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A MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING
LEARNINGTECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
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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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• 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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• 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 Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
• Network of 42 schools across US
• Technology tools
• Training professional development/coaching
• 400,000 grant to Tech Valley High its first in
  NYS Northeast

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• Tech Valley High School in Brief
• Regional public high school with
  math-science-technology theme
• Joint venture of Questar III Capital Region
  BOCES
• Launched in fall 2007 with 40 freshmen by design
  38 more in fall 2008
• Open to students in 47 school districts in seven
  counties
• Diverse student body
• Located at Pitney Bowes Software Fall, 2009 will
  be located at University at Albany East Campus

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MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING LEARNING TECH
VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

• Small school
• Project-based student-
• centered learning
• 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 MODEL
• SMALL SCHOOL
• Why?
• Better able to establish positive culture
• (respect, responsibility trust)
• Individual learning Student Learning Teams
• Teachers share students, encourage
• collaboration
• Professional environment
• Students help manage school

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

• Real-world challenges implications
• Real-world assessment
• Students find solutions to unforeseen
• problems unpredicted obstacles
• Immersed in teamwork
• Responsible for own learning team learning
• Integrates NYS Learning Standards Key Ideas
• Goes beyond state standards

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• Sample Project Probing the Hudson
• Real-World Challenge Determine 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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http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/
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• TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL
• 21ST CENTURY SKILLS NYS LEARNING STANDARDS
• Content New York State Learning 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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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 requires
  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 VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL PARTNERSHIPS

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

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Partners Help Co-Design, Co-Teach Co-Assess
Projects

• 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 County Soil Water Conservation
  District
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 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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• Results
• Standardized exams
• College and Work Readiness Assessment
• NTN School Success Rubric

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• COLLEGE AND WORK READINESS ASSESSMENT (CWRA)
• The College and Work Readiness Assessment (CWRA)
  measures how students perform on constructed
  response tasks that require an integrated set of
  critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem
  solving, and written communication skills. The
  CWRA is delivered entirely over the Internet in a
  proctored setting. PARTICIPATING IN THE CWRA
  PROJECT All schools in the project test freshmen
  in the fall and seniors in the spring. This
  assessment provides at the end of the first year
  a measure of change between freshmen and senior
  years and by following the freshmen for the
  remaining three years, schools may track the
  progress of each successive freshman class. Most
  importantly, the CWRA allows you to compare the
  value-added results from your school to results
  at other, similar institutions and to college
  freshmen in our national sample of colleges and
  universities

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