curriculumleadership

=**Curriculum Leadership**=

**Finding the Common Ground: Study Island and 21st Century Learning/Schools 2.0**


__**Overview**__
 * Web-based skills and knowledge software aligned with state's academic standards.
 * Accessible from any computer with internet access (not operating system specific)
 * Fairly extensive real-time data that could/should be used to enhance instruction and student learning.

__**Research**__ [|USDOE's Research on Software's Effectiveness] http://www.studyisland.com/

"The only way out, he insists, is 'to learn the tools of innovation' and forge entirely new, knowledge-based industries in energy technology, biotechnology and other science-based sectors (Curtis Carlson, head of California's Stanford Research Institute, quoted in "The Age of Mass Innovation" appearing in [|The Economist], October 13, 2007).

Literacy today is more than reading, writing, and math...it involves gathering, processing, analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting information as well as communicating and collaboration (web 2.0, 2007)

"With manufacturing now barely a fifth of economic activity in rich countries, the 'knowledge economy' is becoming more important" ([|The Economist], October 13, 2007)

__**Standards-Focus**__ [|Alignment to State Standards]

__**Instructional Adoption**__
 * Whole Group
 * Small Group
 * Learning Centers
 * Individual Students

__**Beliefs of Teaching**__
 * Teacher-Centered
 * Student-Centered
 * Constructivist

__**Curriculum**__
 * [|21st Century Skills]
 * [|Understanding by Design] (unpacking the standards)

[|wargo-tradition-standards-approach.pdf]

[|wargo-commonground.pdf]

[|wargo-studyisland-commonground.pdf]

__**Professional Development**__ Study Island Implementation (from www.studyisland.com) [|SI-Year-Implementation.pdf]

__**//n//-Tiered**__
 * Orientation
 * Data Analysis/Instruction Adoption
 * Experience/Coaching (Day Two Support)
 * Personal Learning Communities

__**Cost**__ [|Cost]