Table of Contents
About This Toolkit
About This Toolkit................................................................................................2
Increasingly, schools are working to provide students not only with a solid foundation in math, reading, and other
academic subjects, but also personal, professional, and other 21st century student outcomes such as:
Purpose................................................................................................................3
Keep in Mind........................................................................................................3
Vision for Student Outcomes...........................................................................4
Making the Case .................................................................................................5
Competencies......................................................................................................7
Learning Environments for the Future of Learning................................9
Personal and Personalized..................................................................................11
Competency-Based............................................................................................15
Co-Created.........................................................................................................21
Safe and Healthy................................................................................................25
Time-, Talent-, and Technology-Enabled.............................................................29
Putting It All Together: Pennington Elementary School......................33
Resource Directory............................................................................................35
Share Your Example..........................................................................................44
Give Us Your Feedback....................................................................................45
1
• Managing time.
• Collaborating with others.
• Taking risks.
• Learning from failure.
• Making decisions that contribute to our communities.
The Colorado Education Initiative’s (CEI) Next Generation Learning Initiative works to ensure that Colorado has:
• Learning environments designed to maximize these outcomes for students.
• Educators prepared to create these learning environments.
• Systems that promote and support educators in this effort.
In partnership with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), CEI is working with educators to rethink when,
where, and how learning and teaching take place and how schools could be fundamentally different in Colorado to
respond to the unique needs, learning styles, interests, and skill levels of every student. CEI and CDE have identified
the following shared leadership roles to drive strategic priorities for schools and districts:
• Promote a vision for next generation student outcomes and build the case for change.
• Connect people and ideas.
• Identify, promote, support, and legitimize early adopters.
• Establish supportive CDE policies and practices.
• Create environments for innovation at all levels.
2