Articles, Presentations, and Workshops

• Making 21st Century Schools: Creating Learner-Centered Schoolplaces/Workplaces for a New Culture of Students at Work, by Bob Pearlman, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY/September-October 2009
  
  
• “Reconsidering the Design of Schools through the Lens of Project-Based Learning” - Interview with Bob Pearlman, the Director of Strategic Planning for the New Technology Foundation, DesignShare and Education Facility Planning News, March, 2007
  
  
• "21^st Century Learning in Schools – A Case Study of New Technology High School in Napa, CA", published in New Directions for Youth Development, Volume 2006, Issue 110 (Summer 2006), Special Issue: The Case for Twenty-First Century Learning.
  
  
• "New Skills For A New Century: Project-based learning teaches kids the collaborative and critical thinking abilities they'll need to compete", Edutopia magazine, June 2006.
  

• "Redesign Schools for 21st Century Learning", Published in Five Riveting Ideas, EDTECH Focus on K-12 magazine, January-February, 2005
  
  
• "Getting it Done: Boston launches new 5-year technology, teaching & learning plan. Why not you?", article in Techlearning.Com, August 1, 2004
  
  
• "Designing, and Making, the New American High School", Technos Quarterly, Spring, 2002
  
  
• "Reinventing the High School Experience", Educational Leadership, April 2002
  
  
• "New Ingredient for Student Success: Social Networks", March, 2002
  
  
• "Inside the Digital Divide in the Silicon Valley: Connecting Youth to Opportunities in the New Economy", April, 2002. This article is also published on the website of the Digital Divide Network.
  
  
• "Smarter Charters? Creating Boston's Pilot Schools", chapter in the book "Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education", Teachers College Press, Fall 1999
  
  
• "Bay Area Needs a Multimedia School-to-Career Partnership", Marin Independent Journal, June 30, 1997
  
  
• "Making New Learning Opportunities for Students and Teachers", California Math Council Communicator, June 1999. PDF version.
  
  
• "Straight Talk About School-to-Career Programs", Interview with Bob Pearlman
  
  
• "Can K-12 Education Drive On the Information Superhighway?", Education Week Commentary, 5/25/94
  
  
• "Can K-12 Education Drive on the Information Highway?", chapter in The Changing Nature of Telecommunications/Information Infrastructure, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1995)
  
  
• "Innovative Schools as Standard-Bearers: The Dupont Manual (KY) Learning Tomorrow Program", Case study for Facilitating Change: NFIE Learning Tomorrow Project and School Reform, 1994
  
  
• "Technology and Society" and "Technological Advances", chapters in Envisioning the Future: Massachusetts' 21st Century Schools, Mass Ed Online, Center for Educational Leadership and Technology, 1994
  
  
• "Designing the New American Schools", PDF, Communications of the ACM, May, 1993
  
  
• "Designing a New American School", (with Henry F. Olds, Jr.), Phi Delta Kappan, Dec., 1992
  
  
• "Restructuring with Technology: A Tour of Schools Where It's Happening", Technology & Learning, January, 1991
  
  
• "Technology's Role in School Restructuring", Electronic Learning ,Guest Editorial, June, 1989
  

Presentations

• January 12-13, 2005: Presentations at the 4th Annual Small Schools Planning Institute, St. Petersburg Beach, FL

• November 12, 2004: "Transforming Secondary Schools for the 21st Century", Kent Secondary Head Teacher Conference, Ashford, Kent (UK)

• October 12-13, 2004: Future Schools, Future Learning Conference, Manchester, England and New Schools, New Learning Symposium, Birmingham, England

• August 25, 2004: "Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools:
  The New Technology High School Model", High School Redesign Symposium, New Orleans ( PowerPoint, 5.36 MB)
  
  
• July 19-23, 2004: Presentation and workshop materials from Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2004 Conference, Boston, MA
  
  
• June 28, 2004: "Knowledge and Skills for the 21st Century", keynote presentation at conference of School to Career, Inc., New Orleans
  
  
• November 21, 2003: Top Ten Recommendations from Alan November and Bob Pearlman to UK Headteachers, Specialist Schools Trust National Conference, Birmingham, UK
  
  
• Bob Pearlman on Project-Based Learning: Video interview by the George Lucas Educational Foundation
  
  
• Designing the 21st Century Secondary Schools. PowerPoint presentation at the 2003 Building Learning Communities conference (note: this is a very large file, 6 MB-- download with a high speed connection).
  
  
• "New Ingredients for Student Success" (Powerpoint), Harris County Education Technology Forum (Houston), October 1, 2002

Workshops

July 19-23, 2004: Presentation and workshop materials from Alan November's Building Learning Communities 2004 Conference, Boston, MA

November 18, 2003: Designing 21st Century Student Schools and Learning Environments, Schools’ Design Conference, Department of Education Northern Ireland (DENI), Belfast, Northern Ireland

November 2003: Technology's Role in 21st Century Learning Workshop

July 2003: Designing the 21st Century Secondary School Workshop