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Without some additional funding, both locally and at a state level. We need to advocate at a state level. You cant expect us to do 21st century schools and do all the assessment online, if theres no specific funding to help our School Districts do this. Were launching that campaign. Well be focusing on talent and theres a number of initiatives there to support our teachers. Were doing exciting work with high schools and creating a much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at worki...

Colleague is going to talk about the Mayors Initiative around technology. To remain relevant we need to show impact. We cant wait 5 years. Whenever we design, whatever we are doing at c i now, my staff know that we are designing it to have an impact measure initially. Even if its just a leading indicator, it needs to show something immediately. And the other reason is we cant scale something if we dont know if it works. So that is important to us. We need to be able to test things fail through an indicator if thats what will happen and revise and fail forward again because unless we test it an...

Kids and get them into stem field this is the place to work. It is those top 100. If you are in those schools, you need to be addressing every student with this. You cant be a program done after school. It cant be a program only that is done in an elective course. We dont want to stop those elective courses, we dont want to stop those after school. We want to cherish those and continue them but we need a larger system that addresses every student. Right now this is the right time. This is the right time because of the next generation Science Standards, the common core math and allow us to chan...

Much more sdi verse portfolio of high schools. Were going to do a partnership about a whole International Service learning model. With marshall were looking at working with microsoft to make this a 21st century academy. Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving t...

In the future maybe some sort of applied math and multidisciplinary. I wont wonder what that landscape looks like as students get to apply their math skills and how that feels with the level of choice we want to give our high school students. Certainly those options are open. We put the primary courses that students do now. That is not a limiting factor. I certainly want to be ills illustrative of what students are doing. Also the Enrollment Program and to expand opportunities for many of our students that are doing the Enrollment Program and we are looking at various options within that that ...