Mission Possible#25-8-1

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”

Abraham Lincoln once said……

InnovationInnovation is creatively changing the future by solving today’s problems, thinking

out of the box, and planning and strategizing using a team approach.

Mission Possible #25-8-1

Our Mission

To develop schools of 2040 that are the center of the community where students are educated in the academic competencies and core values, trained to discover their gifts and intellectual character as lifelong learners, and inspired to map their pathways for college or a career of professional excellence and service to the global community.

Need for INNOVATION and CHANGE

Making It Happen

Components of a Futuristic School

• Culture

• Organization

• Leadership and Decision Making

• Accountability

• Teaching and Learning

• Family and Community Engagement

Culture

Organization

Leadership & Decision Making

“Its time for the next generation of leadership”

Accountability

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable”

John Baptiste Moliere

Accountability

• Community

• Digital Diagnostic/Prescription Plan

• Self Directed

Accountability

• Assessment for students/advisors

• EduPoll/interventions

• EduForce

Teaching and Learning

- Alvin TofflerRethinking the Future

The Curriculum• 21st Century Skills

• Character education

• DT->PI (highly personalized)

• Cohorts (human connection)

• Citizenship: local, global, and digital

• Global learning (“Planet as Our Campus”)

• Global curriculum that still includes reading, writing, math, languages, health, physical education, visual and performing arts, social studies, technology, and language.

• Teacher as advisor/facilitator of knowledge/fellow learner

• Project-based learning

• School-life balance

• Self-reflectivity

• Self-advocacy

Incorporation of Technology• Digital diagnostic testing to assess genetic predispositions and student engagement

• Multi-sensory field trips, internships, apprenticeships, and lessons

• More MOOC’s, online tutoring and enrichment

• More opportunities for personalized instruction

• More immediate and ongoing assessment

• Books virtually “coming to life”

• Classroom walls as interactive white boards

• Interactive desktops

• Learn from home

Family and Consumer Engagement

SummaryWe Accept the Mission

To create a futuristic school that is …

• Student focused with Individualized Prescriptive Plans

• 24/7 Virtual learning opportunities

• Choice: Global Community and/or humanistic centers

• Periodic Scan Evaluations• Collaborative

Communication Tool• Nonmedical MRI

assessments• Community Management

Systems• No Family Left Behind

Team 7: Mission Possible #25-8-1

Jennifer BooneChuconna Anderson

Cedric BarrettSharnee Brown

Mary GarciaPeggy Jackson-Jobe

Eury PadillaDaniel Rosenberg

Sandra Howard-Simmons