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Foundation Action Topics

Item 296	Help students identify their passions & then promote their pursuit of those passions.Encourage passionate exploration & active learning.
Foundation Topics:
	1.	Establish a education vision statement that combines trends, students' info-experience, & a prevailing digi-networked information landscape.	Put Item 296 Here
	2.	Rewrite standards to more accurately reflect today's environment, our students needs & unique capabilities, and their future.	Put Item 296 Here
	3.	Establish new methods and structures for improving community communication.	Put Item 296 Here
	4.	Overhaul teacher education, and policies and procedures for professional development.	Put Item 296 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 296 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 296 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 296 Here
	8.	Overhaul state and national assessment policies and procedures.	Put Item 296 Here
Item 297	Identify learned helplessness & passive learning and do EVERYTHING to overcome it! Better yet, prevent it in all schools.
Item 304	Schools must foster creative thinking. Class sizes need to be smaller. Teachers must have time for professional development.
Item 305	Provide time, expertise and resources to empower teachers to become the quality educators we need to ensure schools are centres of learning.
Item 306	Schools must allow more technological resources for students. With these tools, students need freedom to plan & be accountable for learning

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.