5. • Solution Tree
• Alliance for Excellent Education
• Deeper Learning
• EdVisions
• New Tech Network
• KIPP Academy
• Big Picture Learning
• MESA @ University
of California
• CYT @ Johns
Hopkins University
• SEED Foundation
6. Steps to becoming the best of the best
• knowledge-, skill-based outcomes
• project-based learning
• student-centered and -driven learning
• professional learning communities
(students, teachers, alliances)
• community involvement, internships
• online interface
7. Revision and reinvention
• increased responsibility (parent,
student)
• alliances
• community giveback
• flexible schedule (day, week, year)
• evolution of the extra- and co-
curricular interests
• boarding school
• sustainability (green, grants,
production, trade)
8. "The system is obsolete. It needs reinventing, not reforming."
- Tony Wagner (Swallow, 2012)