Designing Boundless Futures for 21st Century Learners

The Texas ASCD’s Local Arrangements Committee for the 2010 conference met in December to begin planning for the annual conference. After much discussion on expectations, wants and needs of the conference, the committee came up with the following theme:

Designing Boundless Futures for 21st Century Learners.

What does this mean to you?

First as educators, we need to focus on the student. This aspect was glaringly obvious. When a student leaves high school there are many paths they can choose from. Wouldn’t it behoove us, not only as educators but also as citizens, to prepare each student for whichever path they may want to select? The committee then decided that we needed not only to focus on the student, but to also focus on the educator. To be successful in the 21st Century, we all need to be learners. With the world changing constantly, where will we all be if we don’t move and change with it? With this said, the committee choose the focus (or strands) of the conference. The strands of the 2010 conference will be:

• Curriculum and Technology Integration
• Curriculum Design
• Addressing Challenges and Change
• Multiple Measures of Assessment
• Instructional Coaching and Leadership
• Building Community
• College and Career Readiness

Please feel free to comment/answer the questions below:

1. What does designing boundless futures mean to you?
2. What kinds of 21st Century skills have you learned as an educator in the past 10 years?

Texas ASCD would like to invite you to join us October 24-26, 2010 at the Westin Galleria in Houston, for three days of learning.