effective Creators

17. Our Plan . . . Our Request: We are asking you to give us a lot of money. Our Pledge: We will spend it wisely.

22. Blooms Revised Taxonomy Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Be able to CREATE . . . FOR AN AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE

23. PQ + CQ > IQ “ Curious, passionate kids are self motivators” and will find a way to make it in a Flat World.

25. Community Involvement "The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people." Tom Friedman, The World is Flat

27. The Bottom Line $$$$$$$$ Classroom Computer Pods $$ Integration of University resident programs $$ Community organizers $$$$$ Technology personnel to train and maintain $$$ Town-wide licenses for applications (front loaded and recurrent at intervals) $$$$$ Computers for Families in Need $$$ Grant Writers $$$$$ Project Managers to create programs $$$$$ Teachers to reduce current teacher load Cost Cost Item

28. “ We must unleash innovation broadly, allowing the power of new ideas and new approaches to transform the system.” Governor Deval Patrick, June 2008