Achieve Greater Impact Through       21st Century Learning Skills

Illinois 21: The Illinois Consortium for 21st Century Schools™


   

Welcome to IL-21

IL-21 is a consortium of Illinois education and business leaders committed to preparing students for living, learning, and working in the 21st century.

We invite you to learn about the consortium and how we focus educators on the tools to improve critical thinking, problem solving and reasoning skills, collaboration and communication, literacy and mathematics achievement as students prepare for the increased demands of 21st century learning and working.  


Upcoming Events

Board of Directors, Annual Meeting

June 14   2:30 PM-5:30 PM

St. Xavier University, Warde Academic Center (4th Floor Boardroom)

3700 W. 103rd St.

Chicago, IL 60655

2011
Critical Thinking Skills
Summer Seminar Series™
Chicago, Illinois

Session I – July 25 – 29, 2011

Critical Thinking: Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment
FIE - Standard Levels I – Middle School – High School – Special Needs
FIE - Basic Level I – Early Childhood – Special Needs

Student Assessment – All Grade Levels
Dynamic Assessment of Cognitive Modifiability – Learning Propensity Assessment Device Level I, Part 1 (2-week course)

Session II – Aug. 1 – 5, 2011

Critical Thinking: Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment

 FIE - Standard Level II - Middle School - High School - Special Needs
FIE - Standard Level III – Middle School – High School – Special Needs
FIE - BASIC Level II – Early Childhood – Special Needs

Sponsored by iRi, inc.

Student Assessment – All Grade Levels
Dynamic Assessment of Cognitive Modifiability – Learning Propensity Assessment Device Level I, Part 2 (continued from 1st session)

*Note each seminar is a full day, one-week course unless otherwise noted. During each session participants take a single one-week course, except for Student Assessment seminar which must be taken consecutively within the second session. For information on what course is right for you please call toll free 877. 474. 4900 or email info@iriinc.us .

Read what participants said about the 2010 Critical Thinking Summer Seminars Series (PDF)

AWARENESS21 

 

Will You Want to Hire Your Own Kids? (Will Anybody Else?)

 

"The next generation is not being adequately prepared for the jobs it will inherit. High school and college graduates are showing deficiencies in both basic and applied skills, and a real lack of preparedness for today’s world of work. Workforce entrants are caught between an educational system that teaches⎯and measures⎯one set of skills and a rapidly evolving workplace that demands another."  

(The Conference Board, August 2009).

 

“In a 21st Century World where jobs can  be shipped wherever there’s an Internet connection, where a child born in Dallas is now competing with a child born in New Delhi, where your best job qualification is not what you do but what you know — education is not longer just a pathway to opportunity and success, it’s a prerequisite to success.”

(President Barack Obama, March 2009).