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To what extent is each of the following a priority for your district?
Note: Superintendents rated each statement on a scale of 1 to 5 where a 1 means “not a priority” and a 5 means “high priority.” Below are the percentages of superintendents who gave a 4 or 5 rating.
• Providing appropriate technology infrastructure and tools that support student acquisition of 21st-century skills: 86%
• Providing professional development that focuses on improving educator capacity to teach core academic content in ways that enhance 21st-century skills mastery: 86%
• All educators develop and teach lessons that are designed to enhance deep mastery of core subject knowledge and 21st-century skills: 85%
• All core academic content curricula explicitly integrate 21st-century skills: 81%
• A majority of student work is evaluated at the classroom level for mastery of 21st-century skills: 74%
155 superintendents, or 52 percent of those invited, participated in this survey.
Principals:
98 percent of principals in Massachusetts surveyed indicated that their
school mission or vision statement includes at least one of the
21st-century skills as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century
Learning—of which Massachusetts is a member state.
Does your school’s vision or mission statement include the following 21st-century skill as part of the overall vision for student learning?
Learning and Innovation: 79%
Life and Career: 71%
Civic: 62%
Global Awareness: 50%
Technology: 49%
Information: 47%
Health: 34%
Media: 21%
Financial/Economic/Business/Entrepreneurial: 10%
375 principals, or 21 percent of those invited, participated in the survey.