MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING

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MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING LEARNINGTECH
VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
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• 21st Century Skills
• Core subjects and 21st Century Theme
• Learning and Innovation Skills
• Creativity and Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
• Communication and Collaboration Skills
• Information , Media and Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT Literacy
• Life and Career Skills
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Self-Direction
• Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity and Accountability
• Leadership and Responsibility

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• VISION
• Tech Valley High School serves as a model in
  the region, the state and beyond of innovative
  public education that is based in strong
  partnerships and focuses on educating and
  inspiring students to embrace the increasingly
  important world of math and science.
• MISSION
• Tech Valley High School provides a unique
  and innovative student-centered educational
  opportunity, engages students in current emerging
  technologies, and supports the growth and economy
  of the region.

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• CHALLENGE
• To create a rigorous, relevant, student-centered
  learning environment that better prepares all
  students for the 21st century.

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• CONTEXT
• Our current education system Built for another
  era.
• American workers In direct competition with
  workers around the world.
• Tech Valleys leaders agree Tomorrows workforce
  must be able to collaborate, think critically,
  communicate be self-directed.
• New Technology Foundation of Napa, Calif.
  Identifies region as promising gives 400,000
  grant for high school to be a replication site.
  

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• A PROVEN MODEL
• NEW TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
• Established in 1999
• Project of Gates Foundation
• Network of 36 Schools
• Technology Tools
• Training professional development/coaching
• 400,000 grant to Tech Valley High its first in
  NYS Northeast

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MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING LEARNING TECH
VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

• Guiding Principles
• Small School
• Project-based learning, student centered
• Integrated curriculum
• 21st century skills NYS
• learning standards
• Technology platform
• Partnerships

7. Contributing to high school reform movement
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• Tech Valley High School in Brief
• Regional public high school
• Math-science-technology theme
• Joint venture of Questar III Capital Region
  BOCES
• Launched in fall 2007 with 40 freshmen by design
• Open to students in 48 school districts in seven
  counties
• Diverse student body
• Located at Pitney Bowes Software (2007-2009)
  while seeking permanent location
• Contributes to high school reform movement

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• TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL
• SMALL SCHOOL
• Why?
• Better able to establish positive culture
• (respect, responsibility trust)
• Individual learning
• Teachers share students, encourage
  collaboration
• Professional environment
• Students help manage school

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At Tech Valley High

• 40 students in 1st two years
• Add one grade at a time
• Fully enrolled at 400

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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL PROJECT-BASED
LEARNING, STUDENT CENTERED

• Real world challenges implications
• Real world assessment
• Students solve unforeseen problems
• meet unpredicted obstacles
• Thoroughly immersed in teamwork
• Students are responsible for their own learning
  team learning
• Integrates NYS Learning Standards Key Ideas
• Goes beyond NYS Standards by exploring rich
  complex problems issues

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• Sample Project Probing the Hudson
• Real-World Challenge Determined if the Hudson
  River will be safe for swimming in 2009.
• Project Students develop river analysis plan, do
  field research, investigate data publish a
  report.

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• Probing the Hudson Meets NYS Learning
  Standards Key Ideas
• MST Standard 1 Analysis, inquiry design using
  scientific inquiry methods
• MST Standard 2 Use appropriate information
  technologies
• MST Standard 3 Applying mathematics in real
  world settings
• MST Standard 7 Applying mathematics, science
  technology to address real-life problems

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Probing the Hudson Co-designed, co-taught
co-evaluated in conjunction with experts

• Beacon Institute Center for Advanced
  Environmental Technology
• Hudson River Basin Watch
• NYS Department of Environment Conservation

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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL INTEGRATED
CURRICULUM

• Global Analysis Media Explorations (G.A.M.E.)
• Global History Geography
• English
• Environmental Analysis
• Integrated Algebra
• Environmental Science

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• TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL
• 21ST CENTURY SKILLS NYS LEARNING STANDARDS
• Content
• New York State Standards
• 21ST century skills
• Collaboration
• Information literacy
• Critical thinking
• Innovation
• Communication oral, written, mathematical,
  graphic artistic
• Citizenship ethics
• Technology literacy
• Self-direction

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To earn a living wage, our students will need to
use their heads.
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Global competition requires a different kind of
education

• In order for America to compete globally and
  secure its future, US workers must develop a high
  level of creativity and innovation that require a
  new approach to education.

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• TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL
• TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
• Tools for communicating,
• collaborating learning

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• Role of Technology 11 Computer Environment
• Teachers
• Store projects in digital briefcases
• Post daily course agendas student grades to the
  Web
• Students
• Teams share work digitally
• Have own e-mail accounts server space
• Create digital portfolios of their work
• Performance is captured digitally

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• Technology Tools Project briefcase

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• Technology
• Tools Course calendar

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TECH VALLY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL PARTNERSHIPS

• More than 125 entrepreneurial Tech Valley leaders
  are shaping sustaining the school
• Corporations
• Technology companies
• Economic developers
• Chambers of commerce
• Colleges universities
• K-12
• Organized labor
• Government

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Partners help co-design, co-teach co-assess
projects. First-semester partners included

• 1st Playable Productions
• Applied Nano Works
• Center for Advanced
• Environmental Technology
• Cornell University Cooperative
  Extension
• Denison Farm
• NYSDEC
• Hudson Basin River Watch
• IBM
• Local 7 Plumbers Steamfitters
• Mohawk Paper Company

• North Albany Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Northeast Analytical
• Q-Drive
• Rensselaer Co. Soil Water Conservation
  District
• RPI
• US Geological Survey
• Wadsworth Center
• WAMC
• WMHT

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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL CONTRIBUTING TO
HIGH SCHOOL REFORM MOVEMENT

• Tech Valley High School Promise
• we will deliver a superb academic program
• use Tech Valley High as a crucible within which
  we will innovate and create educational
  improvement and spread that within the region
• create opportunities for schools like this
  across the State of New York
• Paul Puccio, Chair, Tech Valley High School
  Operating Board

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Tech Valley High School from the national
perspective
From the standpoint of the New Technology
Foundation, I think Tech Valley High School has
the potential to be the best school weve been
associated with. Nothing like this is going on in
Silicon Valley, in Austin, Texas, in the Research
Triangle in the communities you are competing
with. This is the only school that Im dealing
with that has this kind of community
support. Bob Pearlman, Director of Strategic
Planning, New Technology Foundation
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