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MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY
TEACHING & LEARNING:
TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
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21st Century Skills
Core subjects and 21st Century Theme
Learning and Innovation Skills
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Creativity and Innovation Skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
Communication and Collaboration Skills
Information , Media and Technology Skills
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Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
Life and Career Skills
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Flexibility and Adaptability
Initiative and Self-Direction
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills
Productivity and Accountability
Leadership and Responsibility
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VISION
Tech Valley High School serves as a model – in the region, the
state and beyond – of innovative public education that is
based in strong partnerships and focuses on educating and
inspiring students to embrace the increasingly important world
of math and science.
MISSION
Tech Valley High School provides a unique and innovative
student-centered educational opportunity, engages students
in current emerging technologies, and supports the growth and
economy of the region.
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CHALLENGE
To create a rigorous,
relevant, student-centered
learning environment that
better prepares all students
for the 21st century.
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CONTEXT
• Our current education system: Built for another era.
• American workers: In direct competition with
workers around the world.
• Tech Valley’s leaders agree: Tomorrow’s workforce
must be able to collaborate, think critically,
communicate & be self-directed.
• New Technology Foundation of Napa, Calif.:
Identifies region as “promising” & gives $400,000
grant for high school to be a “replication site.”
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A PROVEN MODEL:
NEW TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
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Established in 1999
Project of Gates Foundation
Network of 36 Schools
Technology Tools
Training & professional development/coaching
$400,000 grant to Tech Valley High – its first in NYS
& Northeast
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MODEL OF 21ST CENTURY TEACHING &
LEARNING: TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
Guiding Principles:
1. Small School
2. Project-based learning,
student centered
3. Integrated curriculum
4. 21st century skills & NYS
learning standards
5. Technology platform
6. Partnerships
7. Contributing to high school reform movement
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Tech Valley High School in Brief
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Regional public high school
Math-science-technology theme
Joint venture of Questar III & Capital Region BOCES
Launched in fall 2007 with 40 freshmen by design
Open to students in 48 school districts in seven
counties
• Diverse student body
• Located at Pitney Bowes Software (2007-2009)
while seeking permanent location
• Contributes to high school reform movement
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
SMALL SCHOOL
Why?
• Better able to establish positive culture
(respect, responsibility & trust)
• Individual learning
• Teachers “share” students,
encourage collaboration
• “Professional” environment
• Students help manage school
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At Tech Valley High:
• 40 students in 1st two
years
• Add one grade at a time
• Fully enrolled at 400
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
PROJECT-BASED LEARNING, STUDENT CENTERED
• Real world challenges & implications
• Real world assessment
• Students solve unforeseen problems &
meet unpredicted obstacles
• Thoroughly immersed in teamwork
• Students are responsible for their own learning & team learning
• Integrates NYS Learning Standards & Key Ideas
• Goes beyond NYS Standards by exploring rich & complex
problems & issues
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Sample Project: “Probing the Hudson”
• Real-World Challenge: Determined if the Hudson River
will be safe for swimming in 2009.
• Project: Students develop river analysis plan, do field
research, investigate data & publish a report.
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“Probing the Hudson:” Meets NYS Learning
Standards & Key Ideas
• MST Standard 1: Analysis, inquiry & design using
scientific inquiry methods
• MST Standard 2: Use appropriate information
technologies
• MST Standard 3: Applying mathematics in real world
settings
• MST Standard 7: Applying mathematics, science &
technology to address real-life problems
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“Probing the Hudson:” Co-designed, co-taught
& co-evaluated in conjunction with experts:
• Beacon Institute Center for
Advanced Environmental
Technology
• Hudson River Basin Watch
• NYS Department of
Environment Conservation
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
Global Analysis & Media
Explorations (G.A.M.E.)
• Global History & Geography
• English
Environmental Analysis
• Integrated Algebra
• Environmental Science
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
21ST CENTURY SKILLS & NYS LEARNING
STANDARDS
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 New York State Standards
21ST century skills
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Collaboration
Information literacy
Critical thinking
Innovation
Communication: oral, written, mathematical, graphic & artistic
Citizenship & ethics
Technology literacy
Self-direction
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To earn a living wage, our
students will need to use their
heads.
100%
90%
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70%
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Low Skill Jobs
50%
Knowledge Work Jobs
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10%
0%
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Global competition
requires a different
kind of education
In order for America to
compete globally and
secure its future, US
workers must develop a
high level of creativity
and innovation that
require a new approach
to education.
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Tools for communicating,
collaborating & learning
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Role of Technology & 1:1 Computer Environment
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Store projects in digital briefcases
Post daily course agendas & student grades to the Web
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Teams share work digitally
Have own e-mail accounts & server space
Create digital portfolios of their work
Performance is captured digitally
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Technology
Tools:
Project
briefcase
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Technology
Tools:
Course
calendar
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TECH VALLY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
PARTNERSHIPS
More than 125 entrepreneurial Tech Valley leaders are shaping &
sustaining the school:
 Corporations
 Technology companies
 Economic developers
 Chambers of commerce
 Colleges & universities
 K-12
 Organized labor
 Government
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Partners help co-design, co-teach & co-assess
projects. First-semester partners included:
 1st Playable Productions
 Applied Nano Works
 Center for Advanced
 Environmental Technology
 Cornell University Cooperative
Extension
 Denison Farm
 NYSDEC
 Hudson Basin River Watch
 IBM
 Local #7 Plumbers &
Steamfitters
 Mohawk Paper Company
 North Albany Wastewater
Treatment Plant
 Northeast Analytical
 Q-Drive
 Rensselaer Co. Soil & Water
Conservation District
 RPI
 US Geological Survey
 Wadsworth Center
 WAMC
 WMHT
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TECH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL MODEL:
CONTRIBUTING TO HIGH SCHOOL REFORM
MOVEMENT
Tech Valley High School Promise
“…we will deliver a superb academic program…
…use Tech Valley High as a crucible within
which we will innovate and create educational
improvement and spread that within the region…
…create opportunities for schools like this across
the State of New York…”
Paul Puccio, Chair, Tech Valley High School Operating Board
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Tech Valley High School from the national
perspective
“From the standpoint of the New Technology
Foundation, I think Tech Valley High School has
the potential to be the best school we’ve been
associated with. Nothing like this is going on in
Silicon Valley, in Austin, Texas, in the Research
Triangle – in the communities you are
competing with. This is the only school that
I’m dealing with that has this kind of
community support.”
Bob Pearlman, Director of Strategic Planning, New Technology Foundation
QUESTIONS?
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