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Transforming a school into a 21st-century learning community is a process that can take many forms, and figuring out where to start might be the most difficult step. All of the steps that follow offer useful information or ways to meet and share with others to help you create your new learning environment.

Join the Innovative Teachers Network. Connect with a worldwide community of teachers as learners. Share best practices, innovation, and pedagogy. Get your hands on free, high-quality classroom and professional learning content, plus a wealth of tools and resources provided by other innovative teachers around the world.
Participate in the Microsoft Institute. Attend a unique, three-day, professional development experience that provides you and your organization with tools and resources to create and support innovative environments and organizations.

Listen to the Microsoft Institute discussion series. Learn how to develop a vision, use the 6i Process, put the Education Competency Wheel to use, and benefit from available tools. Also, learn new ways to use technology in the classroom by listening to the Teacher Tech webcasts .

Prepare students for the future with CareerForward. This self-contained online course can help schools prepare high school students for their places in the workforce of the future and for career opportunities in a global economy. CareerFoward uses a variety of multimedia tools and can be used with other career planning tools.

Explore the vision, process, and reality of the School of the Future. Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia joined forces to plan, build, and support a 750-student high school that could serve as a model for 21st-century learning communities around the world.

Learn more about the 6i Development process used when planning the school. Or watch the video: Understanding the 6i Development Process (Windows Media, 38 MB).

Home

	Understand 21st-century learning
	What's the definition? Are there requirements?

	Create 21st-century learning communities
	How do schools transform? Which schools have successfully done so?

	Develop education leaders
	What can school administrators do differently? How can educators prepare?

	Planning for scale
	How do you replicate an instance of successful innovation? What steps can guide your process?

	Engage: Take the first step
	How can Microsoft help me? Where do I start?

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