District/School Administration Administration
The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education

ESE Work Tied to 21st Century Skills Recommendations

For your information this month we have provided two documents to illustrate the connections between the work of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), the goals and priorities agreed to by the Board last summer, and the recommendations of the Board's Task Force on 21st Century Skills. The two documents are:

1. A partial inventory of ESE work directly linked to specific recommendations of the Task Force. Some are examples of efforts currently underway; others are examples of initiatives expected to begin over the next calendar year.

2. A "crosswalk" between the Board's goals and priorities and the recommendations of the Task Force. Some elements of the Board's goals and priorities - such as the accountability redesign elements - have no direct link to the Task Force recommendations. Others, such as goals around curriculum and instruction and educator development are more closely tied.

I am providing you with these documents in advance of further discussion of the Task Force recommendations so you will have information about where these skills are being infused in our work, and where there is still room for growth. Later this spring I will provide you with exemplars from schools and districts that have developed unique ways to integrate these skills in the classroom.

Enclosures:

	Crosswalk: Board Goals and Priorities and Task Force on 21st Century Skills Recommendations
	Partial Inventory of Current ESE Work Tied to 21st Century Skills Recommendations