21st Century Learners

Table of Contents

Leading Learning in Our Times
Make way for age-old skills with a 21st century twist.
Bernie Trilling

What Children Should Know About Technology and the Virtual World
Educators must think more about how to provide opportunities for students to experience and reflect on the outcomes of technology use.
Yong Zhao

Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is When Investing in Technology 
Michael Cohen and Peter Derby

Take the Wheel on the Road to Health Literacy
Align core curriculum to 21st century skills and interdisciplinary themes, including health literacy.
Tami Benham Deal, Laurence O. Deal, and Nancy Hudson

FEATURES

Research Report
Jump-start Substantial School Change
Use the lessons learned about school turnarounds to support school improvement.
Nancy Protheroe

The Stage Is the Classroom
Using theater concepts as a teaching technique, schools can creatively teach students core subject matter.
John Schultz

COLUMNS

From the Editors
An Unknown Future

Parents & Schools
In Praise of Praise
John H. Wherry

It’s the Law
Teacher Insubordination: An Update
Perry A. Zirkel

Postscript
Pay it Forward
Gail Connelly

DEPARTMENTS

Snapshots

Practitioner’s Corner
The Challenge and Necessity of Nonrenewals
Louis Laffitte Jr.

Principal-to-Principal
Surviving and Thriving With Change
Angela Gwynne-Atwater and Peggy Taylor

Principal’s Bookshelf
Powerful Partnerships: A Handbook for Principals Mentoring Assistant Principals by Gary Bloom and Martin L. Krovetz
Reviewed by Robert Heath

Using Data to Improve Learning for All: A Collaborative Inquiry Approach edited by Nancy Love
Reviewed by James Warnock

The Reflective Principal
Learning by Gliding
Matthew Barbosa

Ten to Teen
A Quick Look Into the Middle School Brain
Emma S. McDonald

Speaking Out
We Must Rethink Teacher Incentive Plans
Samuel B. Hardy III

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