CORE CLIPS 3

How does the Iowa Core enable students to become productive adults?

What?

• Learning skills integrated in all content areas at all grade levels
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Collaboration and leadership
  • Agility and adaptability
  • Initiative and entrepreneurialism
  • Effective oral and written communication
  • Accessing and analyzing information
  • Curiosity and imagination (Wagner, Harvard University, 2008)

Why?

• “It is a world in which comfort with ideas and abstractions is the passport to a good job, in which creativity and innovation are the key to the good life, in which high levels of education – a very different kind of education than most of us have had – are going to be the only security there is.”

-New Commission on the Skills of the Americdan Workforce, 2006