Creating the School You Want: Learning @ Tomorrow's Edge (Series in Educational Futuristics)

Educational futuristics\_a creative mix of dynamic pedagogy and evolving futuristics\_offers KD12 professionals, parents of school-age children, and youngsters alike a new tool for upgrading the learning that significantly shapes our future. This book makes a case for its empowering employ, offers over twenty pragmatic classroom exercises, warns against employment mistakes, calls for a paradigm shift in KD12 education, and details ways to get there from here. Building on a the previous book by the author (Anticipate the School You Want), this new book responds to questions raised by readers of that book and adds ideas from eleven experts. Unique on the shelf of KD12 advocacy material, Creating the School You Want recommends long-overdue attention to tomorrow\_to ways of making, studying, assessing, and employing forecasts the better to assure a finer tomorrow. ""In Arthur B. Shostak's latest book, Creating the School You Want, we are invited to sit at the kitchen table and talk about the future with this wise and compelling horizon scanner. He invites other futurists to the conversation, and we readers get that special treat of engaging with some of the finest thinkers about our future collected in one publication. We are urged to push ourselves out of our comfort zone and into new territory for educators. We need to get comfortable with shaping our future for our students, for our schools. and for ourselves. Shostak provides a recipe book for doing just that. Bravo. Shostak, for this insightful and captivating work. which encourages us to leap into the future with gusto."Sarah Jerome. superintendent of schools, Arlington Heights, Illinois; past president, American Association of School Administrators" ""At a time when our country is questioning the efficacy of the economics of schooling, Shostak brings us an imperative that we cannot dismiss. His collection of contributed chapters bridges the youth culture to a learning culture with a focus on investing in future-driven results. Creativity is the priority in his presentation of the cyber movement, and this book offers concrete examples of where schools, teachers, and students can begin locally to conceptualize the future. This book is a must-read as communities look to make decisions about their schools. Shostak is proactive and thought-provoking. Where his previous book gave us the rationale to shape the future of education, this book challenges us to act and offers everyone who cares about education abundant examples, ideas, and inspiration."Debra Jackson, superintendent of schools. Highland FallsFort Montgomery Central School District, New York" ""After detailing the long-term inability of American public education to truly change itself, this book offers several practical and inspiring strategies for transforming our schools. The authors give numerous compelling examples of why change is imperative for our students. Just when the reader is overwhelmed by the magnitude of change necessary, they apply the 'trim tabs' guiding educators into a realistic and achievable future. Brilliant!Mary Alice Price, superintendent. Pittsford Central School District. New York. 2009 NYS Superintendent of the Year" ""Shostak offers a compelling argument for educational leaders to become intentional about making their organizations 'future-oriented.' His position is clear: If students are to succeed in the future, our learning environment must be future-focused, imaginative in pedagogy, and engage everyone. He and his contributors provide practical steps for those ready to take on the challenge."David J. Breeze, superintendent of schools Northbrook School District 27, Illinois" "Arthur B. Shostak taught sociology courses for forty-two years; wrote or edited thirty-three books; consulted with school systems and teacher unions here and abroad: led the oldest city chapter of the World Future Society, developed Internet discussion groups on educational futuristics (Edutopia/FacultyRow); and. in 2006, received from the American Sociological Association the annual Award for a Distinguished Career in Sociological Practice."--BOOK JACKET Introduction: Educational Futuristics -- Making A Case For Educational Futuristics -- Dynamic Encounter--2008-2020 : The Venerable Classroom Meets Four Irresistible Forces Of Change / By David Pearce Snyder -- Can-do Tools -- Scenario Planning : A Remarkable Tool For Transforming Our Worst Fears Into Our Best Hopes For The Future / By Laura Lefkowits -- Getting Educational Futuristics Started -- Scenarios From Future Problem Solving Program International (fpspi) / By Marianne Solomon And Fpspi Staffers -- Upgrading Educational Futuristics -- Ideal High School, New School Day : Year 2020 (log In: Cyber School Bus. World History : Teleport To Pangaea Virtual Island In Avatar Dress Code [arab]. Prepare To Represent Palestinian Authority. Review Oslo Accords.) / By Robert L. Frantz -- Ignoring Educational Futuristics -- Educational Futuristics And Greening Turmoil -- Optimistic Environmentalism : A Guide For The Responsible Educator / By Tsvi Bisk -- Educational Futuristics And A Paradigm Shift -- Fixing Has Failed--let's Revolutionize K-12 / By Joseph Coates -- From The Three Rs To The Four Cs : Emerging Technologies' Positive And Transformative Impact On K-12 Education Over The Next Decades / By William Crossman -- Educational Futuristics : Delivery Possibilities -- Future, Foresight, And Fulfillment : Incorporating Futuring In An International Baccalaureate Programme--a Work In Progress / By Stephen F. Steele And Mary Austin -- The Journey Of Wonder Writers / By Govil Gupta -- Educational Futuristics Tomorrow -- Neurons, Networks, And Learning : What Neuroscience Means For K-12 Education / By Daniel I. Shostak -- Beyond Rote Learning : How Online Education Moves Schools To Higher Consciousness / By William E. Halal -- Epilogue -- Vision 2021 Proposes Grant Possibilities And Capabilities For Learning / By Marsha Rhea -- K-12 Learning At The World Future Society : We See Farther And Better When We Look Together / By Timothy C. Mack. Edited By Arthur B. Shostak. Includes Bibliographical References. Unique on the shelf of KD12 advocacy material, this book recommends long-overdue attention to tomorrow_to ways of making, studying, assessing, and employing forecasts the better to assure a finer tomorrow.