District Leaders Luncheon: Transformative Change for the 21st Century

On Wednesday, October 16th, SEI convened approximate 50 school leaders both here and abroad to share case studies of transformational change at the district and classroom level; in particular, system-wide efforts to cultivate 21st century capacities, such as risk-taking, entrepreneurship, collaboration and real-world problem-solving across grades and disciplines. District leaders from Scarsdale, NY, Westport, CT, Weston, CT and Helsinki, Finland provoked and inspired with detailed portraits of their efforts to affect change in their districts in their approaches to vision setting, assessments, professional learning communities, community engagement, and student/teacher innovation through bold and unconventional pilot projects that disrupted the boundaries of the classroom.

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