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Vision: Tech Valley High School serves as a model in the region, the state and beyond of innovative public
education that is based in strong partnerships and focuses on educating and inspiring students to embrace the
increasingly important world of math and science.
Mission: Tech Valley High School provides a unique and innovative student-centered educational
opportunity, engages students in current emerging technologies and supports the growth and economy of the region.
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"From the standpoint of the New Technology Foundation, I think Tech
Valley High School has the potential to be the best school we've been associated with. Nothing like this is going on
in Silicon Valley, in Austin, Texas, in the Research Triangle – in the communities you are competing with. This is
the only school that I'm dealing with that has this kind of community support."
Bob Pearlman,
director of strategic planning,
New Technology Foundation
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For more information please visit
techvalleyhigh.org
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Success
Summer Institute Program
WHO: Administrators, teachers and those interested in
learning about preparing students for the 21st century.
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
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WHAT: Participants will explore the need for 21st century learning skills and experience the Tech
Valley High School model. They will see how it can serve as an education model that addresses the needs of this
century by preparing students for the college experience and/or the local and global workforce.
Keynote speaker: Margaret Honey, Senior Vice President of Research of Wireless Generation,
Brooklyn, NY and board member of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills will provide a context for the need for
high school reform to meet the demands of the 21st century.
Experience the model: Participants will engage in a hands-on-simulation utilizing Tech Valley
High's project-based learning practices.
Best practices workshops: Participants will learn strategies that they can utilize in their own
classrooms.
- School-wide literacy practices: Mary Van Hoomissen, lead English teacher, will demonstrate
how Tech Valley High integrates school-wide literacy practices and ways to encourage and develop critical
"reading" abilities in students. Strategies include recognizing "text" in subject content and methods to
encourage and develop critical reading and writing skills in students across the curriculum.
- Designing a project-based learning experience: Stacia Snow, lead social studies teacher,
will demonstrate the nuts and bolts of designing and developing a project-based learning experience starting with
the NYS learning standards and keeping the end in mind.
- Authentic assessment: Leah Penniman, lead science teacher, will demonstrate how student
mastery of 21st century skills can be meaningfully measured using a range of performance assessment strategies,
including rubrics, community partners and real-life applications.
- Scaffolding student collaboration: Michelle Sweeny, lead math teacher, will demonstrate
scaffolding strategies that develop collaboration skills among students working in groups. Through these methods,
students learn to hold each other accountable for the group's work.
Directions: Tech Valley High School, One Global View, Rensselaer technology Park, troy, N.Y.
12180. For directions, please see www.techvalleyhigh.org
For more information: Please call Tech Valley High School at (518) 862-4960.
Study Tours
These three-hour tours are designed for educators interested in
learning more about a 21st century model that is based on different ways of learning and teaching. They will
include a look at principles and practices, and provide an opportunity to observe them in the classroom as well as
time to discuss this academic approach with the students, teachers and principal. The Spring tours are scheduled
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Tuesday, April 29, 8-11 a.m. SOLD OUT |
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Tuesday, May 27, 8-11 a.m. SOLD OUT |
For educators interested in learning more about upcoming study
tours and the Tech Valley High School model, please contact the school at 862-4960.
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