Offering a variety of tools and timely resources, the P21 Common Core Toolkit provides:
Alignment Overview
A high-level summary of how the P21 framework and the Common Core State Standards support each other
Common Core / P21 Examples
Lesson vignettes that demonstrate "what it looks like" to align instructional practices with both the common core and P21 skills
Common Core Resources
Compilation of useful links for states and districts working to implement the Common Core State Standards
Assessment Resources
Compilation of background reading on the issue of assessment and the 4Cs
In an increasingly complex, demanding and competitive 21st century, students need to learn more than the 3R's they are tested on in school. It's time to help them go "above & beyond", by embracing the 4Cs - communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.
To get the word out to about the "3Rs + 4Cs" approach, P21 and FableVision partnered to produce a short, animated film called Above & Beyond. Enjoy & share, so we can help ALL our students flourish in the 21st century.
These 21st Century Skills Maps are each the result of hundreds of hours of research, development and feedback from educators and business leaders across the nation.
Educators can't truly deliver 21st-century instruction in schools that reflect Industrial-Age designs, with rigid schedules, inflexible facilities, and fixed boundaries between grades, disciplines, and classrooms, according to a new white paper from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21).