by Laura Montgomery
These are the questions we're asked. I realize we tend to create acronyms for things in education (or at least we do in our school district). After a while, people forget what the letters stand for. So here we go:
The "Cube" and stands for three of the four cornerstone 21st Century skills; Creativity, Collaboration and Communication. These are the three skills upon which the new learning lab will be built.
"C-to-the-third-power"
"C-CUBED."
"The CUBE"...get it?
(Thanks to Diane Rener, our genius Orchestra teacher and fellow 21st Century thinker).
Our new space would be a place where ALL learners--students, teachers, administrators and parents--could come to dig a little deeper into being 21st Century Learners. What's the fourth C you ask? Critical Thinking. We felt that critical thinking is embedded in everything that goes on in this space, so that's why we chose to focus on the three C's.