1. It’s Time to Raise our Game, Again.
INNOVATION Pat Bassett
NAIS President
Annual Conference Slides
NAIS Annual Conference Excerpted
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Patrick F. Bassett, NAIS President
bassett@nais.org

2. Formative Assessment: MAP
The public schools leading on formative assessments?

3. Formative Assessment: MAP
The public schools leading on measuring 21st C. skills?
Four of the five C’s

4. The Charter Schools Leading
the Project- based Learning
Revolution?

5. The Search for Meaning
“I’ll go to college, although I think now the best thing for me
would be to take a year out and work somewhere. I’ve never
really worked--at something real, something that would make
the slightest difference to somebody…. Okay, so I’ve done
well, although I think anybody could do well at this place if
they were half-way verbal. All the classes are small, and we
don’t have that many exams, so all you have to do, like we
always kid each other, is talk good. …So with all the studying
and talking good, you know what I’d really like to do?
Carpentry. I’d like to build a house, or fix someone’s stairs or
porch. Something real.” ~ from David Elkin’s The Hurried Child