News and Notes:  Agenda
May 27, 2009

Meeting from 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM at Kansas Association of School Boards (KASB),

I.        Welcome, lunch count, introductions

II.       Large Group Reflections:  Our next steps to make a difference

            a.      Student Learning: 

·    Taking a leadership role for 21^st century skills, encompassing college preparatory, career & technical, and life skills/lifelong learning curricula. 

·     Impacting the next iteration of standards and assessments at the state level

·     a database of effective or exemplary practices to implement 21^st century teaching and learning

·     Strategies for sharing examples of 21^st century teaching and learning environments – presentations, workshops, etc. 

            b.      Professional Development

·     Identify the key components of the 21^st century learning environment (aligned with KSDE resources)

·      Propose a blueprint for professional learning (pre-service, in-service) to foster the practices that characterize a 21^st century learning environment

·      Identify and share examples of 21^st century teaching and learning environments

            c.      Community Engagement:

·      Producing a major discussion and informational resource to raise awareness and interest in 21^st century skills, teaching, and learning.

·      Providing ancillary materials to support locally-initiated conversations

·      Marketing the conversations, compiling and reporting the results of conversations

            d.      Additional components of work to consider

·      Developing policy recommendations to influence change (including standards)

·      Influencing assessment practices to include 21^st century skills and to align with 21^st century learning environments

·      A roadmap for/vision for assessment in the 21^st century

·      Other? 

III.      What are the deliverables?  Work time for subgroups to review their past work and identify what they might hope to produce in the coming year.  Is this it:

·     Professional  Development:  Building professional development that a) fosters 21^st century teaching practices, b) models adult learning for 21^st century, and c) facilitates learning and assessing 21^st century skills integrated with rigorous content

·      Student Achievement:  Creating and sharing the vision for 21^st century teaching and learning by identifying exemplary or effective practices.  (what would the role of KSDE be in this work?) 

·     Community Engagement:  Promoting in plain English, how would we describe our vision to parents, community, business?  What is the natural next step after folks have had a conversation about the learning needs of students in the 21^st century?  Urgency?  Overcoming objections?

VI.      Report out from work groups.

VII.     Recommended changes for 2009-2010

VIII.    Recap, celebrations, and next steps

Future meetings: 

            August 27-28, 2009 (evening on the 27^th, 9 AM – 2 PM on the 28^th); October 29, 2009; January 7, 2010; March 25, 2010; May 13, 2010