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I. Welcome
SAS, the NC New Schools Project (NCNSP), and the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation (FI) are collaborating to redesign teaching and learning in two NCNSP redesigned high schools. The primary goal is to engage students in active learning and produce graduates who are prepared for college, work, and life in the 21st century. These schools will:   ** The Process: **  To date, NCLTI pilot programs have been implemented in both //traditional large schools// and in small //early college high schools//. An important next step toward a state-wide initiative is to implement promising practices from NCLTI in //redesigned high schools//, in which educators transform a traditional, comprehensive high school into small, focused and academically rigorous schools that engage students.   Teachers in a redesigned school adopt a theme or common way of teaching. Often, the themes connect to areas of the knowledge-based economy into which students will graduate, such as biotechnology, information technology, health sciences, engineering or international studies. The goal is to broadly prepare students for many career options and to use a theme to engage and motive them toward higher levels of achievement. 
 *   Leverage the power of technology to transform teaching and learning
 *  Demonstrate instructional strategies and data analysis that use technology to engage students in interactive learning
 *  Provide model sites for promising practices that may be easily replicated elsewhere; and
 *  Inform the planning for a large-scale state-wide initiative that may be implemented in the future

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Merging the NCNSP design principles and strategies with the instructional technology expertise, tools and resources of SAS and the FI will result in a model that fully integrates technology. This updated model will provide demonstration and dissemination sites that will inspire replication in additional schools throughout North Carolina and, eventually, in other states. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">II. Purpose
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This wiki has been created to provide a resource for instructional technologist and teachers such that they can use Web 2.0<span class="wiki_link_ext"> in a NC [|New Schools Project] Redesign 2.0 Classroom. These schools have been developed using the [|North Carolina New Schools Project Design Principles]. The lessons are founded upon achieving learning outcomes using [|NCNSP Common Instructional Framework] such as collaborative group work, writing to learn, literacy groups, questioning, scaffolding, and classroom talk. These are core strategies that are foundational to all Redesign 2.0 teaching pedagogy in all disciplines. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 126%;">

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