Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Group Assignments
Group 1: Year Round Group 2: Small Learning Group3: Business
Learning Communities Assessment
Mary Scarborough Barry DeJong Bill Gess
Tyler Carter Connie Bowne Bob Mohr
Lois Erickson Connie Eichhorn Craig Mielke
Katie Beach Jim Thompson Doug Lewis
Melinda Ehlers Kelly Gomez Jim May
Gene Tschida Michelle Pridell Kathleen Huggins
Jim Glover Paul Hans
Sandra Tuttle
Group 4: Personalized Group 5: 21st Century Mind Group 6: 21st Century Tools
Learning Jean Brown Rich Katt
Emily Drummy Tim Keller Mike Shain
Dan Flanagan Erika Volker Mimi Goings
Ron Hanson Bob Frederick Nick Reding
Amber Murphy Mark Trapp Pat Zalesky
Becky Golden Lee Denker Erandi Herndon
Bernie Medinger Lisa Wood Gabrielle Thornburg
Bob O'Neal
Group 7: Idealized Design Group 8: College and Career Group 9: Community
Joy Jackson Ann Himes Resources
Patricia Conway Boyd Dustin Penas Brad Conner
Nicolette Jones Jim Vyhlidal Elizabeth Mulkerrin
Sue Sucha Len Houloose Enid Schonewise
Russ Wiederholt Lisa St Clair Kim Hurst
Jane Nielsen Mark Weichel Kristy Feden
Tim Gay Randy Schmailzl Lisa Strohmyer
Valerie Fisher Lori Boudreau
Nancy Edick
Group 10: Assessment Group 11: High School Group 12: AORTA
Andrew Loch Experience Annette Eyman
Mary Knight Jerry Kalina Gretchen Pille
Rachel Wise Randy Stribley Deborah Boykin
Kirk Goodnight Rick Black George Spilker
Elliott Ostler Mike DeBolt Jim Smith
Melanie Mueller Eric Rees Scott Kneifl
John Falwitch Joanna Antoniak Trisha Suponchick
Jenny Kronzer Wendy Boyer
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 1: Year Round Learning
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine by 2020 we have transitioned to a model of learning that expands
beyond the 8AM to 3PM time frame in a single day AND provides year round
learning opportunities for all learners.
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this a success at PLSD?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, facilitators experience this, and an administrator experience this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work
with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 2: Small Learning Communities
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine by 2020 we have learning academies for students and facilitators
within business sites throughout the Omaha-Metro community. Assume we
have instituted a structure like this for all high school age students.
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this a success at PLSD?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, facilitators experience this, and businesses experience this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working
lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
For reference, you have been provided a brochure of something called academies
which were implemented back in 2010.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your
work with other groups.
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Team 3: Business/Community Evaluation
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each
small group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine by 2020 our community and business partners have the opportunity
to “grade” and/or provide feedback on the quality of student learning
throughout the district.
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What would they measure?
How would it be assessed?
What changes would the district, school or classroom have to make as a
result of this type of collaboration?
Give a couple of examples that exemplify how a school experiences this,
facilitators experiences this, and businesses experience this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working
lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your
work with other groups.
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 4: Personalized Learning
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small group has
been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine by 2020 we have a system in place where all high school students collaboratively
design their own learning plans based on their interests and/or chosen career pathway.
Imagine this were done in concert with being made aware of the standards they had to
achieve by the end of their school year.
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for Papillion-La
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Vista in order to provide a 21 Century Education. Use the following questions to help stimulate
your dialog and develop your response:
What is the structure that needs to be in place to differentiate personalized learning plans
for these students based on their interests - pathways?
How would this work?
What would be the keys to making something like this succeed for PLSD?
What would need to be in place for this to be successful?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience this,
facilitators experience this, and a counselor experiences this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce your final
product (your final product will be on the white walls).
For reference, you have been provided a copy of something called career pathways which were
implemented back in 2010.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work with other
groups.
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 5: 21st Century Mind
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small group has
been given a different scenario of the future (2020). Your group’s scenario: As the challenges
facing the globe become increasingly complex, our frames of reference must be flexible,
expansive, and adaptive. (Educational Leadership, 2009)
• The 21st century mind will need to successfully manage the complexity and diversity of
our world by becoming more fluid, more flexible, more focused on reality, radically more
innovative.
• Daniel Pink suggests in his book, A Whole New Mind, 6 essential abilities (based on brain
research) that are necessary to survive and thrive in the future. These abilities are:
Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, Meaning. He suggests the people that master
these 'senses' first will have a huge advantage.
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Imagine it is 2020 and all students receive experiences that help them develop ‘a 21 Century
Mind.’
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for Papillion-La
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Vista in order to provide a 21 Century Education. Use the following questions to help stimulate
your dialog and develop your response:
What would PLSD look like if these were core skills all students mastered in the 13 years
they spend with us?
What would we change in order to do this?
Give a couple of examples that exemplify how learners experience this and how
facilitators experience this.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce your final
product (your final product will be on the white walls).
For reference, you have been provided a short description of the six abilities described by Daniel
Pink.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work with
other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 6: 21st Century Tools
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine it is 2020 and all learners have at least one computing device with them at
all times. This device is both a communication device (phone, email, chat, social
networking), an entertainment device (music, movies, magazines and newspapers)
and contains (or can access) all text books, reference materials, schedules,
calendars, and most information a person could ever want.
Objective Develop a description of how this works – and why this scenario is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this a success at PLSD?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, how facilitators experience this, and businesses experience this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work
with other groups.
Round C
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
2020 Scenarios
Team 7: Idealized Design
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine the year is 2020 and schools as we knew them back in 2010 do not exist.
In their place is the ‘ideal’ model for educating youth to be successful in the 21st
Century (in a global, connected, and highly complex world).
Objective Develop a description of what this idealized model looks like – and why this is the best
thing for Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the
following questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this work?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, how facilitators experience this, and how the community experiences this
model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working
lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your
work with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 8: College and Career Ready
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine it is 2020 and PLSD is addressing the needs of young people to be
successful in the 21st Century and creating both College and Career Ready
graduates. This means we have moved beyond rhetoric and we have an integrated
experience where knowledge (content) and 21st skills (like creativity, teamwork, and
problem solving) are mastered (see the draft Career Ready standards being
developed by the NE DoE provided for reference).
Objective Develop a description of what this looks like – and why this is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this work?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, how facilitators experience this, and the community experiences this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
For reference your group has been provided a copy of draft standards defining a career
ready graduate that were being developed in 2010.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work
with other groups.
Round C
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
2020 Scenarios
Team 9: Community Resources
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine it is 2020 and PLSD has an integrated facilities plan and instructional
model that primarily utilizes community resources and partnerships instead of
school owned facilities. This leverages both school and community resources and
puts learning into the community.
Objective Develop a description of what PLSD looks like utilizing community resources – and why
this is the best thing for Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education.
Use the following questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
What will be the keys to making this work?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience
this, how facilitators experience this, and the community experiences this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
For reference your group has been provided a copy of the PLSD Power Standards
developed back in 2010.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work
with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 10: Assessment
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each
small group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020). Your group’s
scenario:
Imagine it is 2020 and PLSD has successfully moved past the rhetoric and
argument of ‘skills versus knowledge.’ 21st Century Skills like self-direction,
communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation are outcomes learners
at PLSD experience and are successful at. Traditional assessments do not work
and only prove to stifle these ‘skills.’ PLSD has developed 21st Century
Assessment Tools and are very successful with them.
Objective Develop a description of what PLSD looks like in 2020, how this works, and why this
is the best thing for Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education.
Use the following questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your
response:
What are the assessment and feedback mechanisms that PLSD has put in
place in 2020 to reinforce the '21st Century learning environments and
experiences' that meet the needs of all students?
What will be the keys to making this work?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners and
facilitators experience this working.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working
lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls). For reference your
group has been provided a copy of the PLSD Power Standards developed back in
2010.
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your
work with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 11: The High School Experience
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each
small group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Imagine it is 2020 and PLSD has a transformed the high school experience to
be one that all teenagers ‘love!’ All participants – students, facilitators,
administrators – look forward to these experiences every day and miss them
when they are doing something else. “High School” is now ‘the coolest thing’
going for teenagers and they yearn to be a part of it.
Objective Develop a description of what this looks like – and why this is the best thing for
Papillion-La Vista in order to provide a 21st Century Education. Use the following
questions to help stimulate your dialog and develop your response:
How would this work?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
What are the essential success factors for an environment like this to work
really well?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners
experience this, how facilitators experience this, and the community
experiences this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working
lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce
your final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your
work with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010
Round C
2020 Scenarios
Team 12: AORTA
Context This round of work is focused on challenging our thinking about the future. Each small
group has been given a different scenario of the future (2020).
Your group’s scenario:
Back in the year 2000, Silicon Valley coined a phrase to describe the influence of
computing and the internet on our lives. That phrase - Always On, Real Time,
Anywhere – describes the nature of this trend. Video conferencing, distance learning,
recorded tutorials and ‘at your own pace’ learning experiences are common in 2010.
What we used to consider classroom learning can take place online – in both live, real
time environments, and recorded, at your own pace environments. Imagine it is 2020
and 80% of the learning that used to happen in a school happens at home or some
other location – at any time of day. PLSD has become very successful at providing in-
person learning experiences that are VERY DIFFERENT from what we used to do.
These experiences are very engaging, experiential, brain based (multiple intelligences
and learning styles), hands-on, and project or problem based.
Objective Develop a description of what the in-person and face-to-face learning environment that
PLSD provides in 2020 looks like – and why this is the best thing for Papillion-La Vista in
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order to provide a 21 Century Education. Use the following questions to help stimulate
your dialog and develop your response:
What happens in these environments that is different from back in 2010?
What would we need to do to make this happen?
What are the essential success factors for an environment like this to work really
well?
Give examples of several experiences that exemplify how learners experience this,
how facilitators experience this, and the community experiences this model.
Time You have approximately 90 minutes to complete your work – including a working lunch.
Process In your group, use the white wall to brainstorm and collect your ideas and to produce your
final product (your final product will be on the white walls).
Exchange After you have developed your response you will have an opportunity to share your work
with other groups.
Vision 2020 Planning Session
La Vista, Nebraska
June 2 – 3, 2010