CONNECTED Community CONNECTED Community for the 21st Century
CONNECTED - Learning in the 21st Century
Committed to our CORE SUBJECTS - District 39 enhances core content by infusing 21st Century teaching and learning principles into the areas of literacy, mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, social studies, health and wellness, and the arts. The educational delivery methods emphasize differentiated learning, higher level thinking, creativity, and authentic learning opportunities to maximize the value of our rigorous and meaningful curriculum.
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Opening minds to a GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE A global perspective opens the minds of our students and educators to a more enhanced sense of the world around us. It is woven into a 21st Century curriculum broadening our history, social studies, and world language programs. |
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Nurturing the CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS Characteristics of successful learners are a set of skills, identified by educational leaders and researchers that our students must embody to insure success in the 21st Century: Creativity |
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Nourishing a sense of SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Social responsibility is central to the development our children into leaders of the 21st Century. It encompasses a lifelong mutual understanding and respect for one another and the world we live in. It requires the development and demonstration of empathic and ethical behavior enabling our students to contribute to their communities from the classroom, to the world. |
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Empowering COMMUNICATION skills Communication is an exchange of meaning through nonverbal and verbal behavior, written, and spoken. An increased focus on globalization and diversity, combined with advances in technology, requires a refinement of basic communication skills to ensure our students are effective communicators across all media. |
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Cultivating COLLABORATION Collaboration is the ability of our students and educators to work effectively in and across groups. Working collaboratively, they can create more innovative outcomes than any individual could have achieved. |
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Transforming TECHNOLOGY into a continuous knowledge tool Technology is the conduit for learning within the 21st Century. It is the ever-changing tool through which knowledge is developed and transferred to our students.
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Evolving our TEACHING STYLES, LEARNING PROCESS, AND ENVIRONMENT Learning environments of the 21st Century are dynamic. They are physical and virtual. They can be human or technological. A 21st Century focus on learning environments studies the structures, tools, and communities that inspire students and educators to attain the knowledge and skills required for the future. A 21st Century focus on teaching styles and learning processes shifts the emphasis from what our students are taught and what our students learn to how our students are taught and how our students learn.
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Developing Students of Tomorrow!
