Being a firm believer in the "it takes a village..." mentality, the Community Partnerships gear stood out to me as being the most important. This portion of the framework, focuses on how districts and students interact with the world outside of the school, both locally and globally.
At the local level, the framework discusses how through local partnerships, teachers can bring relevance to their curricula. This is something that I have witnessed and participated in at Oswego High School. In the Science Department alone, we have several courses where students get to interact with local experts via field trips, apprenticeships, and guest speakers. A few examples include our Forensics classes, which go to go to the local police station and learn more about crime investigation at the crime lab. The Medical Topics and Anatomy and Physiology classes were able to go to a local university to visit their cadaver lab. The Medical Topics students also spend a semester at the local hospital doing rotations in the different medical fields. In my own Chemistry courses, I have had guest speakers come in and talk about how my students could use Chemistry as a viable career option.
Community Partnerships also emphasizes global partnerships. I believe it is important for us, as teaches, to teach our students to be global citizens. Through technology we can connect with the world in a way that we were unable to several years ago. It is with these connections that we can make students global citizens, expand their horizons, and deepen their understandings of diversity. In some cases, we may even be able to take students abroad, and give them first hand experiences in different cultures.
Read the entire frame work here: The Future Ready Framework.
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