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July 18-20, 2007: Presentations at the Building Learning Communities 2007 Conference, Boston, MA

June 30, 2007: New Tech Handouts for the 2007 Model Schools Conference, Washington, DC, July 1-4, 2007. Information on the New Tech 21st Century High School Model.

March 29, 2007: "Assessing 21st Century Skills : The New Tech High School Model", presentation at the CoSN 12th Annual School Networking Conference, San Francisco, California, March 29, 2007

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)

November 5, 2004: Subscribe to PBLnet Email Group

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)

August 1, 2004: "Getting it Done: Boston launches new 5-year technology, teaching & learning plan. Why not you?", article in Techlearning.Com

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

June, 2004: Middle School Reform

Feburary 4, 2004: Offshoring, Workforce, Education, and 21st Century Skills

November 21, 2003: Top Ten Recommendations from Alan November and Bob Pearlman to UK Headteachers, Specialist Schools Trust National Conference, Birmingham, UK

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

June 2003: Stages of Technology Implementation

May 2003: New Small High Schools and Small Learning Communities

May 2003: Autonomy, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement

Bob Pearlman on Project-Based Learning: Video interview by the
George Lucas Educational Foundation

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is a site intended to share some 30 years of experience in the trenches of education reform initiatives. Few people have been as lucky as me to have been in some of the right places at some of the right times. On the East Coast I was known as a teacher union leader who got it right on reform and on the West Coast I was seen as a business leader who surprisingly seemed to really understand what was going on in schools. So it goes.

This site is dedicated to you, to help you in your efforts to change schools, by sharing what I believe are the best practices and strategies in school reform.

January, 2002