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Foundation Action Topics

Item 343	Recognize there is a difference between engagement and entertainment and appoint officials who understand this.
Foundation Topics:
	1.	Establish a education vision statement that combines trends, students' info-experience, & a prevailing digi-networked information landscape.	Put Item 343 Here
	2.	Rewrite standards to more accurately reflect today's environment, our students needs & unique capabilities, and their future.	Put Item 343 Here
	3.	Establish new methods and structures for improving community communication.	Put Item 343 Here
	4.	Overhaul teacher education, and policies and procedures for professional development.	Put Item 343 Here
	5.	Facilitate an exploration of new education methods and pedagogies that reflect today's children and their information experiences, abundant and connective information environments, and 21st century skills.	Put Item 343 Here
	6.	Restructure the school environment including grades, school day/year schedule, building (or lack there of), information infrastructure, roles & rules, staffing, governance, and choice.	Put Item 343 Here
	7.	Commit to funding that is adequate to true education reform that reflects today's rapidly changing world, our students' info-experiences, and a dramatically new information landscape.	Put Item 343 Here
	8.	Overhaul state and national assessment policies and procedures.	Put Item 343 Here
Item 344	Treat teachers as adult learners.
Item 345	Shift from "staff development" only with teachers to multilayered adult development.
Item 346	Facilitate school, school board and community dialogues.
Item 347	Put in place incentives for board members to put the needs of students first.

Phase 1

Spend about two-and-a-half days composing and posting clear and succinct (140 character limit) priority actions for a U.S. Ed Department aimed at promoting and empowering a system that better prepares today�fs children for their future.

Phase 2

Instructions

I am asking folks to match only five items. You can match more if you have time.
To the left, you see one of the statements submitted during the past two days. Just beneath that are eight foundation topics that I have culled from the 176 items contributed by educators. There are four more statements beneath the foundation topics, waiting to be considered.
Read the statement at the top and then decide which of the eight topics it best fits into and then click the [Put Item ## Here] link to the right of the topic.
When you click the link, that item will go away, replaced by the next one. Again, select the most logical topic and click it.
You will be asked to match five statements. At the end, click [Yes] to match five more.

Thanks!

Phase 3

The final action statements, along with their associated statements will be published here, with a request that education bloggers and microbloggers share their insights about their favorite statements, tagging their bloggs appropriatedly.

Phase 4

A Facility will be added that enables us to prioritize the action statements in order of importance and sequence. Comments will be collected.