Presentation Slides from my presentation at the CEFPI Regional Conference in St. Louis, MO on May 15, 2008.

1. The Schools We Need
Chris Lehmann
Principal
Science Leadership Academy

2. Build them?
Or Blow Them Up?

3. Revalue Education
And Re-Imagine the Spaces We Learn

4. Why This Matters

6. The Big Box

7. Learning Laboratories
Vision of the 21st Century School

8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/
edublogger/838786841/
Photo by Ewan McIntosh

9. My Bias:
School 2.0 is
Progressive
Education with 21st
Century Tools

10. More Bias:
Citizenry, Not Workforce

11. Remember:
Public Education = Democracy

12. The Great Big Question:
How can we have so many passionate,
dedicated educators in our schools and still have
so many problems?

13. Fix the System:
Put a good person into a bad system and the
system will win every time.

14. What Is The Purpose of
School?

15. We Work Best / Learn Best
When It Matters To Us

16. Caring
Institutions
We Teach Kids, Not
Subjects

17. Student
Centered
It’s Not About Us.

18. Inquiry
Driven
What are the
questions we can ask
together?

19. Passionate
And it has to matter.

20. Meta-
Cognitive
We need to think
about thinking.

21. Understand-
Driven
and Project-
Based

22. Technology
Infused
Ubiquitious,
Necessary and
Invisible

23. Traditional
Classrooms
Tests
Homework
Projects
Class Participation

24. The Schools
We Need
Projects
Homework
Class Participation
Tests & Quizzes

25. Ramifications For Design?
Link Pedagogy and Facility

26. Possibilities
Need Flexibility

27. Don’t Define Learning
Make Every Space a Possible Learning Space

28. Third Spaces
Make Spaces That Don’t Have Names

29. Schools Sustain Us
So They Should Be Sustainable

30. Know How Much
We Really Don’t Know

31. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/2225299236/

32. The illiterate of the 21st century
will not be those who cannot
read and write, but those who
cannot learn, unlearn and
relearn.
Alvin Toffler

33. Technology Changes
Everything

34. Educate The Whole Person
Gyms Still Matter, But Don’t Stop There

35. You Can’t Standardize
Differentiated Instruction,
Differentiated Schools

36. The Most Important Thing:

37. Wisdom.