Teaching 21st Century Skills: Who Took My Chalk? Model for Transforming Your Classroom and School shows how to create 21st century learning environments and curriculum using the Who Took My Chalk?T model for intentional change.

Offering workbook-style-pages and easy-to-read chapters, this book defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and shows how to apply 21st century concepts in an education setting. Following an eight-step model, readers learn about change management, the impact of school culture, and goal-setting for school improvement. Classroom and school assessment tools are included, as well as strategies for overcoming roadblocks and gaining parental support. Filled with sample curriculum and modification strategies, this book is a must-read for any educator wishing to create intentional change in their classroom or school.

Provides a thorough understanding of 21st century skills and how they can be applied in the education setting-defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and focuses on how to create 21st century learning environments for students.

Uses the Who Took My Chalk?T model as a method for creating change-includesan eight step model that begins with change management and focuses first on school culture and attitudes and then works outward to setting and achieving goals for school improvement.

Aligns teaching with the way today's students think, act and learn-discusses each generation in terms of how they learn, with a focus on millennials and Gen I in today's classrooms.

·       Provides assessment tools for classrooms and for schools-helps readers measure the culture, environment and attitude in personal and school settings so it is easier to create change.  

Outlines how to set goals, predict roadblocks and engage external and parental support-includespractical suggestions for attaining goals, improving communication and gaining support throughout the change process.

Includes examples of 21st century teaching/learning and steps for modifying/recreating curriculum units so they align with these skills-shows readers proven curriculum models and creates a deeper understanding of what 21st century skills look like in the classroom.

Offers workbook-style-pages and easy-to-read chapters-includes a final chapter that includes a format for a group book study.

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Transforming Learning through 21st Century Skills: The Who Took My Chalk?T Model for Engaging You and Your Students shows how to create 21st century learning environments and curriculum using the Who Took My Chalk?T model for intentional change.

Offering workbook-style-pages and easy-to-read chapters, this book defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and shows how to apply 21st century concepts in an education setting. Following an eight-step model, readers learn about change management, the impact of school culture, and goal-setting for school improvement. Classroom and school assessment tools are included, as well as strategies for overcoming roadblocks and gaining parental support. Filled with sample curriculum and modification strategies, this book is a must-read for any educator wishing to create intentional change in their classroom or school.

Provides a thorough understanding of 21st century skills and how they can be applied in the education setting-defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and focuses on how to create 21st century learning environments for students.

Uses the Who Took My Chalk?T model as a method for creating change-includesan eight step model that begins with change management and focuses first on school culture and attitudes and then works outward to setting and achieving goals for school improvement.

Aligns teaching with the way today's students think, act and learn-discusses each generation in terms of how they learn, with a focus on millennials and Gen I in today's classrooms.

·       Provides assessment tools for classrooms and for schools-helps readers measure the culture, environment and attitude in personal and school settings so it is easier to create change.  

Outlines how to set goals, predict roadblocks and engage external and parental support-includespractical suggestions for attaining goals, improving communication and gaining support throughout the change process.

Includes examples of 21st century teaching/learning and steps for modifying/recreating curriculum units so they align with these skills-shows readers proven curriculum models and creates a deeper understanding of what 21st century skills look like in the classroom.

Offers workbook-style-pages and easy-to-read chapters-includes a final chapter that includes a format for a group book study.

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Hallmark Features

·        Provides a thorough understanding of 21st century skills and how they can be applied in the education setting-defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and focuses on how to create 21st century learning environments for students.

·        Uses the eight-step Who Took My Chalk?T model for change management as an organizer for the book to guide teachers on a journey of change by focusing first on school culture and attitudes and then on setting and achieving goals for school and classroom improvement.

·        Provides assessment tools for classrooms and for schools-helps readers assess culture, environment and attitude in personal and school settings through reflective tools that focus on key elements.

·        Includes examples of 21st century teaching/learning and steps for modifying/recreating curriculum units so they align with these skills-shows readers proven curriculum models and creates a deeper understanding of what 21st century skills look like in the classroom.

·        Offers a book study guide at the end of the book to support facilitators as they guide teachers through the outlined process.

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Transforming Learning through 21st Century Skills:

The Who Took My Chalk?TM Model for Engaging You and Your Students

 Lydotta M. Taylor - Jill M. Fratto

Embrace change and transform your classroom through 21st Century Skills integration! Offering teacher-friendly chapters with ample space for note taking and reflections, this book defines 21st century skills, discusses why we need to teach today's students differently, and walks teachers through a school-wide transformational process with an end goal of incorporating 21st century concepts in an educational setting. Through an eight-step model, teachers learn about change management, the impact of school culture, and goal-setting for school improvement. Classroom and school assessment tools are included, as well as strategies for overcoming roadblocks and gaining parental support. Filled with sample curriculum and modification strategies, this book is a must-read for any educator wishing to create intentional change in their classroom or school.

The Who Took My Chalk?TM  Model is powerful for making teachers want to embrace change and gives clear steps for establishing the kind of environment they want to have in their classroom and school.I would recommend [this book] for its strong overview of the 21st century collaborative teaching model and for clearly laying out a model to make change happen on a personal or school-wide level.

 - Nancy Goodnight, AIG Facilitator/Teacher, Enochville Elementary School, China Grove, NC   

 I appreciated the relevancy of current trends.  As a technology professional development leader in my district and region, I found it reassuring that the same ideas I cover in my sessions were discussed in this book.  

- Allen Martin, District Technology Resource Teacher, Bowling Green City Schools, Bowling Green, KY 

Lydotta M. Taylor is founder and President of The EdVenture Group where she specializes in change management and leadership programs for education and business as well as an adjunct professor for the West Virginia University Leadership Studies program. She currently serves as a national facilitator for The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and is the model classroom chairperson for the International Society for Technology in Education Conference. Taylor's true passion is teaching, helping others, and sharing knowledge and successes with the business and education community.  

Jill M. Fratto is a Certified Professional Coach, accredited by the International Coach Federation and the owner of Enlighten Consultant Services, Inc.  She has worked as a consultant for The EdVenture Group training, coaching and creating education programs for the past ten years.  Fratto earned her MBA from West Virginia University and her coaching certificate from The Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) in New York. She continues to apply her coaching experience in the education field as well as provide coaching and training services to businesses and individuals.

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