What 60 Schools Can Tell Us About Teaching 21st Century Skills: Grant Li...

This video is all about the odyssey of author and educational consultant Grant Lichtman, who had a unique idea. His notion was to hop in his Prius and set of across the nation to find out how schools are bringing 21st century skills through to their students. 21 states, over 60 schools, and more than 500 educator interviews later, this is what he discovered

• Preparing our students for their future, not our past
• Change is uncomfortable

What are you doing to incorporate 21st century learners in your classroom?

Lichtman states that he would visit a school and they would be struggling with a question. He would visit another school down the road and find they had solved that question but had another question. Do you feel that if educators and administrators had more time to collaborate we might not spend so much time re-inventing the wheel? 

What formative assessments are you using to drive your teaching?