Features and Benefits
Educators see how to make the realities of effective 21st century education happen through the focus on implementation, including all major aspects of implementation strategy. (Chapter 1)
Leaders get the tools they need to consider outcomes outside of the 4Cs, including global citizenship and financial literacy, to customize a vision for their particular school or district. (Chapter 1)
Readers see how to take the interests of stakeholder groups into consideration through the book’s marriage of community consensus building and the specifics of education strategy implementation.
Leaders get a unique self-assessment tool for use with their schools and districts—the P21 MILE Guild—in the book’s first-of-its-kind presentation of this guide and how to use it. (Chapter 3 and Appendix)
Leaders are provided up-to-date information on the NEA educator’s guide to the 4Cs, which explains the importance of the 4Cs, offers specific examples of how it can be integrated into specific content disciplines, and offers suggestions on how to make it a focus in their classrooms, schools, and districts. This is the first text to include “Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century: An Educator’s Guide to the Four Cs.” (Chapter 4 and Appendix)
Coverage of the 4Cs as appropriate 21st century student outcomes, the pillars of 21st century pedagogy, and a 21st century leadership strategy is illustrated in the book’s explanations of the role the 4Cs can play in leading, teaching, and learning. (Chapter 7)
Readers learn through specific examples from schools and districts around the country with which the authors have personally worked.
Readers get a first-of-its kind look at the role school leaders need to play to provide vision, consensus building, and organizational strategies for the school or district. (Chapters 1, 2, and 7)
Educators have access to the most relevant resources on critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, as well as suggestions on how to use the resource guides. This book includes the first 4Cs resource guides.