Presentation of National Honor Society

Inductees for the 2009-2010 School Year

Welcome to the 2010Athens Academy Schacht Lecture

Patrick F. Bassett, President

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The Global Future for Today’s Students

Athens Academy Cum Laude Lecture

The Generative Question for Students & Schools

The skills of …

The values of…

What skills & values will be demanded and rewarded in the global 21st Century?

What does the research say?

Creating the 21st. C. Curriculum

The Generative Question: What skills & values will be demanded and rewarded in the global 21st C?

Bassett’s Conflated List:(1) character (self-discipline, growth mindset, empathy, integrity, resilience, persistence, and courage) (2) creativity, imagination, and entrepreneurial spirit (3) problem-solving on a real-world local, national, global stage (analysis, filtering, & synthesis: project-based, not text-based learning, technology-enhanced) (4) communications, especially public speaking (5) teaming(6) leadership

Demonstrations of Learning: “What you do, not what you know, the ultimate test of education.” ~PFB Tweet

1. Conduct a fluent conversation in a foreign language about of piece of writing in that language.

2. Write a cogent and persuasive opinion piece on a matter of public importance.

3. Declaim with passion and from memory a passage that is meaningful, of one’s own or from the culture’s literature or history.

4. Produce or perform a work of art.

5. Construct and program a robot capable of performing a difficult physical task.

Demonstrations of Learning

6. Exercise leadership.

7. Using statistics, assess if a statement by a public figure is demonstrably true.

8. Assess media coverage of a global event from various cultural/national perspectives.

9. Describe a breakthrough for a team on which you participated in which you contributed to overcoming a human-created obstacle.

10.Demonstrate a commitment to creating a more sustainable future with means that are scalable.

NAIS’s Challenge 20/20: High Noon

Sharing our planet: Issues involving the “global common”• Global warming• Biodiversity and ecosystem losses• Fisheries depletion• Deforestation• Water deficits• Maritime safety and pollutionSharing our humanity: Issues requiring a global commitment & covenant• Massive step-up in the fight against poverty• Peacekeeping, conflict prevention, combating terrorism• Education for all• Global Infectious Diseases• Digital divide• Natural disaster prevention and mitigationSharing our rulebook: Issues needing a global regulatory approach• Reinventing taxation for the 21st century• Biotechnology rules• Global financial architecture• Illegal drugs• Trade, investment, and competition rules• Intellectual property rights• E-commerce rules• International labor and migration rules.

Challenge 20/20: Montessori School of Denver

Real-World Project-Based Learning

Measuring Water Flow for the Middle School Water in the West Project ~Watershed School, Boulder, CO

20/20 Fay School Entrepreneurship:Global Problem: Water DeficitsGlobal Solution: WaterWalker

Fay School (MA) 8th graders

Return

Expeditionary Leadership TrainingUpper School “Borders” Project – Watershed School, CO

NOLS-based Leadership Basics:Taking Care of…1.Yourself…2.Your Stuff…3.Your Responsibilities to the Team

In the context of real-world project-based learning and problem-solvingMeasured by CWRA critical-thinking assessment.Results: Outperformed 99% of college freshmen

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31corner.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Delbarton’s ChampionshipRobotics Team

Falmouth Academy’s Submersible Robot

Run Clip

Lamplighter School (TX) Egg Business

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xL2PutgTRI

Run

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Grant Wood’s Victorian Survival

Smithsonian Podcast interpretation by Katy Waldman, Holton Arms School

Patrick F. Bassett, President

www.nais.org

Here’s to the Solution-Finders and Meaning-Makers!

See background slides in appendix