Change…growth…

Wow, change happens! Coming soon to a web site just a click away you will find a new name, new mission, new look and new feel to C2D3. As the current grant fades at the end of June a new phase...new mission emerges like a phoenix. C2D3 is transforming into CTLT -- Center for Transforming Learning and Teaching -- Advancing 21st century standards-based practices.

What might that mean for you as friends and clients of C2D3? Well, as you peruse the new mission below; open yourself to the possibilities of what it might mean...

CTLT Mission: Catalyzing and co-creating the transformation of learning environments through the use of assessment so that all are engaged in learning and empowered to positively contribute in a global society.

So while the changes will be taking place over the next couple of months, the growth should be readily apparent. "Information based educational practice" was the phrase CDE coined when C2D3 started. It was an attempt to frame conversations in schools around using data to inform and guide not just decisions, but day-to-day, minute-to-minute instruction. It was the descriptor of the next generation of standards based education.

Our work over the past five years has taken us to places even farther than we might have imagined. 21^st century standards-based education builds on those premises first introduced in 1993 (or even farther back with outcomes based education) and seeks to prepare all learners, regardless of age, for life and jobs that don’t yet exist. What does it take to be a life-long learner? What are those skills that we need and how do we best use them? If, as some purport, public education needs massive change, what does that change look like? The growing vision of C2D3 to CTLT works to express the growth in thinking about standards based education over the past decade. The fact that all learners need to not just know how to recognize what they know, know what they don’t know and know what they need to do to reach those targets that have been clarified for all is part of empowering learners and increasing their engagement, motivation and efficacy.