Rethinking the High School Experience II

We just completed a two day collaborative event with about 100 educators focused on Rethinking the High School Experience. We documented the event a little differently from what we typically do – using blogger.com and flickr.com as the two primary tools. The documentation for this can be found at:

http://www.innovationlabs.com/newhighschool/blog.html

The major outcome from this event was a focus on a vision that included 9 planks:

• A sense of purpose
• Personalized learning
• A vision for what ‘it’ looks like when it’s done
• Innovative assessment
• Relationships with students
• Broader responsibility
• Connected learning (integrated, interdisciplinary, relevant learning)
• Teacher as facilitator
• Learning Communities

Each of the 19 different school districts made specific plans to work on at least one of these 9 areas in the next 18 months.

So, What To Do?