21st Century Skills

Embrace the unique opportunity of online and blended learning. Get a solid understanding on how to execute in-person and online relationships with students and coworkers to attain a positive learning environment that supports social-emotional learning.

How can elementary educators create a learning environment that is conducive to creativity, critical thinking, and student ownership of learning? By implementing design-minded real life examples in the classroom. All while achieving positive student learning outcomes.

How do you encourage active citizenship in the classroom? This innovative resource provides a practical approach for creating authentic, engaging learning experiences. Prepare students to participate in civic discourse while creating a positive classroom culture.

Alex Kajitani offers educators an insightful resource packed with practical tips for making the most of your online classroom environment. Let this resource guide you to instructional strategies to strengthen your interactive online learning environment.

Learn how to design, implement, and assess engaging sustainable project-based learning (SPBL) units while ensuring students gain surface-, deep-, and transfer-level knowledge. Author Brad Sever offers a five-step process that partners academic growth with social-emotional skill development.

Embrace a technology-supported and balanced approach for performance-based assessment. Use triangulation of assessment through performance observations, conversations, and physical products to accurately measure student competence for learning objectives.

Develop lifelong learners who are engaged, curious, skillful, thoughtful, independent, confident, and reflective. This resource reveals four key goals for a lifelong learning education and how you can organize teaching around a practical four-phase instructional model. In addition, the author shares ways to improve assessments and offers curriculum development strategies that will help students succeed academically and navigate college, career, and life.

Grow students into creative, ethical, and critical thinkers who can confidently navigate the complexities of a rapidly changing world. Thinking Protocols for Learning offers instructional techniques for teaching 21st Century Skills that boost student engagement, metacognition, and problem solving.

Learn how to utilize the Youth Employability Skills (YES!) framework to foster confident, well-rounded, career-ready students. This resource helps educators teach 21st century skills, such as problem solving and critical thinking, to ensure that each learner is prepared for the workplace or higher education.

Explore five collaboration-based commitments that will help you build a professional learning community (PLC) that provides the best possible avenues of learning to students. This resource will help you enhance your school improvement efforts and strengthen your skills as an educator.