Future Ready Schools: Preparing Students for Success

Framework . (2017). Dashboard.futurereadyschools.org. Retrieved 1 April 2017, from https://dashboard.futurereadyschools.org/framework/framework-overview

Summary

Together the Alliance for Excellent Education and the US Department of Education partnered to help school districts and their leaders analyze how well they evaluate their own leadership and the culture in their schools keeping in the forefront the primary goal that all students reach their potential for success and be able to compete in the global workforce once they graduate.  Through various summits and phases, the Alliance was able to create a framework and compile resources to support districts and the technological change.  The visual framework consists of seven gears around the student learning.  The seven gears are: curriculum, instruction, and assessment, use of space and time, robust infrastructure, data and privacy, community partnerships, personalized professional learning, and budget and resources.  These seven gears are surrounded by a ring of collaborative leadership, and the consistent cycle of vision, plan, implement, and assess.

Reflection…1 gear most important to me

All gears are important and need to be addressed during the road map, but one gear that is most important to me is collaborative leadership.  It is essential that students, teachers, administrators, parents and the community work together to achieve a culture of a forward thinking vision for the importance of technology in learning before any specifics can be implemented and then this outside ring is necessary to hold everything together.